AWFJ Women On Film – “Araya” – Ann Lewinson reviews

June 25, 2011 Ann Lewinson 0 Comments ann lewinson, araya, awfj women on film, margot benacerraf

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Margot Benacerraf’s stunningly photographed 1959 study of three families living in a Venezuelan salt marsh — an indispensable bridge between the ethnographic films of Robert Flaherty and Latin America’s anti-capitalist Third Cinema of the ’60s — is now available on DVD in a pristine restoration by Milestone Films. Read more>>

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Ann Lewinson

Ann Lewinson is a film critic for the Boston Phoenix, the Kansas City Star and the Santa Fe Reporter, and was the film critic for the Hartford Advocate for four years. She has written about movies for The Independent, the Sundance Daily Insider, the Tribeca Film Festival catalogue and Willamette Week, classical music for Andante and Stagebill, and environmental activism for Biography. Her fiction has appeared in Agni, Hayden's Ferry Review, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center's Special Projects Writers' Series and other publications. She studied filmmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, briefly worked as a sound editor, and has recently completed a novel. She is a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics.