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 The Portrait | Animated Biography | Shorts Block of Docs
Directed by: Irra Verbitsky**
2008 | 4m 1s | USA
An animated retelling of how a Stalin purge in the Ukraine saved the life of the filmmaker's father,
a portrait painter.
Screening Times: Victory Firehouse
Thursday, 7:00 pm / Friday, 5:00 pm / Saturday, 1:30 pm
About the Director: Irra was born in Russia and is currently a naturalized US citizen living in New York City where she graduated from the Parsons School of Design. She is an instructor of animation at the School of Visual Arts. Her works have screened at numerous galleries including the Whitney Museum and MoMA; and at festivals including Hiroshima Film Festival, Annecy Festival, KROK Festival – Russia and Ukraine, Leipzig
Animadoc, London, Lithuania, Zagreb along with numerous US Festivals.
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