Thursday, March 5th, 2009
7:30 p.m.
$7 admission or free with Lab membership ($50 level and above)
Complimentary drinks and hors d'oeuvres provided
At The Lab
2948 16th Street, San Francisco
After Happily Ever After
Directed by Kate Schermerhorn
Ninety-five percent of us marry at least once in our lifetime, and yet roughly fifty percent of all marriages end in divorce. Is marriage an outdated idea? Through interviews with couples and marriage experts, and by chronicling the demise of her own marriage, Schermerhorn poses timely, unexpected questions that can’t be easily answered with “I do.” Why do we marry? Who should be allowed to marry? What makes a marriage work or fall apart? And what viable alternatives to marriage exist, if any?
Moderator: Micha Peled
Micha Peled, of Teddy Bear Films, is the producer-director of numerous award-winning documentaries, including “China Blue,” “Store Wars: When Walmart Comes to Town,” and “Will My Mother Go Back To Berlin?” His films have aired on PBS and on 30 other TV channels worldwide. He currently is in production on a documentary that examines the alarming rate of suicide among farmers in India.