Screening of Dirt & Talkback w/ Director Nancy Savoca

Wednesday, August 11, 7:00pm R E V O L U T I O N B O O K S presents Screening of: DIRT Talkback with director NANCY SAVOCA " 'You don't smile enough,' a character tells Dolores after she loses a job in DIRT, Nancy Savoca's riveting drama about undocumented immigrants living a harsh existence in contemporary Manhattan. Dolores (Julieta Ortiz) is a Salvadoran immigrant who has lived in the U.S. with her jobless husband and teenage son for a decade... She spends her time as a maid to the wealthy and privileged, serving clients on Manhattan's Upper East Side, worked to the bone and with little to show for it. Her husband is out of work. Her teenaged son is Americanized, though still undocumented, and disinterested in returning to 'his' country - a land he's never known… "Unsentimental, DIRT, with its headstrong and proud character of Dolores, smart beyond her circumstances… a great experience at the movies." -- Lee Shoquist of ReelMovieCritic.com about "DIRT" "Dirt" won Savoca Best Director in the LA Latino Festival, Julieta Ortiz Best Actress in New York's La Cinema Fe and premiered on Showtime. It was nominated Best Screenplay from the Writer's Guild of America in 2006. Nancy Savoca’s earlier films include ’True Love,’ Household Saints,’ ’Dogfight,’ ’Reno: Rebel Without a Pause,’ ’If These Walls Could Talk.’ $10 donation with popcorn, drinks. A benefit for Revolution Books.