Precious Places Community History Project Premiere Join us at Scribe for the premiere screening of three new documentaries produced by community groups in collaboration with Scribe Video Center. The
Screenings
Bumpa (USA, Work in Progress) by Kayla Naomi Watkins This documentary will explore the Afro-Caribbean dance, ‘whining’ alongside the practice of twerking to analyze respectability politics, pressures
The Encampments (United States/Palestine, 2025, 81 minutes) A group of students set up camp on the lawn of Columbia University in New York to protest against the war in Gaza and their own university’s
Virtually Free (USA, 2020, 40 minutes) by Andre Robert Lee In this film, we follow three teens: Sid Taee, and AR currently being held in a Richmond, VA detention center, who are offered the chance to
Tony Heriza has been engaged in producing media for social change since the 1970s, while also teaching and working with community organizations. His work has been broadcast on PBS and screened widely
The Five Demands by Andrea Weiss and Greta Schiller (USA, 2023, 74 minutes) In April 1969, a small group of Black and Puerto Rican students shut down the City College of New York, an elite public