Special screening of Smaranda
The fascinating life of Romanian Smaranda Braescu
All are welcome to this special screening of Smaranda about the fascinating life of Romanian Smaranda Braescu, world-record-holder in skydiving, a woman way ahead of her time. With director Cornel Mituț and other special guests attending the post-movie reception. Originally from Romania, Smaranda broke the absolute world record (for men and women) at skydiving, near Sacramento, in 1932.
Smaranda’s extraordinary accomplishments were recently celebrated by none other than Red Bull, which named a competition after her!
SEEfest program and activities are supported, in part, by ELMA Foundation for European Movies in America, UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies , the California Arts Council, a state agency; Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture; by a grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, and with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. We are deeply grateful for their past and current support of our programs. The Dutch film program is supported by Dutch Culture USA of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.