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SUMMARY:#Resist: Learning from the Young Lords
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]In this session of BK@24FPS we will explore the activism of the Young Lords. We will question how their fight for economic\, racial and social justice has changed in the present day. If we have\, how have we grown? We will question how the UnionDocs’ very own neighborhood and community\, which is predominantly Puerto Rican views\, and continues their work today. We will watch Palante\, Siempre Palante!\, as well as clips of El Pueblo se Levanta\, and be joined by Director Iris Morales and Comic book artist Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez for our post-screening discussion.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”¡PALANTE\, SIEMPRE PALANTE! The Young Lords ” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”48 min.\, 1996\, Iris Morales” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]In the midst of the African American liberation struggle\, protests to end the Vietnam War and the women’s movement for equality\, Puerto Rican and Latino/a communities fought for economic\, racial and social justice. From the streets of Chicago to the barrios of New York City and other urban centers\, the Young Lords emerged to demand decent living conditions and raised a militant voice for the empowerment of Puerto Ricans and other Latino/as in the United States and for the end to the colonial status of zation  independence of Puerto Rico.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”El Pueblo se Levanta `{`Excerpt`}`” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”50 min.\, 1971\, Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez ” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]In the late ’60s\, conditions for Puerto Ricans in the US reached the boiling point. Faced with racial discrimination\, deficient community services\, and poor education and job opportunities\, Puerto Rican communities began to address these injustices by using direct action. This film focuses on the community of East Harlem\, capturing the compassion and militancy of the Young Lords as they implemented their own health\, educational\, and public assistance programs and fought back against social injustice. An excellent portrayal of inner city organizing in the late 60s.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”84 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=”77705″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Iris Morales has spent her life as an activist and educator dedicated to human rights\, racial justice\, and the decolonization of Puerto Rico. She brings her legacy of activism to projects devoted to these issues collaborating with young people\, women\, and artists\, and she travels nationally as a public speaker. Ms. Morales is the founder and editor of Red Sugarcane Press publishing books about the struggles of the Puerto Rican and Latinx Diasporas in the Americas. As an advocate for climate justice\, she volunteers with UPROSE\, a women of color led organization engaged in grassroots organizing\, leadership development\, and cultural/artistic expression. \nMs. Morales was a leading member of the Young Lords Party\, a Puerto Rican activist group formed in the late sixties\, and is the producer\, co-director\, and writer of the award-winning documentary\, ¡Palante Siempre Palante\, The Young Lords! The film premiered on national public television in 1996 and continues to be screened in classrooms and community venues across the United States and Puerto Rico. Her recent book\, Through the Eyes of Rebel Women\, The Young Lords: 1969 to 1976\, the first account of the women members\, has been enthusiastically received.  \n Ms. Morales is an attorney\, a graduate of New York University School of Law\, and earned an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”77829″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez is the writer and creator of the critically acclaimed and best-selling graphic novel La Borinqueña which he self-published under his own studio\, Somos Arte. Edgardo’s debut as a writer for Marvel has been received with critical acclaim similar to his initial work with Marvel as curator of two exhibitions Santerians: The Art of Joe Quesada and Marvelous Color. Via Somos Arte\, he has a client roster that includes Marvel\, Atlantic Records\, Columbia University\, and various Latino non-profits like ASPIRA of New York\, El Puente and the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute. Edgardo was the Artistic Director of Pa’lante Siempre Pa’lante\, part of the acclaimed PBS POV Documentary Series which received the Silver Apple Award from the National Media Alliance. He is also co-founder of the graphic novel publishing company Darryl Makes Comics with his business partner\, Darryl DMC McDaniels.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Co-Sponsored by”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”77631″ img_size=”300×300″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Third World Newsreel is a media arts organization that fosters the creation\, appreciation\, and dissemination of social issue film and video made by and about people of color. Visit its website at www.twn.org.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”BK@24fps”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”75058″ img_size=”300×300″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Our monthly Brooklyn-based screening series  – BK@24fps \n\n\n\nSkylight Pictures & Engage\, Remezcla and UnionDocs’ monthly screening series highlights documentary films that recount the history of political movements led by people of color. Each program will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers alongside activists currently involved in organizing for social change. The #Resist Film Series will provide lessons from the past and present while giving the audience hope that\, in the face of a Trump presidency\, they have the power to change the future. \n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-07-13-resist-learning-from-the-young-lords/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:BK@24fps,Screenings & Events
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SUMMARY:#Resist: Learning from the Farm Workers Movement
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]The movement to eat clean\, local and organic has been growing rapidly for the past several years\, but what about the people who actually pick our food? In the next session of BK@24FPS #Resist Film Series we will explore the fight for labor rights by farm workers across the United States. We will look back to the 1960s with Delano Manongs on the Filipino pickers who started the famous grape boycott and a clip from Dolores\, the timely documentary on the life of Dolores Huerta of UFW. We’ll then flash forward to the present with Food Chains\, an exposé on the deplorable conditions that forced Latino tomato pickers in Florida to join together and fight for better wages.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”Dolores” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”10 min.\, 2017″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]We will view a clip from Dolores\, the timely documentary on the life of Dolores Huerta of United Farm Workers.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Food Chains” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”60 min.\, 2014″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]In this exposé\, an intrepid group of Latino farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program\, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the United States. \nThere is more interest in food these days than ever\, yet there is very little interest in the hands that pick it. Farmworkers\, the foundation of our fresh food industry\, are routinely abused and robbed of wages. In extreme cases they can be beaten\, sexually harassed or even enslaved – all within the borders of the United States. \nFood Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of large buyers of produce like fast food and supermarkets. Fast food is big\, but supermarkets are bigger – earning $4 trillion globally. They have tremendous power over the agricultural system. Over the past 3 decades they have drained revenue from their supply chain leaving farmworkers in poverty and forced to work under subhuman conditions. Yet many take no responsibility for this.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Delano Manongs” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”26 min.\, 2014″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]We will look back to the 1960s with Delano Manongs on the Filipino pickers who started the famous grape boycott.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”96 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=”76586″ img_size=”200 x 200″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Sanjay Rawal had a over a decade’s worth of experience as a human rights and humanitarian aid consultant with projects in over 40 countries before being bit by the film bug. His first feature\, Food Chains\, chronicled the struggle of a small group of tomato pickers\, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers\, as they fought for rights and wages from multibillion-dollar corporations atop the food supply chain. The film was produced by Eva Longoria and Eric Schlosser and narrated by Forest Whitaker. \nIt had its world and domestic premieres in 2014 at the Berlinale and Tribeca\, respectively. It was released theatrically nationwide by Screen Media and won a number of awards\, including the 2015 BritDoc Impact Award. Sanjay is currently finishing a film on indigenous long-distance running which took him from Botswana to Japan to Arizona.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-06-08-bk24fps-aim-movement/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:BK@24fps,Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170511T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170511T223000
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SUMMARY:#Resist: Understanding the Movement for Trans Lives
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]Our next edition of BK@24FPS #Resist Film Series will shed light on the evolution of the trans movement from the early 90s in New York City through the present day in Los Angeles. The discourse on trans rights has recently been under a spotlight\, and it is clear that we all have much to learn from the community. Following a screening of the gritty doc Salt Mines\, Adam Golub’s short on a trans sex worker running for office in Brazil\, and an excerpt of TransVisible on Bamby Salcedo\, the Latina activist fighting for trans immigrants’ rights – Natalia Guerrero from New York City’s Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center will facilitate a workshop for the group.  \nA short Q&A with the filmmakers and The Center’s activists will end the night. This post-screening Q&A will offer those in attendance concrete actions they can take to join the trans lives movement.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”The Salt Mines” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”47 min.\, 1990\, USA” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \nThe Salt Mines explores the lives of Sara\, Gigi and Giovanna\, three Latina transwomen who for years have lived on the streets of Manhattan supporting their drug addictions through sex work. They made their temporary home inside broken garbage trucks that the Sanitation Department keeps next to the salt deposits used in the winter to melt the snow. The three friends share the place known asThe Salt Mines with a varied community of homeless people. They talk about their sexual identity\, their past and their dreams. We follow their daily lives day and night until the place is closed and sealed by the city\, forcing everyone to disperse\, in this groundbreaking 1990 documentary\, one of the first to delve into the lives of trans women and sex workers. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Indianara’s House” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”9 min.\, 2016\, USA\, Brazil” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transvisible: The Bamby Salcedo Story `{`Excerpt`}`” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”60 min.\, 2013\, USA” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \nAn inspirational story about Bamby Salcedo\, a Trans Latina woman\, now a renowned international leader and Trans community advocate. At an early age\, Bamby confronted entire systems of oppression that resulted in family rejection\, police brutality\, religious prejudice\, and prison violence in Mexico and the U.S. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”75 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=”76241″ img_size=”200×200″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nAdam Golub is a video artist\, documentarian and storyteller. His work seeks out the intersection between journalism\, art and activism by looking for those points where theory meets lived experience. He graduated from Columbia University’s school of journalism and was a fellow at the UnionDocs center for documentary art. His work has been exhibited across the US in film festivals and educational screenings. His larger body of work focuses on the margins of society as a test of its robustness and strength. More recently his work focuses on non-central urban spaces in The Americas as societies of expanding consciousness in the wake of gentrification and flight from the largest capital cities. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”BK@24fps”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”75058″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Our monthly Brooklyn-based screening series  – BK@24fps \nSkylight Pictures & Engage\, Remezcla\, and UnionDocs’ monthly screening series highlights documentary films that recount the history of political movements led by people of color. Each program will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers alongside activists currently involved in organizing for social change. The #Resist Film Series will provide lessons from the past and present while giving the audience hope that\, in the face of a Trump presidency\, they have the power to change the future. \nIn the months to come\, we’ll announce the titles for future screenings of the #Resist Film Series. Keep an eye out for more info on our June 8 screening centering on the United Farm Workers and our July 13 event on the Young Lords. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-05-11-resist-understanding-movement-trans-lives/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:BK@24fps,Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170413T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170413T213000
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SUMMARY:#Resist: Learning from the DREAMers
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]In this session of BK@24FPS we will explore the DREAM Act\, its failure to pass in Congress\, and how a group of young immigration activists forced a national conversation on policy reform resulting in Obama’s Executive Order known as DACA. Within his first month in office\, Trump moved forward on building a wall and executing a travel ban. With ICE raids being widely reported\, the threat to immigrants on and off US soil has reached a critical point. We will watch segments of the powerful documentary ‘Immigration Battle’ and the poetic short film ‘Dreams Awake’ plus a stop-motion animated short from the ‘Dreamer Generation’ series to dig into the state of immigration in the US and draw lessons from those who’ve been fighting for immigration reform for decades. \nWe will be joined by filmmakers Michael Camerini\, Shari Robertson and William Caballero along with Yasmine Farhang from Make the Road NY for a discussion following the program. This post-screening Q&A will offer those in attendance concrete actions they can take to join the immigrant rights movement.\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”Dreams Awake” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”7 min.\, 2010\, Kevin Gordon & Rebekah Meredith” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]A meditation on immigration and expression through the experience of one immigrant worker who discovered his political and artistic voice in the US.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Immigration Battle `{`excerpt`}`” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”111 min.\, 2015\, Shari Robertson & Michael Camerini ” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Goes behind closed doors in Washington’s corridors of power to explore the political realities surrounding one of the country’s most pressing and divisive issues.[/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=”75473″ img_size=”200×200″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini have been making documentary films together for 20 years. Their New York City production company is the Epidavros Project/Epidoko Pictures. Before joining forces\, both made movies about cultures and political situations outside the U.S. They filmed matriarchs of extended families in Haryana State\, India\, and young Khmer Rouge guerrilla fighters in Western Cambodia\, coca growers in Peru’s Upper Huallaga Valley and tribal elders in Kankan\, Northeast Guinea. Their first feature documentary collaboration was a deep look at the barriers to girls’ education in Africa\, These Girls are Missing. The first U.S. film came next—an inside look at the American political asylum system\, the groundbreaking Well-Founded Fear. Then in the summer of 2001\, still in the United States\, they entered into the mysteries of Capitol Hill\, by far the most complex culture and political situation either of them had encountered … anywhere. Twelve years later\, the New York Film Festival premiered all 10 feature documentaries in the resulting series How Democracy Works Now. Fall 2015 brought a return to Lincoln Center and the New York Film Festival to premiere the series’ capstone\, Immigration Battle/Reasons to Believe. The national U.S. broadcast on PBS Frontline followed in late October. After Capitol Hill\, Camerini and Robertson are once again on the loose\, in the world. Their latest stop took them to Africa’s Sahel region for an up-close look at ordinary people working to counter violent extremism in\, NIGER:Tales of Resilience.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”BK@24fps”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”75058″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Our monthly Brooklyn-based screening series  – BK@24fps \n\n\n\nSkylight Pictures & Engage\, Remezcla and UnionDocs’ monthly screening series highlights documentary films that recount the history of political movements led by people of color. Each program will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers alongside activists currently involved in organizing for social change. The #Resist Film Series will provide lessons from the past and present while giving the audience hope that\, in the face of a Trump presidency\, they have the power to change the future. \n\nIn the months to come\, we’ll announce the titles for future screenings of the #Resist Film Series. Keep an eye out for more info on our May 11 program focusing on the United Farm Workers\, the June 8 screening centering on the LGBTQ rights movement\, and our July 13 event on the Young Lords. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/209989965″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-04-13-immigrants-borders-dreamers/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:BK@24fps,Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170309T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170309T220000
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SUMMARY:Making the Invisible Visible
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]As the current right wing Trump regime unfolds we see daily attacks on all of our hard won social structures; from Public Education\, to healthcare\, to our immigrant rights\, to freedom of the press\, to building pipelines. The onslaught can be overwhelming\, and the prospect of building and sustaining a meaningful resistance may appear dim. Pessimism can be particularly pervasive we never get to see other people like ourselves attempting to get organized. These efforts don’t appear on our social media feeds or in the mass media. Filters\, either imposed by others or by ourselves\, often skew our assessment of the potential for social change. This month we look at one aspect of invisible America – the organized resistance of poor Americans fighting for their survival.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”Ñ Don’t Stop\, The Mike Brown Rebellion Part IV” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”11 min.\, 2017″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]News\, culture and entertainment featuring interviews and profiles with artists\, muralists and community leaders. Hosted and produced by Rebel Diaz.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”America Will Be” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”excerpts\, 2017″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]A new documentary film series that shines a light on leading voices at the frontlines of emerging social movements in the United States. \n“America Will Be” goes beyond the headlines to explore today’s most urgent battles and to meet the people who are putting their bodies\, and sometimes their lives\, on the line to secure a better future for their children. From the Native American resistance in Standing Rock to the struggles for clean and affordable water in Detroit and Flint; from the fight to end racist legislation in North Carolina to the successful nationwide strike of fast food workers fighting to raise the minimum wage to $15\, “America Will Be” documents a profound moment in American history\, a moment unlike any other since the Civil Rights Movement.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”22 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=”55330″ img_size=”300×300″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Charon Hribar is the Director of Cultural Strategies and Poor People’s Campaign Revivals Coordinator for the Kairos Center for Religions\, Rights\, and Social Justice. Over the past 15 years\, Charon has been committed to the work of political education\, leadership development\, and has taken up a particular interest in developing the use of arts in culture for movement building with community and religious leaders across the country. Charon holds a Ph.D. in Religion and Society from Drew University. Her recent academic and movement building research explore the use of Poverty Truth Commissions to confront the structural violence of poverty in the United States and around the world. She currently serves as a lead advisor to the New Poor People’s Campaign’s Truth Commission on the Right to Not Be Poor. Charon is also a consultant with Beyond the Choir\, a strategy and training collective working with social justice organizations to craft resonant messaging and plan strategic campaigns.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”55414″ img_size=”300×300″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Dara Kell is an award-winning South African filmmaker and media organizer. She directed and produced “Dear Mandela\,” a film about three courageous young South African slum dwellers who lead a social movement to stop mass evictions across the country. “Dear Mandela” is the centerpiece of a global community engagement project that educates slum residents about their housing rights and inspires young people to become leaders. Dara was commissioned by Terre des Hommes to create a series of films about children’s perspectives of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. Filmed in Brazil’s army-occupied favelas\, the documentaries are part of a campaign to make mega sporting events more safe and fair for children. For more than a decade\, Dara has worked closely with foundations like the Ford Foundation and non-profits like PEN America and the Kairos Center for Religions\, Rights and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary to design educational materials and produce multimedia content for a wide range of their programs.Dara runs Brooklyn-based production company Brava Media. Her work has been supported by the Sundance Institute\, the New York State Council on the Arts\, the Bertha Foundation and the Ford Foundation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”55417″ img_size=”300×300″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Claudia de la Cruz\, from the South Bronx is a long time organizer and educator. For the past 8 years\, she has done organizing work through culture and media as a member of The Rebel Diaz Arts Collective.  She is co-host of TeleSur’s English innovative web TV series Ñ Don’t Stop  with the Hip Hop duo\, Rebel Diaz. The goal is to “produce knowledge and cultural based content that is narrated by us…”  Claudia will discuss their cultural work as it relates to movement building.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”55428″ img_size=”300×300″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Eli Wright served as a combat medic in the US Army from 2002-2008 and deployed to Ramadi\, Iraq from 2003-2004. Since 2007\, he has been traveling whenever and wherever possible with Warrior Writers and Combat Paper to work with fellow vets in pursuit of creative pathways for addressing war trauma. He is currently serving as instructor and co-coordinator of the Combat Paper Project at the Printmaking Center of New Jersey. Eli is a long time member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/206643753″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-03-09-making-invisible-visible/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:BK@24fps,Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170209T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170209T223000
DTSTAMP:20260707T032941
CREATED:20170123T230219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180228T143907Z
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SUMMARY:Justifiable Paranoia: National Bird & Aaron Brown
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We welcome Curtis Wallen and Sonia Kennebeck for an evening of JUSTIFIABLE PARANOIA for this month’s iteration of the BK@24fps series with Skylight Pictures. Wallen will describe his Aaron Brown project\, reflecting on identity protection on the internet\, before we screen Kennebeck’s latest feature. Deemed “elegantly unsettling” by The New York Times\, National Bird follows the dramatic journey of three whistleblowers who are determined to break the silence around one of the most controversial current affairs issues of our time: The secret U.S. drone war. From Executive Producers Wim Wenders\, and Errol Morris\, the images in this film haunt the audience and bring a faraway issue close to home. Discussion with Wallen and Kennebeck will follow\, moderated by Melvin Estrella. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ffffff”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”Aaron Brown: on creating an identity on the deep web ” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”15 min.\, mixed media\n” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \nCurtis Wallen will give a short presentation on creating an identity on the deep web. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”National Bird” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”92 min.\, 2016″ font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] \nNational Bird follows the dramatic journey of three whistleblowers who are determined to break the silence around one of the most controversial current affairs issues of our time: The secret U.S. drone war. \nAt the center of the film are three U.S. military veterans. Tortured by guilt over participating in the killing of faceless people in foreign countries\, they decide to speak out publicly\, despite the possible consequences. \nTheir stories take dramatic turns\, leading one of the protagonists to Afghanistan where she learns about a horrendous incident. But her journey also gives hope for peace and redemption. \nNational Bird gives rare insight into the U.S. drone program through the eyes of veterans and survivors\, connecting their stories as never seen before in a documentary. Its images haunt the audience and bring a faraway issue close to home. \n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”92 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=”52385″ img_size=”200×200″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Sonia Kennebeck is an independent documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist with more than 15 years of directing and producing experience. She has directed eight television documentaries and more than 50 investigative reports. Most recently\, she completed her first feature-length documentary\, National Bird\, a film about the U.S. drone war which was executive produced by Wim Wenders and Errol Morris and premiered in the prestigious Specials Section of the Berlin Film Festival 2016 and was also selected for Tribeca\, Sheffield and IDFA\, among many other festivals. National Bird will open in theaters in the U.S. and Europe in November and will be broadcast on PBS in spring 2017. Filmmaker Magazine selected Sonia Kennebeck as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2016. Sonia Kennebeck received a Master’s degree in International Affairs from American University in Washington\, D.C. She was born in Malacca\, Malaysia and lives in New York.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”53068″ img_size=”200×200″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Curtis Wallen is an artist\, writer\, and researcher from Missouri\, currently based in Brooklyn. His work focuses on the structures of technology\, security\, and power. He has appeared in The Atlantic\, Wired\, Fast Company\, Süddeutsche Zeitung\, VICE Motherboard\, and the BBC. His work has been exhibited and presented internationally in New York\, Los Angeles\, Germany\, and Switzerland. He is also the co-founder of the art gallery Motel.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=”BK@24fps”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”53057″ img_size=”300×500″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Our monthly Brooklyn-based screening series highlights documentary films as a way to to expand dialogue around the intersection of human rights and art. Born out of a three-way collaboration between Skylight\, UnionDocs\, and WITNESS\, these monthly events aim to strengthen the ties between people interested in human rights in Brooklyn and will consist of\, a 10-part series of film screenings followed by a partner-moderated discussion between the filmmaker\, movement actors\, and the audience. During our discussions we debate the conventional framework for human rights and challenge the definition of what constitutes human rights media.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-02-09-national-bird/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:BK@24fps,Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170112T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170112T213500
DTSTAMP:20260707T032941
CREATED:20170103T175220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180228T041344Z
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SUMMARY:Broadening the Lens on Indigenous Resistance
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]In this session we lay out the main ideas for the coming year;  what are roles for human rights filmmaking in the face of our deeply divided country\, and how do we build and strengthen human rights media in this new era?  Reflecting the historic organizing and resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline spearheaded by the Standing Rock Sioux people we will highlight several media makers who have been involved in this resistance. We are interested in discussing the relationship between human rights media making and the organizing of resistance movements.  What does this collaboration look like and how does it work?  Who has final cut\, and who has content control? In what way is media used to further the organizing\, and does it help to bridge ideological divides? \nThis program is a part of our monthly series BK@24FPS with Skylight Pictures where we explore documentary as a way to expand dialogue around the intersection of human rights and art.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_text_separator title=”Program” color=”white” el_class=”h1″][vc_custom_heading text=”Work from Angelo Baca & Jacqueline Hazen” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”20 min.” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Work From Julie Bridgham & Amber Fares” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”20 min.” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Work From Matt Peterson” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_custom_heading text=”20 min.” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][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=”51658″ img_size=”300×300″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] \nAngelo Baca\, Navajo and Hopi filmmaker\, is a doctoral student in NYU’s Anthropology department. He is also a graduate of the Native Voices Program at the University of Washington and has done numerous documentaries and collaborative works with other filmmakers. He has taught both Native American Literature and Native American Media courses. His research varies from indigenous food sovereignty and Native American health\, to indigenous film and native youth development projects\, including indigenous international repatriation and sacred lands protection\, particularly around Bears Ears in southeastern Utah. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”51654″ img_size=”300×300″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Julie Bridgham is an award winning Director and Producer of documentary film and television with over 15 years of experience. She was the Director and Producer for the multi-award winning documentary feature “The Sari Soldiers\,” for which she was granted a Sundance Institute Documentary Fellowship\, and was the recipient of the Nestor Almendros Prize for courage and commitment in human rights filmmaking.  She has directed numerous documentary series and feature films that have taken her around the globe\, and has produced for CBS\, BBC\, the Discovery Channel\, TLC\, and the Travel Channel\, among others. She lived in Nepal for over seven years\, where she produced and directed films for the United Nations World Food Programme and The Nepal Youth Foundation\, in addition to “The Sari Soldiers”\, and the feature documentary in-progress “At the Edge of Sufficient.” Prior to working in documentary film and television she was a Project Officer with the United Nations for the project “Ecologically Sustainable Industrial Development” in Costa Rica\, and was a researcher for the human rights organization Andean Information Network in Bolivia. Most recently\, Julie is the Producer and Director for the interactive trans-media documentary “Shifting Borders” following Nepali migrant workers in Qatar\, and is an Executive Producer for the feature documentary “Drawing the Tiger.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Matt Peterson has been working with Malek Rasamny since 2014 on The Native and the Refugee\, a multi-media documentary project profiling the spaces of the Indian reservation and Palestinian refugee camp. This work has been shown in Jordan\, Lebanon\, Palestine\, Syria\, and in native territories throughout North America. In 2014 he completed a feature film on the Tunisian insurrection\, Scenes from a Revolt Sustained. His writings have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail\, Death+Taxes\, Electronic Intifada\, Evergreen Review\, Idiom\, The L\, Muftah\, the New Inquiry\, the New York Press\, and ROAR. He was a member of the collectives Red Channels and the 16 Beaver Group\, and is currently part of a commune in New York called Woodbine.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/2017-01-12-broadening-the-lens-on-indigenous-resistance/
LOCATION:UnionDocs\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, 352 Onderdonk Avenue\, Ridgewood\, NY\, 11385\, United States
CATEGORIES:BK@24fps,Screenings & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160908T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160908T183000
DTSTAMP:20260707T032941
CREATED:20161214T092343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180409T220146Z
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SUMMARY:BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7cP6g6VBAY”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For 81-year-old Sonia Sanchez\, writing is both a personal and political act. She emerged as a seminal figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement\, raising her voice in the name of black culture\, civil rights\, women’s liberation\, and peace as a poet\, playwright\, teacher\, activist and early champion of the spoken word. She is among the earliest poets to have incorporated urban black English into her poetry; she was one of the first activists to secure the inclusion of African American studies in university curricula. Deemed “a lion in literature’s forest” by poet Maya Angelou and winner of major literary awards including the American Book Award\, Sonia Sanchez is best known for 17 books of poetry that explore a wide range of global and humanist themes\, particularly the struggles and triumphs of women and people of color. \nIn BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez\, Sanchez’s life unfolds in a documentary rich with readings and jazz-accompanied performances of her work. With appearances by Questlove\, Talib Kweli\, Ursula Rucker\, Amiri Baraka\, Haki Madhubuti\, Jessica Care Moore\, Ruby Dee\, Yasiin Bey\, Ayana Mathis\, Imani Uzuri and Bryonn Bain\, the documentary examines Sanchez’s contribution to the world of poetry\, her singular place in the Black Arts Movement and her leadership role in African American culture over the last half century. \n\n  \nSabrina Schmidt Gordon has been committed to cultural and social issues documentary filmmaking for over a decade. Her editing debut garnered an Emmy for WGBH’s Greater Boston Arts series\, and she has continued to distinguish herself as both a producer and editor through her work on numerous award-winning programs for public television and cable.  \nShe is the editor and co-producer of DOCUMENTED\, Sabrina is also the co-producer and editor of Mrs. Goundo’s Daughter\, a Sundance Institute/ ITVS documentary about a young Malian mother’s quest to protect her baby daughter from female genital cutting. She is also the co-producer and editor of Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes\, a groundbreaking PBS documentary about manhood and gender politics in mainstream Hip- Hop. \nSabrina is also a documentary filmmaking instructor\, currently teaching Documentary Story Structure at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. She has guest lectured at New York University/Poly\, Brooklyn College\, New Jersey City University\, the Independent Filmmaker Project\, Reel Works\, and the Jacob Burns Film Center. She is an honors graduate from New York University. \nSonia Sanchez \nPoet. Mother. Professor. National and International lecturer on Black Culture and Literature\, Women’s Liberation\, Peace and Racial Justice. Sponsor of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Board Member of MADRE. Sonia Sanchez is the author of over 16 books including Homecoming\, We a BaddDDD People\, Love Poems\, I’ve Been a Woman\, A Sound Investment and Other Stories\, Homegirls and Handgrenades\, Under a Soprano Sky\, Wounded in the House of a Friend(Beacon Press\, 1995)\, Does Your House Have Lions? (Beacon Press\, 1997)\, Like the Singing Coming off the Drums (Beacon Press\, 1998)\, Shake Loose My Skin (Beacon Press\, 1999)\, and most recently\, Morning Haiku (Beacon Press\, 2010). In addition to being a contributing editor to Black Scholar and The Journal of African Studies\, she has edited an anthology\,We Be Word Sorcerers: 25 Stories by Black Americans. BMA: The Sonia Sanchez Literary Review is the first African American Journal that discusses the work of Sonia Sanchez and the Black Arts Movement. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts\, the Lucretia Mott Award for 1984\, the Outstanding Arts Award from the Pennsylvania Coalition of 100 Black Women\, the Community Service Award from the National Black Caucus of State Legislators\, she is a winner of the 1985 American Book Award for Homegirls and Handgrenades\, the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Humanities for 1988\, the Peace and Freedom Award from Women International League for Peace and Freedom (W.I.L.P.F.) for 1989\, a PEW Fellowship in the Arts for 1992-1993 and the recipient of Langston Hughes Poetry Award for 1999. Does Your House Have Lions?was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the Poetry Society of America’s 2001 Robert Frost Medalist and a Ford Freedom Scholar from the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Her poetry also appeared in the movie Love Jones. Sonia Sanchez has lectured at over 500 universities and colleges in the United States and has traveled extensively\, reading her poetry in Africa\, Cuba\, England\, the Caribbean\, Australia\, Europe\, Nicaragua\, the People’s Republic of China\, Norway\, and Canada. She was the first Presidential Fellow at Temple University and she held the Laura Carnell Chair in English at Temple University. She is the recipient of the Harper Lee Award\, 2004\, Alabama Distinguished Writer\, and the National Visionary Leadership Award for 2006. She is the recipient of the 2005 Leeway Foundation Transformational Award. Currently\, Sonia Sanchez is one of 20 African American women featured in “Freedom Sisters\,” an interactive exhibition created by the Cincinnati Museum Center and Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition and she was the recipient of the Robert Creeley award in March of 2009. \n\n  \nA monthly Brooklyn-based screening series highlighting documentary films as a way to to expand dialogue around the intersection of human rights and art. Born out of a three-way collaboration between Skylight\, UnionDocs\, and WITNESS\, these monthly events aim to strengthen the ties between people interested in human rights in Brooklyn and will consist of film screenings followed by a partner-moderated discussion between the filmmaker\, movement actors\, and the audience. During our discussions we debate the conventional framework for human rights and challenge the definition of what constitutes human rights media.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://uniondocs.org/event/baddddd-sonia-sanchez/
LOCATION:322 UNION AVE\, BROOKLYN\, NY\, 11211\, United States
CATEGORIES:BK@24fps,Screenings & Events
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