QUEENS buzz FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.qns.co MAY 12, 2016 • TIMES 21 BY ANTHONY GIUDICE agiudice@ridgewoodtimes.com @A_GiudiceReport “One man’s past becomes another man’s future” is the tagline for Glendale author J. Carson Rose’s debut novel “The Grey Woods,” but it could very well describe how her own past helped to shape her future. Rose was born in Glendale and has lived there for most of her life. She went off to college in Vermont and spent some time working on her photography in Charlotte, North Carolina, but eventually her past pulled her back to Glendale. “New York is the great old boomerang that always brings you back. There’s nothing like New York,” Rose said. “I wanted to be back in Glendale, number one, to be with my family, but to be back to what felt familiar, back to what felt cozy, something that I knew. So I very specifi cally bought a house in Glendale, without even seeing it. I bought it from Charlotte, because I knew what I wanted and where I wanted to be.” “The Grey Woods,” the fi rst book in a series of six, is a tale of personal journey and selfempowerment set in two different time periods, highlighting how decisions from the past play an important role in creating the future. “At the heart of the book is my own exploration of self-empowerment and learning to be a better person,” Rose said. “It’s my own journey of doing really, really well for myself, taking good care of myself, taking good care of people that I love and leaving a positive impression on the world. “The most interesting thing about the book is that it is told in two different time periods, so kind of bending time and bending past and present, making both equal in the story,” she added. “Bending the idea of how your past infl uences your future so much.” To help write her novel, Rose hearkened back to her time spent in Queens, where she also works as a real e s t a t e a g e n t , to create a w o r l d with a d i v e r s e set of c h a r a c - ters, languages and beliefs. “I think being in New York, specifi - cally Queens, there’s so many different people here and everybody is somehow r e p r e s e n t e d in the novel,” Rose said. “I have every different culture, and every different kind of person in the book because I’m exposed to it here. There is such a wealth of knowledge just in Queens, and even though the story is in this medieval setting, Queens is defi nitely food for those ideas.” Rose, whose real name is Jessica Mileto, even uses her pen name as a tribute to her past. Carson is her middle name, while Rose is her grandmother’s name, as well as her mother’s middle name, she explained. By using the name J. Carson Rose, she keeps her identity, but pays homage to the women who helped shape her past and infl uence her future. On Friday, June 17, Rose will be at Book Revue in Long Island signing limited-edition hardcover copies of “The Grey Woods” at 7 p.m. Glendale author debuts fantasy novel ‘The Grey Woods’ Photos courtesy of J. Carson Rose Glendale author J. Carson Rose released her debut novel, “The Grey Woods.” Glendale brewery hosts a lm series on female immigrants BY ANTHONY GIUDICE agiudice@ridgewoodtimes.com @A_GiudiceReport Glendale’s own Finback Brewery will play host to the fi lm series Women Directors: Sharing Immigrant Experiences Through Film, presented by New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT). On Thursday, May 19, at 7 p.m., fi lm afi cionados will fi ll the brewery located at 78-01 77th Ave. in Queens to view two screenings by women fi lmmakers focusing on the immigrant experience in New York. This will be the fourth screening in the fi ve-part series and will feature “English” and “Zaritsas,” two fi lms that document the experiences of Eastern European female immigrants in New York City. There will also be a conversation with the directors after the screening. Finback will provide moviegoers with a complimentary selection of their beers and all will be invited to join in on a post-screening reception full of delicious Eastern European cuisine. The fi lm “English” is written, directed, produced and acted in by Amanda Quaid. The 6-minute fi lm follows an immi g r a n t mother and her son as they go through a normal day. The mother quickly learns that her son is taking to American culture and speaking English more and more. She must decide if she wants catch up with her son, or be left behind him forever. Quaid is an actor from New York City. “English” is her directorial debut and her stage credits include Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional classical plays. Directed, co-produced and written by Elena Beloff, “Zaritsas” is a 45-minute documentary about American stereotyping of Russian women as mailorder brides and sex workers. Beloff follows fi ve Russian women for six months, interviewing each in her environment: a rapper in a Sheepshead Bay church; a saleswoman at the La Perla Madison Avenue Boutique; a model at home; a showgirl at a Brighton Beach restaurant and an exotic dancer. Beloff is a Russian-born American fi lmmaker, author and trained hypnotist. She came to the United States as an exchange student in 1997 and graduated from New School University with a degree in fi lmmaking. Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley was instrumental in selecting NYWIFT to receive funding for this series through the Cultural Immigrant Initiative. This is the second year Crowley has granted NYWIFT with funding from the Cultural Immigrant Initiative. “NYWIFT shows immigrant women the unique opportunity of fi lm producing — a lucrative fi eld that is continually growing here in New York City,” Crowley said. “This program allows women to be creative and share their stories with their own voice, and I am very proud to have a hand in this initiative.”
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