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| TWN March News: Screenings, Workshop, Grants & More 
Audre Lorde - The Berlin Year 1984 to 1992 New York Premiere at The Brecht Forum 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. Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992 contains previously unreleased audiovisual material from director Dagmar Schultz's personal archive, showing Lorde on and off stage. With testimony from Lorde's colleagues, students and friends, this film documents Lorde's lasting legacy in Germany. 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of Audre Lorde's passing.
Director Dagmar Schultz, poet Ika Hugel Marshall and Professor Tina Campt, Director of Africana and Women's Studies at Barnard College will speak in a program cosponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and The Audre Lorde Project. The Brecht Forum
Admission: $6/10/15
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Enemy Alien at the No One Is Illegal Screening
Directed by filmmaker Konrad Aderer, Enemy Alien is the gripping story of the fight to free Farouk Abdel-Muhti, a Palestinian-born human rights activist detained in a post-9/11 sweep of Muslim immigrants. Told through the eyes of the filmmaker, the grandson of Japanese Americans interned during World War II, this documentary takes on unprecedented intimacy and historical resonance. As the filmmaker confronts his own family legacy of incarceration, his involvement in the current struggle deepens. Resistance brings consequences: In retaliation for organizing a hunger strike, Farouk is locked in solitary confinement, and a counterterrorism investigation into the documentary itself triggers the arrest of Farouk's American-born son Tarek. Friday, March 16, 7:30 PM Palmerston Library
560 Palmerston Avenue
Toronto, Canada
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Ebony Goddess in Austria, France and the United States
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.
Friday, March 2
Kapu Film Festival
Linz, Austria
more info
Friday, March 9
Femmes du Brésil
Le Petit Kursaal
Besançon, France
more info
Sunday, March 18
Brazilian Voices of Cinema
San Francisco, CA
more info
March 22-25
SPE Women's Film Festival
Society for Photographic Education Conference
San Francisco, CA
more info
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| 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.
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| Film/Video Grants, Internships and More
TWN Seeks Graphic Design & Final Cut Pro Interns
If you have graphic design or Final Cut Pro experience, live in New York City and need to add more credits to your resume, please apply to our internship program at Third World Newsreel. Send a cover letter and resume to dorothy@twn.org and distribution@twn.org.
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National Geographic Society's All Roads Film Project Seed Grants
The All Roads Film Project is a multimedia festival and grants program dedicated to providing a platform for indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture storytellers from around the world. The objectives are to showcase works by these artists to promote knowledge, dialogue, and understanding with a broader global audience.
Deadline: 15th of each March, June, September, and December.
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NAPT 2012 Public Media Content Fund
Native American Public Telecommunications invites proposals for projects intended for Public Television that represent the values, experiences, histories, and cultures of Tribal Nations, communities and people.
Deadline: Friday, March 16
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Ford Foundation
Ford's Social Issue Film Funding Initiative will provide approximately $16 million through an open-application process to filmmakers and media makers around the world who are creating documentaries that address urgent social issues.
Deadline: Open
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| TWN Recommends
American Promise Kickstarter Campaign
American Promise is the centerpiece of a comprehensive, cross-platform engagement campaign aimed at engaging parents, youth and teachers to come together to advocate for the academic success of young men of color. Premiering at film festivals in January 2013 and broadcasting nationwide on POV in 2013, the film and the campaign have the potential to spur a new kind of dialogue and action around the subtle factors that affect the success of male students of color. American Promise is a Rada Films Group production, and a fiscal sponsored project of Third World Newsreel.
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| TWN Thanks
TWN is supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Ford Foundation, the North Star Fund, the Funding Exchange and the Asian Women Giving Circle, as well as individual donors. |
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