Film Title |
Film Maker/
Distributor |
Subject |
Description |
Day/Time |
A Place at the
Table
(40 min.) |
A film by Hudson
& Houston.
Teaching
Tolerance Southern Poverty Law
Center
400 Washington
Ave. Montgomery, AL 36104. www.teachingtolerance.org |
Diversity
&Justice |
Tells the story
of our nation's struggle to ensure liberty and justice for all. One
major element sets the video apart from most historical documentaries:
It is narrated entirely by young people. |
Thursday,
8:00-9:30 am |
Escuela
(53 min.) |
A documentary by
Hannah Weyer.
Distributed by
Women Make Movies
426 Broadway #500
New York,
NY, 10013
212.925.0606
www.wmm.com, cgeorge@WMM.com |
Mexican-American |
This film is a
clear-eyed view into the lives of contemporary Mexican American migrants
and their struggles to educate their children while obtaining
employment. |
Thursday,
11:00 am-12:15 pm |
Teens in Between
(83 min.) |
Directed by
Debbie Mintz Brodsky.
MHz Networks
8101 A Lee
Highway Falls Church, VA 22042
703.770.7100. www.mhznetworks.org |
Immigrant
Teenagers in America |
Includes inspiring portraits of courageous immigrant teens adjusting to
life in their adopted land. |
Thursday,
3:00-4:15 pm |
What do you
Believe?
(50 min.)
|
Directed and
produced by Sarah Feinbloom.
info@whatdoyoubelieve.org
The filmmaker
will be attending.
|
Religion & Spirituality
|
In this engaging
and poignant new documentary, a religiously diverse group of teens
reveal their inner struggles and personal beliefs about faith, morality,
suffering, death, prayer, the purpose of life and the divine. Without a
hint of dogma they candidly discuss everything from hormones to heaven,
deflating misperceptions and stereotypes at every turn, and making a
strong case for a more tolerant America. |
Friday,
8:00-9:15 am
|
Who’s Gonna Sing
Our Song?
(27 min.) |
Directed by Betsy
Cox.
Video Action Fund
1000 Potomac Street NW Suite 202, Washington DC 20007.
Tel 202.338.1094
Fax.
202.342.2600. www.videoaction.org |
African-American |
Video/Action Fund invited local musicians, storytellers, artists and
older residents to share personal perspectives on African-American
history with inner city teenagers. This spirited documentary captures
the excitement that is unleashed as the students begin to use the arts
to tell their own stories. |
Friday,
11:00 am-12:15 pm |
Mamie Tape, 1885:
The Fight for Equality
(21 min.) |
Directed and
produced by Loni Ding.
Center for
Educational Telecommunications
1940 Hearst Ave.
Berkeley, CA
94709.
Tel. 510.848.1656
Fax 510.841.1263
|
Chinese-American |
This film
portrays the case of Mamie Tape, an 8-year-old Chinese American girl
whose parents fought for her to be admitted to the all-white Spring
Valley School in San Francisco in 1885. Her descendants help tell this
pioneering story of school desegregation. |
Friday,
3:00-4:15 pm |
Race: The Power
of An Illusion: Episode Three “The House We Live In”
(57 min.) |
California
Newsreel 500 Third St. Ste 505, San Francisco, CA 94107
415.284.7800
x 6 tb@newsreel.org |
Race as a social
construction |
This film asks,
if race is not biology, what is it? It uncovers how race resides not in
nature but in politics, economics and culture. It reveals how our social
institutions "make" race by disproportionately channeling resources,
power, status and wealth to white people. |
Saturday,
8:00-9:15 am |
Scout's Honor
(60 min.)
|
Directed and
produced by Tom Shepard.
www.scouts-honor.com |
GBTL |
The project
traces the conflict between the anti-gay policies of the Boy Scouts of
America and the broad-based movement by many of its members to overturn
them. The story is told predominantly through the experiences of a
13-year old boy and a 70-year-old man - both heterosexual, both
dedicated to the Scouts, and both determined to change the course of
Scouting history. |
Saturday,
11:00 am-12:15 pm |
