Berkshire Women Write

Another movie by women about women’s issues showing at BIFFMA (Berkshire International Film Festival) THIS WEEKEND: 

Alysia Reiner, Producer/Actress

Speed Grieving is about the incredibly confusing grief process and how we wish we could ‘fast-forward’ through it. Speed Grieving is excited to be part of the Berkshire International Film Festival  in Great Barrington, MA and will be a part of the Film Shorts #2 Series. The film will be screening on Friday June 4 at 4:45pm (Triplex #3, Great Barrington), Saturday June 5 at 9:15am (Beacon Cinema, Pittsfield) and again on Sunday June 6 at 4:00pm (Triplex #3, Great Barrington). I think this is a film your students and fellow professors and staff would enjoy supporting.

Directed by Jessica Daniels (Morning After, Cycle Unknown, MAN) and written by Dasha Snyder (The D Word),  Speed Grieving, revolves around a driven corporate climber who struggles to balance her hectic work schedule with her father’s terminal illness only to learn that certain things in life can’t be done efficiently. The story is by producer and lead actress, Alysia Reiner (The Vicious Kind, Arranged, Sideways) and is also produced by Katie Rosin, the  PR contact for the film. This powerful all women team has been screened at the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival as well as New York Women In Film & Television (NYWIFT)’s SWAN Day (Support Women Arts Now) events in New York City. NYWIFT also featured Reiner as a “Member to Watch” on their website. The film itself was partially funded by Women Make Movies.

Speed Grieving premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival in October 2009 and was invited to the Williamstown Film Festival.  Over the past few months the film has screened at:

• Women with Vision Film Festival – Minneapolis, MN
• NYWIFT Celebrates SWAN DAY (Support Women Artists Now) – New York, NY
• Hearts &Minds Film Festival – Dover, DE
• San Francisco International Women’s Film Festival – San Francisco, CA
• Talking Pictures Film Festival - Evanston, IL ( Won “Honorable Mention”)
• Spirit Quest Film Festival – Erie, PA

The next screening in your area is at the:

Berkshire International Film Festival – Great Barrington, MA Friday June 4 at 9:00pm, Saturday June 5 at 9:15am, Sunday June 6 at 4:00pm http://www.biffma.com/

Fredda Wasserman, Clinical Director of Our House and author of Saying Goodbye to Someone You Love said, “In her short film, Speed Grieving, Alysia Reiner poignantly portrays the turmoil and chaos that surround her following the news that her father is dying. The film gives a tender and humorous look at anticipatory grief and society’s unrealistic expectations.”

Allison Gilbert, author of Always Too Soon: Voice of Support for Those Who Have Lost Both Parents wrote:

“If there was an Academy Award for ‘Best Film on Death & Grieving,’ Speed Grieving would walk away with the coveted Oscar. This film is a work of passion, and it shows in every frame.”

For more information please visit our website at www.speedgrieving.org or our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/SpeedGrieving). This is a film that looks at women’s issues, health and grief issues and does it in less than 15 minutes. It has amazing capacity to stimulate discussion, and this is a piece of work your organization would be interested in. In the fall the film will be marketed along with a Grief Guide (put together by the Cancer Support Community) to help with starting the communication about grief and bereavement.

Tags: Documentary Film

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