Muslim Voices of Philadelphia Project Launch
Posted August 6th, 2010 by ayeshaOn Monday, August 30, 2010, Scribe Video Center will host an Iftar for the Muslim community to launch a new media project entitled Muslim Voices of Philadelphia.
Muslim Voices of Philadelphia is a collaborative oral history media project that calls on all interested members of Islamic educational and cultural organizations to work with filmmakers and scholars to document the histories, practices and contributions of the many Muslims who have come to call the Philadelphia region home. Muslim Voices of Philadelphia connects archival research, ethnography, oral history, and digital media to encourage community organizations to record their rich and diverse histories. Participants will create documents and media that can be used by Philadelphia’s Muslim communities, advocacy groups, museums, schools, universities, libraries, and will be available for public broadcast and community screenings. The Iftar on August 30 marks the initiation of this project and a celebration of the breaking of the fast.
For more information, please contact Ayesha Butt at 215.222.4201 or ayesha@scribe.org
Community Visions Premiere
Posted July 21st, 2010 by Boone
Tuesday, August 31 @ 7PM
International House, 3701 Chestnut Street
Join us for a celebration of the completion of the latest videos produced by participants in Scribe’s Community Visions program.
Community Visions teaches documentary video-making skills to members of community organizations in Philadelphia, Chester and Camden. The selected groups — usually four each year — make videos about issues that are important to their constituents. Community Visions is a part of Scribe's mission to explore, develop and advance the use of video, film, audio and interactive technology as artistic tools and as tools for progressive social change. MORE INFO
The Jungle and Philadelphia Community Media
Posted July 21st, 2010 by Boone
The Jungle
Friday, September 24 @ 7PM at Scribe
Production guided by Harold Haskins (in person)
Directed by Charlie “Brown” Davis
& David “Bat” Williams, Jimmy “Country” Robinson.
In 1967, a group of African-American teenagers in Philadelphia wrote, shot, acted in, and edited this hybrid documentary/dramatization of their involvement in the 12th and Oxford Street gang. Joins us for this in-person screening of the The Jungle, declared "an American treasure" by the Library of Congress and selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry and a celebration of production facilitator Harold Haskins, filmmaker and long time member of the Dean's Office at the University of Pennsylvania.
Program also features community media produced by the the Big Picture Alliance, Village of Arts and Humanities, YES Philly and Scribe MORE INFO
Ursula Rucker teaches Poetry for the Camera
Posted July 21st, 2010 by Boone
Dates: July 29, August, 5 & 12
Poetry, performance and video documentary are allied art forms in the age of hip hop. In this writing workshop, conducted by world renowned poet and recording artist Ursula Rucker, participants will mine from their life experiences to create performance works for the camera, paying particular attention to the sound and rhythm of words. The workshop will culminate in the video documentation of participants’ new poetry works. 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
Joined by Divisions & Black and Blue
Posted July 21st, 2010 by Boone
Friday, August 13 @ 7PM
Joined By Divisions Directed by Ted Passon
The shooting death of the former mayor Wilson Goode's nephew, Timothy “Tee” Goode, by police creates an unlikely alliance between MOVE member Pam Africa and Timothy’s mother Pamela Goode as they confront the 39th police district over the shooting.
Black and Blue Directed by Hugh King and Lamar Williams
A powerful mix of archival material, news clips and documentary footage chronicles impassioned community response to decades of deadly force against people of color by members of the Philadelphia police force. MORE INFO
Justice for Her
Posted July 21st, 2010 by Boone
Friday, August 19 @ 7PM
Directed by Aginah Carter-Shabazz
The choices Yonzetta Nas Hudson made with men, money, and materialism leads her into a nightmare of entanglements with the Philadelphia criminal justice system in this provocative documentary about a mother's struggle to exonerate her daughter. MORE INFO
The Other Side of the Water & Ebony Goddess
Posted July 21st, 2010 by Boone
Friday, August 20 @ 7PM
The Other Side of the Water Directed by Jeremy Robins
Rara band DJARARA take an ancient, breathtaking and contested music from the hills of Haiti and reinvent it on the streets of Brooklyn.
Ebony Goddess: Queen of Ilê Aiyê
Directed by Carolina Moraes-Liu
Three women compete to be the carnival queen of Ilê Aiyê, a prominent and controversial Afro-Brazilian group with an all-black membership. The selection is based on Afro-centric notions of beauty, in counterpoint to prevailing standards of beauty in Brazil. MORE INFO
JT Takagi: Sound Recording Practicum
Posted July 21st, 2010 by Boone
Saturday, August 21 @ 11:00AM
Join JT Takagi for a workshop on approaches to audio recording and sound equipment for documentary video production, including working with small format cameras including DSLRs, and options in working double system with low and medium budget digital recorders. his is an opportunity to learn about the essential gear for audio production, as well as talk about techniques and approaches to good location audio. Workshop participants are invited to discuss planned projects. MORE INFO
10th Annual Media That Matters Film Festival
Posted July 21st, 2010 by Boone
Thursday, August 26 @ 7PM
After a decade of short films and big issues, Media That Matters continues to inspire and impact people across the globe. The tenth annual collection will feature twelve new films—each under twelve minutes—that will inspire audiences to screen, act, impact. Energy and consumption, immigration issues, transgender youth identity, deep-seated racial prejudice in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, detainee accounts of their imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay and the human right to health care are just a few of the topics that are covered in this year’s collection. MORE INFO
Jason Moran reinterprets Monk's 1959 Town Hall Concert
Posted July 21st, 2010 by Boone
In My Mind
(2010, 100 min)
Directed by Gary Hawkins
Friday, August 27 @ 7PM
A high-energy performance-based nonfiction telling the story of rising jazz pianist Jason Moran's 50th Anniversary tribute to Thelonious Monk's historic 1959 Town Hall concert. Featuring Moran and his Big Bandwagon, collaborating visual artists Glenn Ligon and David Dempewolf, Monk's original french horn player Robert 'Brother Ah' Northern, and photographer and audiophile Eugene Smith's recently discovered images and recordings of Monk's rehearsals from the 'Jazz Loft' in NYC. MORE INFO
