Wednesday April 19, 2023 at 1:30PM

Greenwich House at Westbeth
Westbeth Older Adult Center
155 Bank Street
between West and Washington St
enter through courtyard

Award winning filmmaker, writer and political activist, Lilly Rivlin lives in New York City at Westbeth Artist Housing.

She was born in Jerusalem and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1945. She did her graduate degree in Political Science at U of C, Berkeley. Before focusing on documentaries, she was a journalist, and foundation consultant on the Middle East and women.

Most recently Rivlin was selected as the 2013-14 recipient of the annual Miller Distinguished Jewish Woman Filmmaker Award. In August,2014, Rivlin had a Mini-Retrospective at the Bay area, JCC. The ‘personal is political’ is expressed in the documentaries she produced, directed and wrote.

Heather Booth: Changing the World is conceived as part of a trilogy about feminist activists in the late 20th century and the beginning of the twenty-first century. The subjects of her first two films, Grace Paley and Esther Broner were both artists, both writers as well as activists. The subject of the third film in this trilogy is Heather Booth, an organizer, whose art is organizing. Her refrain, which will be heard, at several points of the film is: If you organize you can change the world.

Soundtrack for film includes an original song written by Westbeth resident, Eve Zanni, who sings it along with Bobby Harden.

More info at lillyrivlin.com

More info about Eve Zanni on https://westbeth.org/artist-page/eve-zanni/