THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH FROM 6:30-8:30pm
Join the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAGNet) and Global Action Project for a night of social justice and media justice films, hip-hop, and poetry featuring local political poet Roopa Singh aka Naxal- following the day long workshops.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH FROM 6:30-8:30pm @ Manhattan Neighborhood Network - Open Studio, 1st Floor
537 West 59th Street (between 10th & 11th Avenue)
Trains: A/B/C/D to 59th Street- Columbus Circle
Here's the Line-up of Films to be screened:
(5 minutes)
Throughout history stereotypes and misrepresentations of African Americans have flooded the American television screen. In this clip, acclaimed filmmaker Marlon Riggs demonstrates the power and uses of these stereotypes to justify inequity and sell products.
"Silenced by the Media" (11 minutes)
by Papertiger Television
In support of Arab Women Active in the Arts and Media (AWAAM) youth media program, Paper Tiger contributed a video mentor to assist the youth at AWAAM in producing this 11-minute piece debunking the myths of the corporate media around the Khalil Gibran International Academy controversy. The video includes interview with young Muslim women who talk about the impact of negative media stereotypes of the Muslim community and the Academy.
"Talking the Walk" (13m, 40 sec)
In 2000, 2 Latino teenagers were convicted of the murder of their friend, though the prosecutor and judge knew that a white teenaged boy had committed the crime. This film takes a critical look at the impact of news media and successful grassroots media advocacy on the outcome of the case.
“What’s Up with Public Housing” (7 minutes)
produced by Center for Urban Pedagogy & Public Housing Residents of the Lower East Side (PHROLES)
The video features PHROLES and their efforts to organize low-income public housing resident.
"Good Lookin’ Out" (11 minutes)
by C. Sala Hewitt at Chica Luna Productions
A tale of police brutality in the LGBTQ community
"Asian Youth Unite Against Hate Violence"
Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund
5:31 minutes
Young people respond to anti-Asian violence at Brooklyn’s Lafayette High School
"Unheard Voices" (6 mins.)
"Unheard Voices" exposes the act of police brutality and the many lives stolen at the hands of law enforcement and border patrol agents. This film opens with the police killing of Sean Bell in Jamaica, Queens on November 26, 2006 followed by the gun down of 19 years old Timur Person, in the Bronx two weeks after the Bell shooting. (5.32 mins, BBC, 2007)
"Aliens v. Predators" (3 mins)
Produced by Global Action Project
Each year 60,000 undocumented immigrants graduate from high schools across the United States. With recruiters falling short of their targets and casualties mounting in Iraq and Afghanistan, these young people are increasingly being targeted by military recruiters. Aliens Vs Predators is an uncompromising call for justice from a diverse group of young immigrants in New York City.
"Pipeline" (11 mins.)
Produced by Global Action Project
The summer of 2004 saw the lowest youth employment rate in NYC in over two decades. While youth struggle to get a decent education and jobs for teens are at an all-time low, funding for jails and detention centers continue to increase. G.A.P. youth spent the summer exploring this connection and produced a creative reflection on this enduring problem.
"Grassroots Media Activism", a film by Joan Grossman (8min, 30sec)
As media consolidation grows, so does the strength of grassroots media activism. This film explores the challenges and opportunities faced by local communities across the country demanding media policy in their interests and fighting for their right to speak for themselves.
RSVP by emailing betty@mnn.org. For more info, contact (212) 757-2670 x346 or email betty@mnn.org
The Media Action Grassroots Network (MAGNet), is a national network promoting grassroots organizing for media justice, media reform and media democracy. Across the country, grassroots media activist organizations are building constituencies, partnerships and victories for progressive structural change. Grounded in a vision of social justice, these organizations generate creative, pragmatic models of strategic communications and mobilization that resonate powerfully far beyond the DC Beltway.
Global Action Project (G.A.P.) has provided media arts and leadership training for thousands of young people living in underserved communities, from New York to Croatia to Guatemala to the Middle East and beyond. Our mission is to provide youth with the knowledge, tools, and relationships they need to create powerful, thought-provoking media on local and international issues that concern them, and to use their media as a catalyst for dialogue and social change.
@ Manhattan Neighborhood Network - Open Studio, 1st Floor
537 West 59th Street (between 10th & 11th Avenue)
Trains: A/B/C/D to 59th Street- Columbus Circle
