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| TWN September News: Screenings, Grants and More
Audre Lorde Legacy Film & Culture Festival - Fall 2012 Presented by German filmmaker and scholar Dagmar Schultz and Afro-German writer Ika H�gel-Marshall, the Audre Lorde Legacy Film & Culture Festival will honor African American lesbian poet Audre Lorde and her legacy to social justice movements in the United States and Germany. The festival will make stops in nine educational institutions including the University of Hawai'i, University of California, Berkeley, Sonoma State University, Goethe Institute in San Francisco, University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University, Harvard University, University of Massachusetts and Hunger College. The Audre Lorde Legacy Film & Culture Festival might include the following events: Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992, a film by Dagmar Schultz
A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde, a film by Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson The Edge of Each Other's Battles, a film by Jennifer Abod
Hope in My Heart: The May Ayim Story, a film by Maria Binden Ika H�gel-Marshall reading from her memoir Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in GermanyThursday, September 20, 7pm - 9pm, Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 Friday, September 21, 3pm - 5pm, Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in GermanyUniversity of Hawai'i
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Tuesday, September 25, 12:30pm - 2:30pm, Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany Tuesday, September 25, 6:30pm - 8:30pm, Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992
University of California, Berkeley
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Thursday, September 27, 12pm - 1pm, Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany
Thursday, September 27, 7pm - 9pm, Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992
Sonoma State University
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Saturday, September 29, 1pm, Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany
Saturday, September 29, 4:00am - 6:30am, Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992
Goethe Institute in San Francisco
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Tuesday, October 2, Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany
University of Illinois at Chicago
Wednesday, October 3, 4pm, Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany
Thursday, October 4, 6pm, Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992
Friday, October 5, 6pm, A Litany for Survival and The Edge of Each Other's Battles
Northwestern University
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Tuesday, October 9, Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 and Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany
W.E. B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University
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Wednesday, October 10, Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany
Thursday, October 11, Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992
University of Massachusetts ---------------------------------------------------- Janie's Janie at NAMAC Conference 2012 Documentary Screening Produced by The Newsreel collective, Janie's Janie is an extraordinary document of the early 1970's women's movement. In this personal documentary, Jane Giese, a working class woman in Newark, comes to realize that she has to take control of her own life after years of physical and mental abuse. Principal collaborators were: Geri Ashur, Peter Barton, Marilyn Mulford and Stephanie Palewski, with music by Bev Grant. Thanks to the generous contributions of New York Women in Film and Television, original members of the Newsreel collective, and Richard Brick, Janie's Janie has been newly preserved.
Friday, September 7, 2:15 PM
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 Enemy Alien at the Japanese American National Museum
Directed by Japanese-American 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. Saturday, September 8, 2:00pm Japanese American National Museum 100 North Central Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 Q&A with filmmaker to follow screening Reservations recommended to rsvp@janm.org more info
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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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Cinereach
Cinereach is now accepting Letters of Inquiry for their 2012 Grant Cycle, and will award grants of up to $50,000 to a selection of feature length fiction and nonfiction films at any stage of production, from development through post. Deadline: September 4th, 2012, 7:00 PM (EST) more info
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PaleyDocFest Pitch Workshop Contest
The PaleyDocFest Pitch Contest offers a $5,000 grant for an unfinished or work-in-progress documentary from an emerging filmmaker.
Deadline: September 5, 2012
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Black Public Media's Digital Open Call 2013
BlackPublicMedia.org features an interactive series every summer. The featured serial content is selected from an interactive/digital series open call (Digital Open Call). NBPC provides a grant for the winner of the competition to produce their interactive web series that will be featured during the summer.
Deadline: September 18th, 2012
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The Roy W. Dean Film & Video Grants
From the Heart Productions is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to funding films that are unique and make a contribution to society. Fall Deadline: September 30, 2012
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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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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
Yari Yari Ntoaso: Continuing the Dialogue Symposium
Yari means the future in the Kuranko language of Sierra Leone, and Ntoaso means understanding and agreement in the Akan language of Ghana. The Organization of Women Writers of Africa is once again presenting an international symposium of women writers from Africa and its diaspora to be held in Accra, Ghana, West Africa May 16-19, 2013.
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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. TWN is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the creation, appreciation, and dissemination of independent media by and about people of color. |
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