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There Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go Round with Ilana Trachtman

Sunday, February 27, 2022 • 26 Adar I 5782

10:00 AM - 11:00 AMZoom

Join us as Ilana Trachtman shares excerpts from her documentary film, There Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go Round. During the summer of 1960, two worlds collided on a picket line at segregated Glen Echo Amusement Park: idealistic black college students from Howard University, and white neighbors from Maryland’s Bannockburn community. Together, this unprecedented coalition took on the park owners, Jim Crow, the American Nazi Party, and the Supreme Court, and produced eight of the 1961 Freedom Riders.

Ilana Trachtman is an Emmy award-winning documentary director/producer.  For over 25 years she has created programs for numerous networks including PBS, HBO Family, ABC-TV, Showtime, Discovery, Lifetime, and the Sundance channel.  Ilana believes that true stories, carefully told, have unique power to inspire compassion, action, and community-building.  Her topics have ranged from the legacy of slavery in Latin America (Black in Latin America with Henry Louis Gates, PBS) to Gulf coast shrimpers (Our Heroes, Ourselves, Lifetime), glassblowing for at-risk youth (The Arts Advantage, ABC-TV) to transgender parents (The Pursuit, PBS).  Other favorite prime-time directing credits include the independent feature Mariachi High and Texas Ranch House.  Ilana supervised production on PBS' History Detectives and Sundance's Big Ideas for a Small Planet.  Through her production company Ruby Pictures, Ilana made the feature documentary Praying with Lior which played theatrically in over 60 cities in the US and abroad.  The film garnered 6 Audience Awards for Best Documentary, the Grand Prix at the International Disability Film Festival in Moscow, and was a critic's pick for The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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