SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 2004!
reelpolitics
Activist Media celebrating 35 years of independent film and video
with
Third World Newsreel
An all day event with films and panels sponsored by Third World
Newsreel and New York University's Asian/Pacific/American Studies
Program and Institute.
January 24, 2004
Cantor Film Center
36 East 8th Street, NYC
*Reservations are recommended for the 4:30 and 6:30 programs. Please
RSVP to 212-992-9653 or apa.rsvp@nyu.edu by January 22nd to reserve
a seat.*
12 Noon to 2 PM - ACTIVIST MEDIA: 1968-2004
A roundtable on the changing terrain of activism, activist media
making and how emerging makers can plug in. Panelists include
Christine Choy, Kathleen Cleaver, Tami Gold, Linda Iannacone, Iris
Morales, the MNN Youth Channel and Asif Ullah. Moderated by Dorothy
Thigpen, Third World Newsreel. With excerpts of seminal films from
1968 to the present including America (Newsreel 1968), Choy's Spikes
to Spindles , Gold's Another Brother, Morales's Palanted, Siempre
Palante, Paper Tiger's Gulf Wars Tapes and MNN Youth Channel's 2003
protest coverage.
PLUS! **A special screening of Spike Lee's We Wuz Robbed, a short
documentary about the Florida recount voting sham during the 2000
Presidential Elections!**
2:15 PM to 4:15 PM - NEOCOLONIALISM, IMPERIALISM AND CULTURAL
IDENTITY
A discussion on the battle, off and onscreen, to reassert national
and cultural identity. Panelists include filmmakers and scholars
Sumita Chakravarty, Manthia Diawara, Ada Gay Griffin, Angel Velasco-
Shaw and Blanca Vazquez. Moderated by Afua Kafi-Akua, Third World
Newsreel. Films to include excerpts from Diawara's Bamako Sigi-Kan,
Alex Rivera's Why Cybraceros?, Coco Fusco's The Couple in the Cage,
Gurinder Chadha's I'm British, But....,Ada Griffin's A Litany for
Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde and Angel Velasco-Shaw's
Nailed.
4:30 PM to 6:30 PM - THE WAR AT HOME AND ABROAD
A look at the role of independent media, grassroots activism and
legal defense in providing voices for the underrepresented in the
continuing war on terror in the U.S. and abroad. Panelists include
filmmakerJason DaSilva, Dalia Hashad of the American Civil Liberties
Union and Maya Sen of Not in Our Name. Moderated by Third World
Newsreel. Preceded by:
LEST WE FORGET
(Jason DaSilva, 57 Min, 2003)
A film that examines the impact of 9/11 on the lives of immigrants
in the U.S., paralleling the internment of Japanese Americans during
World War II.
and
Farouk Abdel-Muthi: Political Prisoner
(Konrad Aderer, 7 min, 2003)
A report on a prisoner from Passaic County Jail, speaking out
against the injustices inflicted on Muslim immigrants since 9/11.
Cosponsor: CUNY Law Muslim Law Students Association (MLSA)
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM - NORTH KOREA: THE NEXT WAR?
Talks on recent experiences in north Korea, the spectre of potential
war, and the international effort for peace. Panelists include
filmmakers Takagi and Park, and representatives of a recent
education and exposure trip to the D.P.R.K. Moderated by Wol-san
Liem, Nodutdol for Korean Community Development. Preceded by:
NORTH KOREA: BEYOND THE DMZ
(Takagi and Park/ TWN, 56 min, 2003)
This new film follows a young Korean American to see her relatives
in north Korea, offering a rare look at a country that is
continually demonized in U.S. mainstream media.
2 PM to 7 PM: CONCURRENT SCREENINGS
Full-length screenings of films from the participant groups above
plus the anti-war films of the 1960's and today.
REELPOLITICS: CONCURRENT SCREENINGS
January 24, 2004
Cantor Film Center
36 East 8th Street, NYC
2 PM to 4 PM Yippie
(Newsreel, 10 min, 1968)
Filmed as the official statement of the Youth International Party,
this film is as freewheeling and irreverent as the Yippies
themselves. It e view of 1968 Chicago, Mayor Daley, and the pig the
Yippies ran for president. The film juxtaposes orgy scenes from D.W.
Griffith's "Intolerance" and Keystone Cops chases with Yippie antics
in Chicago. The film also explores the issue of police brutality -
both humorously and with an undercurrent of deep anger. This film
was actually produced by and for yippies; Newsreel adopted it in
order to bring it to a wider audience.
El Pueblo Se Levanta (The People Are Rising)
(Newsreel, 50 min, 1971)
This film focuses on the community of East Harlem, capturing the
compassion and militancy of the Young Lords as they implemented
their own health, educational, and public assistance programs and
fought back against social injustice. An excellent portrayal of
inner city organizing in the late 60s.
Standing with Palestine
(Paper Tiger TV with Deep Dish Television, 28 min, 2004)
This brand new video looks at U.S. activism against the Isreali
occupation of Palestine.
Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero
(Jon Alpert/DCTV, 30 min excerpt, 2002)
The story of Masuda Sultan, a 23 year old Afghan-American woman who
travels back to Kandahar, Afghanistan to see what has become of her
country. Masuda is delighted to see the yoke of the Taliban lifted,
but horrified to find out what happened to her family. Seeking
refuge from the American bombing, a large number of her family
escaped to the small village of Chowkar--karez, 60 miles north of
Kandahar. On October 22, 2001 Chowkar-Karez was attacked by the
American military. 41 civilians were killed. 19 of them were members
of Masuda¹s family. Masuda, who supports America's effort against
terrorism, wants to know why her family had to die in the desert.
4 PM to 6:30 PM Black Panther
(Newsreel, 15 min, 1968)
A compelling document of the Black Panther Party leadership in 1967.
This film contains a prison interview with Party Chairman Huey P.
Newton as well as footage of the aftermath of the police assault
against the Los Angeles Chapter headquarters, demonstrations to free
Huey and a recitation of the party's Ten-Point Platform by co-
founder Bobby Seale. One of Newsreel's most widely distributed
films, it was originally released as "Off the Pig."
Tenacity
(Chris Eyre/TWN, 10 min, 1995)
The story of two Indian boys, Clint and Joseph who encounter the
corruption and haphazard violence of the adult world in a roadside
hit-and-run accident. Tenacity has the spare brutal elegance of a
contemporary short story rendered on film. Filmed in Onondaga
Territory in upstate New York, this award winning short of
friendship and loss.
A Taste of Dirt
(Yvonne Welbon/NBPC, 12 min, 2003)
It's 1970. Lisa, the 7-year old gifted child of an Afrocentric
mother, is having a hard time fitting in at an all white school.
After an altercation, Lisa's mother decides to transfer her to the
neighborhood school. The powerful lesson Lisa learned on the
playground of her first school help her to make a difficult choice
as she tries to fit in at the neighborhood school.
Freckled Rice
(Steven Ning/TWN, 48 min, 1983)
This is a story of Joe Soo, a 13 year old boy coming of age and
coming to terms with his Chinese America heritage in Boston during
the 1960s. His Boston encompasses Screamin' Jay Hawkins, the Kennedy
years, "My Three Sons" and rock 'n' roll. It is a world his older
brother has readily embraced and one his immigrant father to
comprehend. An excellently executed drama, full of streetwise humor
and insight.
Made in Thailand
(Eve-Laure Moros & Linzy Emery/WMM, 30 min, 1999)
In Thailand, women make up 90 percent of the labor force responsible
for garments and toys for export by multinational corporations. This
powerful, revealing documentary about women factory workers and
their struggle to organize unions exposes the human cost behind the
production of everyday items that reach our shores. Probing the
impact of the New World Order on the populations that provide the
global economy with cheap labor, "Made in Thailand" also profiles
women newly empowered by their campaign for human and worker's
rights.
D.A.M.N.YC NEWS
(MNN Youth Channel, 28 min excerpt, 2003)
The "Defense Against Media Nonsense Youth Channel News" is a news
program created and run by youth as a project of Manhattan
Neighborhood Network. D.A.M.N.YC reports here on the current youth
anti-war movement in the United States.
