The Cima Project – The Creative Power of Age

The Creative Power of Age

With the Cima Players featuring Delroy Lindo and Michael Pressman

In the fall of 2018 actor/director Anna Katarina began working with a group of senior actors aged 70 to 93 in New York City. The talent that emerged was immediate and astonishing. Anna decided to capture their work on film to document a simple truth: age is an asset, not a hindrance, to personal growth and creative expression.

From that discovery, The Cima Project was born. In Italian, cima means “on the peak,” a reflection of where these actors stand artistically.

When encouraged to work on their favorite roles, regardless of age, physical ability or appearance, these elders took on characters they had dreamed of portraying for decades, frequently drawing on their own life experience. This process proved deeply healing and rejuvenating, and drew the attention of award-winning actor Delroy Lindo and award-winning producer/director Michael Pressman.

You’re stopping and saying: there’s a human being here. Not only is there a human being here, there’s a human being here who is full of creative riches, and your process is mining those riches. That’s what you’re doing. – Delroy Lindo

I have never heard nor seen the marriage of self-healing as a process through the technique of playing characters with your guidance as somebody who understands the art of acting.
– Michael Pressman

We have been developing a feature-length documentary entitled The Creative Power of Age to illuminate and preserve the inner culture, passion and wisdom our elders possess. Our mission feels especially urgent at a time when the gifts they offer are largely ignored by our fast-paced, digital centric society.

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Our goal is to raise $125,000 to complete our film, cover the expenses of our weekly classes (which we are expanding to new students) and continue our annual performances.

Please join us as we work to change how aging is seen, not as a limitation or decline, but as an open, dignified, and fulfilling stage of life.

We thank you for your consideration and support.

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