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Peace In The Goodlands
Posted July 19th, 2007 by GretjenProduced by Centro Nueva Creacion
"The only time it seems we make the news is when something goes bad. Every time something goes bad, they'll have a sound truck out here filming. When do they ever show the good in our community? This is my home. You don't have the right to call it the Badlands. I live here."
- A frustrated young resident of "The Goodlands"
Centro Nueva Creacion's video honors residents of Philadelphia's West Kensington neighborhood who are redefining their community as a place of peace.
Centro Nueva Creation's mission is to transform their neighborhood by working with youth and families to create a better community. They believe that the assets of West Kensington outweigh the problems and that the area's youth and families have incredible resources for change. Although our community is often called "The Badlands" by the media, they like to promote it as "The Goodlands," a name more reflective of its current reality as a place where dramatic change is possible.
December 9, 2004 - "Scribe Video Center's Street Movies Undercover at Graterford Prison," Greater Philadelphia Film Office Web site (brief mention)
February 2004 & 2005 - Gloria Dei Lutheran Church (Philadelphia, PA)
May 2004 - Southeastern PA Synod's Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Assembly
June 2004 - Centro Nueva Creacion 10th Anniversary Celebration (Philadelphia, PA)
Spring 2004 - Winona Cotter High School in Minnesota as part of unit on community
June 8, July 6 and August 10, 2004 - DUTV Cable 57 (Philadelphia, PA)
July 20, 2004 - WYBE TV-35's Philadelphia Stories (Philadelphia, PA)
August 5, 2004 - Street Movies screening at Sturgis Playground (Philadelphia, PA)
August 7, 2004 - Street Movies screening at Eagles Park (Philadelphia, PA)
December 10, 2004 - Centro Nueva Creacion's Festival de la Luz en el Barrio (Philadelphia, PA)
September 10, 2005 - Hala Cine Latino Film Festival at the Civic Theatre (Allentown, PA)
Habitat For Humanity
Posted July 19th, 2007 by GretjenHabitat For Humanity: West Philadelphia & Scribe Video Center
"This is not just some do-gooder project," asserts a Habitat for Humanity: West Philadelphia staffer at a meeting for local residents eager to learn about how they can become a homeowner through the program. He's right, as this video shows how much work future homeowners, some who ruefully describe themselves as members of "the working poor," must do before they receive keys to their newly built home.
Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia builds and rehabilitates houses and neighborhoods by providing simple, decent, affordable homes in partnership with families in need. In March 2003, Habitat Philadelphia formed through the merger of four independent city affiliates, including the West Philadelphia branch of Habitat for Humanity, which co-produced this video. Before the merger, those affiliates had completed a total of 106 houses in a little over 15 years.
February 13, 1998 - Part of Five on the Black Hand Side Scribe Video Center Retrospective at Painted Bride Art Center (Philadelphia, PA)
August 4, 1998 - Part of Street Movies screening at 18th District Town Watch (Philadelphia, PA)
Companions
Posted July 18th, 2007 by GretjenMary Pat Kane
Where's Mary Pat's cat?
Mary Pat Kane is a photographer, storyteller and performance artist who currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. In September 2004, Kane made her first Philadelphia performance in over a decade whe she starred in her two-part one woman show, The Night I Spoke to Judy Garland, Well Sort Of and Winter Depression at the Philly Fringe Festival. She returned to the Fringe one year later to perform a spoken word/poetry piece, KLM Blue and Side by Side.
February 8, 1993 - "Expressing Themselves," by Ann Kolson, The Philadelphia Inquirer
August 9, 1999 - "New Program Takes Films Out of Theaters And Into the Streets," by Daniel Rubin, The Philadelphia Inquirer
August 24, 2000 - "Films About Communities Delight Water Tower Audience," by Gary Kramer, Chestnut Hill Local
Summer 1994 - Shown as a looping video all summer at Charles A. Wustum Museum (Racine, Wisconsin)
August 16, 1999 - Part of Street Movies screening at Dickinson Square Park (Philadelphia, PA)
August 17, 2000 - Part of Street Movies screening at Water Tower Recreation Center
(Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA)
Center Focused
Posted July 18th, 2007 by GretjenDiSilvestro Advisory Council and Town Watch
Ellen Reynolds
Just blocks from the Avenue of the Arts lies this culturally diverse South Philadelphia neighborhood of residents working gamely to peacefully coexist despite their differences. With a little help from a jaunty soundtrack and members of the DiSilvestro Advisory Council and Town Watch, neighbors chat about the history of the neighborhood's Italian, Vietnamese, Cambodian, German, Irish, African American and Polish residents and how, with the help of the Town Watch and the DiSilvestro Playground, they make their melting pot into a tasty stew.
The DiSilvestro Advisory Council and Town Watch operates from its home at the DiSilvestro Playground and Recreation Center located at 1701 S. 15th Street. The Center offers basketball leagues, summer camp programs, and gardening, dance, ceramics and other arts and craft classes to interested neighborhood residents of all ages. The Center has often allowed Scribe to program Street Movies screenings on its playground, widely known to area children as a Bully-Free Zone.
Ellen Reynolds is an editor, cinematographer and documentary producer. Recent documentary works include Race Talk and The Way of the Elephant. She is Post-Production Supervisor at the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.
January 7, 2004 - Film: Reperatory, Philadelphia Weekly (brief mention)
August 12-18, 2004 - Reperatory Film, Philadelphia City Paper (brief mention)
January 8, 2004 - Part of Community Visions Premiere at Prince Music Theater (Philadelphia, PA)
June 8, 2004 - DUTV Broadcast Screening (Philadelphia, PA)
July 6, 2004 - DUTV Broadcast Screening (Philadelphia, PA)
August 10, 2004 - DUTV Broadcast Screening (Philadelphia, PA)
August 11, 2004 - Part of Street Movies! screening at DiSilvestro Playground
(Philadelphia, PA)
