| TWN May News
Third
World
Newsreel is pleased to
announce
its collaboration with City-As-School
high
school in a Camera-to-Classroom
workshop,
made possible with the support of the Tribeca
Film Institute and Chase. This Spring,
students from
City-As-School will learn social issue
documentary production - and make their own
films in this pilot workshop program. Thanks
to Tribeca, Chase and the City-As-School
folks!
| TWN Screenings
Third
World Newsreel and NewFilmmakers
Series Celebrate Asian Pacific American
Heritage Month at Anthology Film Archives
Third World Newsreel and
NewFilmmakers Series are proud to present
Jeong-hyun Mun's Grandmother's Flower,
preceded by Asian Girls Empowerment through
Media (AGEM) shorts. Join us on Wednesday,
May 12th from 6-8PM.
Korean Documentary by new
and upcoming filmmaker Jeong-hyun
Mun
Grandmother's
Flower, 89 min
When director Mun accidentally discovered the
diaries of his late granduncle, who was
mentally ill, he unexpectedly learned about
his family's secret history.
Preceded by AGEM Workshop Students
Program
TWN has trained over 400 film and video
artists of color in the past 30 years through
its annual TWN Film & Video Production
Workshop. In 2009, with the support of the
Asian Women Giving Circle, TWN presented the
AGEM Summer Workshop, a program of media
literacy and production where 12 Asian young
women produced five videos. Join us for a
screening shorts by AGEM students: Erica
Chen, Rena Chen, Tenzin Choedon, Ariela
Farnham, Michelle Kwong, Silas Luk, Linda
Luo, Tasmiah "T" Mosobbir, Claudia von
Nostitz, Aastha Vohra, Wendy Yuan Zhang and
Cathy Zhu.
I'm Not Even That, AGEM Group
project, 5min.
A documentary on confronting racial
stereotyping in life and especially in the
media.
Where Am I by Cathy Zhu, 4:20
min.
Asian women and media, from a personal
perspective.
Svetlana and Her Llamas, AGEM
Group Project,
5 min.
A docu-drama on the allure and perils of
smoking and alternative activities.
The Combination Crew by Tenzin
Choedon, 3:48
min.
Portrait of a New York City Tibetan American
dance group.
There's More To Life, by AGEM
Group, 30 sec.
A PSA inviting youth to look beyond their
iPods, cell phones and video games.
Wednesday, May 12th 6-8 PM
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue, at 2nd Street
New York, NY 10003
Admission: $5
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Here to Stay at Maysles Cinema
Homeward is a film series at the Maysles
Cinema which explores the concept of home.
Here
to Stay, directed by ManSee
Kong, Illustrates the effects
of gentrification in Manhattan's Chinatown as
an elderly man and fellow tenants in
endangered single-room occupancy building
await the results of an anti-eviction
lawsuit.
Thursday, May 20th 7:30 PM
The Maysles Cinema
343 Malcolm X Blvd bet 127th - 128th
New York, NY 10027
more
info
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In My Genes at African Film
Festival New York
The 2010 New York African Film Festival,
presented under the banner Independent
Africa, spotlights 17 African nations, as
they observe 50 years of independence from
colonial rule.
In
My Genes, a documentary that
shares the
lives of 8 people with albinism in Kenya, is
one of the films selected to be screened.
Directed by Lupita Nyong'o,
78 min.
Monday, May 31st 4:30 PM & 9:15 PM
Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
more
info
| Fellowships, Film & Video Grants
2010 San Diego Asian Film Festival
The San Diego Asian Film Foundation is
currently accepting Call for Entries
Submissions for their 2010 Asian Film
Festival, which will take place from October
21st-28th.
Early Deadline: April 30th
Final Deadline: June 11th
more
info
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Public Media Corps Fellowship Program
National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC)
seeks recent graduates, community organizers,
web-based professionals, and others who share
these same interests to apply for a
fellowship with the Public Media Corps.
Applicants for whom Spanish is a first or
second language are highly desirable and
encouraged to apply. Applicants MUST be from
or living in Washington, DC or the
surrounding locales.
Deadline: Friday, May 14th
more
info
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15th Native American Film & Video
Festival
Call for entries for short works and feature
films, documentaries, fictions, animations,
music videos and experimental media from
North, Central, and South America, and
Hawaii. Only works created after July 2008
are eligible.
Deadline: Thursday, June 3rd
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info
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14th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival
Urbanworld Film Festival, presented by BET
Networks, is the leading showcase for urban,
ethnic, and multicultural cinema. The NYC
based festival runs from September 16-19,
2010. Prizes awarded in the following
categories: Narrative Feature, Narrative
Short, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short
& Screenplay.
Deadline: Friday, June 25th
more
info
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NAPT 2010 Open Call for Filmmakers
Native American Public Telecommunications
announces its annual open call for proposals
from filmmakers. Proposals are requested for
programs in many genres including
documentary, performance, cultural/public
affairs and animation. Projects submitted to
this solicitation must be intended for
national public television broadcast.
Deadline: July 14th
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info
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PIC Media Fund Rolling Call
Members of the Pacific Islanders in
Communications filmmaking community are
encouraged to submit proposals for public
television projects at the research and
development (R&D), production, and completion
stages. R&D projects may be awarded up to
$15,000, and production and completion
projects may be awarded up to $50,000.
Deadline: July 30th
more
info
| TWN Congratulates
TWN would like to
congratulate Martha
Diaz, who is one of the
21 Leaders for the 21st Century,
honored by Women's eNews. Each honoree is
making news, often at great personal risk, by
confronting issues of particular concern to
women.
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Congratulations to TWN filmmaker Yolanda
Pividal for winning two Emmy's for the
Nueva York television program!
Nueva York won Best
Politics/Government: Program Feature /
Segment: Hispanic Woman's First Time
Voting and Best Magazine Program:
Nueva York : Best of
Season 4.
| 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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