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Southern Dominican Friar’s Documentary Wins — Urges Dominicans to Become Filmmakers
Source: Armando P. Ibañez
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The International Independent Film Awards awarded three awards to a feature documentary, written, produced and directed by Armando P. Ibanez, O.P., a friar of the Southern Dominican Province and who also serves as Assistant Professor, Director of Radio-Television-Film at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
The film—dedicated in commemoration of the Order’s 800th anniversary—received three Gold Awards in Directing, Documentary Feature and Animated Visuals categories.
In addition, Los Angeles CineFest selected the documentary as an Official Selection, and is now in competition with seven other selected films in the feature documentary category, which will be decided later this month.
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Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters to exhibit featured artist, David Mngodo’s paintings
SINSINAWA, Wis.—Artist David Mngodo of DeForest, Wis., will exhibit his acrylic paintings in “People and Their Activities” at Sinsinawa Art Gallery Jan. 6-31. A self-taught artist, Mngodo uses color and negative space to create an emotional feeling in each painting. His abstract, hard-line paintings draw the viewer in. Mngodo’s paintings reflect his origin and are filled with the colors and lights that fill his memory. An opening reception will be held 6-8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 8. For more information, contact Michelle Till at 608-748-4411 or visit our website at www.sinsinawa.org. Sinsinawa Mound, the Motherhouse for the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters, is located in southwest Wisconsin on County Road Z, off Highway 11, about five miles northeast of Dubuque.
Faith and Film: Brooklyn
Movie review by Fr. Tom Condon, O.P.
Brooklyn is a beautifully told story of Eilis (Saoirse Ronan), a young Irish woman who leaves her homeland to make a new life for herself in Brooklyn in the early 1950’s. With few prospects for herself in Ireland, Eilis leaves behind her mother and sister to sail alone across the Atlantic in search of a better life. The priest in her home town makes contact with Fr. Flood, an Irish priest in Brooklyn, who finds Eilis a place to live in a boarding house and a job in a department store.
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Dominican Sisters of Houston: Music flourishes inside St. Dominic Villa Chapel with virtual pipe organ
Written by: Ceil Roeger, O.P.
with contributions from Sr. Eleanor Cresap, O.P. and Sr. Anna Marie Flusche, O.P.
In August several very large wooden boxes arrived at the St. Dominic Villa. They contained a virtual pipe organ from Martin Digital Organs in California as a gift from Father John Kellick. Within days workers arrived and met with Sister Anna Marie Flusche to uncrate, set up and voice (sound adapt) it for our chapel.
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