BFC/A Friday Screenings Celebrate Women's History Month!
Please join the Black Film Center/Archive in celebrating Women’s History Month.
*FRIDAY AFTERNOONS @ THE BFC/A*
*Sisters In Cinema* (2003, 62 min, dir: Yvonne Welbon)
Friday, March 11, 2011 – 2:00 pm
Yvonne Welbon’s groundbreaking documentary creates a strong visual history of the contributions of African-American women to the film industry. Sisters in Cinema traces the careers of inspiring African American women filmmakers from the 20th century.
*Sisters of the Screen: African Women in Cinema* (2002, 61 minutes, dir: Beti Ellerson)
March 25, 2011 – 2:00 pm
Exploring the extraordinary contributions of women filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora, Beti Ellerson’s engaging debut features interviews with acclaimed women directors. With power and nuance, Ellerson also confronts the thorny question of cultural authenticity.
*SPECIAL EVENT*
*An Evening with Cauleen Smith*
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 – 7:00 pm
Following a critically-acclaimed solo show at The Kitchen in New York City, award-winning filmmaker Cauleen Smith will present a selection of her recent film and video work. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Dr. LaMonda Horton-Stallings (African American & African Diaspora Studies & Gender Studies).
**This event is sponsored by an IU New Perspectives Grant and is presented by the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies.**
All the above events will take place at the Black Film Center/Archive, located in the sub-level of Wells Library, Room 044, adjacent to the Media Reserves Desk.
For further questions, please contact bfca@indiana.edu.
Save the Date: 1st Black Family Reunion
Save the Date
Saturday, April 2, 2011
The Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center
and the
Black Graduate Student Association
are proud to announce the
1st Black Family Reunion.
The event will be held in the Grand Hall of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Activities will include: Genealogy information and lecture, Family Portrait Exhibit, Food, Cultural performances, Storytelling, Drumming lessons, Music, Games, Dancing, and Health Booth.
This is a free event for EVERYONE! Please bring your family, friends, children and others to enjoy this fun and educational event.
Please submit a group family portrait to share on our Family Portrait Exhibit. Identify your family name, name of individuals in the portrait, relationships, birthplace or hometown and who submitted the photograph. We will accept pictures until Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Pictures can be submitted via email evans39@indiana.edu or friend us on Facebook.
“Many Cultures, One Family Tree”
For More information, please contact the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center. 812-855-9271 or nmbcc@indiana.edu.
Wide Angle Diversity Festival Submission Deadline: March 10th
DETAILS
The Indiana University Cinema is proud to present its first film festival. The theme of DIVERSITY will offer filmmakers (and non-filmmakers) the chance to create and enter either a short PSA or trailer into competition. Prizes will be awarded including top prize of a MacBook Pro with Final Cut Express. The festival is being produced in partnership with Indiana University’s Office of Diversity Education. Their mission is to be a positive change agent to and for students and faculty via the advancement of cross-cultural dialogue and collaboration in order to promote greater awareness of issues related to culture and diversity. Additionally, they will assist other units in preparing IU students to enter an ever increasingly diverse work force and society. Ultimately, the mission is to provide quality services and programs to as many students and faculty as possible. For more information, please visit www.indiana.edu/~diversit.
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Film submissions for the festival can be in either of two categories: :30 – 1:30 minute PSA addressing diversity of any kind
1:30 – 2:30 minute trailer for a film with a theme linked to diversitySubmissions can be made in HD Cam, any broadcast digital format, BluRay or DVD. The festival be open to anyone – however, competition film submissions may not have been screened in a prior festival or commercial broadcast. Films will be screened in a festival later in the spring schedule, with date to be announced. See the ENTRY FORM for additional details for submitting your film.
ELIGIBILITY
• All entries must be submitted for preview on DVD
• All entries must either be in English, subtitled in English, silent or silent with music
• Submissions must be postmarked by March 10, 2011
• Entry forms may be photocopied
• All entries must be sent in prepaid and packed containers
• Entries must include a complete list of cast, credits and a self-addressed stamped postcard in order to confirm receipt
• Each entry must include a three- to four-sentence synopsis of the work. The synopsis should be a clear and concise
description of the plot and/or premise of the submission and may not exceed 200 words. The description should clearly show
relevance to the theme of diversity.
• Two production stills should be provided. The synopsis and stills may be used in the festival program and made available
to the media.
• Any press materials (i.e., press kits, press releases, additional images, etc.) must be submitted to the festival office
at the time of acceptance.
• Submitted videos and materials will not be returned.
• The Indiana University does not assume liability for damage to entries due to mishandling or poor packaging during shipping. • Notification of selected entries will be completed by March 20, 2011.
• Incomplete submissions will not be considered.
• Regardless of original format, films must be available in 35mm, HD Cam, DV Cam or DVD format for festival presentation.
• Submit a separate form for each entry.
• Indiana University reserves the right to use submitted materials for promotional items for the festival.
• The Indiana University reserves the right to screen submitted films that are selected for the festival.
• The act of submitting a work constitutes acceptance of the guidelines of the Wide Angle Diversity Festival.
JUDGING
A screening committee views all works. Films chosen for festival screening are judged by a panel of judges comprised of Indiana University alumni, faculty, staff and students. Awards are presented at the discretion of the judges, and a committee selected by the director of the Festival makes any necessary rulings.
Happy International Women's Day!!
Today is the 100th celebration of International Women’s Day! Take a look at 150 women who are working to improve lives and inspire the next generation’s women. (Click on the photograph below)
"42" Women of Sierra Leone: Photography Exhibition at International Slavery Museum
“Sierra Leone in West Africa is ranked by the United Nations as one of the poorest countries in the world and shockingly women’s life expectancy is in the mid 40s. The International Slavery Museum hosts ‘42’ Women of Sierra Leone, a moving and powerful photography exhibition that explores this terrible statistic.
“‘42’ Women of Sierra Leone features images from a collection of work by freelance photojournalist Lee Karen Stow who has spent the last four years visiting Sierra Leone. The selection of 42 colour photographs, some of which have never been seen before, document women and their daily lives at home, at work and with their families. Each image captures the many emotions experienced by these women including joy, courage and most importantly, hope.”
Art Daily 03/08/11
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Photograph by Lee Karen Stow 
Where Are The Young Black Men Of Hollywood?
“The scarcity of black roles in 2011 is partly a function of fewer movies being made, and certainly fewer serious-minded movies at the studios. When Denzel Washington and Will Smith were coming up, there were routinely chances to make those types of films.Now you need to go indie or wait for lightning to strike at a studio.”
Los Angeles Times 03/05/11
Filmmaker Returns to IU to Screen 'The Other Side of Immigration'
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University alumnus Roy Germano will return to campus next week for a public screening of The Other Side of Immigration, his award-winning film that explores why Mexicans migrate to the U.S. and what happens to the families and communities they leave behind.
The 55-minute documentary will be shown at 5 p.m. Thursday (March 3) at Whittenberger Auditorium in the Indiana Memorial Union, 900 E. Seventh St. Admission is free and open to the public.
Roy Germano
Germano, a 2001 IU graduate with a degree in political science, shot, directed and edited the film. Through more than 700 interviews with the families left behind by U.S.-bound migrant workers, it illuminates Mexico’s most crippling economic hardships including the effects the North American Free Trade Agreement has on poor farmers, the country’s vicious cycle of poverty spurred by a corrupt government, and the social pressures on Mexicans to seek a better way of life.
“I hope those who see my film walk away feeling more connected to a population that they may have misunderstood or not known very much about,” Germano says, “realizing that most people — Mexican or American, citizen or immigrant — are more similar than we are different, motivated to survive, take care of our families and be recognized for our inherent worth as human beings.”
He adds that The Other Side of Immigration is a “film for everyone” — a highly researched, nonpartisan account of the causes and impacts of undocumented immigration from a perspective rarely covered in the mainstream media, with no “good guys,” “bad guys” or “victims.”
The film, which grew out of Germano’s doctoral dissertation work at the University of Texas, was named a 2011 Notable Video by the American Library Association and has screened at dozens of film festivals, universities and conferences in the U.S. and Europe since 2009.
The IU Bloomington screening is co-sponsored by the Union Board; the departments of Political Science, Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Economics, Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Sociology; the Political and Civic Engagement program and the Dean’s Office of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
Germano is currently a visiting assistant professor of politics at the New School in New York City and speaks frequently about immigration issues at universities and conferences around the country. For more information about the director and the film, see www.roygermano.com.
Glenn Ligon: A New Kind of Conceptualism
Glenn Ligon “is someone who has figured out how to give Conceptualism some grit. He’s influenced a younger generation, perhaps because he is a political artist but not a protest artist. He has an unwillingness to be boxed in.”
The New York Times 02/27/11 (Carol Vogel); Above photo: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
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Terrell Starr: "Black in Ukraine"
Free-lance journalist Terrell Starr, whose work has appeared in Crisis Magazine, The Grio, and Illinois public radio, will speak about research into the African immigrant and African-Ukrainian community in Kyiv, Ukraine that he conducted as a Fulbright scholar and affiliate of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in 2009 and 2010.
When: Thursday March 03, 2011 5:00-6:00PM
Where: Indiana Memorial Union, Sassafras Room
Cost: Free
For more information, please contact the Russian and East European Institute at reei@indiana.edu