Event

Director Ferne Pearlstein will introduce and Q&A her documentary The Last Laugh, which deals with the controversial subject of Humor and the Holocaust.

Moderator, Prof. Peter Decherney | Penn Cinema & Media Studies.

Ferne Pearlstein is a prize-winning cinematographer, writer, director, and editor whose work has won numerous awards and been screened and broadcast around the world. Her most recent documentary, The Last Laugh, which she directed, produced, photographed, and edited-had its world premiere at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, beginning a run of over a hundred festivals in the US and abroad, including Hot Docs, BFI London, Traverse City, IDFA, Rome, Jerusalem, San Francisco Jewish, Traverse City, Chicago International, and many others. An acclaimed documentary director of photography with dozens of films to her credit, she won the Excellence in Cinematography Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival for her work on Ramona Diaz's Imelda, a feature documentary about Imelda Marcos. Pearlstein is one of only a handful of female cinematographers featured in Kodak's long-running "On Film" ad campaign in the pages of American Cinematographer magazine.

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This event is presented by PFS - Penn Film Society and Cinema & Media Studies.