Spell Your Name Screening at the USC Norris Cinema Theater

Crispin Brooks, Archive Curator; Inna Gogina, Coordinator of International Program; with film director Sergey Bukovsky.

Victoria Bondar, the film's producer, and Kim Simon, Institute Interim Executive Director, speaking with USC Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, USC School of Cinematic Arts, and Professor of Cinema, Michael Renov.

From left to right: Crispin Brooks and his wife, Yelena Brooks; Kim Simon, Institute Interim Executive Director; Victoria Bondar, Film Producer; and Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and USC History Professor, Wolf Gruner.

Inna Gogina, Institute International Programs Coordinator, with the film's director, Sergei Bukovsky, during the post-screening discussion panel.

Michael Renov, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, USC School of Cinematic Arts, and Professor of Cinema, speaks at the post-screening discussion panel.

Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and USC History Professor, Wolf Gruner, moderated the discussion panel that followed the film screening.

Crispin Brooks, Institute Archive Curator; Inna Gogina, Institute International Programs Coordinator; and the film's director, Sergei Bukovsky, on the panel that followed the screening.

The audience during the Question and Answer session of the discussion panel that followed the screening.

Kim Simon, with Marc and Shirley Grossman.

On Sunday, February 22, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute presented a screening of its most recent documentary, Spell Your Name, followed by a discussion addressing issues of cultural stereotypes and the complexity of the public memorialization of massacres that took place during the Holocaust in Ukraine.

Artfully crafted by internationally acclaimed film director Sergey Bukovsky, Spell Your Name features testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses from the Institute's archive, along with new footage shot on location in Ukraine.

Kim Simon, Institute Interim Executive Director, introduced the screening held at the Norris Cinema Theater. Wolf Gruner, Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor of History at USC, moderated the discussion panel that followed the screening, with filmmaker Sergey Bukovsky, USC Cinematic Arts Professor Michael Renov, and USC Shoah Foundation Institute curator Crispin Brooks.

Album posted on: February 23, 2009