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SUMMARY:RESIST\, REFORM\, REPEAT: The Wobblies
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]RESIST\, REFORM\, REPEAT: The Wobblies\, is part of the series: FROM THE VAULT: WOMEN’S ADVOCACY ON FILM\, a program co-presented with Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) and New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT). In this program\, we present nonfiction films that have shaped movements\, provide perspectives on political\, environmental\, and human rights issues; and confront ideas around gender identity\, gender roles\, sexuality\, health and family\, all from a woman’s perspective. Following the program\, we will host discussion around these explorations of story and truth\, their innovative approaches to documentary filmmaking\, and their subjects that continue to be relevant today to filmmakers\, activists\, and media consumers working to creatively affect change.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”The Wobblies” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”90 min.\, 1979″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The Wobblies boldly investigates a nation torn by naked corporate greed and the red-hot rift between the industrial masters and the rabble-rousing workers in the field and factory. \n“Stewart Bird and Deborah Shaffer have performed a valuable service in marshaling the combination of interviews and original material ranging from pro-posters to scare-cartoons and old sepia-tone footage and stills. Central exposition is via interviews with surviving Wobblies — the film’s strength really derives from\, these folks\, the ex-loggers\, dockworkers\, silkworkers\, miners\, etc. — the small comforts on the bureaus\, the accumulated knickknacks of a lifetime somehow saying more than the text of their memories.” —Variety \n“The Wobblies is a history of the IWW\, researched lovingly and corroborated by the reminiscences of some of the union’s former members\, who are now in their 80’s and 90’s. When the facts are presented as fully as they have been here\, the feelings that accompanied them aren’t difficult to imagine.” —Janet Maslin\, New York Times \n“Without any pretense of ‘objectivity\,’ Bird and Shaffer not only have resurrected a slice of American history usually buried out of sight in the classrooms\, but produced a spirited and exhilarating distillation of that pre-World War I period in 89 minutes.” —Judy Stone\, San Franiciso Chronicle \n“The greatest value of this film is in restoring full humanity to the elderly — not by making them cute old codgers as Hollywood often does but by demonstrating the survival of their tough\, rebellious spirit… This vibrant\, joyous film celebrates the continuum of history.” —Stephen Farber\, New West \n“The happiest hit of the New York Film Festival.” —Harold Clurman\, The Nation \n“A vivid look into America’s radical past. Its heroes and heroines are filled with vitality — a rare attribute these days.” —Studs Terkel[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”90 min” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”97726″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Deborah Shaffer began making social issue documentaries as a member of the Newsreel Collective in the 70’s.  She co-founded Pandora Films\, a woman’s production company\, which produced How About You? and Chris and Bernie.  In 1979 she made the labor history documentary The Wobblies (New York Film Festival).  During the 80’s\, Shaffer focused on war and human rights in Latin America\, directing Nicaragua: Report from the Front; Witness to War (Academy Award® winner\, Best Documentary – Short Subjects); Fire from the Mountain (New York and Sundance Film Festivals; POV); and Dance of Hope (Prix d’Or\, FIPA\, Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals).  Shaffer was one of the first filmmakers to work in post-Sept. 11 New York City.  From the Ashes – 10 Artists (Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals; Cinemax) captures the impact the attacks had on 10 downtown New York artists\, followed a year later by From the Ashes – Epilogue (Tribeca Film Festival).  She is the Executive Producer of the short documentary\, Asylum\, which played at the Sundance Film Festival\, Human Rights Watch\, won Best Documentary at Aspen Shortsfest and was nominated for an Academy Award®. \nIn addition to her work as a director of independent documentaries\,  Shaffer has directed numerous programs for public television\, including Secrets Underground (Christopher Award\, Emma Award)\, Art:21 – Art for the 21st Century (Emmy Nomination) and Ladies First: The Women of Rwanda (Emmy Award\, Sigma Delta Chi Award\, Cine Golden Eagle). She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the NEH\, NEA and NYSCA.  She was recently awarded the Irene Diamond Lifetime Achievement Award by the Human Rights Watch Film Festival.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”99143″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Stewart Bird was born in the Bronx and grew up in Long Beach\, New York. Murder at the Yeshiva is his first novel. Bird has also written Solidarity Forever\, an oral history of the I.W.W. (University of Minnesota Press) with Dan Georgakas and Deborah Shaffer\, co-authored a play “The Wobblies: The U.S. vs. Wm. D. Haywood et. al.\,” (with Peter Robilotta) which was performed at the Hudson Guild Theatre in New York and published by Smyrna Press. \nBird wrote a one-hour story for PBS entitled “The Mighty Pawns” about a black inner city chess team\, which was shown nationally on Wonderworks and distributed nationally by Disney. As a writer/ producer for Fox television’s Current Affair Bird produced various segments: “Alan Berg\,” “Elvis Presley\,” “A Cycle of Justice\,” and “The Night Natalie Died.” He worked as a writer/ producer for CBS News’ 48 Hours and produced segments such as “Another America\,” “Underground\,” “Stuck on Welfare\,” and “Earth Wars.” \nHe has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, N.Y. Council for the Humanities\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, The Ford Foundation\, The Rockefeller Foundation and the New York Council on the Arts. Bird has produced numerous feature length documentaries including “Finally Got the News\,” about black auto workers in Detroit; “Retratos\,” on the Puerto Rican community in New York; “Coming Home\,” on Vietnam Veterans; and “The Wobblies” (with Deborah Shaffer) focusing on the Industrial Workers of the World a turn-of-the-century labor union.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”99144″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Tanya Goldman is a PhD Candidate in the department of Cinema Studies at New York University. Her research focuses on mid-twentieth century nonfiction film and its history as a political and cultural practice. Her dissertation focuses these questions vis-à-vis the career of New York Workers Film and Photo League member and independent nontheatrical distributor Tom Brandon (1910-1982). Her work and reviews have appeared in Feminist Media Histories\, Film Quarterly\, Jump Cut\, Senses of Cinema\, and is forthcoming in Film History. She is currently the graduate rep for the SCMS Nontheatrical Film SIG and recently served as IndieCollect’s inaugural Scholar-in-Residence.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2018-01-28-the-wobblies/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:From The Vault: Women's Advocacy on Film,FROM THE VAULT: WOMEN'S ADVOCACY ON FILM,Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171203T193000
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SUMMARY:RESIST\, REFORM\, REPEAT: Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]Despite decline in production\, its human and environmental catastrophes\, 25 US states still produce coal. How can stories of our past affect change today? \nRESIST\, REFORM\, REPEAT: Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man is the launch of a new series: FROM THE VAULT: WOMEN’S ADVOCACY ON FILM\, a program co-presented with Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) and New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT). In this program\, we present nonfiction films that have shaped movements\, provide perspectives on political\, environmental\, and human rights issues; and confront ideas around gender identity\, gender roles\, sexuality\, health and family\, all from a woman’s perspective. Following the program\, we will host discussion around these explorations of story and truth\, their innovative approaches to documentary filmmaking\, and their subjects that continue to be relevant today to filmmakers\, activists\, and media consumers working to creatively affect change.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”40 min.\, 1975\, dir. Mimi Pickering” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man investigates the 1972 coal waste dam disaster that flooded a surrounding southern West Virginia with water and sludge\, killing 125 and leaving thousands homeless. \n“A devastating expose of the collusion between state officials and coal executives… a powerful piece of muckraking on film.” –Newsweek \n“Outstanding! A very powerful film.” –Dr. Parker Marden\, Professor of Sociology\, St. Lawrence University \n“Very accurately reflects the despair and frustration of a community caught in a web of corporate red tape… an excellent instructional vehicle for studies in sociology\, business\, psychology\, and government.” –Media Digest \n“Admirable for its ability to strike a balance between emotion and analysis\, the film speaks to us on the human level of universal loss and suffering. But it is also a political film that reflects the decades of abuse and frustration experienced by miners and their families.” –Andrew Horton\, Film Quarterly \n“This film is recommended.” –Educational Film Library Association[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Making Connections News” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”Selected shorts\, 2010-2014\, prod. Sylvia Ryerson” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Making Connections News is a storytelling platform and multimedia series showcasing the opportunities and challenges in building a healthy and just Appalachia. It was presented by Appalshop and WMMT in Whitesburg\, Kentucky. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”60 min” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”96369″ img_size=”200×200″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Mimi Pickering is an award-winning filmmaker and director of Appalshop’s Community Media Initiative (CMI). Her documentaries often feature women as principle storytellers\, focus on injustice and inequity\, and explore the efforts of grassroots people to address community problems that frequently reflect global issues. Pickering is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and two Kentucky Arts Council Artist Fellowships. Her film\, The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man\, was selected by the Librarian of Congress for inclusion in the National Film Registry in 2005. Other documentaries include Chemical Valley\, an examination of environmental racism in West Virginia’s Kanawha Valley after the Bhopal disaster in India in 1983\, which aired on the PBS series P.O.V.\, and Dreadful Memories\, an exploration of the life and times of traditional singer and radical songwriter Sarah Ogan Gunning. The Oral History Review described Pickering’s film Hazel Dickens: It’s Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song as “a powerful tale told by one of Appalachia’s most reverent filmmakers working today…” As CMI Director\, Pickering is coordinating the East KY Reproductive Health Project\, a collaboration with AMI and young women from the region to create and distribute media telling their stories about reproductive health issues\, and producing stories for Making Connections News\, a joint effort with WMMT-FM to explore sustainable economic options for the coalfields.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”75839″ img_size=”200×200″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Sylvia Ryerson is an independent radio producer\, sound artist\, journalist and musician based in Brooklyn\, NY. For nearly a decade her work has probed the overlapping crises of mass incarceration\, rural poverty\, and environmental destruction.  Her work has been featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition\, Here and Now\, The Takeaway\, The Marshall Project\, Transom.org\, and spotlighted by the Third Coast International Audio Festival. From 2010-2015\, she worked at the award-winning media arts center Appalshop\, in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky. There she led the production of Calls from Home\, a nationally recognized radio program broadcasting messages from family members to their loved ones incarcerated in rural Appalachia. Sylvia currently produces The Runner’s World Show\, a podcast from Runner’s World Magazine\, and Restorative Radio\, a project working with families that have relatives incarcerated far from home to create “audio postcards” that are broadcast on rural radio stations to reach their loved ones in prison and a general listening audience.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”97380″ img_size=”200×200″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Michelle Miller is the co-founder of Coworker.org\, a digital platform for worker voice. Since its founding in 2013\, Coworker.org has catalyzed the growth of global employee networks advancing change at companies like Netflix\, Starbucks\, REI and Wells Fargo. She is a 2014 Echoing Green Global Fellow\, 2015 JM Kaplan Innovation Fellow and 2017 fellow at the Institute for the Future. In 2015\, Michelle was proud to join President Barack Obama as co-moderator of the first ever digital Town Hall on Worker Voice\, bringing the voices and concerns of workers directly to the White House. She sits on the boards of Appalshop\, Arts and Democracy Project and the Brooklyn Institute For Social Research\, and lives in Brooklyn\, NY.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-12-03-resist-reform-repeat-buffalo-creek-flood-an-act-of-man/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:From The Vault: Women's Advocacy on Film,FROM THE VAULT: WOMEN'S ADVOCACY ON FILM,Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170924T193000
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SUMMARY:RESIST\, REFORM\, REPEAT: Women's Voices and Las Madres
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]RESIST\, REFORM\, REPEAT: Women & Activism is the launch of a new series: FROM THE VAULT: WOMEN’S ADVOCACY ON FILM\, a program co-presented with Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) and New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT). In this program\, we present nonfiction films that have shaped movements\, provide perspectives on political\, environmental\, and human rights issues; and confront ideas around gender identity\, gender roles\, sexuality\, health and family\, all from a woman’s perspective. Following the program\, we will host discussion around these explorations of story and truth\, their innovative approaches to documentary filmmaking\, and their subjects that continue to be relevant today to filmmakers\, activists\, and media consumers working to creatively affect change. \nIn this first installment\, we will showcase two films that illuminate women’s participation in reform and protest in the 1980’s. The series is curated by WFPF Co-Chair Kirsten Larvick\, with programming assistance from Ann Deborah Levy and Raquel Salazar-Foster.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”Women’s Voices: The Gender Gap” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”16 min.\, 1984\, dir. Jenny Rohrer” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Women’s Voices: The Gender Gap explores the growing difference in the voting patterns of men and women (called the gender gap) that could no longer be denied by the mid-1980’s. Director Jenny Rohrer brings together a diverse group of women to discuss their perspectives on current political issues such as fair pay\, health care\, labor and unions\, the environment\, and reproductive rights\, which became wedge issues in Ronald Reagan’s America. Interwoven through these interviews are witty animated sequences from cartoonist Nicole Hollander\, creator of the comic Sylvia. \n“Superbly produced\, it’s apt to send viewers–male or female–dancing to the polls.”\n– New Age Journal (1984) \n“Women who work selling Avon products and as teachers\, housemakers\, dairy farmers and students bring alive the statistics proving that foreign policy and social programs are women’s issues.”\n– In These Times (1984) \n“‘The Gender Gap is an attempt to let women speak with their own voices about the issues of the day.”\n– Bob Koehler\, Lerner Booster Newspaper (1984) \n“While Gender Gap was certainly not designed for male audiences\, it may prove disconcerting to the few men who do see it.”\n– Catherine Rambeau\, Detroit Free Press (1984) [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza del Mayo” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”64 min.\, 1985\, dir. Lourdes Portillo and Susana Munoz” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo\, an Academy Award nominee\, tells the story of a group of mothers\, who have all lost a son or daughter during Argentina’s “Dirty War” in the 1970’s when thousands of people disappeared. They come together in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires and demand to learn the fate of their children. \n“Few films have captured the emotion of solidarity as acutely as does this documentary by Susana Munoz and Lourdes Portillo. The filmmakers don’t pin halos on their heroines; they simply let them speak\, and the women’s fierce nobility breaks your heart.”\n– The New Yorker\, on The Mothers of Plaza De Mayor\, 1986[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”80 min” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”82388″ img_size=”200×200″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Terry Lawler is Executive Director of New York Women in Film & Television. She is a Vice President/Board of Directors of the New York Production Alliance and serves on the advisory committee of Reel New York\, an independent film and video series broadcast on WNET/13. She also serves on the Boards of the Manhattan Neighborhood Network and the Katahdin Foundation. Prior to joining NYWIFT\, Lawler was Director of Development and Production at Women Make Movies and National Director of Film and Videomakers Services at the American Film Institute. She has been a media consultant for foundations and non-profit groups including the MacArthur Foundation\, the Astraea Foundation\, the National Museum of Women in the Arts\, and the Goethe Institute\, among others. She was production executive on several network television specials. She also was Executive Producer of Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography (1992)\, which won Best Documentary awards from the American Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle in 1992\, and Hollywood Mavericks\, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1990.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-09-24-resist-reform-repeat-women-activism/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:From The Vault: Women's Advocacy on Film,FROM THE VAULT: WOMEN'S ADVOCACY ON FILM,Screenings & Events
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