Lightbox Film Center Launch Party

Join us to celebrate International House's newly renamed Lightbox Film Center. This special launch party includes a 25th anniversary screening of the seminal indie film Gas Food Lodging, and a conversation between its award-winning director Allison Anders and artist/filmmaker (and Temple University professor of film) Elisabeth Subrin (director of A Woman, A Part). A reception follows, with music by WPRB DJ LizBot, food and drinks by local restaurants.

A sun-baked town in the middle of New Mexico is the backdrop for this poignant coming of age tale. Allison Anders’ breakout indie story of a single mother (Brooke Adams) raising two teenage daughters is remarkable for its sincere depiction of women finding agency as individuals. Shade (Fairuza Balk) and Trudi (Ione Skye) have different ways of coping with the absence of a father, bringing no shortage of grief for their overworked mother. With a soundtrack by J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.), Gas Food Lodging is an enduring classic of the halcyon days of indie cinema, now begging to be rediscovered by a new generation of film lovers.

The film received five Spirit Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Screenplay, and actress Fairuza Balk won the Best Actress award. Gas Food Lodging also won the Deauville Film Festival Critics Award. Anders is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant" and a Peabody Award.

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