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- **Event Name**: Professional Directions: 95 and 6 To Go with Filmmaker Kimi Takesue
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 25 Feb, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join the Department of Performing and Media Arts for Professional Directions: 95 and 6 To Go with Filmmaker Kimi Takesue on Wednesday, February 25, at 5:00 pm, in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. After the screening of 95 and 6 To Go, Kimi Takesue will participate in a talkback. The event will be moderated by PMA Associate Professor Jeffrey Palmer and Associate Professor Kelly Gallagher, Film and Media, Syracuse University, and is free and open to the public.

In 95 and 6 To Go, a resilient widower’s memories become intertwined with the fictional screenplay his granddaughter is writing, revealing the fine line between life and art, rumination and imagination.

This event is part of Seeing and Looking Across Cultures: The Films of Kimi Takesue, Cornell Cinema’s retrospective of her three award-winning feature documentary films. The 3-day program will feature screenings of Where Are You Taking Me? (2012), on Tuesday, February 24, at 6:00 pm, at Cornell Cinema; 95 and 6 To Go (2016), on Wednesday, February 25, at 5:00 pm, in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts; and Onlookers (2023), on Thursday, February 26, at 6:00 pm, at Cornell Cinema. 

Read the complete program information: https://cinema.cornell.edu/film-series/spring-2026/seeing-and-looking-across-cultures-films-kimi-takesue

Kimi Takesue is the 2025 Carol B. Epstein Visiting Artist in the Department of Performing and Media Arts

Kimi Takesue is an award-winning filmmaker working in documentary, narrative, and experimental genres. She is the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Film, the Rockefeller Fellowship in Media Arts, and the internationally competitive “Breakthrough Award” and fellowship from Chicken and Egg Pictures honoring women making significant contributions to the documentary field. Her films have screened extensively at festivals and museums internationally including Sundance, Locarno, New Directors/ New Films, Rotterdam, CPH:DOX, Mar del Plata, SXSW, the Walker Art Center, the Centre Pompidou, and the Museum of Modern Art (NYC) and have aired on PBS, IFC, Comcast, and the Sundance Channel. She is Professor in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at Rutgers University-Newark.

Sponsored by the Minority, Indigenous, &amp; Third World Studies Committee.

The Professional Directions series invites industry experts to speak about their career journeys as screenwriters, playwrights, actors, editors, producers, directors, theatre critics, dramaturgs, and more. These Q&amp;A sessions are free and open to the public.
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- **city**: Ithaca
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University
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- **full address**: Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, 430 College Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850-4626, United States

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