Doc-Watchers and the African Film Festival Present: A Black History Month Special:
Black Like Me
Rabbit Proof Fence, The Tracker, My Generation
(3/10-3/11) 7:00PM
Documentary in Bloom Curated by Livia Bloom
Talking Landscapes (3/12-03/19) 7:30PM A Black History Month Presentation: Remembering Black Wall Street 90 Years Later Before They Die! (2/20) 7:30PM
A Black History Month Special: All About the Pan Am Black Birds (2/22) 7:30PM
Docwatchers and Sylvia Savadjian Present A Black History Month Special:
More Than A Month (2/29) 7:30pm Keeling's Caribbean Showcase: The Story Of Lovers Rock Curated by Keeling Beckford (3/4) 7:30PM
Mujeres Luchando, Al Mundo Transformando!: An International Women's Day Celebration (3/8) 7:30PM
Documentary in Bloom Curated by Livia Bloom Oki's Movie (4/16-4/22) 7:30PM Documentary in Bloom Curated by Livia Bloom Tahrir (6/11-6/17) 7:30PM
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Friday, February 10th-Saturday, February 11th Doc-Watchers and the African Film Festival Present: A Black History Month Special: Black Like Me (The Current Australian Aborigine Black Power Movement in Australia)
Friday,February 10th, 7:00pm Rabbit Proof Fence Phillip Noyce ,2002, 94 min. The true story of three aboriginal girls who were forcibly taken from their homes in 1931 to be trained as domestic servants as part of an official Australian government policy. They make a daring escape and embark on an epic 1,500 mile journey to get back home -- following the rabbit proof fence that bisects the Australian continent -- with the authorities in hot pursuit. A verite-fiction classic. Reception to immediately follow screening
Saturday, February 11th, 5:00pm The Tracker
Rolf de Heer, 2002, 98 min. The year is 1922 in this docu-drama. The Tracker (David Gulpilil) has the job of pursuing a fugitive, an aborigine who is suspected of murdering a white woman, as he leads three mounted policemen across the outback. As they move deeper into the bush and further away from civilization, the toxic forces of paranoia and violence begin to escalate, stirring up questions of what is black and what is white and who is leading whom. Their journey becomes an acrimonious and murderous trek that shifts power from one man to another.
7:00pm Our Generation Sinem Saban & Damien Curtis, 2010, 73 min. is a powerful and upfront documentary on the Australian Aboriginal struggle for their land, culture, and freedom -- a story that has been silenced by the Australian Government and mainstream media. In this film, national indigenous leaders, historians, and human rights activists explore the ongoing clash of cultures that is threatening to wipe out the oldest continuing culture in the world.
Reception to immediately follow screening
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February 13th-19th, 7:30pm Talking Landscape: Early Media Work, 1974-1984 (2012)
Andrea Callard, 2012, 80 min. World Premiere Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jenny Holzer, Kiki Smith, Christy Rupp and Jack Smith were among the artists who filled a ex-massage parlor with artwork from top to bottom for The Times Square Show, a legendary exhibit co-organized by Andrea Callard as part of the 1970s powerhouse collective Colab. (Keith Haring even painted the air conditioner). Callard, whose own work will not long remain one of New York's best-kept secrets, includes her never-before-seen documentation of that event in Talking Landscape, her first feature film. This compendium of short pieces (including 11 thru 12, Fluorescent/Azalea, Flora Funera (for Battery Park City) and Lost Show Blues) here making its world premiere, was culled from a decade of her playful and strikingly innovative cinematic experiments. Dry wit and personal perception infuse Callard's colorful, existential documentary interventions. Whether climbing a seemingly endless series of ladders in her downtown loft apartment; creating quirky, private games to play with the camera; or ruminating on the clover, Ailanthus trees, and azalea bushes sneakily colonizing New York's parks and vacant lots, she casts a thoroughly original gaze on the city around her. Callard even visits New York's U.S. Customs House, now the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, though a series of ten hand-colored print collages overlaid with text. Q&A with director Andrea Callard, moderated by curator Livia Bloom, will follow the screenings on Thursday, February 16, and Saturday, February 18. Callard's original prints will be on exhibit at The Maysles Cinema from February 1-March 1, 2012. Future Documentary in Bloom programs include: Oki's Movie dir. Hong Sang-soo (April 16-22, 2012) and Tahrir dir. Stefano Savona (June 11-17, 2012).
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Monday, February 20th, 7:30pm
A Black History Month Special Presentation:
Remembering Black Wall Street 90 Years Later
(A portion of the evening's proceeds will go to the Tulsa Project, which is dedicated to the the battle for reparations for the survivors anddescendants of the the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot.) Before They Die!: The True Story of the Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and the Quest for Justice Reggie Turner, 2008, 92 min. This is the story of what is perhaps the the worst race riot in the history of the United States that many people have never even heard of. On May 30th, 1921, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in less than 24 hours, the prosperous African-American section of Greenwood, also known as "Black Wall Street," was completely destroyed. An estimated 300 killed, and over 10,000 people displaced overnight as a 42 square block area of their homes and businesses were burned to the ground by a white mob that had been deputized by the sheriff. This is the story of the survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and their quest for justice. This is the story of the struggle for the soul of America and the efforts to right a wrong that is long past due. Justice is the subject of the night's film.
Q&A with director Reggie Turner
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 7:30pm
A Black History Month Special: All About the Pan Am Black Birds 
Pan Am Black Bird photo slide show and short clips from the ABC show Pan Am 10 min. The Pan Am Black Birds are the African-American flight attendants whose acclaimed beauty and electric personalities set the standard for career women in the 60's and 70's. These exuberant storytellers will shed fresh light on many aspects of their real-life and undoubtedly larger-than-life- experiences.
Black Bird Panel Discussion Moderated by Lamonia Brown Director of Programs, New York Women in Film & Television and President of the National Association of Market Developers Panelists: Dr. Sheila Nutt A former Black Bird, Dr. Nutt, is the director of the upcoming documentary, The Black Birds of Pan Am. She is also the Director of Educational Outreach Programs, Office for Inclusion and Community Partnership at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Nutt wrote her doctoral dissertation on flight attendants and occupational stress.
More Panelists TBA
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Wednesday, February 29th, 7:30pm
Docwatchers and Sylvia Savadjian Present A Black History Month Special:
More Than A Month
More Than a Month Shukree Hassan Tilghman, 2012, 60 min. Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29-year-old African-American filmmaker, sets out on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. He stops in various cities, wearing a sandwich board, to solicit signatures on his petition to end the observance. He explains that relegating Black History Month to the coldest, shortest month of the year is an insult, and that black history is not separate from American history. Through this thoughtful and humorous journey, he explores what the treatment of history tells us about race and equality in a "post-racial" America. His road trip begins in Washington, D.C., crisscrosses the country during Black History Month 2010, and ends with an epilogue one year later. Each stop along the journey explores Black History Month as it relates to four ideas: education, history, identity, and commercialism. Tilghman's campaign to end Black History Month is actually a provocative gambit to open a public conversation about the idea of ethnic heritage months, and whether relegating African American history to the shortest month of the year - and separating it from American history on the whole - denigrates the role of black people and black culture throughout American history. But it is also a seeker's journey to reconcile his own conflicting feelings about his own identity, history, and convictions. More Than a Month is not just about a yearly tradition, or history, or being black in America. It is about what it means to be an American, to fight for one's rightful place in the American landscape, however unconventional the means, even at the risk of ridicule or misunderstanding. It is a film about discovering oneself. After the screening: Q&A with director Shukree Hassan Tilghman and Anthony Riddle, Managing Director of the Maysles Insitute and descendant of Dr. Carter Woodson, creator of Negro History Week Reception to follow, co-presented by DocWatchers Watch the Trailer! |
Sunday, March 4th, 7:30pm
Keeling's Caribbean Showcase Curated by Keeling Beckford
The Story of Lovers Rock Dir. Menelik Shabazz, 2011, 101 min. The Story of Lovers Rock documents a musical movement in Britain that defined a generation in the late 70s and 80s. Lovers Rock is romantic reggae that was uniquely British. It developed from a small UK scene to become a global brand through the likes of UB40 and Maxi Priest. Lovers Rock was particularly influential to a new generation of black British young women and men who identified with this music that reflected their experiences. Female artists like Louisa Marks, Janet Kay, Brown Sugar, Carroll Thompson led a 'girl power explosion in it's early phase. The music provided a coping mechanism against a backdrop of racial tension and riots across the UK as well as being a counterpoint to the male dominated 'roots' scene. The film combines live performances with some of the Kings and Queens of Lovers Rock with comedy sketches, interviews and archive material. Interviews include Denis Bovell, UB40, Levi Roots Linton Kwesi Johnson, Angie La Ma, Maxi Priest, Mykaell Riley, The comedy sketches are provided by the likes of Eddie Nestor, Robbie G, Wayne Rollins, Glenda Jaxson. Rudi Lickwood, John Simmit., Annette Fagon. Reception to follow, co-presented by DocWatchers
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Thursday, March 8th, 7:30pm
"Mujeres Luchando, Al Mundo Transformando!":
An International Women's Day Celebration
Featuring "indignadas" from El Barrio, Occupy Wall St., and around the world! As new social justice movements continue to explode from Egypt to Spain, from Chiapas to New York, and beyond, women remain front and center, as they valiantly fight for a new world. Join Movement for Justice in El Barrio for its annual International Women's Day Celebration, which recognizes and honors the struggles, contributions, and leadership of women fighting for justice and dignity from around the world. Video messages, short films, and Movement for Justice in El Barrio's own "Encuentros," a film detailing the organization's five Zapatista-inspired gatherings in NYC and Mexico, will be all screened.
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Monday, April 16th-Sunday, April 22nd, 7:30pm
Documentary in Bloom Curated by Livia Bloom
Oki's Movie Dir. Hong Sang-soo, 2010, 80 min. U.S. Theatrical Premiere Documentary and narrative filmmaking elegantly merge in Oki's Movie, a quartet of interlocking vignettes by Korean auteur director Hong Sang-soo and one of the most elegant films of his oeuvre. A young woman hikes Seoul's Mount Acha twice, accompanied by different boyfriends: one a fellow student, the other a professor. She documents the trips and then edits together corresponding locations on the mountain: the parking lot, a small pavilion, a wooden bridge; her juxtapositions are revelatory, both of her relationship with each and of the power of cinema.
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June 11th-June 17th, 7:30pm
Documentary in Bloom 
Dir. Stefano Savona, 2011, 90 min. In one of the most powerful documentaries to emerge from the Arab Spring, archaeologist Stefano Savona carries viewers beyond the headlines and into the heart of the popular Egyptian revolution that overthrew President Mubarek and touched off revolutions throughout the Middle East: Tahrir Square. Captured with only a small digital camera and sound recorder, his portrait of the seething, chanting crowds and electric protest speeches is anchored by fluid exchanges with a handful of individual protesters. A highlight of the New York, Locarno, and Venice film festivals, Tahrir documents history in the making.
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