Pauline from 2 to 3 - An Exclusive Community Screening

Super Ager Pauline Rutkowski, blessed with extraordinary physical and mental health, spends her 102nd and 103rd years on camera in this new feature documentary. Born to Polish parents in 1921 and raised on a Depression Era farm with eleven siblings, she has lived her entire life in Western Pennsylvania, surviving much and many across the 20th and 21st centuries. In her decades of hard work, early business success, and personal hardships while raising a sprawling family spanning five generations, Pauline embodies an often overlooked part of America’s “Greatest Generation,” its women. Throughout this visually inventive, upbeat portrait of advanced aging Pauline’s can-do attitudes reveal innate grit and a razor sharp wit. At a moment that seems particularly apt, with future generations expected to survive to and exceed their 100th birthdays, we witness in Pauline the example of strength, humility, and decency from a bygone era.

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RICHARD RUTKOWSKI


DIRECTOR


Richard is an active cinematographer based in New York City. His work on the first seasons of FX’s Cold War spy drama The Americans drew widespread critical acclaim. His camera work on the streaming drama Manhattan earned two ASC Award Nominations. Recent projects include Apple's TV’s Sugar, garnering both an Emmy nomination and the ASC Award this year for Outstanding Cinematography. His work also includes Masters of the Air, Apple TV's epic story of B-17 pilots in WWII and the third installment in the Band of Brothers franchise, produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. An earlier documentary, The Space in Back of You, chronicled the creative relationship between Japanese dancer Suzushi Hanayagi and theater maestro Robert Wilson. This documentary was screened in theaters internationally and aired on Arte Channel in France. Richard is one of Pauline’s fifteen grandchildren.

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