Events

Northeastern University sponsors Off and Running at the Boston Jewish Film Festival.

Please join the Northeastern University Jewish Studies Program, Women's Studies Program, Cinema Studies Program, and Center for Interdisciplinary Studies as we sponsor Off and Running, Nicole Opper's acclaimed documentary about an African American teen who was adopted and raised by a white Jewish lesbian couple, at the Boston Jewish Film Festival.

November 10, 2009, 7 pm

Coolidge Corner Theater

290 Harvard Street

Brookline, MA

Who Am I, Anyway? A Conversation about Race, Religion, and Adoption

With Nicole Opper, director of Off and Running: An American Coming of Age Story, and Adam Pertman, author of Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America

Featuring clips from Opper's acclaimed documentary about an African-American teen who was adopted and raised by a Jewish lesbian couple

October 25, 2009, at 2:30 PM

Congregation Kehillath Israel

384 Harvard Street, Brookline MA

This event is free and open to the public.

Off and Running will be shown at the Boston Jewish Film Festival on November 10. To be entered into a raffle for tickets to the film, please pre-register for "Who am I Anyway?" by clicking here.

Additional tickets will also be available for purchase at the event (cash or check only).

Co-sponsored by the Boston Jewish Film Festival, the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, and the Jewish Women's Archive.