Wanda's Picks

Alla Kovgan (filmmaker), whose film “Nora” screens this evening at the Pacific Film Archive, tonight, Feb. 10, 7 PM., at UC Berkeley Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Ave., (510) 642-5249, www.bampfa.berekley.edu/filmseries, is followed by an earlier film collaboration with Alla, Movement (R)Evolution Africa (2007). Alla is a Boston-based filmmaker, born in Moscow (Russia). Her films and films that she co-directed have been presented worldwide including at the Sundance, Rotterdam, Toronto, Melbourne, Durban, Oberhausen, Clemont-Ferrand, MOMA, Louvre, Centre Pompidou, PBS (US), ZDF (Germany) and numerous others. Alla's most recent film NORA (2008), her collaboration with the British filmmaker David Hinton, is an art film – a poetic biography of the Zimbabwean choreographer Nora Chipaumire. Carolyn Russell A Safe Place speaks about a new film: Teen Dating Violence, which premieres Thursday, Febraury 11, 3-5 PM at Elihu M. Harris State Building Auditorium, 1515 Clay Street, Oakland. CA. Sandra Hooper Mayfield fel