Scribe Fundraiser and Screening of Harry Belafonte "Sing Your Song", Director Susanne Rostock, editor Jason Pollard in person

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Scribe Begins 2012 Season with Fundraiser and Screening of Harry Belafonte Sing Your Song at International House

*Official 2011 Sundance Film Festival selection

Sing Your Song "It isn't just the story of a man but the story of a country and a century." -Variety

Tuesday, January 10 @ International House
3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

*Director/editor, Susanne Rostock, and editor Jason Pollard in person for fundraiser reception and screening
5:30PM-reception, 7PM screening

On Monday January 10, 5:30 PM at International House, Scribe Video Center will host a fundraiser reception to support and celebrate the beginning of the organization's 2012 season and also host a very special edition of our Producers’ Forum series that evening beginning at 7PM. Immediately following the reception, will be the screening of director Susanne Rostock’s 2011 Sundance Film Festival selection documentary Sing Your Song about the life of activist and actor Harry Belafonte. The film's director Susanne Rostock and editor Jason Pollard will be in person for the fundraiser reception and screening.

Please show your support for Scribe and RSVP to attend this fundraiser and screening. Click here to RSVP.

Jason Pollard teaches a master class "Art and Craft of Editing" on Wednesday, January 11, 7PM @ Scribe. READ MORE

About the film

Wonderfully archived, and told with a remarkable sense of intimacy, visual style, and musical panache, Susanne Rostock’s inspiring biographical documentary, Sing Your Song, surveys the life and times of singer/actor/activist Harry Belafonte. From his rise to fame as a singer, inspired by Paul Robeson, and his experiences touring a segregated country, to his provocative crossover into Hollywood, Belafonte’s groundbreaking career personifies the American civil rights movement and impacted many other social-justice movements. Rostock reveals Belafonte as a tenacious hands-on activist, who worked intimately with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mobilized celebrities for social justice, participated in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and took action to counter gang violence, prisons, and the incarceration of youth.

Because of his beliefs, Belafonte drew unwarranted invasions by the FBI into both his personal life and career, which led to years of struggle. But an indomitable sense of optimism motivates his path even today as he continues to ask, at 84, "What do we do now?" His example may very well inspire you to action. (USA, 2011, 104 min)

Sing Your Song official trailer from S2BN Films on Vimeo.

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Artist Bios
Long esteemed as “an aural and visual poet”, Susanne Rostock’s filmmaking is a stunning 37 years of some of the most compelling documentaries of each decade. Over the years Susanne’s films have garnered Emmy’s, IDA awards, Cable Ace awards, a Gold Hugo and acknowledgement from multiple national and international festivals. Susanne has achieved recognition for her editing on a myriad of films that continue to endure and resonate. Susanne’s visually compelling storytelling that speaks about determination and dreams, about the individual struggle for human rights is what has consistently distinguished her work. Her most recent film, Sing Your Song, “told with a remarkable sense of intimacy, visual style and musical panache” is an edgy, compassionate story of human struggle as seen through the prism of Harry Belafonte’s own reality. This film is further proof of Susanne’s life long dedication to the belief in the power of art to change the world. Sing Your Song is short listed for a 2012 Oscar nomination.

Jason Pollard has been an editor of documentaries, short films, music videos and commercials for 8 years. He co-edited the 2007 film Pete Seeger: The Power of Song which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and most recently the Harry Belafonte documentary Sing Your Song which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Pollardhas received a degree in Bachelors in Fine Arts in Film & Television and a Masters in Cinema Studies, both from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is completing his first project as a producer on the short film, Their Eyes Were Watching Gummy Bears.

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