toni kalem

Toni Kalem wrote the screenplay and directed the movie based on Anne Tyler’s third novel, A Slipping-Down Life, starring Lili Taylor and Guy Pierce (1999). It was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.  She has also written the screenplay for Rutgers-Camden professor Lisa Zeidner’s fourth novel, Layover, and is in development to direct the movie.

Born in the suburbs of New Jersey, Toni Kalem began her acting career in the late 70s, and her first prominent part was in “The Wanderers” (1979). She’s also done soap opera and TV work, and is best known for her performance as Angie Bonpensiero, the long-suffering wife of Big Pussy on “The Sopranos”(1999). She has written for “The Sopranos” and the series “The Big C” as well.

Toni will talk about careers in acting, screenwriting, and directing, the challenges of adapting novels for the screen, the challenges for women in Hollywood, and the realities of making independent films. Clips from “A Slipping Down Life” and “The Sopranos” will be shown.

Her talk will be followed by a reception.

Register for this event

Date & Time
September 28, 2016
4:30 pm-6:00 pm

Location
Campus Center
Multi Purpose Room
326 Penn St.
Camden, NJ

Admission Information
Free - RSVP encouraged

Contact
Leah Falk
856-668-4980
leah.falk@camden.rutgers.edu

Event posted in fiction, film studies.