March 28, 2008
Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker to Show Latest Film at Clark
Thursday, April 24 at 7:30 p.m.
Traina Center for the Arts, Razzo Hall
"Touched" focuses on people whose lives were changed by experiences with aliens. It features John Mack, a Harvard University psychiatrist who believed in alien accounts and challenged the field of psychiatry through his clinical practice and writings. The film won Best Documentary when it premiered at the Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto in 2003 and also won Best Documentary of 2003 at a long-running UFO convention.
Chiten, who resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been an independent filmmaker for more than 20 years. She is well known to viewers of PBS's Independent Lens and to many people in the Boston area, where she premiered many of her films at the Museum of Fine Arts. Recent films by Chiten include "Twisted," which focuses on the neurological disorder called "dystonia" and which won Outstanding Achievement in Documentary film from the Mass Access Awards; "The Jew and the Lotus," based on Rodger Kamenetz's book recounting his spiritual odyssey; and the Emmy-nominated "Twitch and Shout," which documents the lives of people with Tourette Syndrome.
Chiten's appearance and film screening at Clark University is co-sponsored by the Communication & Culture Program and the Higgins School of Humanities. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Rumi Pavlova at 508-793-7180.