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“Jones draws on a range of techniques, including African dance, American modern and postmodern dance, and ballet, but an important formative influence was contact improvisation, a form of partner-work that enables people of different heights, weights and strengths to interact.”
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Eighty percent of early American silent and “talkie” movies have been lost due to decay. “Russian state film library is giving the Library of Congress preserved copies of 10 “lost” silent films that will help fill a gaping hole in the American collection.”
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The Women of African Descent Film Festival, presented by the Brooklyn Chapter of the Links Inc., seeks feature length and short films directed, written or produced by female filmmakers of African descent. The festival is now accepting submissions of narrative feature and short films, documentaries and animations for the festival, which will take place in May 2011 in Brooklyn, NY.
Submissions can be registered through the festival’s Withoutabox site, which also includes additional information about the event.
To access the application form through Withoutabox please visit – https://www.withoutabox.com/login/6442
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Women of African Descent Film Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2011. The Festival is presented each May in Brooklyn, NY by The Brooklyn Chapter of the Links. In 2002, to mark the milestone of its 50th Anniversary, and to continue its legacy of showcasing the talent and accomplishments of African American artists, the Brooklyn Chapter began sponsoring this film festival for women filmmakers. This tradition has continued annually since then and takes place at the Spike Lee Screening Room at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University in May of each year.
Formed in 1952, The Brooklyn Chapter of The Links, Inc., an organization of African American professional women, is dedicated to the support of educational, civic, and cultural activities in Brooklyn. A chapter of The Links, Inc., an international organization comprised of 276 chapters and over 11,000 members in 42 states, the District of Columbia, South Africa, the Bahamas and Germany, the Brooklyn Chapter works under the guidelines of the national body in providing services to its Brooklyn community in four mission areas: services to youth, health and wellness, the arts, and civic involvement.
The foundation for all of the chapter’s programs and services is rooted in the African American tradition of giving and volunteerism. Members share a deep sense of communal responsibility, and for the past 50 plus years have been committed to actively initiating and supporting educational, cultural, and civic programs, that positively impact the lives of people from Brooklyn’s African American/Caribbean communities.
GENERAL RULES
Only films directed by, written by or produced by female filmmakers of African descent will be considered. Please do not submit if you do not fit this criterion.
Submission must be made online. At the end of your submission process you will be asked to complete the online Terms of Submission Agreement form which you must sign in order to complete your submission.
Any number of titles may be submitted by an entrant. A separate entry form must be submitted for each title. Separate DVDs must be submitted for each entry.
Entries must be complete works no longer than 120 minutes in length. They must have been completed on or after January 1, 2008. Industrial or instructional works and those previously submitted to the Film Festival are not eligible. All films and videos in a language other than English must be subtitled in English for Festival presentation. All entrants must complete the online application form and mail or hand-deliver a DVD for jury screening.
LABELING
All tapes must be labeled with the following information:
* Film Title, total running time, and category (narrative; experimental; documentary; animation.)
* Shipper’s name and email address.
* Withoutbox tracking number.
Entries may be disqualified if they are not properly labeled.
PACKAGING
Films and videotapes must be shipped in a padded envelope.
RETURN OF ENTRIES
Please include a self-addressed stamped envelope if you would like us to return your DVD. Be sure to indicate that you would like your preview screener returned; we will not do so unless you indicate for us to do so on your application form.
JUDGING AND NOTIFICATION
Judging will take place January –February 2011 by a jury of Links members and film industry professionals in the New York metropolitan area.
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“Africa United tells the story of three Rwandan children who travel across Africa in the hope of taking part in the opening ceremony of the 2010 World Cup in Johannesburg, but board the wrong bus and end up in a children’s refugee camp in Congo.” Yet the film’s makers “claim it’s an uplifting tale that will correct the “perceived stereotype that Africa is just about safaris or pestilence or death’.”
The Independent on Sunday (UK) 10/17/10
Click here to read the entire article.
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This is a call for participants for the Documentary Film Workshop
during Amakula Kampala International Film Festival to run from October 29th until November 06th, 2010.
The Observational Cinema Workshop by Kimi Takesue will take place from November 01st until 02nd, 2010 – 10:00am to 5:00pm (everyday).
Last year New York based film maker Kimi Takesue shot and completed a
documentary feature in Uganda which will now be premiered in the
country at the film festival. During the festival Kimi will host a 2
day workshop in which she will share her specific style and views on filmmaking.
Participants will be introduced to observational documentary
filmmaking and will be invited to see and document their familiar
surroundings in a new way. The goal will be to present lived human
experience in a way that respects the context in which that experience
takes place, while still presenting an artistic point of view. The
production seminar will consist of screenings, as well as a production
workshop culminating in a 5-10 minute observational-styled documentary.
This free film workshop is planned for 12 people. All perspective
workshop attendees must write a letter describing their background and
experience in filmmaking and motivate why they feel they should
attend. Please submit your application letters to: info@amakula.com
no later than October 22, 2010.
We look forward receiving your application and welcoming you to the
festival opening on October 29, 7 PM National Theatre.
Amakula Team
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While he was always admired by music insiders, Burke’s music was better known to the public via other singers’ versions of hits such as “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love,” “Goodbye Baby” and “Got to Get You Off My Mind.” Being a God-fearing man, he rejected the label of “rhythm and blues” (the Devil’s music) and had the term “soul” coined for his songs.
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The Black Women’s Intellectual and Cultural History Collective (BWICH) is seeking paper submissions for a broad-ranging conference on black women’s contributions to black thought, political mobilization, creative work and gender theory. BWICH is interested in work on any time period that explores black women as intellectuals across a broad geography. BWICH aims to piece together a history of black women’s thought and culture that maps the distinctive concerns and historical forces that have shaped black women’s ideas and intellectual activities. To this end, they are interested in paper exploring subjects including, but not limited to, the genealogy of black feminism, the patterns of women’s leadership and ideas about religious culture and politics, the scientific work of black women, the economic ideas of black women, the politics of black women’s literature, and the history of black women’s racial, sexual or social thought. BWICH encourages submissions from scholars of all ranks, and any relevant discipline.
Accepted papers will be featured at a conference on the Intellectual History of Black Women in New York City on April 28-30. The conference is sponsored by Columbia University’s Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference, which will also cover the participants’ travel and lodging expenses. Submissions are due no later than October 15th, 2010, and should include a one-page abstract of the projected paper, as well as short C.V.
Paper proposals and C.V.s should be submitted by email to: bwhichconference@gmail.com .
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Hidden Cinema of the Southwest and Mexico
February 26th, 2011
University of Arizona
Center for Creative Photography
Hidden Cinema of the Southwest and Mexico is a one-day symposium focusing on how and why amateur, industrial, educational, and independent filmmakers have represented the American Southwest and Mexico. The goal of the symposium is to help cultivate a more comprehensive understanding of the Southwest’s and Mexico’s cinematic past by showcasing and analyzing the ways the region has been imagined in “hidden” and lesser-known films produced by non-Hollywood and amateur filmmakers during the last century. Proposals that offer historical, critical, and global interpretations that illuminate the region’s hidden cinematic history will be sought out. ‘Hidden cinema’ is defined broadly but priority will be given to proposals that steer clear of widely distributed or well-remembered Hollywood films. It is asked that presenters accepted to the program will be able to provide visual components (moving images and/or photographs) to illustrate their paper presentations.
Scholars, archivists, filmmakers and students are encouraged to submit proposals about hidden cinema in the Southwest, Mexico, or the Borderlands. Please email a 250 to 300-word description of the proposed presentation, a brief description of the materials you wish to exhibit at the symposium and a short biography to submit@hiddencinema.org by November 15, 2010. Symposium presentations will be 30-45 minutes in length.
The symposium will be held at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, in the heart of the Southwest and less than 100 miles from the US-Mexico border. The internationally-known Center for Creative Photography is an archive and research center that retains the archives of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Garry Winogrand, Harry Callahan, and other great 20th century photographers-over fifty archives in all.
Hidden Cinema: Southwest and Mexico is a collaboration between the University of Arizona Department of English, the Center for Creative Photography, Northern Arizona University’s School of Communication and Cinema and Visual Culture Studies program, and Northern Arizona University Special Collections at Cline Library.
Symposium organizers are: Dr. Jennifer Jenkins, associate professor of English at the University of Arizona, Dr. Janna Jones, associate professor of Communication and Director of Cinema and Visual Culture Studies at Northern Arizona University and Dr. Mark Neumann, professor and Director of the School of Communication at Northern Arizona University
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Mercy, Mercy Me! : Black Environmental Thought & the Future of African American Studies Symposium will take place October 7, 2010 in Frangipani Room at IMU, 5:00-7:30 pm.
The event will highlight the research, scholarship, and activist approaches of emerging, innovative scholars in various disciplines and fields, and the speakers will address the following questions and topics:
* How can African American, African Diaspora, or Africana Studies implement agendas of environmental justice into its mission as a field?
* How have African American and African Diasporic arts and cultures helped imagine changes in technology, science, and policies concerned with the environment?
SPEAKERS
Carolyn Finney, Assistant Professor in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley. Black is the New Green: African Americans and the Environment in the 21st Century”
Angelique Nixon, Assistant Professor of Women?s Studies at University of Connecticut-Storrs. “Exiles in Paradise: Towards a Green Caribbean Future”
Marlo D. David, Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Purdue University. “Reflections on Diaspora/Ecology/Culture”
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APPLICATIONS FOR THE DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA TRAINING PROGRAM IN NEW YORK NOW AVAILABLE!
Applications for the 2011 Directors Guild of America (DGA) Assistant Director Training Program are now available!
The DGA AD TRAINING PROGRAM is a two-year professional apprenticeship training a select group of people to become feature film assistant directors. Trainees learn on-the- job as paid employees supervised by DGA members on film productions (features, film TV series, and commercials) shooting primarily in New York City. Successful program completion results in eligibility for membership in the DGA as a Second Assistant Director.
Recent assignments include: THE OTHER GUYS, SALT, BOARDWALK EMPIRE, GOSSIP GIRL, AND LAW AND ORDER SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT.
Learn more about the program or DOWN LOAD A COPY OF THE APPLICATION at www.dgatrainingprogram.org<http://www.dgatrainingprogram.org>.
***Candidates must be at least 21 years old and U.S. citizens or permanent residents to apply.