Name: WHOSE STREETS? - Screening and Talk
Start: 2017-11-01T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2017-11-01T21:30:00-04:00
Location: The City College of New York

WHOSE STREETS? - Screening and Talk

Diverse Filmmakers Alliance (DFA) is a group of documentary, narrative, experimental, and transmedia filmmakers from diverse backgrounds. We provide and receive feedback designed to make our media projects more fundable, more watchable, more entertaining, more educational, and ready to meet their audienceDFA is a space where filmmakers are encouraged to share resources and discuss issues around socially-responsible filmmaking. We want to create and sustain a viable community of filmmakers of different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives who are interested in producing work that makes meaningful connections across class, race, age, gender, and sexual orientation.https://www.diversefilmmakersalliance.com/Third World Newsreel (TWN) is an alternative media arts organization that fosters the creation, appreciation, preservation and dissemination of independent film and video by and about people of color and social justice issues.   It does this through educational distribution, exhibition, production, media training, fiscal sponsorship and  archival preservation.www.twn.org

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Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, Whose Streets?, by Filmmakers Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis,  is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the street for hours, it marks a breaking point for the residents of St. Louis, Missouri. Grief, long-standing racial tensions and renewed anger bring residents together to hold vigil and protest this latest tragedy. Empowered parents, artists, and teachers from around the country come together as freedom fighters. As the national guard descends on Ferguson with military grade weaponry, these young community members become the torchbearers of a new resistance.
Filmmaker Sabaah Folayan will speak with the film. 
This screening is part of the Seventh Art Stand’s second installment, “Uplifting Black Voices”, taking place this fall, focusing on films that empower African-Americans, celebrate successful leaders, and offer historical context that leads to the continued unjust treatment of communities of color. The Seventh Art Stand is a national film screening and discussion series which began in May 2017, as a rapid response effort to the Muslim Ban. Please contact seventhartstand@gmail.com to host a film screening in your community.
This event is copresented by the Documentary Forum at CCNY and Third World Newsreel with Firelight Media, the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, the CCNY President's Office, and the CCNY CWE (School of Interdisciplinary Studies) and Seventh Art Stand.

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