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DINNER & A MOVIE: Rebel

 Rebel by
Maria Aqui Carter,  Feature Documentary



A feature documentary about a Cuban woman
soldier and spy of the American Civil War, is a lush dramatic period piece set
in the 19th Century, and based on the memoir of Loreta Velazquez who disguised
herself as a man to fight in the American Civil War. Master of disguise,
bewitching to both sexes, Loreta Velazquez, Havana born and New Orleans raised,
would reinvent not only her identity, but her sex and her ethnicity, to soldier
and spy in the American Civil War. She was a woman not only ahead of her time,
she was ahead of ours – women have not been officially allowed to engage in combat
in the American military and the US military has only just lifted this ban.
When Loreta published her 1876 memoir critics attacked her as a prostitute and
liar. For over a hundred and fifty years, Loreta has been dismissed as a hoax.
But new evidence shows she was one of over a thousand secret women soldiers of
the Civil War. What made Loreta so dangerous she was erased from history? It is
said history is collective memory. Whose story counts? How do we choose what to
remember? And how do we choose what to forget? Rebel is a detective story about
a woman, a myth, and the politics of national memory.

DINNER & A MOVIE

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The Woods Hole Film Festival Winter Film Series, Dinner & A Movie, is underway at
the Captain Kidd Waterfront Dining Room for the 2013/2014 season.  Dinner & A Movie offers elegant dining
with superb independent films from the Woods Hole Film Festival and beyond and
is a great way to enjoy a night out with friends and family.  The
Cap’n Kidd may reserve a community table for patrons who reserve a single
space. The community table is as a great way to meet new people. For $25
per person, select from a preset menu of sumptuous food prepared specially for
the evening.  The price includes entrée
and the movie, but does not include beverage, dessert, tax or tip.

Dinner is served beginning at 5:30 p.m.  The screening follows at 7:30 p.m.  Reservations are required.  Call 508-548-8563 to reserve your place now
or make a reservation online – screenings sell out.  Dinner & A Movie gift certificates make
great gifts.  For more information
contact The Woods Hole Film Festival at 508-495-3456 or info@woodsholefilmfestival.org.  For online reservations and the full schedule
check out www.woodsholefilmfestival.org.

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