Opening Night

Orphans 11 kicked off at Museum of the Moving Image, Wednesday evening, April 11, with a reception sponsored by Kodak and screenings of newly preserved and rediscovered films, including those presented by NYU students. 

Opening night reception.
Kodak opening reception at MoMI. 
Bill Brand.
Bill Brand (BB Optics) & Andrés Levinson (Museo del Cine de Buenos Aires)
Howard Besser.
Howard Besser (in T-shirt) talks with filmmaker Jeanne Liotta (UC Boulder). In blue, Sigríður Sigurþórsdóttir (NYU MIAP) with Brianna Toth (UCLA MLIS). Adam Foster (UCLA) at right.
Kodak reception
Anne Hubbell & Robert Mastronardi showed off the new Kodak Film Lab down the street from MoMI before hosting the opening reception.
Susan Courtney & Julie Hubbert (University of South Carolina).
Orphan Film Symposium co-founders, professors Susan Courtney & Julie Hubbert (University of South Carolina).
Katie Anderson and Frannie Trempe (right)
Katie Anderson & Frannie Trempe (NYU)
Anna Tantillo (NYU Cinema Studies)
Anna Tantillo (NYU Cinema Studies) emcees the opening screening.
Barbara Miller (Senior Curator of Collections and Exhibitions) welcomes Orphans 11 back to Museum of the Moving Image.
Barbara Miller (Senior Curator of Collections and Exhibitions) welcomes Orphans 11 back to Museum of the Moving Image.
Dan Streible.
Symposium director Dan Streible (NYU Cinema Studies)
Terri Francis, Director of the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University
Terri Francis, Director of the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University, reports on a special event that happened in Rye, New York, earlier that day — the laying of a headstone on the previously unmarked grave of film pioneer Alice B. Russell Micheaux.
Becca Bender presenting films of Elsa and Albert Einstein in Hollywood (1931) and from the Leopold Godowsky Jr. Collection.
Becca Bender (NYU MIAP) debuts films of Elsa and Albert Einstein in Hollywood (1931) and the Leopold Godowsky Jr. Collection.
Dr. Roni Grosz, curator of the Albert Einstein Archives
Roni Grosz, curator of the Albert Einstein Archives at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, appeared via video.
Opening night crowd.
Orphanistas watching Einstein in Hollywood in MoMI’s Redstone Theater.
Frannie Trempe presenting a film from the Girl Scouts of America Collection.
Frannie Trempe (NYU MIAP) premieres a 1926 film she uncovered in the Girl Scouts of the USA Collection.
 

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