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Tuesday, May 05, 2009, 6:00 PM
Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138

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Join us for a special screening of this remarkable film as we celebrate the 55th anniversary of the first Supreme Court decision to guarantee civil rights for American Latinos.

A panel discussion will follow the film screening, featuring:

* Carlos Sandoval, Film Producer & Director
* Edward Schumacher-Matos, Harvard Kennedy School
* Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School

Co-sponsored by The Boston Lawyer Chapter and the Harvard Law School Student Chapter of the American Constitution Society, McCarter & English, LLP, and Active Voice, American GI Forum of the United States, Equal Justice Society, Hispanic National Bar Foundation, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, Latino Public Broadcasting, Public Broadcasting System

A Class Apart
In the tiny town of Edna, Texas, in 1951, field hand Pete Hernandez murdered tenant farmer Joe Espinosa after exchanging words in a gritty cantina. From this unremarkable small-town murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would forever change the lives and legal standing of tens of millions of Americans. A Class Apart tells the little-known story of a band of underdog Mexican-American lawyers who took their case, Hernandez v. Texas, all the way to the Supreme Court, where they successfully challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican-Americans.

Luckey by FC member, Laura Longsworth, will play on Sunday, April 26 at 2:45 pm at the Somerville Theatre.

Monday, March 9
6:00 Film Screening | 6:30 Panel Discussion
at MCLE, 10 Winter Place, Boston
(1 Block from Park Street T and Downtown Crossing)

Panel Discussion to include filmmaker
Jenny Alexander
as well as perspectives on immigration policy, the New Bedford community
before and after the raid, and where these cases stand now

Wine & Cheese Reception to follow
Co-Sponsored by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education

$10 Suggested Donation
RSVP to info@unagb.org — tickets will be available at the door.

Detained (28 min.)
On March 6, 2007, workers at a New Bedford factory producing vests
for the U.S. military were arrested in a raid conducted by
Immigration, Customs and Enforcement (ICE) officers. Of the 361
undocumented immigrants arrested that day, the majority were women,
many with small children. Detained follows families affected by the
immigration raid.
In Spanish and English with English subtitles.

For more information about this event, click here

“At Home in Utopia” will be screening at six Jewish film festivals in the next few months in Philadelphia, Detroit, Minneapolis, Seattle, Westchester and Northern New Jersey. More info at the At Home in Utopia web page

Where:
American University’s Katzen Arts Center
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20016

When:
February 12-13, 2009

Click here for more information, including registration info, a complete conference schedule, and a list of featured guests.

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Visit the conference pages for updates, including schedule of panels, featured guests, and registration information!

Click here to see a video of Fernanda Rossi’s workshop on documentary film structure from Making Media Now 2008. Fernanda was a highlight of this past year’s conference.

 
The eclectic animation studio Handcranked Productions recently completed over 35 animation sequences for a new landmark two-hour special from NOVA entitled The Bible’s Buried Secrets- a captivating look at the origins of the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Old Testament. The film premieres on PBS Tuesday, November 18th 2008 at 8pm ET. (check local listings)

Handcranked co-owner Bryan Papciak explained, “One of the visual centerpieces of the film is an animated Bible - with moving pages and backgrounds designed in the style of ancient Illuminated Manuscripts. We built this Bible prop as an actual leather-bound book (with the help of bookbinder, Johnny Carrera) – and brought it “to life” with classic stop-motion animation techniques.”

 
“While our animations were ultimately assembled in the computer, the materials we filmed were physical and organically textured; like pulpy paper, leather, old maps, ink, and scrolls.” said Handcranked co-owner Jeff Sias. “Because of the tangibility of the objects and the intriguing subject, this is one of the most interesting and satisfying projects we have worked on as a company.”

 
Produced by Providence Pictures for NOVA, and directed by Gary Glassman, The Bible’s Buried Secrets presents the latest archeological and biblical scholarship  to explore the beginnings of modern religion and the origins of the Hebrew Bible—the foundation of monotheistic religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. For a preview of the film, visit: pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bible/

NOVA is a client of FC Board member, Anne Zeiser, who is helping launch the two-hour special NOVA documentary, managing the public reaction to the film, and developing a thought-leader special screening and panel discussion in New York the week before premiere with Newsweek magazine and the Interfaith Center of NY. “Science and Faith: Complementary or Contradictory?” will be moderated by Newsweek’s Religion Editor, Lisa Miller and feature a panel of top scientists, theologians and filmmakers who will explore how archeology, biblical scholarship, and faith intersect, and sometimes collide. The national event will be taped and will be streamed on NOVA’s website at : pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bible/. See NOVA¹s “The Bible’s Buried Secrets” broadcast premiere on PBS on Tuesday, November 18th at 8pm (check local listings).

Please support this important, and timely 1 hour documentary on race and humor, who gets to say what. With Obama in the race, mixed-race issues, diversity and the politics of language are essential things to consider with respect to freedom of speech.

Satellite feed date is:
Sunday, Nov 16, 21:30 ­ 22:30 EST

Watch your local listings through November for air dates in your area.
For more information:

http://www.entertainingdiversity.com/CrossingTheLine

Six young Israeli women speak frankly about their experiences as combat soldiers stationed in Gaza and the West Bank. Like their male counterparts, they became intimate with violence as victims, witnesses, and perpetrators. Now, as civilians, they are dealing with its aftermath. The film, a disturbing but timely study of the effects of combat experience and an illuminating exploration of the psychology of violence, won the award for Best Documentary at the 2007 Haifa International Film Festival and the 2008 HotDocs Film Festival Special Jury Prize.

You can purchase tickets by logging onto bjff.org and finding the schedule to purchase tickets, which will take you to ticketweb.

At Home in Utopia focuses on the United Workers Cooperative Colony – aka the Coops – the most grass-roots and member-driven of the Jewish labor housing cooperatives, where many of the residents were Communists or sympathetic to the communist movement.

Monday, October 20, 2008
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Harvard Film Archive 24 Quincy St, Cambridge,MA
Special Event Tickets $10

Writer, Director, and Editor Maria Agui Carter created this original dramatic short, airing repeatedly between Sept. 14 and October 15, 2008 on the Discovery Channel. Un Par De Suenos ( “A Pair of Dreams”) is a story about one immigrant family’s unflagging belief in the American Dream, of sacrifice and dignity, where a family’s humble yet heroic acts help make each other’s dreams come true.

The film is also online, with interviews and production photos, here.

Detained
by documentary filmmaker Jenny Alexander

Thursday, October 16, 2008
7:00-8:30 p.m.

Event includes film screening, panel discussion, refreshments, and networking

A.R.T.¹s Zero Arrow Theatre
Zero Arrow Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

This is an excellent opportunity to meet other PHR members engaged in the movement to safeguard the health and human rights of asylum seekers in theUS.

To R.S.V.P. for this event, please email Jennie Baldé at jbalde@phrusa.org by Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Tuesday, October 21, 5:30PM
Boston University Photonics Center
8 St. Mary’s, Boston, MA 02215 US

For more information, including a list of guests, schedule, and directions, please visit the official invite here.

The Mass Tech Leadership Council created a special rate for filmmakers and students — $20, much lower than the typical admission fee.

http://special080925.eventbrite.com /

What: DIY DAYS - Boston
When: Saturday, October 04, 2008 from 10:00 AM - 06:30 PM (ET)
Where: MassArt - 621 Huntingtion Ave - Boston, MA
Hosted by: MassArt & FHTA & WBP

More info at http://diydaysboston-invitefriends.eventbrite.com