Film: Schools Out screening of Dance Me to the End of Time (2021) plus Q&A by director Melanie Chait

About Film: Schools Out screening of Dance Me to the End of Time (2021) plus Q&A by director Melanie Chait

Schools Out hosts a special screening of the award-winning documentary Dance Me to the End of Time (2021).

Directed by: Melanie Chait. Documentary. Dur: 1hr 20mins.

Dance Me to The End of Time is a deeply personal film about love in the face of death. Award-winning filmmaker Melanie Chait documented the last four years of her life partner, London theatre director Nancy Diuguid’s life, as she fought breast cancer. Woven into Nancy’s personal story are insights from US scientist and ecologist Rachel Carson, whose seminal book, Silent Spring, exposed the health danger of pesticides as far back as 1962. Nancy grew up on a tobacco farm in Kentucky in the USA, where small planes regularly sprayed their farms with pesticides. Dance Me to The End of Time powerfully explores the impact of pesticides, not only on the environment but also on the human body by journeying with Nancy as she navigates her cancer treatment and the tremendous love that is shared in doing so. It pays tribute to Nancy, a visionary director and actor who used the creative arts and her own lesbian identity as a lifelong campaign for justice and healing, covering gay and women’s movement issues from the 70s as well as exploring Rachel Carson’s remarkable legacy.

Dance Me to The End of Time has had a successful Festival run after premiering at The Encounters Film Festival of South Africa. It was an Award Winner at the Toronto International Women Film Festival, won Best Editing at the Women In Festival in Zurich, and most recently Best Documentary and Best of the Fest at Cinema Systers Film Festival in USA.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Melanie Chait.

Doors open at 18.30, for a 19.30 start.

Refreshments will be available in our licensed cafe/bar.