Event ID # 69269
Date:
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
 Time:
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Event:

2009 MoMa Documentary Fortnight
Host:

Third World Newsreel
Location:

(New York)   Google Map
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd, bet 5th and 6th Avenue
Contact:
Roselly Torres		 Phone:
212-947-9277
Email:
twn@twn.org
Website:
http://www.twn.org
Price:
Adults $10, Seniors $8, Students $6
Full details:
 Third World Newsreel presents New Work from New Filmmakers at the 2009 Museum of Modern Art’s Documentary Fortnight  (New York, NY)— Third World Newsreel (TWN) is proud to present eight new documentaries at the Museum of Modern Art’s, an annual showcase of nonfiction film and video.  Please join us on Saturday, February 14 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City for the following programs:   
 
 Program 1
Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project. 2008. USA. Directed by Charles B. Brack. A plea for the rights of African American lesbians, the film follows the tragic story of Sakia Gunn, a fifteen-year-old hate crime victim who was murdered in Newark, NJ, after she rejected her killer's advances. Although her attacker received a seventeen-year sentence, there was little media coverage of the trial. Organized by J. T. Takagi and William Sloan. 55 min.
Saturday, February 14, 2009, 6:00 p.m., Theater 1, T1 (Discussion with Brack and Dorothy Thigpen, Executive Director, Third World Newsreel)
Monday, February 16, 2009, 6:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2  Third World Newsreel Program 2: New Work from New Filmmakers
This selection of films made in the U.S. between 2007 and 2008 includes Lottie Porch and Vanara Taing's Beyond the Music, about the Inspirational Choir of New York's Riverside Church; Hanna Rose Shell and Vanessa Bertozzi's Secondhand (Pepe), about the flow of used clothing from America to Haiti; Jennifer Fasulo and Manauvaskar Kublall's PRIMETIME: Fighting Back Against Foreclosure, an explanation of the complexities of subprime mortgages; Corinne Manabat's Excuse My Gangsta Ways, a visually poetic documentary of Chinese American former girl gang member; Mansee Kong's Here to Stay, about an elderly Chinatown neighbor and fellow tenants organizing against gentrification; Sarah Frank's In Bed with a Mosquito, about one of the members of the antiwar protest group the Granny Brigade; and Trinidad Rodriguez's Our Lady Queen of Harlem, in which parishioners protest the closing of their church in Spanish Harlem. Many of these works were produced in Third World Newsreel workshops for young filmmakers of color. Organized by J. T. Takagi and William Sloan. Program 93 min.
Saturday, February 14, 2009, 8:00 p.m., Theater 1, T1 (Discussion with Dorothy Thigpen, Executive Director, Third World Newsreel, and the filmmakers)
Monday, February 16, 2009, 8:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2 Museum of Modern Art11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues
New York, NY 10019-5497
Admission: Adults $10; Seniors (65 and over with ID) $8; Students (full-time with current ID) $6; Children (16 and under) and members free, but a ticket is required.For more information visit: www.moma.org### Third World Newsreel (TWN) is a media arts organization dedicated to fostering the creation, appreciation and dissemination of independent social issue media made by and about people of color.  TWN also has a variety of workshops and classes throughout the year on film and video production. TWN is supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, the North Star Fund, the Funding Exchange, the Asian Women Giving Circle, Materials for the Arts, as well as individual donors. Visit www.twn.org. Documentary Fortnight, MoMA's annual showcase of nonfiction film and video, was organized by Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art; William Sloan, independent curator; and Sara Rashkin, filmmaker and independent curator. Charles B. Brack is an independent documentary producer and activist in the LGBT community. His past professional experience includes Associate Video Producer of the Lesbian and Gay Discrimination Project and AIDS Discrimination Unit of the New York City Commission on Human Rights; and Producer of Living with AIDS, a weekly information television magazine of The Gay Men’s Health Crisis.  Vanessa Bertozzi is a Brooklyn-based documentarian and ethnographer specializing in the interplay between culture, media, technology and learning. She now works for Etsy, an online marketplace for buying and selling all things handmade. Jennifer Fasulo, a TWN Workshop alumna, is an activist, educator, writer and filmmaker.  Her first video, Women's Struggles for Freedom in Iraq co-produced with Liz Miller, was selected for the World Social Forum Film Festival in 2003. She currently works as the Co-Coordinator of the SEEK Tutorial Program at Lehman College.  Sarah Frank is a reporter, editor, photographer and documentary filmmaker. In 2007, Sarah travelled to Zonkizizwe, South Africa, to film a promotional video for a grassroots nonprofit organization that caters to the physical, mental, and emotional needs of the community’s youth made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. ManSee Kong, a TWN Workshop alumna, hopes to create films that expose the struggles and beauty of underrepresented communities as well as the inspirational commitment of organizers fighting for justice. Manauvaskar Kublall, a TWN Workshop alumnus, is an educator/photographer/filmmaker who believes in the power of storytelling to create meaningful messages in the world around us. He is currently the creative director of Media Sutra Inc., a progressive media and communication company in NYC.  Corinne E. Manabat, a TWN Workshop alumna, is a documentary filmmaker by day, and spoken word artist/lyricist by night. Her vision is to use documentary media to tell the stories of people who are on the periphery of mainstream media, specifically Filipino and Asian-Pacific-Islander-Americans (APIAs). Lottie E. Porch, a TWN Workshop alumna, is an educator and performing artist whose passion is writing, directing and producing theatre that enlightens and entertains. Porch serves as an educator in Teaneck, New Jersey where she has taught both English and Theatre for the past 24 years.  Trinidad Rodriguez is a documentary filmmaker and photographer living in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a degree in Cultural Anthropology from Boston University and an advanced certificate in Documentary Media from The New School. Her photography and multi-media work have appeared in galleries in Boston and New York, and she's contributed work to several periodicals and commercial websites.  Hanna Rose Shell is a historian, filmmaker and media scholar who combines digital media creation with the history of science, critical theory & historiography, film and media history, public history & museum studies and documentary studies. Shell's digital films and installations explore the interwoven themes of media, technology, history and aesthetics that are also brought to the fore in her work in the classroom. Vanara Taing, a TWN Workshop alumna, is an Associate Producer at StoryCorps, a national oral history collecting the stories of everyday people. Taing has also published and produced documentaries on the Cambodian refugee experience. Her film, Bloodlines, was selected for the 2006 Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival. She holds a B.A. from Scripps College and an Ed.M. from Harvard University.