Behind the Closed Doors of a Queens Family Story
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  Queens College alum Nira Burstein spent six years making “Charm Circle,” an intensely personal documentary that took Burstein and her camera inside her childhood home in Flushing on a quest to understand the emotional chaos of her parents’ lives. Burstein is one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25  New Faces of Independent Film, and “Charm Circle” has been hailed at film festivals around the world for its unflinching examination of her family’s struggles with mental illness and her own journey in confronting familial bonds that are often hidden. The film was screened at the Museum of the Moving Image in Long Island City as part of the 12th annual Queens World Film Festival. * Click HERE for more about “Charm Circle”     
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