Home Movie Day – Oct 15 @ IU Cinema

Home Movie Day returns to Indiana University this Saturday October 15, from 3-5 pm at the IU Cinema.

Home Movie Day is an international celebration of the power and meaning of home movies and amateur film while also highlighting the importance of everyday filmmaking as a historical resource. Local residents have the opportunity to bring in their home movies and share them with the community.

Home Movie Day is celebrated around the world, so be part of an international movement to recognize these films as valuable examples of local, regional, national and international history.  This year, in conjunction with the move of the event into the wonderful IU Cinema, we will be screening a number of films from various archives on the IU Campus, including the Black Film Center/Archive, the Kinsey Institute, and the IU Archives.

This event is free and open to the public.   The IU Cinema can screen 8mm, 16mm, DVD, and VHS formats.  We invite you to come and have a great time sharing the home videos of your fellow community members at the IU Cinema.

For any further information, please contact James Paasche at jpaasche@indiana.edu.

PEDRO COSTA: October 6 @ IU Cinema

Lecture with Pedro Costa: 3:00pm

Film Director Pedro Costa will be a Jorgensen Guest Lecturer on October 6th at 3pm in the IU Cinema.  The lecture will be in interview format, led by James Naremore Professor Emeritus, IU Department of Communication and Culture, and Darlene Sadlier, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese.  Costa’s films have influenced a generation of world filmmakers who work to blur the border between documentary and narrative film.

Down to Earth – 1994: 7:00pm

Drama, Foreign Language

Leão, a Cape Verdean immigrant and a bricklayer, falls off the scaffolding in Lisbon and enters a deep coma. Arrangements are made for him to return to his homeland. A nurse, Mariana, eager for a change of scenery, volunteers to accompany him. When she arrives, nothing is like she expected. No one seems to be waiting for Leão or even to care for him. Mariana waits for someone to claim Leão and waits for him to wake up. She gets increasingly involved with the mysterious Fogo volcano community, taking her life in an unexpected direction. (35mm. Portuguese language with English subtitles.)

Ossos (Bones) – 1997: 10:00pm

Drama, Foreign Language

After a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby’s safety to the troubled, deadbeat father. The first film in Pedro Costa’s transformative trilogy about Fontainhas, an impoverished quarter of Lisbon, Ossos is a tale of young lives torn apart by desperation. (35mm. Portuguese language with English subtitles.)

BFC/A Friday Screenings Celebrate Women’s History Month!

Please join the Black Film Center/Archive in celebrating Women’s History Month.

*FRIDAY AFTERNOONS @ THE BFC/A*
*Sisters In Cinema* (2003, 62 min, dir: Yvonne Welbon)
Friday, March 11, 2011 – 2:00 pm
Yvonne Welbon’s groundbreaking documentary creates a strong visual history of the contributions of African-American women to the film industry. Sisters in Cinema traces the careers of inspiring African American women filmmakers from the 20th century.

*Sisters of the Screen: African Women in Cinema* (2002, 61 minutes, dir: Beti Ellerson)
March 25, 2011 – 2:00 pm
Exploring the extraordinary contributions of women filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora, Beti Ellerson’s engaging debut features interviews with acclaimed women directors. With power and nuance, Ellerson also confronts the thorny question of cultural authenticity.

*SPECIAL EVENT*
*An Evening with Cauleen Smith*
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 – 7:00 pm
Following a critically-acclaimed solo show at The Kitchen in New York City, award-winning filmmaker Cauleen Smith will present a selection of her recent film and video work.  The screening will be followed by a conversation with Dr. LaMonda Horton-Stallings (African American & African Diaspora Studies & Gender Studies).

**This event is sponsored by an IU New Perspectives Grant and is presented by the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies.**

All the above events will take place at the Black Film Center/Archive, located in the sub-level of Wells Library, Room 044, adjacent to the Media Reserves Desk.

For further questions, please contact bfca@indiana.edu.

Brown Bag Talk: Nzingha Kendall

The Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies presents:

A Brown Bag Talk by Nzingha Kendall

 

“En)visioning Black Female Subjectivity:

A close reading of

Kathleen Collins’s LOSING GROUND

&

Sara Gomez’s DE CIERTA MANERA”

 

Nzingha Kendall will provide an illuminating analysis of these important films -

don’t miss it!

 

Wednesday, February 23^nd at 12:00 pm in Memorial Hall Room M39

From Slavery to Freedom: February 18, 2011

An Evening with Spike Lee: February 26

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Save the date: Saturday, February 26, 7 p.m.

Award-winning film director Spike Lee, among the best-known filmmakers today, will appear at IU Auditorium on Saturday, Feb. 26, as the signature event of ArtsWeek 2011. Lee’s talk will tie into the theme of ArtsWeek 2011, which is ArtsTeach.

The creator of numerous films including Do the Right Thing, She’s Gotta Have It, and Malcolm X, Lee’s life is a prime example of the power that arts education can have on students. Lee credits his mother, a teacher (who died when he was 19), and especially his art-teacher grandmother, for giving him the drive to become the filmmaker he is today. Lee was barely making it in college, when he received a Super 8 camera as a gift. Discovering a love of film, he went on to receive a master of fine arts degree (his grandmother helped him pay for the program) from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Today, in addition to his many other activities, Lee serves as an educator too, in his role as artistic director of the graduate film program at the Tisch School.

For more information about Spike Lee and his current projects, visit 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks.

Ticketing

Free general admission tickets for Lee’s lecture will be issued to IU Bloomington students with a valid student ID beginning Monday, Feb. 7, at 10 a.m. at the IU Auditorium Box Office. Non-IU students and the public will be able to obtain free general admission tickets beginning on Wednesday, Feb. 9, at 10 a.m. at the IU Auditorium Box Office. There will be a ticket limit of eight tickets per person.

Haiti Film Festival, Bloomington, Indiana: January 23, 2011

A new film festival that focuses on the ongoing social and economic needs of people in Haiti is scheduled for 1-7:30 p.m. on Jan. 23 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The Haiti Film Festival is presented by Indiana University’s Latino Cultural Center (La Casa) and the community group Bloomington for Haiti.

The Haiti Film Festival will open with “Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy,” written and narrated by Edwidge Danticat (1:30 p.m., 50 minutes, 2009). Renée Bergan, the film’s director-producer, will lead discussion after the screening.

The festival will commemorate the anniversary of the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince and other communities in Haiti, leaving 1.5 million people homeless.

Bloomington’s first Haiti Film Festival is a joint project between Kat Forgacs, an IU graduate student in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and founder of Bloomington for Haiti, and Lillian Casillas, director of La Casa.

“This film festival is a great way to continue to educate and bring awareness on what is happening in Haiti,” Casillas said. “People quickly forget or move on to other topics, but we need to keep Haiti in the forefront of their consciousness.”

“I wanted to offer a good balance between social justice and post-earthquake films,” Forgacs said about the festival selections. “There are so many important issues going on at once. We don’t want to overlook the earthquake or neglect the advocacy needs that existed before the earthquake magnified those problems.”

Forgacs said she and Casillas also wish to present a version of Haiti that isn’t all dire. “There are so many beautiful things that can coexist with tragedy,” Forgacs said. “It’s good to show a balanced portrait of people’s daily lives, and I think several of our films provide that human understanding.”

The Haiti Film Festival will feature three independent documentaries, including one by an IU alumnus, and a selection of short films from students of the Ciné Institute, Haiti’s only scholarship-based professional film school. Directors from the films will be present for Q-and-A sessions. During the festival, Indiana-based organizations will staff booths providing information about their service work in Haiti before and since the earthquake.

Indiana University: Mercy, Mercy Me Symposium, October 7

Mercy, Mercy Me! : Black Environmental Thought & the Future of African American Studies Symposium will take place October 7, 2010 in Frangipani Room at IMU, 5:00-7:30 pm.

The event will highlight the research, scholarship, and activist approaches of emerging, innovative scholars in various disciplines and fields, and the speakers will address the following questions and topics:

*   How can African American, African Diaspora, or Africana Studies implement agendas of environmental justice into its mission as a field?
*   How have African American and African Diasporic arts and cultures helped imagine changes in technology, science, and policies concerned with the environment?

SPEAKERS
Carolyn Finney, Assistant Professor in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley.  Black is the New Green: African Americans and the Environment in the 21st Century”
Angelique Nixon, Assistant Professor of Women?s Studies at University of Connecticut-Storrs. “Exiles in Paradise: Towards a Green Caribbean Future”
Marlo D. David, Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Purdue University.  “Reflections on Diaspora/Ecology/Culture”

2nd Annual Men and Women of Color Leadership Conference

2010 Conference Theme:

“Pluralism, Antagonism & Civil Engagement: Developing Leaders in 21^st Century America.”

Click here for an updated agenda.

Date:

November 12 – 13, 2010

Location:

Godfrey Graduate and Executive Education Center
Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Bloomington, IN

Conference Registration

Deadline: October 25^th, 2010

Haitian Awareness Month

Screening of “The Road to Fondwa” and Q+A with co-director Justin Brandon
Tuesday, September 14, 7:30-9pm
at Boxcar Books, 408 E 6th St
View the film trailer at http://fondwa.org/about/
RSVP and FMI: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113079255416353

Emeline Michel and her band perform Haitian roots music at the 17th annual Lotus World Music & Arts Festival
Friday, September 17 and Saturday, September 18, from 8:45-10pm
Tickets available online: http://lotusfest.org/ticket-info)

“Like other Haitian artists of her generation, Michel marries social and political content to the distinctive, danceable Afro-Caribbean rhythms of Haitian traditional music, including the Haitian original compas, the troubador-style twoubadou, and the Afro-Haitian festival style of music known as rara. “Everybody knows that Haiti is in trouble,” she says. As a Haitian living abroad, Michel uses her music “to show a side of Haitian culture that is positive.”
More information at http://lotusfest.org/emeline-michel and http://www.emeline-michel.com/

“A chat about Haitian music and culture” with Emeline Michel
Monday, September 20, 4-5pm
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 1125 E. Atwater
Please note: This conversation will be conducted mostly in Haitian Creole.

“An Evening with Emeline Michel”
Tuesday, September 21, 7:30-9pm
in the Formal Lounge of the Foster International Learning-Living Center
Join us as this dynamic Haitian vocalist, songwriter, and dancer will discuss her life and career.

“Reforestation as Restoration:
An Examination of the Link between Environmental and Economic Restoration in Post-Earthquake Haiti”
a public presentation on sustainable reforestation and the impacts of the 2010 earthquake on the environment in Haiti
by Lizzie Cooke, Co-founder of Imagine Haitian(www.ImagineHaitian.org)
Friday, September 24, from 7-9:00 pm (Donations accepted)
at Boxcar Books, 408 E 6th St
Proceeds from the sale of Haitian arts and crafts will support Imagine Haitian’s reforestation efforts in Haiti.
Refreshments will be served.
RSVP and FMI: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159551054055750

“A Night of Haitian Poetry”
Saturday, October 2, 7:30-9pm
at the Pour House, 314 E Kirkwood Ave
Join us for readings of Haitian and Haitian-American poetry and literature. Selections will be read in English, French, and Haitian Creole. Discussion will follow.