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How Can We Make a Change?
Posted July 18th, 2008 by Scribe Video CenterMothers in Charge and The Arts and Spirituality Center
This video is available for purchase as part of a Community Visions compilation DVD.
Mothers in Charge is a determined group of women who are taking a stand against neighborhood violence. They are the family members of loved ones—mostly sons, fathers, or brothers—who became unwitting victims of Philadelphia’s deadly patterns of violent crime. The group was founded in 2003 by Dorothy Johnson-Speight after the murder of her 24 year old son. Grieving but courageous, members of Mothers in Charge conduct violence prevention, grief counseling, community outreach and education projects in an effort to support neighborhood safety and non-violent conflict resolution.
War On Terrorism : Who's Freedom Is At Risk?, The
Posted July 19th, 2007 by GretjenProduced by Baiyina Hughley through Scribe's 14-Week Production Workshop
Peace is patriotic in this proudly opinionated, rock music-filled short covering the many, many 2003 anti-war protests in the streets of Philadelphia. Muslims, non Muslims, teens who can't wait to vote, war veterans for peace, and regular joes and janes rally to protest not just the Iraq war, but the sudden business-as-usual demonizing, detaining, deportation and abuse of Arabs, Muslims, and anyone suddenly deemed suspicious for the most superficial of reasons by police and government.
Baiyina Hughley received her BA from Temple University in Philadelphia in 2001. Currently, she lives in California and is a full-time Interior Design student at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, where she specializes in Set Design, combining some of her filmmaking experience with her love for interiors.
November 15, 2003 - The Pennsylvania Dance Theatre's "Inside Terrorism," an evening of performance, film, and art exploring the nature and impact of terrorism, at State College Municipal Building (State College, PA)
March 13, 2004 - Muslim Film Festival at UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
April 24, 2004 - Muslim Film Festival at Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, CA)
Taking Of One Liberty Place, The
Posted July 19th, 2007 by GretjenLouis Massiah and Scribe Video Center
$20 for individuals / $35 for Community Institutions ie: libraries, schools, non-profits / $50 for Universities & Businesses
"When you say takeover, what kind of takeover do you mean?" -- A polite security guard facing a phalanx of equally polite protestors in The Taking of One Liberty Place
Louis Massiah is the founder and executive director of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, a media arts organization that provides low-cost workshops and equipment access to emerging video and filmmakers and community organizations. He is an independent filmmaker who has produced and directed a variety of award-winning documentary films for public television.
Known for his explorations of civil rights themes and crises in the African-American community, his credits include two films in the Eyes on the Prize II series and The Bombing of Osage Avenue, about the burning of a black section of Philadephia as a result of the police bombing of the headquarters of the group MOVE. He is also the director of W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices. Massiah has received awards from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the the National Black Programming Consortium, the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters, the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame and several Emmy award nominations. In 1996, he was a recipient of a five year John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship. His current project, Haytian Stories, examines the complex relationship between the United States and Haiti over the last 200 years.
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)
Bombing of Osage Avenue
Posted May 8th, 2007 by Gretjen
Produced & Directed by Louis Massiah for WHYY-TV 12, Written & Narrated by Toni Cade Bambara
$99 for Community Institutions: Libraries, School. Non-Profit / $129 for Universities & Businesses
On Mother's Day, 1985, a virtual army of city and state police converged on a quiet block in historic Cobb's Creek, a blossoming neighborhood of parks and children, aluminum siding and basketball stars nestled in the heart of Philadelphia's African American community. By the next day, 61 homes were destroyed and 11 people were dead, all members of the communitarian MOVE organization. In this, the winner of 1987's Global Village Best Documentary Award, Massiah establishes the setting for the tragedy early on, and Toni Cade Bambara's poetic narration draws us deeper into the drama.
"...an excellent film which explores the social and politcal context in which the confrontation between MOVE and the City of Philadelphia developed." -- Bettye Collier-Thomas, Director, Center for African American History and Culture
"This extraordinary documentary is an intricately woven story of government overkill and its impact on the innocent." -- Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Women's Resource and Research Center, Spelman College
Louis Massiah is the founder and executive director of Scribe. He also produced and directed the documentary works Louise Thompson Patterson: In Her Own Words, two films for the Eyes on the Prize II series, and W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices.
Toni Cade Bambara wrote several books of fiction, including The Salt Eaters, The Sea Birds Are Still Alive, Gorilla, My Love, and Those Bones are Not My Child: A Novel, and taught writing workshops at Scribe for many years and collaborated on numerous productions. She died in 1995.
