Producers' Forum

Koryo Saram: The Unreliable People

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(Matt Dibble and Y. David Chung, USA, 2007, 57 mins, Kazakh, Korean, Russian w/ English subtitles)
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Producers' Forum -- internationally acclaimed independent media artists present and discuss their work.
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Saturday, July 26, 2008 - 7:00pm
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$10
additional ticket info: 
$8 students/seniors, Free to Scribe members

Co-director, producer, co-writer Y. David Chung in person

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Prince Music Theater
1412 Chestnut Street Black Box
Philadelphia, PA, 19102
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Y. David Chung (co-director, producer, co-writer) is a filmmaker and visual artist known for his multi-media installations, paintings, drawings, prints, and public artworks who has exhibited widely throughout the country and internationally at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Project Rowhouse, the Gwangju Biennale and the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Chung began his career collaborating as a graphic artist on documentary films. Selected credits include Surveillance, No Place to Hide (HBO), American Journey (PBS), and Gardens of Paradise (PBS) and Peace on Borrowed Time (ABC). He received a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship in 1995. Chung is Associate Professor with the School of Art and Design and the Director of the Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan.

Jean-Marie Teno Visits Scribe

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Scribe welcomes acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno. He will present his film Le malentendu colonial on Thursday, February 14 and teach a Master Class on New African Documentary on Friday, February 15. Born in Cameroon, his works have been centerpieces at the international art exhibition, Documenta, the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar and at film festivals on five continents.

African American Women on the Band Stand

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Sunday, May 4, 2008 - 2:00pm
ticket price: 
$10
additional ticket info: 
$8 students and seniors

An Afternoon at the Archives with Pearl Bowser

Location(s)

International House
3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
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Pearl Bowser is an internationally-acclaimed film scholar, film curator and archivist. She programmed numerous festivals and touring programs of African American and African films including “From Harlem to Hollywood,” “Journey Across Three Continents” and “Celebration of Black Cinema.” She is also the author of several important texts including "Oscar Micheaux and His Circle" (Indiana University Press, 2001) and the producer of the documentary Midnight Ramble: Oscar Micheaux and the Story of Race Movies (1994).

On the Downlow

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Dirrected by Abigail Child, USA, 2007, 54 min
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 7:00pm
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Join us for an informal pre-film reception starting at 6:00 pm
ticket price: 
$10
additional ticket info: 
$10 general admission and $8 students and seniors

On the Downlow presents an intimate portrait of four men negotiating their bisexual desire within the African-American community of Cleveland, Ohio. These men self-describe themselves as "dipping on both sides of the fence". The film showcases their secret lives and aspirations as it reveals the complex intersections of sexuality, race, class and family in contemporary middle America.

Location(s)

International House
3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
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Abigail Child and Arthur Jafa in person
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Abigail Child has created a wide variety of experimental, narrative, and documentary films since 1970. Her award-winning art has been extensively exhibited in both solo and group shows, including The American Century, 1950-2000 at the Whitney Museum, the Whitney Biennial (1989, 1997), the New York Film Festival & Video Side Bar (1989, 1993).. Her work is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art and the Centre Georges Pompidou. She is also a poet and author; her most recent book is This Is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics of Film. Child, who graduated with a M.F.A. from Yale University School of the Arts, has taught film/video production and history at various schools and is currently Chair of Film/Animation at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Arthur Jafa is cinematographer, filmmaker, producer, visual artist, writer, scholar, educator, a cultural critic/worker, and visual artist.

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A Glance Into the Life
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2007, Scribe Video Center & COLOURS Youth Group 40 Acres of Change, 20 min
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The screening will also feature the short A Glance Into the Life illuminates the life and circumstance of LGBTQ youth of color, ages 16-22, through their personal stories. It also dispels myths and provides much needed community resources. COLOURS's, mission is to garner the strengths and talents of sexual minority people of color: male, female, transgender, African American, Latino, Asian American to construct an affirming and caring community.

Le malentendu colonial/Colonial Misunderstanding

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Thursday, February 14, 2008 - 7:00pm
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Join us for an informal reception at 6:00 pm in the theater lobby.
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This Scribe Producers' Forum is presented in co-sponsorship with Film at International House.
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Tickets are $10, $8 students and seniors

Le Malentendu Colonial ( 2004, Cameroon, 73 minutes, In French, German and English with English subtitles) carries forward the thesis director Jean-Marie Teno so eloquently began in Afrique, je te plumerai where he argued that Africa could only find its way forward into the 21st century if it affirmed its own traditions. The film looks at European colonialism in Africa through the lens of Christian evangelism, indeed as the model for the relationship between North and South even today.

Location(s)

International House
3701 Cestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
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Jean-Marie Teno
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Jean-Marie Teno, born in Cameroon, is an acclaimed filmmaker, whose works have been centerpieces at the international art exhibition, Documenta, the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar and at film festivals on five continents. He studied communications at the University of Valenciennes (France), and then began work as a film critic for the magazine "Bwana". In 1985, he was hired as an editor at FR3 (French National Television) where he worked until 1997. In 1983, Teno made his first film, the documentary short Schubbah. He has continued filmmaking, moving effortlessly between documentary and fiction. His feature documentary Afrique, je te plumerai (1992) is one of the most insightful examinations of the cultural damage created by Europe’s colonization of Africa. His other films include: Le mariage d’Alex (2002), Vacances au pays (2000) and Chef! (1999) and La tête dans les nuages (1994).

For more information about his work visit Les films du Raphia website.

Made in L.A.

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USA, 2007, 70 min, in Spanish and English with bilingual subtitles
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A film by Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar
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Monday, October 15, 2007 - 7:00pm
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Join us for a reception with the filmmakers at 6:00 pm in the theater lobby.
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Presented in collaboration with Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and the Film and Video Program

Made in L.A. follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from a trendy clothing retailer. In intimate verité style, Made in L.A. reveals the impact of the struggle on each woman's life as they are gradually transformed by the experience. Compelling, humorous, deeply human, Made in L.A. is a story about immigration, the power of unity and the courage it takes to find your voice.

Location(s)

Bossone Auditorium, Edmund D. Bossone Research Enterprise Center
Market Street, between 31st & 32nd Streets Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
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Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar
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Almudena Carracedo is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and scholar whose film, “Welcome. A Docu-Journey of impressions” won the Sterling Award for Short Subject at Silverdocs in 2003. Trained in film production in Madrid and Paris, Almudena worked as a television director in Spain before coming to the U.S. to work on her doctoral dissertation on U.S./Mexico border documentaries at UCLA. She is a recent fellow of NALIP's Latino Producers Academy.

Robert Bahar is the co-founder and coordinator of doculink.org, a grassroots networking organization for documentary filmmakers, and serves on the Board of Directors of the International Documentary Association. He is a graduate of Drexel University where he produced and directed the award-winning documentary Laid to Waste with George McCollough about toxic waste dumping in Chester, PA. He holds an M.F.A. from The Peter Stark Program at the USC School of Cinema-Television.

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Fight for Our Schools
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Produced by the Philadelphia Student Union and Scribe Video Center, 2001, 12 min
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Fighting for Our Schools is a buoyant profile of the Philadelphia Student Union (PSU), a city-wide organization of public high school students who advocate on behalf of all students in policy discussions about public education. Their video highlights some of the most important campaigns of the student-led group.

Rosita

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Directed by Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater
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(US/Nicaragua, 2006, 55 min, in English and Spanish with English subtitles)
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Sunday, July 15, 2007 - 7:00pm
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Pre-screening reception starts at 6:00 PM
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$10
additional ticket info: 
$8 Students & Seniors, Free to Scribe Members

Directed by award-winning filmmakers Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater, Rosita , traces a young girl's journey from innocent victim to unwitting victor. In January 2003, news spreads throughout Central and South America that a nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl has become pregnant as the result of a rape. Rosa, or Rosita as the girl becomes known in the press, is the only child of illiterate campesinos working in Costa Rica as coffee pickers at the time of the assault.

Location(s)

International House
3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
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Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater
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Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater have worked together since 1990, making award-winning documentaries for national and international broadcast. Their film Maggie Growls , was an ITVS-produced biography of Gray Panther founder Maggie Kuhn, was awarded the Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Film & Digital Media from the Council on Foundations in 2004. Other broadcast documentaries by Attie and Goldwater include I Witness: Shot Down in Pensacola ; Landowska: Uncommon Visionary and Motherless .

Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican: A Cape Verdean American Story

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USA, 2006, 83 min
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The Philadelphia Premiere of the film, with director Claire Andrade-Watkins in person
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 - 7:00pm
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Pre-film reception begins at 6:00 pm
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$10
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Presented in collaboration with Film at International House
additional ticket info: 
$8 students and seniors

Claire Andrade-Watkins worked for over ten years to tell the history of her beloved Cape Verdean Fox Point section of Providence, Rhode Island. Full of childhood memories, textures and sounds of the l950s, l960s and early l970s, Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican, chronicles her community's music, ties to the old country, and the maritime/seafaring traditions, especially the longshoremen, who "worked the boats" in the Port of Providence. Three generations of Cape Verdeans were born and raised in this tight knit neighborhood that stretched along the waterfront.

Location(s)

International House
3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
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Claire Andrade-Watkins
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Claire Andrade-Watkins, a historian and filmmaker, has published extensively on French and Portuguese language African cinema in leading academic journals and film publications including Framework, International Journal of African History, Journal of Visual Anthropology, and The Independent. She is coeditor of Blackframes: Critical Perspectives on Black Independent Cinema. From 1995 to 1996 she was a Fulbright Scholar in Cape Verde, where she conducted research on indigenous cinema. She was an Associate Producer on Odyssey, a PBS anthropology and archaeology documentary series, and Assistant to the Producer on Haile Germia’s Sankofa. She is an Associate Professor of Visual and Media Arts, at Emerson College in Boston. She founded Spia Media to document, preserve and disseminate cultural productions from Africa, the Caribbean and the United States, with a particular emphasis on Cape Verdean-American and Cape Verdean history, culture and traditions.

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

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The Philadelphia Premiere of the film, with guest co-writer and co-producer Noland Walker in person
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Thursday, March 29, 2007 - 7:00pm
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$10
co-sponsor: 
Presented in collaboration with Film at International House
additional ticket info: 
$8 students and seniors

Location(s)

International House
3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
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Pre-film reception begins at 6:00 pm
Director: Stanley Nelson
USA, 2006, 85 min

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