| TWN October News: Screenings, Grants and More
In Memoriam
Miriam Akoma Perez, passed very unexpectedly Tuesday, August 24, 2010 in Ka'apuli, Hawaii, while on vacation. She was born October 1, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York. Miriam is survived by her loving and talented daughter, Maryam Afiya Perez, devoted friend Dorothy Thigpen, her sisters and her brothers, and a host of cousins, nieces, nephews, and dear friends, including TWN's staff. Miriam and her daughter Afiya are part of the Third World Newsreel family.
Miriam was a proud resident of Brooklyn and was a beloved teacher of English and Literature at Cobble Hill High School. She graduated from Brooklyn College, with a Bachelors of Arts degree in English. She was one semester away from receiving her Masters of Arts in Media Studies and Film from the New School of Social Research. She managed to maintain a 3.57 grade point average while working fulltime as a high school teacher in the New York City public school system.
Miriam was also an accomplished writer, artist and documentary filmmaker. She was awarded a Development Cohort grant from the Fledgling Fund in 2009 for her current documentary project, HOLLER. Her first film Walking with FUREE, is part of Third World Newsreel's Call for Change Series and has screened at the Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and many more national and international venues. Miriam was an alumna of Third World Newsreel's Film and Video Production Workshop.
Miriam was passionate about using her artistic skills to address social justice and fairness for all. As an avid believer in the Buddhist principles of moral thought and action, Miriam was compassionate, loving, kind and generous to all and always spiritually positive in her life pursuits. Her beauty and intelligence will be missed and never forgotten by all.
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Creatively Speaking Series and BAM Rose Cinemas present Yoruba Richen's documentary about land reform in South Africa
Promised Land
The Creatively Speaking Series, curated by Michelle Materre and Neyda Martinez, presents films that speak to the wide-ranging experiences of people of color across the Diaspora. This film reveals that the most explosive issue in a post-Apartheid South Africa remains the ownership of the land. The film follows two black communities as they struggle to reclaim land from white owners amid rising racial tensions and wavering government policies. As Promised Land shows, the land issue remains South Africa's "ticking time bomb," with far-reaching consequences for all sides. A co-production of the National Black Programming Consortium, American Documentary/POV and the Diverse Voices Project.
Sunday, September 26th, 4:30PM
BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Admission: $12
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Secondhand (Pepe) at the Montreal International Black Film Festival
A dynamic, refreshing and audacious festival whose ambition is to encourage the development of the independent film industry and to promote more films on the reality of Black people from around the world.
Monday, September 27th, 4PM
Montreal International Black Film Festival
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Third World Newsreel and NewFilmmakers Series Present
Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project
This documentary tells the little known story of Sakia Gunn, a 15 year old student who was fatally stabbed in a gay hate crime in Newark, New Jersey. This film depicts the homophobia that caused this murder and questions the lack of media coverage of a Black Gay teenager.
Wednesday, September 29th, 6PM
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue, at 2nd Street
New York, NY 10003
Admission: $9
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| Film/Video Grants and More
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Armed With a Camera
The Armed With a Camera (AWC) Fellowship for Emerging Media Artists nurtures the next generation of Asian Pacific American media artists to capture their world, surroundings and outlook on life. Visual Communications works with the Fellows for seven months and provides training, mentoring and networking opportunities, access to facilities and equipment plus a $500 stipend to create five-minute digital shorts that premiere at the 2011 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
Deadline: Friday, October 1st
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2011 Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists
Pairs approximately 20 emerging foreign-born artists with established artists from the 2010 NYFA Fellowship Program and the folk arts community. These artists will act as one-on-one mentors to their immigrant artist mentees for a period of six months, assisting them in gaining broader access to the New York cultural community by sharing ideas, advice, resources and experiences.
Deadline: Friday, October 15th
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ITVS International Call 2011
This funding is for production and post-production funding only, for international producers and filmmakers making documentaries with international content.
Deadline: Friday, December 10th
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A Season in The Congo
The turbulent history of the Congo's first year of independence and the rise and fall of Patrice Lumumba. Written by Aime Cesaire and Directed by A. Rico Speight.
September 30th - October 17th
Thursday, Friday & Saturday: 8pm
Sunday: 3pm
Lion Theatre
Theatre Row @ 410 W. 42nd Street
between 9th Avenue & Dwyer Avenue
New York, NY 10036-6809
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A Is For Anansi: Literature for Children of African Descent
This event will cover the history, criticism and theory of contemporary books for and about children of African descent, as told by its most influential critics, scholars, teachers and producers. Presented by the Institute of African American Affairs New York University.
October 8-9
Kimmel Center-NYU
60 Washington Square South
Rm. 914-Silver
New York, NY 10538
Admission: Free (space is limited)
Please RSVP at (212) 998-IAAA (4222)
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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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