Join us as we celebrate the beginning of our 5th decade
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H2A and Third World Newsreel's Indie Distribution
Label
The Hip-Hop Association
(H2A) and Third World Newsreel (TWN) partner in
H2ONEWSREEL,
a distribution label offering the best in Hip-Hop media, education, and culture.
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The 2015 Spring Evening Seminar Series started!
The next Production Workshop will start soon and the TWN Spring Evening Seminars is in session, and features Thomas Allen Harris, Shawn Batey, Ann Bennett, JT Takagi and more! For more info.
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2015: Moving Forward
TWN films featured at Lincoln Center and Herman Lew in memoriam.
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Through A Lens Darkly on PBS, Gideon's Army and Harvest of Empire honored, and more.
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Hafu - The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan
Megumi Nishikura & Lara Perez Takagi
HAFU is the unfolding journey of discovery into the intricacies of mixed-race Japanese and their multicultural experience in modern day Japan. The film follows the lives of five “hafus”–the Japanese term for people who are half-Japanese–as they explore what it means to be multiracial and multicultural in a nation that once proudly proclaimed itself as the mono-ethnic nation. For some of these hafus Japan is the only home they know, for some living in Japan is an entirely new experience, and others are caught somewhere between two different worlds.
According to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, one in forty-nine babies born in Japan today are born into families with one non-Japanese parent. This newly emerging minority in Japan is under-documented and under-explored in both literature and media. HAFU - THE MIXED-RACE EXPERIENCE IN JAPAN seeks to open this increasingly important dialogue. The film explores race, diversity, multiculturalism, nationality, and identity w
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Special Collections
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Assembled for your classroom and exhibition use, Third World Newsreel's Special
Collections groups titles from our library of films and videos around important
issues.
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Call for Change
The CALL FOR CHANGE 2005 series was a Third World Newsreel project
which brought together socially conscious mediamakers of color to produce short
videos on communities of color and their state of America.
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Call for Producers and Filmmakers.
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