NEW VOICES IN BLACK CINEMA FESTIVAL 2017 presents PRODUCING & DIRECTING DOC...
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NEW VOICES IN BLACK CINEMA FESTIVAL 2017 PRESENTS
a DISTINGUISHED panel and disucssion on
"PRODUCING & DIRECTING DOCUMENTARY FILM"
WHEN: NEW VOICES IN BLACK CINEMA FESTIVAL
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2017
TIME: 6:30PM Sharp
WHERE: SOUTH OXFORD SPACE, 138 S. OXFORD STREET
BROOKLYN (Trains to Atlantic Center-Barclays)
COST: $10 ($15 at the door)
PANELISTS:
LESLIE FIELDS-CRUZ, Moderator, National Black Programming Consortium
FRED KUDJO KUWORNU, Feature Filmmaker
JESSICA BESHIR, Short Filmmaker
STACY HOLMAN, Documentary Producer
EMIR LEWIS, Documentary Editor
This will be an Outstanding, Enlightening, and Entertaining Panel!!!
*IMAGE above from "Blaxploitalian" directed by Fred Kuwornu)
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PANELIST BIOS
LESLIE FIELDS-CRUZ
Leslie Fields-Cruz is Executive Director of the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC). Leslie was initially hired in 2001 to manage NBPC’s grant making activities that supported the production and development of documentary programs for PBS. By 2005, she was the Director of Programming, leading the distribution of all funded programs to public television. In 2008, with six independent titles in need of a public television broadcast, Leslie suggested NBPC create its own documentary series to highlight the variety and depth of the global black experience. AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange is now in its 9th season and is the only national public television series focused solely on stories from the black experience. In the fall of 2014, Leslie was appointed to serve as NBPC’s third Executive Director. Though she keeps the pulse on the development of program content and its distribution across public media platforms, she is focused on growing NBPC’s resources to enable it to support more stories about the black experience.
FRED "KUDJO" KUWORNU
Fred "Kudjo” Kuwornu is an Italia-Ghanaian activist-director-speaker born and raised in Italy and based in Brooklyn. His mother is an Italian Jew, and his father a Ghanaian surgeon . In 2010 Fred Kuwornu produced and directed the Award-winning documentary Inside Buffalo about the African-American veterans who fought in Italy during World War II.In 2012, he released "18 IUS SOLI "which examines Afro-Italians in Italy but also specifically looks at questions of citizenship for the one million children of immigrants born and raised in Italy but not yet Italian citizens. In 2016, He released" Blaxploitalian 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema”, which plays at the New Voices in Black Cinema Festival 2017.
JESSICA BESHIR
Mexican-Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir received her B.A. in film studies and literature at UCLA. Her first short, Hairat, premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and she is currently producing her first feature film, set in Harar, Ethiopia. She also recently released the short film "He Who Dances on Wood", playing as an at New Voices in Black Cinema Fesitval 2017.
Jessica is based in Brooklyn, NY
EMIR LEWIS
Having a built an exceptional editing career over the years, Emir Lewis recently made a successful entrée into the producer's chair which garnered him an Emmy nomination for the WNET PBS special, Pioneers of THIRTEEN (2013). He also had a chance to shape the critically acclaimed Stretch & Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives from both the Editing & Interviewers to help bring that amazing story to life. Emir’s long list of editing credits span documentaries, tv series, and feature films beginning with Slam (1998) which received both the prestigious Sundance Grand Jury
Prize and the Cannes Camera DʼOr . In addition, several of the documentaries edited by Emir received high honors such as
HBOʼs O.J. – A Story in Black & White (2003 Emmy winner), PBSʼ Two Towns of Jasper (2003 DuPont and Peabody Awards), and Nickelodeon/MTV Networksʼ I Sit Where I Want- The Legacy of Brown v. Board (2005 Parents’ Choice Award). In the future, Emir plans to continue editing, producing and directing for a diverse range of media projects, but is also very happy teaching the next generation of students the fine art of editorial storytelling at both N.Y.U. & Brooklyn College.
STACY L. HOLMAN
From Dillard University in the Big Easy to Tisch School of the Arts in the Big Apple, Stacy L. Holman has honed and crafted her passion to write, produce and direct films that speak to matters of the heart, human insecurities, and bring light to treasured sub-cultures. Her world in film has moved between narrative and documentary. On a few projects she's blended the two genres structurally and visually. Some of my works include: MIRAR MIRROR, GIRL TALK, SURRENDER (part of the anthology 6 THINGS I NEVER TOLD YOU, and DRESSED LIKE KINGS. Stacey has spent six years teaching a new generation of filmmakers as an adjunct professor at The City College of New York, where she works to develop students’ unique talents and hopes they will find their voice and their passion through film.
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NEW VOICES IN BLACK CINEMA FESTIVAL 2017
RUNS APRIL 26-30, 2017
at BAMCINEMATEK AND ART/NY SOUTH OXFORD SPACE.
NEW VOICES IN BLACK CINEMA FILM SCHEDULE & TICKETS at WWW.BAM.ORG/NEWVOICES
OTHER PANEL TICKETS:
FILMMAKING & ACTIVISM- HTTP://NEWVOICESACTIVISM.EVENTBRITE.COM
NEW VOICES ACTORS DISCUSSION & ROUNDTABLE- HTTP://NEWVOICESACTORS2017.EVENTBRITE.COM
