Producers' Forum
My Grand Schemes with Shu Lea Cheang
Posted October 13th, 2009 by Boone
Scribe Video Center presents My Grand Schemes with Shu Lea Cheang Saturday, October 24 @ 6 PM. More Info
Thunder Soul
Posted July 21st, 2010 by Boone
Tuesday, August 10 @ 7PM 2010
International House, 3701 Chestnut Street
Director Mark Landsman in person
It was afros and pleated shirts; James Brown and Bootsy Collins. It was the ’70s, and an inner-city Houston high school was about to make history. Charismatic band leader, Conrad “Prof” Johnson would turn the school’s mediocre jazz band into a legendary funk powerhouse. Now, 35 years later, his students prepare to pay tribute to the man who changed their lives, the 92-year-old Prof. Some haven’t played their horns in decades, still they dust off their instruments determined to retake the stage to show Prof and the world that they’ve still got it. MORE INFO
Mark Landsman: From Pitch to Premiere
Posted July 21st, 2010 by Boone
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 7:00PM
Director Mark Landsman will guide participants through the process of marketing their work. At each step of the creative process, indy filmmakers must know how to attract potential backers, crew members, distributors and exhibitors to their project. Landsman will use his current project of adapting a documentary to a narrative feature as a model. Please submit a brief description of your project prior to the workshop. MORE INFO
Mark Landsman From Pitch to Premiere
DATE: Wednesday, August 11; TIME: 7:00PM-9:00PM; SUMMER 2010
Director Mark Landsman will guide participants through the process of marketing their work. At each step of the creative process, indy filmmakers must know how to attract potential backers, crew members, distributors and exhibitors to their project. Landsman will use his current project of adapting a documentary to a narrative feature as a model. Please submit a brief description of your project prior to the workshop.
Thunder Soul
Posted June 15th, 2010 by Scribe Video Center
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Slaying Goliath
Posted March 16th, 2010 by Boone
Directed by Michele Stephenson & Joe Brewster
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 7:00pm @ International House
A charged look at 10 days in the life of a boys’ fifth grade basketball club from Harlem, New York. The film follows the children's parents as they travel to the AAU National Championships in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Whole worlds are laid bare with skillful economy, as grown ups and coaches grapple with the sometimes diverging demands of parenting and winning.
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Histories: An Evening with Rea Tajiri
Posted March 16th, 2010 by Boone
Monday, June 7, 2010 - 7:00pm
@ Prince Music Theater / Independence Black Box
Rea Tajiri's award winning films explore the psycho-spiritual repercussions of political histories within families while interrogating mainstream media representations of Asians and Asian Americans. Poetic and haunting, her work often deconstruct the jarring incongruities between collective memory and official narratives of historical events.
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Non-Fiction Film and the Collage Aesthetic with Rea Tajiri
Posted March 16th, 2010 by Boone
Saturday, June 12, 3:00-5:00PM
In this Master Classs filmmaker Rea Tajiri discusses her approach to the “collage aesthetic” which she has adopted as a creative process and auto-ethnographic form that utilizes research, writing, journaling, use of found archival materials, including photographs film clips, advertisements, movement, and audio. The written and spoken word is the glue that bridges the elements and all elements are hung, combined and juxtaposed to form new meanings. More info
Non-Fiction Film and the Collage Aesthetic
DATE: Saturday, June 12 TIME: 3:00 - 5:00PM SPRING 2010
In this Master Class filmmaker Rea Tajiri will discuss her approach to "collage aesthetic" which she has adopted as a creative process and auto ethnographic form. This form utilizes research, journaling, use of found archival materials; including photographs, film clips, advertisements, movement, and audio.
Participants should bring photographs, films which strike a chord, observed movement, recorded sounds in any media, music, and a notebook.
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Presented in partnership with PIFVA.org
Veiled Voices
Posted February 12th, 2010 by Boone
Directed by Brigid Maher
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 7:00pm @ International House
Women across the Arab world are redefining their role as leaders in Islam. Veiled Voices investigates the world of Muslim women religious leaders through the eyes of three women in Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt. Shot over the course of two years, Veiled Voices reveals a world rarely documented or filmed before now and explores both the public and private worlds of these women.
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Slaying Goliath
Posted February 12th, 2010 by Boone
Directed by Michele Stephenson & Joe Brewster
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 7:00pm @ International House
A charged look at 10 days in the life of a boys’ fifth grade basketball club from Harlem, New York. The film follows the children's parents as they travel to the AAU National Championships in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Whole worlds are laid bare with skillful economy, as grown ups and coaches grapple with the sometimes diverging demands of parenting and winning.
read more
Histories: An Evening with Rea Tajiri
Posted February 12th, 2010 by Boone
Monday, June 7, 2010 - 7:00pm
@ Prince Music Theater / Independence Black Box
Rea Tajiri's award winning films explore the psycho-spiritual repercussions of political histories within families while interrogating mainstream media representations of Asians and Asian Americans. Poetic and haunting, her work often deconstruct the jarring incongruities between collective memory and official narratives of historical events.
read more
Slaying Goliath
Posted February 9th, 2010 by Boone
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Directed by Michele Stephenson & Joe Brewster
Presented in partnership with Film at International House
co-director Michele Stephenson in person
Slaying Goliath (USA, 2009, 82 min) takes a charged look at 10 days in the life of a boys’ fifth grade basketball club from Harlem, New York. The film follows the children's parents, including the filmmakers and their own son, who is on the team - as they travel to the AAU National Championships in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Whole worlds are laid bare with skillful economy, as grown ups and coaches grapple with the sometimes diverging demands of parenting and winning. The difficulties of raising black boys, as well as the difficulties of being a real team, come to the fore as the group crumbles, while tantalizing questions of how filmmakers should document the events of their own lives hovers around Goliath’s edges.
ALSO SCREENING: Camden High (2009, 20 min)
Directed by Anthony Loren Normil
This documentary highlights the Camden High School basketball program which was headed by Coach Clarence Turner for over 35 years. Despite many set backs that the teams has experienced over the years, Camden High and Coach Turner has produced some of the greatest athletes in the State of New Jersey who have gone on the play professional sports in both the NBA and NLF.
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Histories: An Evening with Rea Tajiri
Posted February 9th, 2010 by Boone
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Presented in partnership with the Asian Arts Initiative and PIFVA
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(Bridge) River is Remembering (2009, 10 min, work in progress) a film by Rea Tajiri
In this new work, a meditation on landscape as history, Tajiri explores the ways in which landscape, memory and history reverberate in Lordville, a small New York Delaware river town. Eschewing the popular historical narratives and meditating on a quote from Toni Morrison (“…all water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was…”) Tajiri sets out along the floodpath of the Delaware which nearly destroyed the town in 2006, in an attempt to recover the undocumented history of this forgotten village. What was the river trying to remember?
Strawberry Fields (1998, 86 min) a film by Rea Tajiri
Set in 1971, against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, "Strawberry Fields," tackles the minefield between cultural history and personal memory. After a visitation from the ghost of her sister, a rebellious 16-year-old Japanese-American girl hits the road with her boyfriend in search of a better life. (will show excepts)
Little Murders (1998, 20 min) a film by Rea Tajiri
A darkly comic musical about the mystery of death, communication of spirits, and the redemption that comes from knowing the truth. When the two finally collide on a downtown street late one night, they are transported to another dimension. The two communicate through dance and music finally unraveling the cause of their separation and grief.
Veiled Voices
Posted February 9th, 2010 by Boone
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Directed by Brigid Maher
USA, 2009, 59 minutes
Brigid Maher in person
