30th
Anniversary
Screening of
Film Screening
Kiss of
the Spider
Woman
Introduction
and Q&A with
the Producer
David Weisman
Independent film producer,
writer and director
The Smith College Film Studies Program and
the 22nd Annual Massachusetts Multicultural
Film Festival present a special 30th-anniversary
screening of Kiss of the Spider Woman, an Oscarwinning independent film, a landmark film
in LGBTQ culture and an important text in the
mainstreaming of Latin American politics into
U.S. cultural consciousness. David Weisman, the
film’s producer, will introduce the screening and
hold a Q&A afterward.
Wednesday, April 29
Weinstein Auditorium
Wright Hall, 5 p.m.
Free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.
Sponsored by the Smith College Film Studies Program; Smith College Lecture Fund;
American Studies Program; Kahn Liberal Arts Institute; Massachusetts Multicultural
Film Festival; Latin American and Latino/a Studies Program; Program for the Study
of Women and Gender; Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Hampshire College
Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies; Five Colleges Afro-Luso-Brazilian
Faculty Seminar; Mount Holyoke College Film Studies Program.
For disability access information or accommodations requests, please call
413-585-2407. To request a sign language interpreter, call 413-585-2071 (voice
or TTY) or send email to ods@smith.edu at least 10 days before the event.