Thu 9/24-Sun 9/27
So there was no Cleveland International Film Festival this year, one of the early casualties of the pandemic. And it’s likely to look far different when it returns, since its central location, Tower City Cinemas just announced its permanent closure. (The festival has been expanding its screening locations in recent years, showing films in different venues in collaboration with various organizations; last year having auxiliary festivals at the Cedar Lee and Capital theatres).
But that’s a way off and we have no idea where the pandemic will be in March. Meanwhile CIFF is holding a fall online series. It’ll start with a screening of the film Aggie, about the life and passion of art collector and benefactor, Clevelander Agnes Gund, directed by her daughter Catherine. An avid collector of contemporary, she’s served on the board of the Cleveland Museum of Art (to which she’s donated numerous works), is an honorary trustee at MOCA Cleveland, received the National Medal of Arts from President Clinton in 1997, and at the beginning of this year, was presented with the inaugural Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award, recognizing women who, like Ginsburg, made positive change in society. She is now the only recipient who will ever be presented with the award by Ginsburg herself.
The film will be available for streaming Thursday September 24 through Sunday September 27. Ticket buyers will also have access to Ticket purchasers a post-film Q&A with both Catherine and Aggie Gund, moderated by Jennifer Coleman, Program Director for Creative Culture and Arts at the George Gund Foundation.
But your tickets and learn about other films they’re screening virtually here.