| TWN February News:  Screenings, Workshop, Grants & More 

Third World Newsreel's New Acquisition Audre Lorde - The Berlin Year 1984 to 1992 to Premiere at Berlin International Film Festival

This new documentary explores a little-known chapter of the acclaimed Black lesbian feminist poet and activist Audre Lorde's prolific life, a period in which she helped ignite the Afro-German Movement and made lasting contributions to the German political and cultural scene before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the German reunification.

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Follow Your Heart at the AsiaLENS Documentary Film Screening
Directed by filmmaker and writer Duncan Jepson, Follow Your Heart is a revealing documentary on the work and life of successful and independent Chinese Hip-Hop artists and their cultural influence in a society rapidly changing from communism to consumerism. 

Tuesday, February 7, 7 PM
Spurlock Museum 

600 S. Gregory Street

Urbana, IL 61801

Wednesday, February 22, 7 PM
Urbana Free Library, 

210 W. Green Street

Urbana, IL 61801

more info 

   

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Ebony Goddess at the San Francisco Public Library

Ebony Goddess follows three women competing to be the carnival queen of Ilê Aiyê, a prominent and controversial Afro-Brazilian group with an all-black membership. 

 

Tuesday, February 28, 3 PM

San Francisco Public Library

Koret Auditorium 

Main Library 

100 Larkin St.

San Francisco, CA 94102

more info 

  

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Single Hills Premieres in New York and Los Angeles
A new film by TWN Workshop alumnus Wilkie Cornelius Jr.'s, Single Hills is a colorful story that explores the unpredictable nature of relationships. Shot in Fort Greene, it stars J Kyle Manzay (American Gangster), Krystal Hill, & Victor L Williams (King Of Queens, CBS). www.singlehills.com     

Saturday February 18, 6:50 PM

Brooklyn Academy of Music

30 Lafayette Avenue

Brooklyn, NY 11243

more info 

   

Tuesday, February 14, 6:45 PM

Friday, February 17, 4:45 PM  

Pan African Film Festival
Rave Cinemas Baldwin Hills, Crenshaw Plaza 15 

more info 

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White: A Memoir in Color Premieres in Atlanta
In White: A Memoir in Color, TWN Board member Joel Katz presents a deeply personal and emotional exploration of racial identity. In this film, he shares his family's journey of immigration, assimilation, liberal idealism, bitter disillusionment and reconciliation, from his father's teaching at Howard during the civil rights era, to his own experience as a mixed-race adoptive parent.

Sunday, February 19, 11:20 AM

Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
more info     

  

| 2012 TWN Production Workshop - Applications now available!   

The TWN Production Workshop is a unique "hands- on" program that provides practical skills and resources for emerging media makers. It emphasizes the training and support of people of color who have limited resources and access to mainstream educational institutions and traditional training programs.

The curriculum of this intensive four month program focuses on the pre-production, production and post production skills necessary to take a short project from conception to completion. Workshop members  collaborate on digital video projects, gaining technical skills and are trained to edit using Final Cut Pro.

Prior video or related experience is recommended but not required; what is required is creativity, self-initiative, time and a collaborative spirit. Selection to the Production Workshop is competitive and limited to 9 participants. An initial written application is required and a second round of applicants are selected for interviews. The cost of the 2012 workshop will be $600.

Past workshop grads include: Filmmaker and Columbia Film Department Chair Jamal Joseph, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker and professor, Renee Tajima-Pena, feature filmmakers Randy Redroad, Grace Lee, Alice Wu and many more! Past guest speakers include: director/producers Ann Bennett, Laurens Grant, Thomas Allen Harris, Stanley Nelson and Sam Pollard; DPs Larry Banks, Mike Chin, Clifford Charles and AJ Fielder.

The deadline for applications is March 5th, 2012 and the course begins April 4th, 2012.    

| Film/Video Grants, Internships and More 

While NYSCA has yet to post their FY 2013 registration and application deadline - it should be soon.  If you are interested in applying for an individual artist grant through TWN, please send an email to: workshop@twn.org.

Garrett Scott Documentary Development Grant
This grant funds first time documentary makers for travel and accommodations at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, April 12-15, 2012. For four days, grant recipients will be given access to films, participate in master classes and be mentored by experienced filmmakers. TWO filmmakers will be chosen for the grant in its fifth year.
Deadline: Friday, February 3, 2012
more info 

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Sundance Creative Producing Fellowship and Lab

A year-long program designed to nurture emerging producers with project-specific support through Labs, grants, and long-term advisor relationships.
Deadline: Friday, February 10, 2012
more info 

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Jerome Foundation

Grants of up to $30,000 will be awarded to individual film and video artists living in New York City who work in the genres of experimental, narrative, animation, and documentary production.

Deadline: Open

more info

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