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The Jungle and Philadelphia Community Media

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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

Joined by Divisions & Black and Blue

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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

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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

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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

10th Annual Media That Matters Film Festival

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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

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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.
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Justice for Her

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Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 7:00pm
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$5
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Free for Scribe members

Location(s)

Scribe Video Center
4212 Chestnut Street 3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
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Join Director Aginah Carter-Shabazz and University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Regina Austin for a post screening discussion!

The Jungle and Philadelphia Community Media

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Friday, September 24, 2010 - 7:00pm
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$5
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Free for Scribe Members

Location(s)

Scribe Video Center
4212 Chestnut Street 3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
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The Jungle

Production guided by Harold Haskins
Directed by Charlie “Brown” Davis
& David “Bat” Williams, Jimmy “Country” Robinson.

**Celebration and post screening Q&A with Harold Haskins

Joined by Divisions and Black and Blue

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Friday, August 13, 2010 - 7:00pm
ticket price: 
$5
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Free for Scribe Members

Location(s)

Scribe Video
Center 3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
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Directors Ted Passon and Lamar Williams in person!

In My Mind

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Friday, August 27, 2010 - 7:00pm
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$5
additional ticket info: 
Free to Scribe members

Location(s)

Scribe Video Center
4212 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
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Presented in partnership with Lancaster Ave Jazz & Arts Festival and Elena's Soul

In My Mind directed by Gary Hawkins is 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, IN MY MIND reveals the layered personalities of the music and the artists in two of the finest jazz shows, half a century apart.

10th Annual Media That Matters Film Festival

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Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 7:00pm
ticket price: 
$5
additional ticket info: 
Free to Scribe members

Location(s)

Scribe Video Center
4212 Chestnut Street 3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
See map: Google Maps



The Other Side of the Water & Ebony Goddess

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Friday, August 20, 2010 - 7:00pm
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$5
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Free to Scribe members

Location(s)

Scribe Video Center
4212 Chestnut Street 3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
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Horse in the City and Conversations about Ships

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Friday, July 9, 2010 - 7:00pm
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$5
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215-222-4201
additional ticket info: 
Free for Scribe members

Location(s)

Scribe Video Center
4212 Chestnut Street 3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
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Each One Teach One

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Friday, April 9, 2010 - 7:00pm @ Scribe Video Center

Education is one of the most important elements to a child’s future. But how that child is educated is even more important. These three short films bring a different perspective to how African American children from different socio-economic backgrounds share in the same struggles.

Mainline Monologues
Directed by Ellen Sall and Co- Produced by Crystal Blunt & Loraine Carter/Concerned Black Parents

Freedom School
Directed by Amitanshu Das and produced by the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education

Trying Something New
Directed by Edward Basile
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Dance! Philadelphia Dance!

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Friday, May 14, 2010 - 7:00pm @ Scribe Video Center

Cuban Pete Dances Philadelphia
Directed by Barry Dornfeld
This documentary profiles Pedro Aguilar, considered the "the greatest mambo dancer ever." Known as “Cuban Pete”, Aguilar began dancing in the late 1940s in New York, and rode the mambo craze through the '50s and '60s.

Plenty of Good Women Dancers
Directed by Germaine Ingram, Debora Kodish & Barry Dornfeld
This documentary features exceptional local African American women tap dancers whose careers spanned the 1920s-1950s. Restricted to few roles, often unnamed and uncredited, these women have largely remained anonymous within (and outside) of the entertainment industry and sometimes even within the communities in which they reside.
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