Award Winning Director Teaches Master Class: Digital Spoken Word – Creating and Adapting Poetry for Video & New Media Platforms

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Free Master Class with Critically Acclaimed Director Roland Legiardi-Laura!
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DATE: Monday, October 24; TIME: 7:00PM - 9:00PM; FALL 2011

Instructor: Roland Legiardi-Laura
Workshop Location:
Scribe Video Center
4212 Chestnut Street
3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Fee: $0. FREE and Open the Public

Roland Legiardi-Laura, co-director of the award winning documentary To Be Heard, hailed by the New York Times as "One of the Best Documentaries of the Year," conducts a special master class for spoken-word artists and media makers to explore how the lyricism of poetry can fuel the narrative vision of video as well as media works for web based and transmedia platforms. Legiardi-Laura is as an artist who creates with words and images. He has championed a hybrid art form that extends the power of both. The event is free and open to the public.

To Be Heard screens in the Philadelphia Film Festival on Sunday, October 23, 12:30PM at the International House. MORE INFO

To Be Heard: Trailer from Edwin Martinez on Vimeo.

Roland Legiardi-Laura is an award-winning filmmaker and published poet. His first documentary Azul, tells the story of Nicaragua through the poetry of its people and won nine international film awards. His most recent documentary To Be Heard, follows three teenagers from the Bronx whose struggle to change their lives begins with writing poetry. The film has been hailed as “one of the best documentaries of the year” by the New York Times. As one of the directors of a world-renowned arts institution, The Nuyorican Poet’s Café, he created a unique film development program called The Fifth Night, in which he produced 213 weekly screenplay readings. Forty of those scripts were produced as feature films. He is currently developing a documentary about the secret history of American schooling—entitled Weapons of Mass Instruction.

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Mr. Legiardi-Laura's Master Class is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Philadelphia Foundation's Fund for Children.