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TopDocs presents CIRCO

Thursday, April 21, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM (ET)

Pelham, NY

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Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
Non-members Ended $15.00 $1.36
Picture House members Ended $10.00 $1.24
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Event Details

TopDocs invites you to
CIRCO
Thursday, April 21st at 7:30pm
Wine reception at 7:00pm | Screening at 7:30pm
Members $10 / Non-members $15

"Four stars.  A GEM OF A DOCUMENTARY... Crisply shot, emotionally frank, and genuinely moving." -Adam Lee Davies, Time Out London


Gorgeously filmed along the back roads of rural Mexico, CIRCO follows the Ponce family's hardscrabble circus as it struggles to stay together despite mounting debt, dwindling audiences, and a simmering family conflict. Tino, the ringmaster, is driven by his dream to lead his parents' circus to success and corrals the energy of his whole family, including his four young children, towards this singular goal. But his wife Ivonne is determined to make a change. Feeling exploited by her in-laws, she longs to return to her kids a childhood lost to laboring in the circus. Through this intricately woven story of a marriage in trouble and of a century-old family tradition that hangs in the balance, CIRCO opens the viewer to the luminous world of a traveling circus while examining the universal themes of family bonds, filial responsibility, and the weight of cultural inheritance.  With Original Music by Calexico.  Winner of the Best Documentary prize at the Hamptons Film Festival and an official selection of BFI London, Los Angeles, AFI Silverdocs and Palm Springs film festivals.  To view the trailer, click here.

Filmmaker Aaron Schock will be present for a Q&A after the screening.  A wine reception will precede the screening.

The TopDocs series is sponsored by Frank V. Sica.

When & Where



The Picture House
175 Wolfs Lane
Pelham, NY 10803

Thursday, April 21, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM (ET)


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The Picture House



Several years ago a group of concerned citizens in lower Westchester organized to save the 1920s Pelham Picture House, now listed on the NY State Register of Historic Places, from the wrecking ball. The Picture House, recently restored and renovated, is now an independent film and education center. The Picture House entertains audiences with great movies – indies, foreign films, classics, shorts, animated films and documentaries from around the world. By inviting, actors, directors, producers, screen writers, and film critics to discuss their work, we bring the back lot to our front door.