Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

When Susan Seidelman, one of the most successful independent filmmakers of the 1980s, was looking to make a comeback in the age of streaming and emerging technologies, she realized her best prospects were in her own backyard. Well, actually, the backyard of her mother’s 55+ South Florida retirement community. The result was Boynton Beach Club (2005), a story of the romantic exploits of recently widowed and divorced senior citizens living in a South Florida retirement community, starring Dyan Cannon, Brenda Viccaro, Sally Kellerman, and Joseph Bologna. This lecture goes behind the scenes of this low-budget movie, detailing all the creative, savvy – and risky – choices that Seidelman and her mother Florence made as they achieved critical success and ultimately new paradigm in cinema.