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
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.
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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.
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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
Michele Stephenson & Joe Brewster 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 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
Julie Dash Luncheon and Panel Discussion
Posted January 7th, 2010 by BooneLocation(s)
New Muslim Cool from the Inside Out Novermber 17 2009 5:30 PM
Posted September 24th, 2009 by Boone
Emmy Award winning director/producer Jennifer Maytorena Taylor will take the class through a case study of New Muslim Cool, her award winning documentary about Hamza Pérez, a Puerto Rican rapper who changed his life from being a street hustler and started down a new path as a young Muslim. From the initial steps of production fundraising and researching the subject matter to synthesizing the story and character developments, Ms. Taylor will share the experience of over four years of production and editing. She will also talk about the process of national distribution, local and national marketing techniques and how social networking has played a part in this film’s development.
