Face To Face
Individual Film Price:
Higher Education Institutions & Government Agency DVD | $49.95
K-12 & Public Libraries DVD | $49.95
Home Video DVD License – Restrictions Apply | $5.95
Community Visions Compilation Price:
This video is available for purchase as part of a Community Visions Vol. 5 compilation DVD.
Higher Education Institutions & Government Agency DVD | $139.00
K-12 & Public Libraries DVD | $79.00
Home Video DVD License – Restrictions Apply | $20.00
Scribe Video Center Program:
The Community Visions program teaches documentary video-making skills to members of community organizations in Philadelphia, Chester and Camden (NJ). A powerful way to document community concerns, celebrate cultural diversity, and comment on the human condition, Community Visions is a part of Scribe’s mission to explore, develop and advance the use of video, film, audio and interactive technology as artistic tools and as tools for progressive social change.
Project Facilitators: Cindy Wong and Carl Lee
Film Summary:
This dynamic tape video, produced by the AAU youth group, explores issues of identity, culture and rights. Shot in a raw, shaky-cam style, Face to Face has fun recontextualizing popular Asian cinematic caricatures, but primarily focuses on the faces of its 10 teen directors. They describe how they deal with stereotypes at school, being harassed by the police, and being in gangs -- or just having people assume that they're in one.
Asian Americans United is a grass-roots, community based development organization devoted to advocating and responding to the needs of Philadelphia-based people of Asian ancestry. This non-profit, community-based social change organization works primarily with poor and working class, and immigrant and refugee communities.
Press:
Winter/Spring 1996 | Asian Americans United Update Newsletter
February 26, 1998 | "Nobody's A Star: The Uncommon Power of Philadelphia's Community Video Scene" by Sam Adams, Philadelphia City Paper
Public Screenings, Broadcasts and Festivals:
1995 to 1996 | Screened at the Chicago Asian American Film Festival, San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts "Healing Through the Arts" conference
September 20, 1996 | Part of Scribe Video Center's Community Visions premiere at International House (Philadelphia, PA)
October 28, 1996 | Broadcast on Through the Lens, WYBE TV 35 (Philadelphia, PA)
August 9, 1999 | Part of Street Movies! screening across street from kensington Joint Action Council at 1818 E. Huntington Park (Philadelphia, PA)