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The William Penn Project: A Home Movie Day Exhibit Documenting Philly Public School History in the H
Local multimedia artist Nicole A. Ayers is making more than a decade of audiovisual archives available to see in "The William Penn Project," her home movie day exhibition preserving the student culture, history and significance of the now demolished William Penn High School building on North Broad street, and its impact on the lives of students, parents, teachers, local businesses and neighbors alike. The exhibit will be on display at The Madlab Post studio in the Bok building (1901 S. 9th Street) and available to view by appointment only until March 31, 2021. [learn more]
Online Screening: The Nine O’clock Whistle
Join Scribe Video Center for an online presentation of The Nine O’clock Whistle on Thursday, January 14, 2021. [learn more]
Body of Work: Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater
Barbara Attie (ACG '09, WOO '99) and Janet Goldwater (ACG '09, WOO '04) For more than 30 years, Philadelphia-based filmmakers Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater have collaborated on award-winning documentaries that raise women’s voices. [learn more]
New free tool for immigrant justice organizers
Working Films--together with our partners NAKASEC, National Domestic Workers Alliance, UndocuBlack Network, and United We Dream--is launching Stories Beyond Borders, a community organizing initiative to broaden the narrative about who is impacted by racist, inhumane immigration policies while lifting up the ways we can organize in response. [learn more]
Solace Screening in Philadelphia
See a free screening of Solace, a 2018 drama written and directed by Tchaiko Omawale, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker and BlackStar Film Festival founder Maori Karmael Holmes (ACG'17, '06, '05, LTA '06) on July 7 at 2:00 pm. This program is part of PECO Free First Sunday Family Day. Screened in the Comcast NBCUniversal Auditorium at The Barnes Foundation (2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19130.) This venue is wheelchair accessible. [learn more]
Michelle Angela Ortiz Presents Her Documentary
Visual Artist, Michelle Angela Ortiz (ACG '19 ’13, ’12, ’05, WOO '17, LTA '08), will be screening her short documentary, "Las Madres de Berks", as part of her "Familias Separadas" public art project, which amplifies the stories of families affected by detention and deportation in Pennsylvania.This event will take place May 9 at 5:30- 7:30 pm (Mother’s Day Tribute) at The Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition (2100 Arch Street, 4th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103). [learn more]
Sundance Institute Presentes Tayarisha Poe's Selah and the Spades
Tayarisha Poe (ACG '15, '14) will be presenting a free screening of Selah and the Spades, through the Sundance Institute. This film premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. [learn more]
Seven Square Miles Film Screening
Join Lorna Johnson Frizell (LTA '12) for a “rough cut” screening of her film Seven Square Miles. [learn more]
Producers' Forum - Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
Scribe is thrilled to present the Philadelphia Premiere of Feminists: What Were They Thinking? (USA, 2018, 85 min). Director Johanna Demetrakas and editor Kate Amend will be present for the Producers' Forum [learn more]
Baobab Flowers film screening at Scribe Video Center
On Friday, December 8, join Scribe Video Center for a screening of the documentary Baobab Flowers, followed by discussion with the production team: Gabriela Watson (Director), Melissa Skolnick-Noguera (Creative Producer, WOO '17, ACG '12) and Nyanza Bandele, African American teacher from Philadelphia featured in the film. [learn more]
Our Stories, Our Truth Documentary Film Debut By Elaine T. Jones
Elaine T. Jones (LTA '15) debuts her documentary film Our Stories, Our Truth on Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 1:00 PM at St. Peter's Lutheran Church. The film consists of interviews with African Americans of "the silent generation," people in their 70s, 80s, or 90s who are descendants of those who lived through the Civil War, who were born shortly after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation and endured the Jim Crow years. [learn more]
