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ICFRC: Overcoming the One Inch Barrier: Experiencing the World Through Foreign Film

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Rebecca Fons is the Programming Director at FilmScene, Iowa City's premiere art house theater, and also serves as the Development and Programming Director for the Iowa Theater - a multi-disciplinary film and performance center in her hometown of Winterset, IA. Rebecca was the Education Director for The Chicago International Film Festival for nearly a decade and is a co-founder of Destroy Your Art, a yearly film/performance art event in Chicago. Rebecca received a Masters Degree in Arts Management from Columbia College Chicago and a BA in Cinema and Comparative Literature Studies from the University of Iowa and is a Steppenwolf Theatre Associate and member of the Gene Siskel Film Center's Community Council. She serves on the screening committees for the True/False Film Festival and the South By Southwest Film Festival, and as a juror at festivals around the country.

Rebecca's talk included two trailers that copyright forbids us from including in our video. You can watch those trailers on YouTube:
Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire

For more information on the Foreign Relations Council visit their website at www.icfrc.org.

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