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FILM // Get Down (USA, 2010 - Short/Drama)

GET DOWN is a safe sex public service announcement targeting teens and young adults. With the GET DOWN public service announcement, we hope to tackle the topic of unprotected sex among teens who are currently engaging in sexual activity. Some may of these youth be experimenting with multiple sexual partners, inclusive of the GLBT and YMSM (Young Men Having Sex With Men) lifestyles. We hope to stimulate dialogue and understanding around these issues and encourage teens and young adults to stop and think, ask questions, and seek guidance before taking the huge step of becoming sexually active. BUT, if they are sexually active already, NO MATTER HOW YOU GET DOWN, PROTECT YOURSELF AND GET TESTED.

FILM // Ebony Goddess: Queen of Ile Aiye (Brazil, 2010 - Short/Documentary)

Persecuted by the police and the media during its first years, and still controversial for only allowing blacks to parade with the group, Ilê Aiyê is now a renowned element of Bahia’s pre-Lenten festivities. During carnival, the group popularly referred to as “o mais belo dos belos” (the loveliest of the lovely) brings to the streets hundreds of musicians, dozens of dancers, and thousands of members.

FILM // Memoirs of a Black Latina (USA, 2009 - Short/Experimental)

Memoirs is an intimate portrait of 4 voices that have yet to be heard and their inner most thoughts and feelings towards their Double Minority. Memoirs characters are based upon the four strongest emotions one in confronted with in the face of adversity (Anger, Sad, Love and Empowered). These emotions are the undertones for their voices throughout the film. The film explores these differences and shows them in a very up-close and personal first hand look.

FILM // Mother Daughter (USA, 2009 - Short/Drama)

A melodramatic short, “Mother Daughter” centers around Claudine and Raven Payton who are a mother and daughter that are having relationship problems due to the Raven dating outside of her race. They haven’t communicated for about a year when Claudine learns that she has breast cancer. Raven attempts to offer her unconditional support. Mother Daughter examines themes such as race relations, forgiveness, family and love.

FILM // Promised Land (South Africa, 2010 - Feature/Documentary)

Promised Land invites viewers to take an inside look at the critical story of land reform and racial reconciliation in the new South Africa. The film explores how the country is rebuilding itself after years of living under the racist, violent system of apartheid. Beginning in 1913, Blacks in South Africa were forbidden from owning land. They were forcefully removed from their land and re-settled into so called ‘homelands’ which were located in the most undesirable areas in the country. Over the course of ninety years, an estimated 6 million blacks were disposed of their land.

FILM // The Meeting (Greenland/Panama/USA, Documentary/Short)

Poignant and touching, a chance encounter between two seemingly very different women ignites a mutually nurtured friendship. One woman is from tropics of Panama, and the other is from snow-capped vistas of Greenland. They grow a tight bond that transcends land boundaries and share their unique stories of struggles, life lessons and growth. Their lives intersect in a series of stories that culminate in their golden years.

FILM // Rendez-Vous (Canada, 2010 - Short/Experimental)

At lunch hour, in a little square in the middle of bustling downtown, a restless businesswoman waits for someone that does not come and yet.

FILM // Tears of a Swamp Fox (USA, 2010 - Short/Documentary)

“Tears of a Swamp Fox” look into the deep, lingering ties of corruption, mismanagement and lack of educational opportunities that keep rural South Carolina in poverty, and its residents in sub-standard living conditions. Director Lunden De’Leon revisits issues that birthed Robert Kennedy’s War on Poverty and how these issues are still lingering in America’s backroads.

FILM // The Birth of Bardo (USA, 2010 - Short/Experimental)

The Tibetan word bardo is translated as an intermediate state, transitional state, or the state in-between. Waking, sleeping, meditating, dying, wandering in the spirit world, reincarnating; all of these are bardos. Generally, the term is used to designate the period between death and rebirth. In conceptual artist Adia Millet’s first film, “The Birth of Bardo,” enigmatic figures appear. But, similar to the installations and photographs, much is left to the imagination. Seesaws, wings, chairs, and even a coffin reappear and expand Millett’s vast lexicon of imagery.

FILM // Houna & Manny (USA, 2009 - Short/Drama)

Two young women meet –by chance– outside of the immigration office as they wait for their families to find out if they will be able to continue living in their newly adopted country. One girl’s family is from Haiti, and the other girl has just arrived from the Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast, West Africa). The young women try to comfort one another as they develop a friendship that crosses cultures. What will be their fate as they grapple with the complexities of immigration? Will they both stay, or will one lose the other?

FILM // The Skin Quilt Project (USA, 2010)

The Skin Quilt Project is a documentary that explores colorism in the African-American community. The film addresses this complex issue through the stories of African-American quilters, and the tradition of an art form that celebrates its culture. The quilters speak of the influence of the African-American quilting tradition as a tool for encouraging an appreciation in the African-American cultural heritage.