Events

This documentary tells the little known story of Sakia Gunn, a 15 year old student who was fatally stabbed in a gay hate crime in Newark, New Jersey. This film depicts the homophobia that caused this murder and questions the lack of media coverage of a Black Gay teenager.

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2:30 PM
Golden Eagles Room (NEIU Student Union)

Wednesday, March 3rd, 6:00 PM
Affinity Community Services
5650 S. Woodlawn
Chicago, IL (Hyde Park)
More info, please contact Sheena Warren at s-glover@neiu.edu

TWN presents walk-in seminars on production topics you need - from production management, to new media production, sound recording and more. All classes are $20 ($10 for low income) unless otherwise noted. The workshops take place at Third World Newsreel.

Wednesday, March 24th, 6:30 PM
Sound Recording: Tips for Better Results, and a Look at New Gear! with JT Takagi
An intro to getting decent sound and a look at some of the more popular mixers, hard drive recorders and radio mikes, courtesy of Professional Sound Services.

Wednesday, April 7th, 6:30 PM
Master Class: Cliff Charles: The People's DP
Emmy nominated DP Cliff Charles, moves easily between shooting documentaries to features, commercials and music videos. He will talk and show clips from his work, including Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke and Chris Rock's Good Hair and more. *FREE*

All classes take place at: Third World Newsreel
545 Eighth Avenue, 10th Flr
between 37th and 38th Streets
1, 2, 3, A, C, E, N, R, W to Times Square
212 947-9277 x 15
Limited Seating. Register Now! Email: workshop@twn.org

Leo Hurwitz , a social issue documentary filmmaker, helped to pioneer the modern documentary narrative form as part of a group of radical filmmakers that worked between the 1930’s and 40’s – the Workers Film and Photo League, then Nykino, and then, Frontier Films. Blacklisted in the 50’s and 60’s, Hurwitz still made independent films and worked without credit on mainstream television as well. His work influenced Newsreel filmmakers and he worked with some of them also, making films until his death in 1991.

March 10-19, 2010
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue
New York, NY

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In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Third World Newsreel and NewFilmmakers Series are proud to present a double feature program on Wednesday, May 12th starting at 7PM.

6:00 PM Program: Third World Newsreel Workshop Students Program
TWN has trained over 400 film and video artists of color in the past 30 years through its annual TWN Film & Video Production Workshop. In 2009, with the extra support of the Asian Women Giving Circle, TWN presented the AGEM (Asian Girls Empowerment through Media) Summer Workshop, a program of media literacy and production where 11 Asian young women produced 4 videos. Join TWN to a screening of recent Film and Video Production Workshop pieces, including a short by AGEM students.

6:30 PM Program: Korean Documentary by new and upcoming filmmaker Jeong-hyun Mun
Grandmother's Flower, 89 min
When director Mun accidentally discovered the diaries of his late granduncle, who was mentally ill, he unexpectedly learned about his family's secret history. The small mountain village in South Jeolla Province where Mun's family lived was nursing the wounds from conflicts of class, ideology as well as from the displacement of family members in South and North Korea, and even in Japan. It turned out that the history of his family contained all the tragedies of modern Korean history, a history he had only known through textbooks. This interesting documentary investigates a complex history linking the repercussions of Japanese colonialism and the Korean War to the director's family memories.

Wednesday, May 12th at 6:00 PM
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue, at 2nd Street
New York, NY
Admission: $5
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