| TWN October News: Screenings, Workshops, Grants and More
Dreams
Deferred at Pace
University LGBTQ
Symposium
When the Rainbow Isn't Enough: Racism and
Marginalization within LGBTQ Communities
Symposium.
Pace University invites you to join a host of
distinguished
activists, scholars, filmmakers and
performance artists in this groundbreaking
and interactive symposium.
October 15, 1:15PM
Pace University
1 Pace Plaza
Multi-Purpose Room
RSVP: Denise Bel�n Santiago 212 346 1546
([email protected]) or Melanie Robles 212 346
1261
([email protected])
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Dreams
Deferred at ActNow
Foundation Fundraiser Event to Celebrate LGBT
History Month
ActNow Foundation is a theatre & film
organization, which focuses on the minority
experience in the United States. TWN is
pleased to partner with ActNow Foundation to
present our most recent co-production Dreams
Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project, a
documentary about the tragic murder of Black
LBGT youth Sakia Gunn.
Filmmaker
Charles B. Brack will be in attendance.
Thursday, October 9th
Reception: 6:30PM
Screening: 7:30PM
After Party: 9:00PM
NYPerks
193 Smith Street, between Warren and Baltic
streets
Brooklyn, NY
F or G train to Bergen Street
Suggested Donations: $5
RSVP: [email protected] or
347-274-0563
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Dreams
Deferred at Reel
Affirmations Film Festival
"Dreams Deferred is a sobering look at
justice in the 21st century. Despite the
tragic tone of the film, an inspiring sense
of hope imbues this story of marginalized
youth finally confronting a justice system
that seems heavily stacked against them.
Filmmaker Chas Brack, hoping to foster a
sense of empowerment in young Black LGBT
youth, has created a film that serves as both
cautionary tale and a primer on justice for
the African American community."--Reel
Affirmations Film Festival
Saturday, October 18th, 5PM
Goethe-Institut
812 Seventh Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001-3718
After the screening, there will be a
youth-led panel discussion featuring members
of SMYAL, local GSAs and youth activists.
For more information visit: www.reelaffirmations.org
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In
Bed with a Mosquito at We, The
People Documentary Film Festival and CMJ
Music Marathon & Film Festival
Betty Brassell has spent nearly every day of
her retirement protesting in the streets of
New York City. In Bed With a Mosquito
is an intimate portrait of activism and aging
in New York City. Part of the Call for Change
Series.
Saturday, Oct 18th, 7PM
We, The People Film Festival
Self Help Graphics
3802 Cesar E. Chavez Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90063
Ticket price: $5
For more information visit: www.tradeandrow.org
October 21-25
CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival
New York, NY
For more information visit: www.cmj.com
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La
Bruja at the South Bronx Film
Festival and Fordham University
Art,
labor and family blend in this intimate
documentary about performance artist Caridad
De La Luz, better know as 'La Bruja'.
Sunday, October 5th, 2PM
South Bronx Film Festival
Haven Arts Gallery
50 Bruckner Blvd
Bronx, NY 10451
For more information visit: www.sbxfilmfestival.com
Sunday, October 9th, 6PM
Fordham University
Walsh Library
Flom Auditorium
Bronx, NY
Q&A with Felix Rodriguez and MC/Spoken Word
Poet La Bruja.
Reception after the event.
Free and open to the public
| TWN Workshops
The Fall TWN Wednesday Night Workshops are
starting mid October! Register now!
Walk-in seminars on film/video/digital
production topics from funding to sound and more!
Professionals in the field provide down to
earth "how-to's" for the independent media-maker.
Workshops start at 6:30 PM, and the series
starts this October 15th!
All Classes recession priced: $20 ($10
student/low income) unless otherwise
noted.
First three Wednesday Workshops
Wednesday, October 15th, 6:30 PM
Getting the Money!-Proposals and Grant
Writing
It's the proposal, the sample, it's the meet
and greet. Tips on putting together a winning
package. With Dorothy Thigpen, Executive
Director of Third World Newsreel and a guest
speaker.
Wednesday, October 22nd,
6:30 PM
Seen and Heard: Cyrille Phipps,
Filmmaker, Camerawoman, Editor ** Free
Workshop **
A TWN workshop grad, veteran of the
acclaimed film collective, Black Planet
Production/Not Channel Zero and former
Manager Director of Manhattan Neighborhood
Network,
Phipps has done almost everything in
production, from Script Continuity to TV
station management.
A media educator and social issue documentary
maker
for almost 20 years, she is now the Senior
Broadband Video Editor at
TV Land Digital, while finishing a new film,
Seen But Not Heard: AIDS and the Untold
War Against Black Women, on the continuing
issue of AIDS in the African American community.
Phipps will screen and talk about her new
film, and talk about how one gets into and
stays in this field.
Wednesday, October 29nd,
6:30 PM
Tips for Better Sound
Recording
The basics of recording, microphone types,
hard drive recorders and mixers, working with
large and small format cameras, and how to
avoid heartache at the mix. Bring your
questions. With JT Takagi.
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Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro
Workshop
Sikay Tang will be teaching a 6 Saturday
course on editing using Final Cut Pro with an
intro to DVD Studio Pro. Three hours each
Saturday starting October 25th, with lab time
available during the week. Course cost:
$300.
To register for the Wednesday seminars and
the Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro course,
please email to [email protected]
ASAP!
| Film & Video Grants
New York Foundation for the
Arts
NYFA's 2009 Artists' Fellowship application
deadlines for production are coming up early
October.
For more information visit: www.nyfa.org
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Distribution Grants for
New York State Artists
free103point9 is pleased to announce
the 2009
Distribution Grant for New York State Artists
providing support for the distribution of new
works in film, video, sound, new-media, and
media-installation. This grant is for
completed works only.
Funding is available from free103point9
through a regrant from the New York State Council
on the Arts' Electronic Media and Film
Program. Grant awards will assist artists in
making works available to public audiences
and may include, but are not limited to:
duplication of previews, screening, and
exhibition copies of moving image and sound
works; promotional materials including
documentation and schematics of
media-installation and new-media works. The
rental or purchase of equipment for
exhibition/distribution by individual artists
is also eligible. Artists may request funding
support up to a maximum amount of
$10,000.
New to the Distribution Grant this year,
successful applicants will also be awarded
the additional opportunity to work with a
project consultant. This mentor will have
expertise in the grantees' specific genre of
media art.
Application Deadline: December 31,
2008
For more information visit: www.free103point9.org/nysca
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Tribeca All Access
Tribeca All Access (TAA) is a year round
networking and career development forum that
advances diversity within the film industry
by supporting the work of directors and
screenwriters from traditionally
under-represented communities within the
industry. Approximately 30 qualified
directors and screenwriters will be selected
to participate in one-on-one meetings with
key industry players in addition to
networking and learning from dedicated panels
and workshops during the Tribeca Film
Festival. Program alumni receive year-round
support through TAA On-Track, which includes
educational panels and workshops; TFI hosted
presentation screenings; promotional support
for completed films; and the use of digital
filmmaking and editing equipment.
Tribeca All Access is open to both mid-career
and emerging narrative and documentary
filmmakers. Applicants are required to apply
with a completed feature-length screenplay,
documentary proposal, or documentary
work-in-progress and must have at least one
screenwriter or director attached who
qualifies.
Application Deadline is December 10, 2008.
For more information visit: www.tribecafilminstitute.org
| TWN Recommends
The St.Clair Bourne Tribute Film
Festival
This 6-day film festival tribute to the late
Harlem-born activist and documentarian,
St.Clair Bourne, will showcase Bourne's work,
the Black Documentary Collective and other
historic documentary and narrative films
celebrating the African Diaspora.
October 8-13
Maysles Film Institute (Harlem)
Medgar Evers College (Brooklyn)
The Magic/AMC Theatres (Harlem)
For more
information visit: harlempreservationfoundation.org
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| TWN Thanks
TWN is supported in part by The New
York State Council on the Arts, The New York
City Department of Cultural Affairs, The
National Endowment for the Arts, The Ford
Foundation, The North Star Fund, The Funding
Exchange, The Asian Women Giving Circle,
Materials for the Arts, as well as individual
donors.
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appreciation, and dissemination of
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