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| TWN February News: Film Screenings at MoMA, Lincoln Center & IFC Center, Film Grants & More!
Newsreel's JANIE'S JANIE and MAKE OUT at the Museum of Modern Art
The Women's Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) is the only program in the world exclusively dedicated to the preservation of the cultural legacy of women in the film industry. In celebration of WFPF's 20th anniversary, MoMA has invited the WFPF programming committee to select films that reflect the essential role of women in the continuing development of cinema as an art form.
MAKE OUT represents a creative visual expression of the early second wave of the Women's Movement and the thinking of young women at the time. Preserved with support from NYWIFT's Women's Film Preservation Fund. Directed by Geri Ashur, Andrea Egan, Marcia Salo Rizzi, Deborah Shaffer.
JANIE'S JANIE is a personal documentary about a woman who comes to realize she can control her own destiny after years of mental and physical abuse. Preserved with support from NYWIFT's Women's Film Preservation Fund. Directed by the Filmmaker Collective: Geri Ashur, Bev Grant, Marilyn Mulford, Stephanie Palewski.
Museum of Modern Art11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019more info ------------------------------------------------------------ 
TEACH OUR CHILDREN, SUZANNE, SUZANNE, VOICES OF THE GODS, NAMIBIA & A DREAM IS WHAT YOU WAKE UP FROM at Lincoln Center's Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968 - 1986
Representing highlights of New York-based independents, activists all -- producing these films in a time when minority film production was not supported and frequently suppressed -- this program is full of major works by some of the great filmmakers of this era in American film history. Programmed by Jake Perlin and Michelle Materre, co-presented by Creatively Speaking. In association with the Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment.
Teach our Children, Christine Choy & Susan Robeson, 1972 This film focuses on the historic 1971 Attica prison rebellion in upstate New York. It targets the conditions that caused prisoners to take drastic steps toward securing their basic rights. The film questions the reactions of prison warden Oswald, New York governor Nelson Rockefeller and President Nixon, as well as the death of 31 inmates and prison guards from bullets fired by the National Guard. Through on-site footage taken during and following the rebellion, and follow-up interviews with inmates, this film relates a powerful message concerning prisoner's rights and provides an important historical document. Q&A with Christine Choy and Susan Robeson.
Suzanne, Suzanne, Camille Billops & Jim Hatchet, 1988
This poignant documentary profiles a young black woman's struggle to confront the legacy of a physically abusive father and her headlong flight into drug abuse. Suzanne, after years of physical and psychological abuse, is compelled to understand her father's violence and her mother's passive complicity, who suffered at her husband's hands as well, as the keys to her own self-destruction. After years of silence, Suzanne and her mother are finally able to share their painful experiences with each other in an intensely moving moment of truth. A remarkably incisive short documentary film, much more than one woman's story of abuse and addiction, SUZANNE, SUZANNE captures the nature and spirit of a troubled family. Q&A with Camille Billops.
Voices of the Gods, Al Santana, 1985A program on religion and ritual, highlighting two opposite ends of the spectrum in the role of religion in the black community. These modern classics represent two examples of the influential function and position that religious observation occupies as an essential part of African-American culture. Q&A with Al Santana on Feb 15. Namibia: Independence Now!, Pearl Bowser & Christine Choy, 1985 A revolutionary political moment is captured firsthand by two independent women filmmakers shooting inside refugee settlements in Zambia and Angola in 1985. Depicting the significant role of women in this struggle for independence, this film explores the lives of exiled women workers attempting to free their country from illegal exploitation. Q&A with Pearl Bowser, Christine Choy, Al Santana, and JT Takagi. A Dream Is What You Wake Up From, Larry Bullard & Carolyn Johnson, 1978
Three black families, observed in their daily lives, their thoughts, values, and aspirations expressed on the soundtrack, and their different approaches to the struggle for survival in contemporary society and their methods of coping with the contradictory stresses placed on the individual in the family environment. Q&A with JT Takagi of Third World Newsreel.
Friday, February 13, 6:00pm, TEACH OUR CHILDREN & SUZANNE, SUZANNE
Sunday, February 15, 7:00pm, VOICES OF THE GODS
Tuesday, February 17, 2:00pm, VOICES OF THE GODS
Tuesday, February 17, 5:00pm, NAMIBIA
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film CenterFilm Society of Lincoln Center 144 W. 65th Street, south side
New York, NY more info ------------------------------------------------------------  A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL at IFC Center's Queer/Art/Film SeriesAudre Lorde was a poet, a lover, a mother and a warrior. Standing on the front lines of civil and sexual rights struggles, Lorde's voice rang out with a passion that inspired a generation of activists and artists. A Litany For Survival traces Lorde's work in poetry and civil justice, including interviews with authors like Adrienne Rich and Sapphire, who saw Lorde as a mentor and mother. "The Audre Lorde whose presence I got to experience through the film continues to push me," described Jennifer Miller, performer, bearded lady and founder of the Circus Amok a New York based circus-theater company. "I remember being shaken and jolted with righteous anger, leaving knowing I could do better."Post-film discussion with Jennifer Miller!
Monday, February 23, 8pm
IFC Center
323 Sixth Avenue at West Third Street
New York, NY
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Tribeca All Access Lecture Series
Current topics in the online distribution of independent films with David Morrison.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015, 6:00 PMJacob Burns Moot Court - Cardozo School of Law 55 Fifth Avenue at 12th Street New York, NY 10003 more info
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Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund Provides finishing funds to feature-length documentaries which highlight and humanize issues of social importance from around the world. For films, based anywhere, that are in production or post-production with the intended premiere exhibition. Grants range from $10,000 to $25,000. Deadline: February 5, 2015 more info
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Tribeca Latin American Media Arts Fund Supports innovative film and video artists living and working in the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America whose works reflect their diverse cultures in the scripted, documentary or mixed media form. Grants up to $10,000 for projects that are in production or post-production.
Deadline: February 5, 2015 more info
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Tribeca All Access Interactive Prototype Fund Supports non-fiction, interactive projects in the development stage.
Deadline: February 9, 2015 more info
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Finishing Funds Grant Programs
Finishing Funds grants support artists in the completion/post production of film, video, sound, new media, and Web-based work. Grants from $500 to $2,500 are awarded annually. Deadline: February 13, 2015more info------------------------------------------------------------
Independent Lens SubmissionsIndependent Lens is seeking submissions of completed or near completed programs for broadcast during the October 2015 - June 2016 season. Deadline: March 27, 2015more info------------------------------------------------------------ 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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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
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TWN is supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the National Film Preservation Foundation, and the Peace Development Fund, as well as individual donors.
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