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Panel discussion: Jane Austen on film

What draws contemporary filmmakers to adapt classic literary works with women as heroines?
What made Jane Austen a cinematic brand, with more versions than Batman?
How do the Austenian heroines express themselves in the modern adaptations (like Clueless and Bridget Jones's Diary) in the post feminist revolution era, when they are supposedly economically independent and not reliant upon men?
What is Jane Austen’s importance to women filmmakers?
Why is none of Jane Austen’s heroines a writer herself?

These questions and others will be discussed, along with scene screenings of the best adaptations to Jane Austen’s work.
Participators: Irit Linur, Oshra Schwartz Reim and Roni Halpern, hosted by Yael Shuv.

The discussion will take place on Saturday, 12.9 at the Chen cinema in Rehovot.

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About the participants:
Yael Shuv is the film critic and editor of the film section in Tel Aviv "Time Out" Magazine for the past seven years. She teaches film at the Open University. She read “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen when she was 12 and cannot stop reading it since.

Irit Linur is a radio broadcaster, writer, translator and director. Among her books: “The Siren’s Song”, “Two Snow Whites”, “Sandler Ella” and “The Brown Girls”, that was also adapted into a television series. Linur translated Charles Dickens’s book “Nicholas Nickleby” (2005) and “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen (2008). This year Linur wrote and directed the series What a Single Man Must be in Want of , based on “Pride and Prejudice” by Austen.

Dr. Roni Halpern is a teacher at the Women and Gender Studies Program, the Department of Literature and the Department of Film and Television in the Tel Aviv University.

Oshra Schwartz Reim graduated her film studies from the Tel Aviv University; she is a screenplay writer (among others: The Komediant, Tied Hands), documentary filmmaker (My 100 Children) and teacher (The Open University, The School of Screenwriting and others).