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Rubin Edwards on Bass
Posted July 19th, 2007 by GretjenProducer of the Work / Filmmaker:
Todd Lear
Year released:
1995
Length:
11 minutes
Price:
$20 for individuals / $35 for Community Institutions ie: libraries, schools, non-profits / $50 for Universities & Businesses
Rubin Edwards, an accomplished bass player, is also a skilled barber. In this idiosyncratic portrait of the talented hyphenate, Edwards muses about his two lives and the choices he's made in a lyrical conversation with videomaker Todd Lear while getting a hair cut.
Filmmaker's Name:
Todd Lear & Rubin Edwards
Filmmaker's Bio:
Todd Lear is a video artist who works and lives in the Philadelphia area.
Rubin Edwards is a Philadelphia producer, songwrite, musician and charter bassist with a jazz-fusion band called Catch 22. He continues to cut hair in Philadelphia and play bass guitar at music events throughout the region, including popular recent stints at the annual Cape May Jazz Festival. He produced contemporary jazz artist Lynn Riley's self-titled album in 2006.
Public Screenings, Broadcasts and Festivals:
August 15, 1999 - Street Movies screening at Malcolm X Park (Philadelphia, PA)
Soks "Save Our Kids"
Posted July 19th, 2007 by GretjenProducer of the Work / Filmmaker:
Produced by Princeton Atelier and Scribe Video Center
Filmmaker Facilitator:
Louis Massiah, Charlene Gilbert and Carlton Jones
Year released:
1997
Length:
10 minutes
Price:
$20 for individuals / $35 for Community Institutions ie: libraries, schools, non-profits / $50 for Universities & Businesses
"When I was a child, Princeton was a real small community — everybody knew everybody," says SOKS founder Hank Pannell, whose goal was to recreate the small community of his childhood. "Princeton has the same needs as any inner city," observes SOKS member Tom Parker, "but the problems are being overlooked because it is Princeton." The men involved with SOKS all have the same mission — to make a difference in the lives of young African-American boys, ages 10 through 16, growing up in the Princeton community.
Filmmaker's Name:
Princeton Atelier
Filmmaker's Photo:
Filmmaker's Bio:
The idea for Princeton University's Princeton Atelier was sparked by novelist and Professor Toni Morrison's experiences collaborating on a song cycle, Honey and Rue, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for opera star Kathleen Battle. That project brought her together with André Previn who scored the music for the piece. In the Atelier program, Professor Morrison tries to capture the same excitement this collaborative experience offered her. The Atelier brings together on campus guest artists from different media for an intensive, in-residence collaborative effort with each other and Princeton's faculty and students. The focus of the Atelier is on the process of creating a work of art rather than on the finished product, and guest artists bring to campus an idea they want to create, explore, and develop. The "SOKS - Save Our Kids " videotape was produced in an Atelier directed by Louis Massiah and facilitated by Princeton students.
The "SOKS" program works to further community identification and provide high quality mentoring, recreation, and learning opportunities for young males in the Witherspoon area of Princeton, New Jersey.
Press:
September 10, 1997 - "Toni Morrison's Atelier: Students and professionals join forces to create art from the heart," by Deborah A. Kaple, Princeton Alumni Weekly
Silence... Broken
Posted July 19th, 2007 by Gretjen in
Producer of the Work / Filmmaker:
Written, directed and produced by Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Poetry by Jourdan Imani Keith, Editor: Nadine Stanley
Year released:
1993
Length:
8 minutes
Price:
$20 for individuals / $35 for Community Institutions ie: libraries, schools, non-profits / $50 for Universities & Businesses
Silence...Broken is an experimental narrative short about an African American lesbian's refusal to be silent about racism, sexism and homophobia. Featuring the poetry of acclaimed poet Jourdan Keith, this video is dedicated to the memory of self-defined Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Mother Poet Audre Lorde who died in 1992 after a fourteen-year battle with breast cancer.
Filmmaker's Name:
Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Filmmaker's Bio:
Aishah Shahidah Simmons is the founder and president of AfroLez® Productions. She is an award-winning Black feminist lesbian independent filmmaker, international lecturer, and activist based in Philadelphia, PA. Her internationally acclaimed shorts Silence...Broken, In My Father’s House, and NO!, explore the issues of race, gender, homophobia, rape and misogyny. For three years Ms. Simmons was a co-producer of two television programs for WYBE-TV35 in Philadelphia, PA. She has screened her work and lectured on the impact of the intersections of oppressions, on African-American women’s lives, in Spain, Mexico, South Africa, England, France, Canada, the Netherlands, Hungary, and at numerous colleges/universities and conferences across the United States. Her awards include the 1994 Philadelphia Gay Pride Award; the 1995 Atlantic City Black Film Festival Filmmaker Award; the 1998 Audre Lorde Legacy Award of the Union Institute Center for Women, the 1998 NAACP Exemplary Citizen Award, finalist for the 1998 Roy W. Dean Grant, and the 2000 Bread and Roses Community Fund’s Waters Award for Intergenerational Activism.
Press:
October 1, 1998 - "A Shaky Market," by Neil Gladstone, Philadelphia City Paper
December 5, 2000 - "Afrolesfemcentric," by An Ngo, Bi-College News
Public Screenings, Broadcasts and Festivals:
July 2005 - Rome, Italy
April 2005 - Vanderbilt University
March 2005 - University of Massachusetts
November 2002 - Oberlin College
September 2001 - Duke University
October 2000 - Yale University
April 2000 - University of Texas (El Paso, TX)
April 2000 - Earlham College
April 2000 - Yale University
March 2000 - Bowdoin College
March 2000 - Williams College
February 2000 - National Student Assembly of the YWCA
January 1999 - The Westtown School
November 1999 - State University of New York at Oneonta
May 1998 - Black Lesbian & Gay Pride Film Festival
February 1998 - Brown University
May 1997 - Hobart and William Smith Colleges
April 1997 - Antioch University
March 1997 - London Black Lesbian & Gay Centre Film Festival
December 1996 - University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
July 1996 - National Black Arts Festival
June 1996 - Law Admissions Council
December 1995 - University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
June 1995 - University of Michigan
April 1995 - Emerging Young Wo/men Filmmakers: A Spring Film Festival
March 1995 - Villanova University's Womanist Visions Series
March 1995 - Black Nations/Queer Nations? - A Working Conference
March 1995 - Lesbian Film Festivals (Hungary & Croatia)
March 1995 - Central High School (Philadelphia, PA)
January 1995 - CEC Feminist Film and Video Series (Philadelphia, PA)
November 1994 - University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
October 1994 - Rochester Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival (Rochester, NY)
July 1994 - Various locales in Capetown, South Africa
June 1994 - San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
June 1994 - "Through the Lens 4," WYBE-TV 35 (Philadelphia, PA)
March 1994 - Central High School (Philadelphia, PA)
March 1994 - CEC Feminist Film and Video Series (Philadelphia, PA)
February 1994 - "On the Q-Tip" exhibit, Painted Bride Arts Center (Philadelphia, PA)
November 1993 - Through Our Eyes Film Festival
November 1993 - Chicago International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
May 1993 - Festival of Independents, Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema
Served Souls
Posted July 19th, 2007 by Gretjen in
Producer of the Work / Filmmaker:
Produced by Tina Morton
Year released:
1997
Length:
30 minutes
Did she do it?
In 1944, twenty-two year old Corrine Sykes was an illiterate housemaid accused of killing her employer, Freda Wodlinger -- and in 1946 she became the first African-American woman to be executed in Pennsylvania. But years after Corrine's death by electric chair, rumors circulated within the African-American community about a death-bed confession made by Wodlinger's husband that was published in an obscure corner of a local Philadelphia newspaper. Everyone remembers reading the confession but copies of the article were never found...
Filmmaker's Name:
Tina Morton
Filmmaker's Bio:
Tina Morton is an award-winning and prolific film and videomaker whose previously completed films and videos, include: The Dance in Aunt Ida Lee [LINK TO SCRIBE CATALOG ENTRY], A Day's Work, We The People, OpnFlo: Investigation, If You Call Them, The Plan and A Promise Fulfilled, which documents a Vietnam veteran who made a promise to his fallen comrade to journey across country in a horse-drawn covered wagon in the tradition of the Buffalo Soldiers. Morton's work has been broadcast on public television, featured in film festivals, exhibited in galleries and museums, and taught in colleges and universities in numerous cities across the United States.
Tina divides her time between Philadelphia, PA and Washington, DC where she is an assistant professor in the Department of Radio, Television and Film at Howard University. In addition to her teaching experience at Howard University, she has taught several film/video production courses at Temple University and has served as a project facilitator for several Scribe Video Center community based projects.
Press:
June 2, 2004 - "Soul Searching," by Kia Gregory, Philadelphia Weekly
May 16, 2001 - "Severed Souls - Wrongly Accused, Corrine Sykes, First Black Woman Executed," by Arlene Edwards, Philadelphia New Observer
May 15, 2001 - Philadelphia Tribune article
May 9, 2001 - The Leader article
Public Screenings, Broadcasts and Festivals:
February 4, 2006 - Black Independent Film Festival, sponsored by Quinnipiac’s Multicultural Affairs Committee and the School of Communications, Quinnipiac University (Hamden, CT)
May & June 2004 - Art Showcase Gallery (Philadelphia, PA)
March 4 & 5, 2004 - Sisters Defining Sisters Conference (Philadelphia, PA)
March 2002 - Sedgwick Cultural Center (Philadelphia, PA)
2002 & 2003 - Part of Women in the Directors Chair Touring Festival
November 2002 - International Black Women's Film Festival (San Francisco, CA)
November 2002 - DocSide Film Festival (San Antonio, TX)
October 2002 - University of Chicago, Gender Studies screening (Chicago, IL)
October 2002 - Northwestern University (Chicago, IL)
August 2002 - Broadcast on DUTV, Cable 54 (Philadelphia, PA)
June 2002 - Manhattan Neighborhood Network Channel 34 (New York, NY)
March 2002 - Women in the Director's Chair (Chicago, IL)
March 2002 - DC Independent Film Festival (Washington DC)
March 2002 - Color of Violence Conference (Chicago, IL)
March 2002 - Future Faculty Fellowship Presentation (Philadelphia, PA)
March 2002 - Gene Siskel Black Harvest Film Festival (Chicago, IL)
February 2002 - Hollywood Black Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA)
December 2001 - McCallister College (St. Paul, MN)
November 2001 - "Independent Women Filmmakers: Viewpoints From Within" at the African American Museum of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)
October 2001 - Oral History and Video: Oral History Mid-Atlantic Region Conference (Philadelphia, PA)
September 2001 - "Prison Breaks: Redemption, Revolution and Reality" at Prince Music Theater (Philadelphia, PA)
August 2001 - Street Movies! sponsored by Scribe Video Center (Philadelphia, PA)
May 2001 - "Philadelphia Stories" broadcast on WYBE-TV35 (Philadelphia, PA)
April 30, 2001 - 10th Annual Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema (Philadelphia, PA)
