Video: Trailer for “Accordions Rising”Here is the link to the film streaming on Amazon: Amazon: Free or $2.99 -bit.ly/2lrM3NzAccordions_on_Amazon – If you watch on Amazon, your rating and review will help the film get on the “Recommended” list.The Blu Ray version is also available in these on-line stores: Barnes and Noble, Best Buy and Amazon.”Accordions Rising” memorabilia make great gifts for all the accordion lovers in your life. Available, along with DVDs, from the website:www.accordionsrising.com“Accordions Rising”….Looks at the past, Presents the present and Considers the future.ACCORDIONS RISING, the music documentarybit.ly/2lrM3NzAccordions_on_Amazonbit.ly/2kHTpgWAccordions_on_YouTubebit.ly/2mAaUh3_on_IndieRightshttp://bit.ly/2kVhWuhpmAccordions_on_GooglePlaybit.ly/2pHQofs_Accordions_on_itunesbit.ly/2n9uAeT_Accordion_on_Vuduhttp://bit.ly/2umyKk1_on_RottenTomatoesThe film has received the following awards:Global Accolade Competition – Award of Merit, November, 2015Bare Bones International Music and Film Festival – Best Movie Poster, April, 2016Indie Film Fest, August, 2016 – Award of MeritRoberta Cantow was recognized with her first grant from The American Film Institute while still a graduate film student at NYU. Through the years, The New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and others provided grants for the completion of 4 film works. She received a NY Area Emmy for her film, Clotheslines, about the symbolic and artistic role of laundry in women’s lives, as well as many other awards and presentations. Her films and videos have garnered several Best of Category Citations in film festivals around the country as well as an Award of Excellence for Dreamtime, in 2008 and Awards of Merit for Not a Still Life, and Accordions Rising, all in the documentary category, from the Accolade Competition.Her work has been exhibited in many of the venues for independents, including a presentation in the Cineprobe Series of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Her four 16mm films were selected for archival preservation by the Donnell Media Center, New York City, in 2001. All of her work will be housed in the Sophia Smith Women’s History Collection of Smith College (in perpetuity). Roberta is not currently working on a new film, but she is actively engaged as Project Coordinator with the Berkeley-based StoryCenter, through a funded initiative to bring digital storytelling to Palomar College where she teachers and to make it a campus wide phenomenon.For further information: rcantow@originaldigital.net