We are currently seeking submissions for this summer's Street Movies! presentations. We are looking for animation, fiction, documentary and experimental work. Work should be no longer than 20 minutes. All topics are welcome, but themes and topics will be firmed as the programming develops. Please submit work to Kiera Abdur-Rahman, Street Movies! Field Producer, Kiera@scribe.org

Our Body of Work series returns with a screening of works from interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker Rea Tajiri. Poetic, subtly layered and politically engaged, Tajiri's work advances the exploration of forgotten histories, multi-generational memory, landscape and the Japanese American experience.

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This three-session workshop will provide participants with a broad-based introduction to oral history practice, including project design, interview preparation, question lists, ethics and law, and interviewing techniques.

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Filmed in Philadelphia during the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, AIDS in the Barrio (USA, 1990, 28 min) is an insightful document of the perception, attitude, and impact of AIDS within Hispanic-American communities during the early nineties. 

Timelessly sophisticated in both form and content, Brincando El Charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican (USA, 1994, 55 min) contemplates the notion of identity through the experiences of a Puerto Rican woman living in the US. 

Co-presented with Wendy's Subway, a non-profit reading room, writing space, and independent publisher located in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Applying the creative strategies developed for film, Rea Tajiri guides workshop participants in the use of archive to create text and moving image projects.

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This accelerated workshop teaches participants essential skills needed to edit any video in Premiere Pro, whether it’s a three-minute trailer or an hour-long documentary. Participants learn how to skillfully navigate Premiere’s workflow to make use of its powerful editing tools from importing, managing and editing media to creating sequences, applying transitions and effects, to encoding and exporting their completed projects.

In Partnership with Philadelphia Latino Film Festival
In this special learning session, Frances Negrón-Muntaner will discuss the origins and impact of her Valor y Cambio (value and change) project and its intersection with community storytelling and decolonial joy, a form of joy that arises when individuals and communities “feel” the possibility of a different future where colonialism no longer rules over their lives.

In this Storyville screening of short films, we witness personal journeys of life’s many obstacles and setbacks, and how undeterred, the individuals featured made a path to healing and growth. Program includes: Walkies, The Good Life (USA, 2019, 30 min), and Fuel For The Fire: HIV Stigma in the Black Community (USA, 2020, 15 min).

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Have a concept for a video documentary project?  Learn how to develop and break down your idea into a one-page treatment, create project production schedules and sample budgets. Ideal for first-time videomakers at the start of their projects.

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Through exercises, critiques and discussions, the workshop will explore the craft and techniques of performing for the camera and how to analyze a script before going on camera. Participants will address the many ways body, expression and speech can be framed in relation to the lens.

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Scribe is open by appointment for select small workshops and equipment pickup, strictly following our COVID-19 protocol. Please send an email to inquiry@scribe.org if you'd like to set up an appointment. 

An abandoned burial space, once owned by the historic Mother Bethel AME church, where more than 5,000 Black people were interred starting in 1810, was discovered. This is both a story of the struggle to reclaim the overlooked history of Black people in colonial Philadelphia, but also a story of the organizing, coalition building, and strategy employed by community members intent on preserving and memorializing what they termed as, "the ancestors of the African Diaspora.”