OLD HEART
A new movie adapted from Peter Ferry’s acclaimed novel — out now!
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September 21 Hilweg, Netherlands Biesbosch MuseumEiland. This special event at Biesbosch National Park includes film stars Edward Gaines, Eva Doueiri, producer Roger Rapoport and speakers from the museum staff. Guest can tour tour the waterways where smugglers moved food and supplies from liberated Southern Netherlands to people starving in northern cities still behind Nazi Lines during the Hunger Winter of 1944-45. Featured in Old Heart, De Biesbosch is one of the most scenic regions in the Netherlands. Seating is limited and reservations are recommended for this event. September 22: (Evening) Leiden, Netherlands at Kijkhuis Leiden in association with Studium Generale Universiteit Leiden. Detroit Lead Actor Edward Gaines, Dutch costar Eva Doueiri, producer/screenwriter Roger Rapoport will join a panel with a Dutch Historian. We thank Mieke Kirkels for making this event possible.
More dates are being planned across America and in Europe. Please check back for details on future screenings.
Where We’ve Played.
Since its May Redford Theater premiere in Detroit, Old Heart has screened for over 150 audiences. They include the Park Slope Public Library Brooklyn New York, Berkeley California’s Hillside Club, the Culver Theate in Culver City, California, Kan Kan Cinema in Indianapolis and Chicago's Chopin Theater.
In addition to two week theatrical runs with Celebration Cinema in Norton Shores, Grand Rapids, Lansing and Kalamazoo, the film has played across Michigan at the State Theater in South Haven, the Garden Theater in Frankfort, the Dogwood Center in Fremont, the Ludington Arts Center, Hope College’s Stempien Auditiorium in Holland for the Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies, the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners, Friendship Village in Kalamazoo, the Wealthy Theater and the Veterans Home in Grand Rapids and Mona Shores High School in Norton Shores. Old Heart has also screened at the Marina Del Rey Film Festival in Los Angeles, with many other festival events coming up soon.
In addition the film has screened in the Netherlands at Kijkhuis Leiden, Theater De Schalm in Veldhoven and Biesbosch Eiland Museum. In France Old Heart played on Crosie Europe’s Loire Princess.
For inquires about booking the film for a screening, please contact Producer Roger Rapoport at rogerdrapoport@me.com (231) 720-0930 (v0ice only).
Old Heart Screenings in Holland