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Organized by the Liszt Institute New York a special screening and panel discussion will take place on September 10, 2024 from 7PM at the Hungarian House of New York featuring filmmaker Catalina Kulczar’s work, titled Daisy.
The panel discussion will be moderated by publicist June Jennings, the panel discussion will include film director Catalina Kulczar and spiritual and community leader, activist and writer Yocheved Sidof.
Narrated in Hungarian, English, and Spanish, Daisy is a 30-minute poetic rumination following the months after the tragedy of Catalina Kulczar in which she lost her mother to suicide. Daisy questions what the meaning of “home” was for her mother, the daughter of Jewish immigrants and an immigrant herself.
Her mother’s suicide also prompted her to explore her family’s Jewish identity and immigration history, stemming from 1940s Hungary, Nazi persecution, and the subsequent communist regime. It also questions how intergenerational trauma has percolated into the present and affected her mother and her and how it will impact future generations.
PROGRAM
- Doors open - 7PM
- Screening - 7:30PM
- Panel discussion - 8PM
TRIGGER WARNING
Daisy deals with suicide, mental health, and intergenerational trauma.
This film is advised only for mature audiences 18+
The event will be conducted in English.
About the creator
Catalina Kulczar
Director, Co-Writer & Producer
Catalina is a Hungarian-Venezuelan award-winning filmmaker and photographer based in New York City. Her oeuvre is courageous, connected and honest, often exploring women’s roles in contemporary society. She has been published in The New York Times and C41, among many other international publications. Catalina has also made portraits of musicians including David Byrne and St. Vincent, artist Shantell Martin, actors Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan, lawyers fighting for social justice including Sharyn Tenaji, CEO if the National Women’s Law Center Fatima Goss Graves, comedians, social entrepreneurs, typography designers, among many others. Catalina was recently the cinematographer for the short films “Lindsay, Lindsey, Lyndsay” (2022) and “Can Love Hate” (2022). She has two upcoming projects: “Garúa” (Cinematographer and Producer) and “Bola!” (Cinematographer and Producer
About the panel members
Moderator: June Jennings
June Jennings is a publicist for NPR. She previously led audience engagement efforts at The WNET Group for the PBS signature series American Masters. Prior to WNET, June served as the engagement and partnerships manager for the award-winning documentary unit Field of Vision, and as an assistant editor at O, The Oprah Magazine. She was also the host of the filmmaker interview podcast The Doc Exchange: A Real Stories Podcast. She is based in Brooklyn.
Panelist: Yocheved Sidof
Yocheved is a spiritual and community leader, activist, writer, mystic, and guide. She harnesses decades of social entrepreneurship, certifications, and lived experience — including her own wounds and healing — into her work and passions, intersecting spiritual leadership, community building and collective trauma healing.
Most recently, Yocheved founded and leads Ohmek, a community of women and men pursuing deeper ways of being where she weaves the sacred and contemplative space. Her leadership evokes what's simply known within: how we are all interconnected, and that wholeness emerges when we are held in a compassionate space.
Immersed in advanced training in healing intergenerational and collective trauma, Yocheved employs a unique modality that integrates therapeutic and somatic practices with mystical teachings. More than anything, Yocheved shares generously of her unique abilities to cultivate connection and bring harmony to paradox: innovation and tradition, teacher and student, the broken and the whole.