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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
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
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
Justice for Her
Posted July 21st, 2010 by Boone
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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
Posted June 22nd, 2010 by Boone
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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
Posted June 22nd, 2010 by Boone
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Directors Ted Passon and Lamar Williams in person!
In My Mind
Posted June 15th, 2010 by monica
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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
Posted June 15th, 2010 by Scribe Video Center
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The Other Side of the Water & Ebony Goddess
Posted June 15th, 2010 by monica
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Horse in the City and Conversations about Ships
Posted June 15th, 2010 by Scribe Video Center
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Each One Teach One
Posted March 16th, 2010 by Boone
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!
Posted March 16th, 2010 by Boone
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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