Philadelphia
Under the Baobab Tree
Posted December 3rd, 2007 by Anonymous in
Producer of the Work / Filmmaker:
Pan African Studies Community Education Program [PASCEP] and Scribe Video Center
Filmmaker Facilitator:
Serena Reed
Year released:
2007
Length:
16 min 37 seconds
Price:
This video is available for purchase as part of a Precious Places Community History compilation DVD
PASCEP is a 32-year-old, all volunteer education and outreach program that was created out of struggles in 1970s to make Temple University more responsive to the African American community in North Philadelphia where the University is based. Their video is a celebration of the history and the influence of this institution has had and all the incredible artists and educators who have come through PASCEP's doors.
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PASCEP is the Pan African Studies Community Education Program. To access information about classes and other PASCEP activities, you can visit their web address at: http://www.temple.edu/pascep/
Precious Places Community History Project Vol. 3
Posted September 28th, 2007 by AnonymousFilm Still:
Producer of the Work / Filmmaker:
Scribe Video Center and various community organizations
Year released:
2007
Length:
Total running time for the DVD is 2 1/2 hours
Price:
$20 for individuals/ $50 for institutions and universities
Individuals may purchase this DVD for $20 plus shipping and handling online using Scribe Video Center's secure PayPal account. Institutions should contact Scribe directly by calling 215 222 4201.
Scribe Video Center’s
Precious Places Community History Project Vol. 3
Quote:
"It [Precious Places] moves documentary practice away from the individualistic and idiosyncratic, typified in projects like Supersize Me (2004, by Morgan Spurlock) and Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004, by Michael Moore), towards collaborative interactions between neighborhoods, filmmakers, and scholars who create new histories. As a result, the project constitutes more than an intervention into the conceptualization of documentary. Importing concepts from postcolonial studies, the project shows how to embody difficult and sprawling polyvcalities and microhistories as a way to reclaim and revitalize ideas about the archive, history and memory.
Rather than creating a single authorial vision, Precious Places advances the collaborative ethnographic and historical model, where community participants become the authors and not simply the objects of community history." -- an excerpt from Patricia Zimmerman's article "Imbedded Public Histories" published in Afterimage, March/April 2006
Press:
April 8, 2004 - Philadelphia City Paper, Day in the Life
May 6, 2004 - Northeast Times, Getting Neighborhoods in Focus
Public Screenings, Broadcasts and Festivals:
2005 Athens International Film and Video Festival (tied for first place in the documentary category, winning for Best Expression of a Community on Film), Athens, OH
2005 & 2007 Philadelphia Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Harlem Film Festival, Harlem, NY
2006-2007 Council on Foundations’ 39th Annual Film & Video Festival
Precious Places Community History Project Vol. 2
Posted September 28th, 2007 by AnonymousProducer of the Work / Filmmaker:
Scribe Video Center and various community organizations
Year released:
2007
Length:
Total running time for the DVD is 2 1/2 hours
Price:
$20 for individuals/ $50 for institutions and universities
Individuals may purchase this DVD online for $20 plus shipping and handling using Scribe Video Center's secure PayPal account. Institutions should contact Scribe directly by calling 215 222 4201.
Scribe Video Center’s
Precious Places Community History Project Vol. 2
Quote:
"It [Precious Places] moves documentary practice away from the individualistic and idiosyncratic, typified in projects like Supersize Me (2004, by Morgan Spurlock) and Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004, by Michael Moore), towards collaborative interactions between neighborhoods, filmmakers, and scholars who create new histories. As a result, the project constitutes more than an intervention into the conceptualization of documentary. Importing concepts from postcolonial studies, the project shows how to embody difficult and sprawling polyvcalities and microhistories as a way to reclaim and revitalize ideas about the archive, history and memory.
Rather than creating a single authorial vision, Precious Places advances the collaborative ethnographic and historical model, where community participants become the authors and not simply the objects of community history." -- an excerpt from Patricia Zimmerman's article "Imbedded Public Histories" published in Afterimage, March/April 2006
Filmmaker's Photo:
Press:
April 8, 2004 - Philadelphia City Paper, Day in the Life
May 6, 2004 - Northeast Times, Getting Neighborhoods in Focus
Public Screenings, Broadcasts and Festivals:
2005 Athens International Film and Video Festival (tied for first place in the documentary category, winning for Best Expression of a Community on Film), Athens, OH
2005 & 2007 Philadelphia Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Harlem Film Festival, Harlem, NY
2006-2007 Council on Foundations’ 39th Annual Film & Video Festival
Precious Places Community History Project Vol. 1
Posted September 27th, 2007 by AnonymousFilm Still:
Producer of the Work / Filmmaker:
Scribe Video Center and various community organizations
Year released:
2007
Length:
Total running time for the DVD is 2 1/2 hours
Price:
$20 for individuals/ $50 for institutions and universities
Individuals may purchase this DVD for $20 plus shipping and handling online using Scribe Video Center's secure PayPal account. Institutions should contact Scribe directly by calling 215 222 4201.
Scribe Video Center’s
Precious Places Community History Project Vol. 1
While tourists head straight for the city’s official “Historic District” and native Philadelphian’s think they have seen it all, Scribe Video Center’s Precious Places Community History Project reveals bypassed neighborhood sites as bright landmarks that surprise and inspire residents and visitors alike. Using the video documentary as a storytelling medium, neighborhood residents have come together to document the oral histories of their communities. Over the past 6 years Scribe has collaborated with community groups from Philadelphia, Chester, Ardmore, and Camden to produce 59 community histories. Precious Places is a regional history, an occasion for neighbors to tell their own stories about and the people and places that make their communities unique. This DVD features 15 films assembled into 5 programs of approximately 30 minutes in length.
Program 1
The Taking of Bodine: Never Forget by Community Leadership Institute (North Philadelphia).
The Taking of Bodine confronts the displacement of residents in North Philadelphia through the Neighborhood Transformation Initiative (NTI). Led by neighborhood organizer Rosemary Cubas, the Community Leadership Institute contends that many good neighbors are being pushed out, houses bulldozed and land devalued in a plan that promises “development”, but not for the current residents. Read more
Quote:
"Precious Places moves documentary practice away from the individualistic and idiosyncratic, typified in projects like Supersize Me (2004, by Morgan Spurlock) and Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004, by Michael Moore), towards collaborative interactions between neighborhoods, filmmakers, and scholars who create new histories. As a result, the project constitutes more than an intervention into the conceptualization of documentary. Importing concepts from postcolonial studies, the project shows how to embody difficult and sprawling polyvcalities and microhistories as a way to reclaim and revitalize ideas about the archive, history and memory. Rather than creating a single authorial vision, Precious Places advances the collaborative ethnographic and historical model, where community participants become the authors and not simply the objects of community history."
-- an excerpt from Patricia Zimmerman's article "Imbedded Public Histories" published in Afterimage, March/April 2006
Public Screenings, Broadcasts and Festivals:
Philadelphia Film Festival, 2005, 2007
Athens Film Festival
Harlem Film Festival
WHYY TV 12, Philadelphia
American Sroksrei
Posted July 18th, 2007 by Anonymous in
Producer of the Work / Filmmaker:
Medical Communication for Pan Asian Health and Understanding, Asian Arts Initiative & Scribe Video Center
Filmmaker Facilitator:
Cindy Burstein & Tony Heriza
Year released:
1999
Length:
15 minutes
Price:
$20 for Individuals / $35 for Community Institutions ie: libraries, schools, non-profits / $50 for Universities & Businesses
Starting in February 1999, a total of 33 teens gathered on a weekly basis to script, shoot, and edit a 15-minute video addressing issues they decided were important in their lives. The dreams of Asian American teenagers, the expectations of immigrant parents, and the pull towards gang culture and violence are the themes of the resulting youth-produced narrative. The fictional story centers around three Asian-American teenagers their struggles and choices, set against the backdrop of life in Asian South Philadelphia and teen hip hop culture.
Filmmaker's Name:
Phally Chroy& Cindy Burstein
Filmmaker's Bio:
Phally Chroy, who graduated from Furness High School shortly after starring in American Sroksrei, is an immigrant who came to America as a baby after the end of the Vietnam War. He attended Temple University as an undergraduate in the Film and Media Arts program, and later applied to the MFA program to grow artistically as a filmmaker.
Cindy Burstein is a documentary producer living and working in Philadelphia. She comes to the field with a background in community organizing and youth leadership development. Since receiving her MFA in 1997 from Rutgers University-Mason Gross School of the Arts, she has been teaching video production, producing documentaries, and collaborating with other filmmakers. Her most recent film, 2004's Passionate Voices: American Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict was created as a tool for dialogue. She served as regional outreach coordinator of theatrical release for two New Yorker Films award-winning documentaries, Trembling Before G-d and My Architect. As an adjunct professor in the Film and Media Arts Department at Temple University, she continues to enlighten students about the merits of progressive media.
Press:
November 10, 1999 - "It's Their Life," by Myung Oak Kim, Philadelphia Daily News
Public Screenings, Broadcasts and Festivals:
5/6/2000 - University of Pennsylvania Law School Human Rights Panel (Philadelphia, PA)
5/6/2000 and 5/7/2000 - Street Movies! screenings at West Philadelphia Community Center and Clark Park respectively (Philadelphia, PA)
5/4/2000 - Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema (Philadelphia, PA)
2001 - Prince Music Theater's Youth Media Jam (Philadelphia, PA)
2001 - Chicago Asian American Showcase (Chicago, IL)
