This season, ArtsEmerson film programming centers around enhancing community arts and culture events and expanding the dialogue around what’s on stage. ArtsEmerson is also working with community partners to enhance and connect Boston’s arts and cultural life. ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage continues its third season of independent and repertory films with screenings inspired by Vesturport Theatre’s stage presentation of Metamorphosis, plus a series by women directors and films from South America. Films are screened at Emerson College’s Paramount Center in the Bright Family Screening Room unless otherwise noted. According to Director of Artistic Programs David Dower, “This is a month in which we flex our range in the Bright Family Screening Room. From world classics to an event so fresh it’s performed live, edited live and streamed live from its home site in Tempe, Arizona. It’s a program unlike anything you will find in Boston this month.” THE WEIGHT OF WATER directed by Kathryn Bigelow will screen Saturday March 16th at 9 pm. Based on the bestselling novel by Anita Shreve, the film follows two couples on a journey to an isolated New Enlgand island where they pry open a centuryold double-murder. Flipping between time periods, the
