DRILLS OF LIBERATION Film Screening & Talk with
Filmmaker Juan C. Dávila Santiago
Online Screening: September 5-7, 2022
Online Talk: September 7, 2022, 7 PM EST
In this new feature documentary, young Puerto Ricans craft their paths to liberation, fight against the Fiscal Control Board in Puerto Rico, and create a movement of self-management initiatives in the aftermath of Hurricane María.

RSVP to watch the film online (Sept 5-7) and join the talk and Q&A with independent Puerto Rican filmmaker Juan C. Dávila Santiago (VIEQUES, AFTERSHOCS OF DISASTER, COMPANEROS DE LUCHA). Moderated by media archivist Caroline Gil Rodríguez.

This program is a presentation of Third World Newsreel and The Documentary Forum CCNY. It is co-sponsored by Centro, Center for Puerto Rican Studies-Centro. DRILLS OF LIBERATION is in Spanish with English subtitles. This program is free and open to the public and will be presented bilingually in English and Spanish.

Distribution Advocates: Your Film and Distribution
Wed, Sep 14, 2022, 6:30 PM EDT
Join us for a talk with Avril Speaks of Distribution Advocates, a group that works to help address the lack of knowledge and advocacy around the many structures of distribution.

As they state: "While there is a plethora of panels and initiatives offered on distribution to indie filmmakers, the systems of distribution are accepted more than interrogated. This is due in part to the opacity of distribution structures, including programming, sales and exhibition. We need greater advocacy, mechanisms for education, and a way to safely share community knowledge. Every grant and every festival acceptance should come with a required teach-in on current distribution systems and its asymmetries of power."

The issues and problems have increased during the pandemic and Avrill will go over the problems in the current approaches to distribution, festivals and theatrical exhibition, and the corporate consolidation in the field. She will be in conversation with filmmakers and distributors during this seminar.

This program is a presentation of Distribution Advocates, Third World Newsreel and The Documentary Forum CCNY. Free and open to the public.

TEACH OUR CHILDREN
September 23, 7 PM PST
In-person at BAMPFA
Please check out our Vimeo Channel for recordings of our previous seminars.
MISSISSIPPI TRIANGLE
AVAILABLE ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL
"Mississippi Triangle is a 1983 documentary about the Black, white, and Chinese communities in the Mississippi Delta region... It is one of a plethora of works in film and art that show, contrary to popular perception, that the South has never had just two racial groups."
Imani Perry, The Atlantic

The Work of
Gurinder Chadha
The Work of Camille Billops
Black and Blue
The People United
Voices of the Gods
Another Brother
Black Nations/Queer Nations?
In a Perfect World...

Deadline: September 1st, 2022

Still I Rise: Applications close September 5
The Long Rescue: Applications close September 12
The Apology: Applications close September 19
Letter to My Child from Rape: Applications close September 24

Deadline: September 15, 2022

Deadline: September 15, 2022

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