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Brooklyn, N.Y. - The media arts department of Long Island University's
Brooklyn Campus hosts the Brooklyn Young Filmmakers Center (BYFC)
Film Salon Series on Thursday, May 30. The event will take place
from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Campus's Spike Lee Screening Room.
Admission is free to University students and staff and to those
on a limited income; general admission is $5.
The theme for this salon is "No More Running: Labor, Race,
Housing, Prisons & War." It features documentary and
narrative films and videos by teen, college and independent filmmakers,
followed by an intergenerational discussion about survival and
growth for the poor and working-class of New York City. The filmmakers
discuss the production histories of their films and the social
and cultural factors driving their work.
The films include "Who Am I?" by teen filmmaker Kellon
Innocent about identity and fear. "Tough on Crime, Tough
on Our Kind," about inequities in the juvenile justice system,
is produced by youth at YO-TV, a program of the Educational Video
Center. "Harlem on the Rise But for Who?," a work of
youth producers at Harlem's TRUCE (The Rheedlen University for
Community Education), documents the arrival of new businesses
and their long-term impact on the community. A documentary, "Military
Myths," by Paper Tiger TV and War Resisters League, takes
a critical look at the military's promises to youth of job training,
education and equal opportunity. In "Life and Debt,"
filmmaker Stephanie Black looks at labor from the point of view
of Jamaican workers, farmers and government officials who see
the reality of globalization from the ground up. And finally,
"My American Girls" by Aaron Matthews follows the Dominican
Ortiz family for a year and half, portraying their troubles and
triumphs in their adopted city.
The salon also features a discussion of careers in filmmaking.
Marco Ursino, founder and director of the Brooklyn International
Film Festival, will talk about the role that festivals play in
the development of independent filmmakers. Another segment involves
a script analysis exercise of a BYFC feature film in development,
"Billie's Song."
The Brooklyn Young Filmmakers Center is a demonstration project
with the mission of supporting intergenerational community building
and economic development in low-income and ethnic communities
through the vehicle of filmmaking. For more information, call
LIU's Rodney K. Hurley at (718) 488-1052; or BYFC's Trayce Gardner
at (718) 852-9342.
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