In-person screening of “Drawing Life with George Booth” in downtown Ithaca
Join us at Cinemapolis and meet the director! This will be an in-person screening of “Drawing Life with George Booth,” a short documentary about the famous New Yorker cartoonist, directed by Nathan Fitch.
Nathan was working on this film during his 2019 Saltonstall residency, and we’ve invited him back to Ithaca for this one-night-only event.
Joining Nathan for a post-screening conversation will be local artist and former assistant cartoon editor at the New Yorker, Marshall Hopkins. And of course we’ll save time for questions!
Tickets are $10. Proceeds will benefit both Cinemapolis and Saltonstall. Ten dollars is a suggested donation. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
BIOS:
NATHAN FITCH is a filmmaker and visual journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. He’s currently completing his feature length documentary, ISLAND SOLDIER Nathan is a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective; his award-winning work has been published by The New Yorker, The New York Times, TIME magazine, NPR, and The National Film Board of Canada, to name a few. He holds an MFA in documentary storytelling from Hunter college, where he was the recipient of the prestigious James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. Nathan served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Micronesia, and has an enduring fondness for Breadfruit.
MARSHALL HOPKINS recently joined the Cornell University Press as a graphic designer after six years as the production director and designer at the Ithaca Times. Marshall is a RISD painting grad with an understated sense of humor and a practical streak: he likes to solve problems and support teams. He’s worked as an artist apprentice and a gold-leaf gilder in Sarasota, FL, an assistant cartoon editor at The New Yorker magazine with Bob Mankoff, a production artist in NYC, background animator for the Emmy-nominated Pale Force with Paul Noth and Jim Gaffigan, and as a popular adjunct professor of design at two local colleges.