at SUNY Empire State College

Have you been an activist in your union, community, or school? Been dying to get your ideas about a movement effort out to others on YouTube, Vimeo, or another platform? The Activist Filmmaker Bootcamp can help move you from complete inexperience and fear of filming to making your first short documentary or narrative film. The most exciting part of each Bootcamp is the mentoring provided by emerging activist filmmakers to new attendees. This year we are so lucky to have the following filmmakers present:

Lunch and refreshments provided. You may also stay as our guest for the next screening event (Program 24) in the same location, 6:00-7:15pm, of essential worker shorts. Free walk-in attendance for TWN Workshop Students!

With the NYC Premiere of MAMA BEARS this October 21st at NewFest, we are lucky to have the filmmaker Daresha Kyi join us to show clips and talk about the making of this film, and her journey to directing and producing.

Spread across the country but connected through private Facebook groups, over 30,000 mothers in America—many from conservative, Christian backgrounds—fully accept their LGBTQ+ children. MAMA BEARS is an intimate, thought-provoking exploration of the journeys taken by Sara Cunningham and Kimberly Shappley, two “mama bears” —whose profound love for their LGBTQ children has turned them into fierce advocates for the entire queer community — and Tammi Terrell Morris, a young African American lesbian whose struggle for self-acceptance perfectly exemplifies why the mama bears are so vitally important.

This event is sponsored by Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY and cosponsored by the LGBTQ+ Student Center at City College.

This event is on the City College of New York campus and attendees must registered with Cleared4 in order to enter the campus buildings. Visit www.c4wrk.com/ytST2qjjBM6DGMWKA to provide vaccination data or a recent negative PCR test. Once registered, you will receive an email that contains your link to access campus. Sorry for the inconvenience, but they're trying to keep all safe.

Hazing is a widespread, far-reaching practice fueled by tradition, secrecy, groupthink, power, and the desire to belong in fraternities and sororities on college campuses across the U.S.

Filmmaker Byron Hurt embarked on a deeply personal journey to understand the underground rituals of hazing, revealing the abusive lengths college students and others will go to fit in. The film explores acts of hazing as a practice that occurs in many membership organizations including fraternities and sororities across the United States, some of which have anti-hazing policies.

Watch the film on PBS.org, and then join the Zoom conversation as Byron talks about the film and his journey to becoming a filmmaker. He will be in conversation with filmmaker Cyrille Phipps.

Curated by Kate MacKay

Deadline: October 21, 2022

Deadline: November 1, 2022 at 5:00 PM EDT

Deadline: January 15, 2023

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