Rebirth - Official Theatrical Trailer

[rbnyc]

Run time: 02:27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRLlkWCf80A   Posted on YouTube: July 18, 2011 By YouTube Member: oscopelabs Views on YouTube: 15443   Posted on DU: September 08, 2011 By DU Member: rbnyc Views on DU: 785

 
The not-for-profit cinema where I serve as Director of Development will screen this film on September 11th. I am proud to be part of this special screening event. All proceeds will go to benefit Project Rebirth. The mission of Project Rebirth is to chronicle living history and honor 9/11 victims and first responders, and to advance educational initiatives committed to pre-trauma resiliency building for first responders.

On a personal note, September 11th is my father-in-law's birthday which is why my husband wasn't at the World Trade Center that morning. Rather, we decided to play hooky from work and come out to the island to go out on the boat. It was such a beautiful day. My father-in-law loves his boat and we thought it would be one of the last days of the season we could take it out. We were lounging in bed talking ourselves out of feeling guilty for not going to work when my Mother-in-law called us. I could see the smoke from our window when I got up to answer the phone.

I decided I should go to work. I worked at a community center at the time. It was in the village and had been designated as a Red Cross center. We were preparing to take spill-over from St. Vincent's hospital. But we were in Brooklyn and I couldn't get into Manhattan. There was no spill-over from St. Vincent's anyway.

For months I walked from the subway station at Union Square west to work past all the "missing" posters, pictures, candles, flowers. My community center was designated a sensitive location. Police officers worked several days at ground zero, and then were posted to guard sensitive locations as a kind of break from the ground zero work, and every day we listened to them.

I am so lucky that I didn't lose any family or friends, but we all lost something...

[rbnyc]

1. kick

kind of sad no one is interested in or moved by this project

[stlsaxman]

2. where/when is "Rebirth" showing?

even after being relentlessly reminded of this horrific event during every election cycle by the GOP and now as the 10th Anniversary approaches, and as much as the subjects of this film are "finished mourning" (and that never happens) and looking to move on- even still- this movie looks intriguing to me.

Thanks for posting this- i hadn't heard of it.

[rbnyc]

3. Thanks.

The Long Island screening is at the Cinema Arts Centre: http://www.cinemaartscentre.org/011/011Septo/Rebirth.htm#Rebirth

Other event listings: http://projectrebirth.org/

[rbnyc]

4. I'm here. nt.