Event
Mark - A Call to Action: Documentary Film Screening
3620 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA
Imagine a world with Complete Accessibility. MARK: A CALL TO ACTION is the story of Dr. Mark Bookman, a severely disabled Pennsylvania-born American who later resided in Tokyo full-time, becoming one of Japan's leading experts on accessibility and a policy consultant to governments and major corporations around the world.
Jolyon Thomas (Religious Studies) will be hosting a post-screening conversation with Dr. Paul Bookman (Mark's father) and Director Ron Small.
Featured Speakers
Jolyon Thomas researches religion in Japan and the United States. His first book, Drawing on Tradition: Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan, appeared from University of Hawai`i Press in 2012. His 2019 University of Chicago Press monograph, Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan, received an Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion (Analytical-Descriptive Studies) from the American Academy of Religion in 2020. His third book, Difficult Subjects: Religion and the Politics of Public Schooling in Japan and the United States, is under contract with University of Chicago Press. Thomas is also co-authoring a "trigraph," tentatively titled Animating Action, with Yulia Frumer and Aike Rots. With Matthew McMullen, he has recently co-edited The New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions, forthcoming from University of Hawai‘i Press in 2024.
Paul K. Bookman, DMD (Mark's father) has built a reputation among his colleagues and patients for his clinical ability, his attention to detail, and above all, his genuinely warm demeanor. A graduate of Tulane University and the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine, he has been practicing in Bryn Mawr since 1987. His passion for the art and science of dentistry and for the way it can be used to enhance his patients’ lives is what keeps him committed to staying at the forefront of professional developments.
Owner of Anchor Media Group, Inc. (the production arm of Holocaust Education Film Foundation) Ron Small is a graduate of Tulane University and got his start in television in “The Big Easy” producing and voicing television commercials and corporate programming, and following a move to Hollywood; documentaries and films. To date, his association with Post Production Supervisor David Jones has resulted in hundreds of hours of entertainment, business and non-profit programming seen throughout the wor