The Department of Film and Media Studies presents
Sainsbury Visiting Artist: Louis Massiah
Tuesday, October 13:
Screening: TCB: Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing
6-9PM | Lang Auditorium (HN 424)
6PM: Light refreshments
6:30PM: Screening
RSVP (Open to the Public):
https://fm-tcb.eventbrite.com
Join us for a screening of TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing, a documentary biography of the influential writer, filmmaker and cultural worker. With humor and deep insight, Bambara inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to community empowerment. The film is structured as a series of lessons on cultural organizing, gleaned from Bambara’s life and shared by her friends, colleagues and students.
Followed by a Q&A with Director Louis Massiah
Wednesday, October 14:
Hidden Histories: Workshop on Participatory Community Media
12-1:30PM | TV Studio (HN 436)
RSVP (Open to Hunter students & alumni only):
https://fm-louis-massiah.eventbrite.com
Filmmaker Louis Massiah will show excerpts from 50 years of experiments in participatory community media – a unique form of documentary produced with communities and subjects. These works emerge out of places confronting urgent issues, and involve collaboration, negotiation, and a shared vision, allowing communities to render their own analysis of the world. Media becomes a tool for essential democratic discourse, change, and a way to confront power.
Louis Massiah is a documentary filmmaker and the founder of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, a media arts center that provides production workshops to community groups and emerging independent media makers.
Co-Sponsored by the Hunter College departments of Art and Art History, Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, English and Women and Gender Studies.
