NYRAG's Documentary Film Series: PRESSURE COOKER

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: All grantmakers located in the metro-New York area.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Join NYRAG for:
-- A viewing of Participant Media's Pressure Cooker
-- Panel Discussion
-- Wine and Cheese Reception

Pressure Cooker profiles the lives of three high school seniors from Northeast Philadelphia, each with unique hardships but with the shared goal of winning scholarships to the country's best culinary schools. Their unlikely hero is the irreverent culinary arts teacher, Mrs. Stephenson, whose teaching style is hilariously blunt. Mrs. Stephenson is both a surrogate mother and a culinary boot-camp instructor as she pushes her kids to achieve beyond what anyone else expects from them.

Producer & Director: Jennifer Grausman
Director & Editor: Mark Becker
Executive Producers: Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann

FEE: No fee for NYRAG members and invited guests; $100 Fee for non-members.

Location: The Paley Center for Media, 25 West 52nd Street, NYC

Visit NYRAG.org for registration information.

OTHER INFORMATION: For more information about the film, please visit http://prod.takepart.com/social_network/action/pressurecooker/.