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BETWEEN THE FRAMES Screening & Moderated Discussion
Join us for another iteration of BETWEEN THE FRAMES, a program of films in Redmond that uses visual storytelling to promote and deepen our understanding of different histories, traditions, and cultures.
These 2 short films, situated in the Afro-Latino and South Asian contexts are linked by themes of acceptance, self-love, and the complexities of the diasporic experience. They explore and disrupt the deep connections between internalized racial biases and colorism within/outside spaces of color.
Afterwards, there will be a moderated conversation with Dr. Diana Flores Ruíz, Assistant Professor in Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.
This program was organized by Savita Krishnamoorthy
Media design by @_chiledulce
About the Films & Artists
RIZO (2020, USA, 14:37 mins)
Directed by Jeanette Dilone
Produced by Jeanette Dilone & Andrew McLaren
An Afro-Latina actress looking for her big break has her hopes dashed when things take a bad turn at an important audition.
JEANETTE DILONE is a native New Yorker, born and raised in Washington Heights, NYC. Though Jeanette's first passion was classical ballet, she fell in love with acting during her college years. Since then, her acting work has spanned television, film, theater, commercials, and new media. She made her directorial debut with the short film, "Return," which she also wrote and produced. It premiered at the NY Shorts International Film Festival and was acquired by Shorts TV. Her second short, "Rizo" (2020), which she wrote, produced, and directed, premiered at LALIFF and was one of the 2020 HBO Latinx Short Film Competition winners and is available to watch on HBOMax. In 2021, Jeanette became a recipient of the LALIFF Inclusion Fellowship, sponsored by Netflix. In 2022, her third short "Hoar", which she wrote, produced, and directed, premiered at LALIFF.
KAALA (2019, India, 15:24 mins)
Directed by Tarun Jain
Produced by Nasira Khan
A short socio-political film about the increasing issues of racism, specifically on hate crimes against African nationals that occurred in New Delhi, India in 2016 and 2017.
TARUN JAIN is an acclaimed filmmaker from New Delhi, India. His short film, Amma Meri has screened in over 48 festivals including the Oscar Qualifying Tampere Film Festival, IFFI Goa, MIFF, IDSFFK, and Dharamshala, India. His latest film Kaala (2019) is based on the racist attacks on the Africans in New Delhi, India. Kaala (2019) had its world premiere at the Oscar Qualifying Cinequest Film and VR Festival in the USA and also played at Rapid Lion Film Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was screened at the Coalition of South Asian Film Festivals (CoSAFF), a first of its kind event that brought together seven well-established South Asian film festivals across North America in 2020.
About the Moderator
DR. DIANA FLORES RUÍZ is Assistant Professor in Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, where her teaching specializes in race and media in the US. Dr. Ruíz’s research examines technologies that produce and facilitate structures of racialized violence, as well as artistic and activist media that propose alternative forms of safety and survival.
About the Curator
SAVITA KRISHNAMOORTHY is an art historian, educator, organizer, and writer from India, based in Redmond, WA. Her writing publications include The Times of India, Feminist Media Histories (University of California Press), Courageous Creativity, Black Embodiment Studio Journal, and the International Examiner, where she is a regular contributor writing on arts and culture. She earned an MA in Art History (University of Bangalore, India), her MA in Cultural Studies (University of Washington) and received the 2019 Merit Award from the Alpha Kappa Alpha Foundation.
“I value the space between arts practice and community engagement. To affect change by facilitating conversations that shift the narratives on equity, access, and representation.”
The program is presented by Black Cinema Collective along with Centro Cultural Mexicano, with grants received from the Redmond Arts Seasons Grant (2021) and 4 Culture.
NEPTUNE FROST Screening
From multi-hyphenate poet and artist Saul Williams, and Rwanda-born artist Anisia Uzeyman, #NeptuneFrost is a thrilling anti-colonialist sci-fi musical.
Black Sonic Evolutions 2022
BLACK SONIC EVOLUTIONS continues our annual programming that recognizes Black Music Month.
Last year we partnered with Langston, Henry, Wa Na Wari, and SIFF for a series of talks and shared viewings of music video and visual histories of Black music. The Program was called: Black Spatial Elegance: new cinematic language of global black music. It was a pretty dense and fun program done across 3 weeks with community curated music playlists and just vibing through oral histories and memories.
This year we’ve scaled wayyy back and changed the name to Black Sonic Evolutions.
This time is we are highlighting music documentary films focused on the power of the Black Sonic as a community soundtracking protest force for joy and liberation.
As an online/social media series we’re highlighting Black music documentaries and protest/ revolution films, showing Black liberation histories and the sounds of powerful social and political change. Black musicians and singers throughout the African Diaspora have gifted us lyrical and sonic inspiration that have ignited independence movements, evolutionary civil and human rights, revolutionary protests and sit-ins, organizational + mutual aid, cultural belonging, ancestral memory and upliftment. Our highlights serve as an archive for us to broaden our knowledge of how we have influenced the world at large, through Caribbean Reggae music, Country music, South African Soweto and Jazz, West African Afrobeats, North American Southern Jazz, Hip Hop, and Rhythm and Blues, the roots of Rock n’ Roll, Punk, and more.
Films include:
Neptune Frost
#BSE #BlackSonicEvolutions 2022
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Travessias Brazilian Film Festival 2022 [Co-Presenter]
We’re proud to co-present the Travessias Brazilian Film Festival 2022 [Hybrid program] at Northwest Film Forum! WATCH independent films from all over BRAZIL + Free Opening Night concert with EntreMundos Quarteto!
PROGRAM CURATORS
Emanuella Rodrigues de Moraes, Livia Lima, and Calac Nogueira, supported by Prof. Jonathan Warren, Director of the Center for Brazilian Studies.
Festival Graphics Designer: Lucas Franco Colusso
ABOUT FESTIVAL
Travessias Brazilian Film Festival 2022 gives marginalized voices the mic in discussions of race, sexuality, and governance. This festival of contemporary Brazilian films runs May 19–22 in person, May 19–29 online, with short films about the ebbs and flows of life, identity, and belonging and fierce features from a metacinematic kidnapping drama to an enduring saga of Indigenous Brazilians' fight for land rights.
Tickets are sliding scale and available HERE.
FESTIVAL COPRESENTERS
UW Spanish & Portuguese Studies, Center for Brazilian Studies, Simpson Center, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for Global Studies, Black Cinema Collective, Three Dollar Bill Cinema, Show Brazil, and Brazil Center of Seattle
HERE + THERE, or frequencies of the everyday
HERE + THERE, or frequencies of the everyday is a visual retelling of personal and creative responses to daily life in Colombia, Jamaica, and the UK.
Precious Hair & Beauty (2021, UK, 11 mins)
Directed by John Ogunmuyiwa; Produced by Sophia Gibber and Tony Longe
WALK GOOD (2021; South Africa, Jamaica; 13 mins)
Directed by Adriaan Louw and Roberto Colombo
Dulce (2019; USA, Colombia; 11 mins)
Directed by Angello Faccini and Guille Isa
This program was curated by Chile Dulce for Black Cinema Collective (BCC).
#blackcinemacollective #HERETHERE #fryeartmuseum
ABOUT THE FILMS + ARTISTS
|. Precious Hair & Beauty (2021, UK, 11 mins)
Directed by John Ogunmuyiwa; Produced by Sophia Gibber and Tony Longe
An ode to the mundanity and madness of the high street, told through the window of an African hair salon. It’s the everyday antics of a bustling high street
John Ogunmuyiwa is an award-winning Nigerian-born London-bred filmmaker who works in both documentary and fiction. His work draws upon a constant questioning of what it means to be normal. Using daily observations as a base, he tends to bring a tinge of surrealism into his work, all with the aim of telling untold stories from a different perspective. // IG + Twitter: @johnogunz
Sophia Gibber is a London/Rome-based producer who enjoys unique ways of exploring the familiar. Films she has produced include feature documentary MCKELLEN: PLAYING THE PART and BIFA-nominated debut feature THE BIKE THIEF for which she was also longlisted for Breakthrough Producer. Obsessed with true crime, she also co-created THE DOODLER hit podcast series with the San Francisco Chronicle and Sony Music, which was nominated for an OJA award. // IG: @sophiainrome | Twitter: @__sophia
Tony Longe began his career producing music videos with some of the biggest names in the music industry; from international artists like Davido, J Balvin & Future to homegrown talents like Westlife, Aitch & Wretch 32. He most recently produced Random Acts’ THE GIFT, which premiered on Film4, short APPRECIATION, which played at the 2019 BFI London Film Festival and Aesthetica Short Film Festival, and PRECIOUS HAIR& BEAUTY, which has been nominated for a BIFA. // IG + Twitter: @producerlonge
||. WALK GOOD (2021; South Africa, Jamaica; 13 mins)
Directed by Adriaan Louw and Roberto Colombo
A Patois expression wishing good fortune to a departing traveler, “Walk Good” is an abstract visual account of a Jamaican experience, documented through the lens of South African filmmakers.
Adriaan Louw is a South African-born filmmaker and photographer who began his career documenting collectives and communities across South Africa with a focus on music, skateboarding, and fashion. He regularly works with other major brands such as Adidas, Vans, Puma, Vogue and The Fader. His sensibility and talent for creating hypnotic and cinematic atmospheres has attracted work from international artists including Major Lazer, Wizkid, Jess Glynne, Mabel, Black Coffee and Riky Rick. His work in music has won a number of awards, including MTV Africa’s music video of the year for Riky Rick’s “Nafukwa”. // www.adriaanlouw.co IG: @adriaanlouw1
Roberto Colombo // www.robertocolombo.tv | IG: @robocolo
|||. Dulce (2019; USA, Colombia; 11 mins)
Directed by Angello Faccini and Guille Isa
In the coastal village of La Ensenada, Colombia, where digging for shellfish is a way of life, everyone must learn to swim eventually — even little Dulce. But as the effects of climate change, marked by swelling tides and shrinking coastlines, begin to threaten the village's livelihood, the carefree swimming lessons led by Dulce's mother take on a sense of urgency.
Angello Faccini was born in Bogotá, Colombia and studied filmmaking at ESCAC in Barcelona. He works as a filmmaker and cinematographer who actively balance narrative, documentary and commercial work. His short film DULCE (2018) released by NYT Op Docs was selected in Sundance, Toronto, IDFA, among other film festivals and won Best Documentary at Palm Springs Film Fest and Gran Prix at Tampere Film Festival. LAPÜ (2019) his first feature had its World Premiere at Sundance and the European Premiere at the Berlinale and won Best Cinematography at the Boston Film Festival. His latest feature film MILESTONE (2020) shot in India had its world premiere at the Orizzonti section at the Venice Internacional Film Festival.
Guille Isa is a documentary filmmaker based in Lima, Peru. Half Japanese, half Peruvian, Guille has spent most of his career working with and filming different cultures in South America. His films primarily explore planet Earth in all its diversity, spotlighting craft, culture, belief systems, as well as environmental issues. // www.guilleisa.com
Abderrahmane Sissako’s African Worlds
A four-film series and lecture by Abderrahmane Sissako in conversation,holding the transformational poetics of humanitarian cinema. April 22nd – 26th, 2022.
ABOUT SISSAKO & THE SERIES
What is the place of West Africa in the world and of the world in West Africa? These are the questions that the Oscar- and Palme d’Or-nominated filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako asks insistently in films that address the impact of World Bank and IMF policies in Mali and beyond (Bamako, 2006), the confrontation between extremist and moderate Islam in the southern Sahara (Timbuktu, 2014), and exile in Europe and the difficulties of returning home (Life on Earth, 1999). In all of his films, Sissako brings a worldly sensibility to the representation of the most pressing concerns of the continent, but always with an eye for the beauty and tenderness in everyday life, no matter how difficult, and for the moral ambiguities and linguistic complexities that evade so many representations of West Africa.
SCHEDULE
Apr. 22 at 1:00pm: Life on Earth (1998, 61 mins), at Henry Art Gallery Auditorium, Program Introduction by James Long
Apr. 23 at 3:00pm: Waiting for Happiness (2002, 95 mins) at Henry Art Gallery Auditorium, Film Introduction by Richard Watts
Apr. 24 at 1:00pm: Bamako (2006, 117 mins) at Northwest Film ForumApr. 25, 6:00 –8:00pm: Timbuktu (2014, 97 mins) at NW Film Forum, followed by Q & A with Sissako, Introduction by Berette S Macaulay, Interpretation by Richard Watts
Apr. 26, 7:00 -8:30pm: Translating African Worlds: A Conversation with Filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako, Kane Hall at UW
Abderrahmane Sissako is the 2022 University of Washington Katz Distinguished Lecturer.
He will be joined in conversation on April 26th by Berette S Macaulay (founder of Seattle’s Black Cinema Collective) and Maya Smith (Dir. of African Studies at UW). This public conversation will be in English + French with Richard Watts as interpreter.
REGISTRATION CLOSED.
ABOUT THE FILMS
La Vie Sur Terre (Life on Earth), 1998 (trailer)
Set in the rural village of Sokolo on the eve of the 21st century, Dramane (Abderrahmane Sissako), a Malian who lives in Paris, returns to his family's African village to visit his father (Mohamed Sissako). Dramane realizes how different and stagnated his village is compared to the ever-changing modern world, especially at the dawn of a new millennium. While home, he strikes up a friendship with beautiful villager Nana (Nana Baby), with whom he contemplates the future.
(Sources: Wikipedia & Rotten Tomatoes)
Mali / 61 minutes / Comedy Drama / Bambara and French with English subtitles
Screening in person at Henry Art Gallery Auditorium, April 22nd, 1:00 pm
Heremakono/Waiting for Happiness, 2002 (trailer)
Hassania Nouadhibou is a small coastal Mauritanian city that acts as a transit point to the West. Abdallah returns home on his way to Europe. Having forgotten how to speak in his mother’s tongue, he becomes a mute observer of village life and its minor intrigues. His mother and Khatra, an orphan boy apprenticed to an aging electrician, try to help him adapt, but to little avail. Abdallah, with his eyes fixed on the horizon, awaits the arrival of hypothetical happiness.
Source: African Film Festival NY
Mali and Mauritania / 95mins / Drama / French and Hassania with English subtitles
Screening in person at Henry Art Gallery Auditorium, April 23rd, 3:00pm
BAMAKO, 2006 (trailer)
An extraordinary trial is taking place in a residential courtyard in Bamako, the capital city of Mali. African citizens have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), whom civil society blames for perpetuating Africa’s debt crisis, at the heart of so many of the continent’s woes. As numerous trial witnesses (schoolteachers, farmers, writers, etc.) air bracing indictments against the global economic machinery that haunts them, life in the courtyard presses forward. Melé, a lounge singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up; a security guard’s gun goes missing; a young man lies ill; a wedding procession passes through; and women keep everything rolling – dyeing fabric, minding children, spinning cotton, and speaking their minds.
Co-executive produced by Danny Glover (who also provides a cameo in the film). Director Sissako, who grew up in the courtyard that the film is set in, hired professional lawyers and judges along with “witnesses” to express their true feelings. Bamako voices Africa’s grievances in an original and profoundly moving way.
Stills courtesy of Icarus Films
Mali and France /117 mins / Political Drama /French, Bambara, English & Hebrew with English subtitles
Screening in person at Northwest Film Forum, April 24rd, 1:00 pm
TIMBUKTU, 2014 (trailer)
Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by the religious fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya, and Issan, their twelve-year-old shepherd. In town, the people suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their faith. Music, laughter, cigarettes, even soccer have been banned. The women have become shadows but resist with dignity. Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences.
Kidane and his family are being spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu. But their destiny changes when Kidane accidentally kills Amadou, the fisherman who slaughtered “GPS,” his beloved cow. He now has to face the new laws of the foreign occupants.
Timbuktu was featured in the Palme d’Or main competition at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, earned the 2015 Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, and won seven 2015 Cesar Awards in France, including Best Director and Best Film.
Stills and synopsis courtesy of Cohen Media.
Mauritania, France and Qatar /97 mins / Drama / French, Arabic, Bambara, English, Songhay and Tamashek with English subtitles
Screening in person at Northwest Film Forum, April 24rd, 6:00 pm, followed by Q & A with Abderrahmane Sissako
ABOUT INTERVIEWERS
Berette S Macaulay is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and writer born in Sierra Leone, and raised in Jamaica. Her work engages complex cultural negotiations of be/longing, trans*national personhood, coded identity-performance, memory, and mythmaking. Exhibition and sharing spaces include Melkweg Expo (Netherlands), Art Alive (India), SP-Arte (Brazil), Memorial ACTe Museum (Guadeloupe), and Annenberg Space for Photography (USA). Permanent collections include National Gallery of Jamaica and Int’l Center for Photography (as ‘SeBiArt’). She received the UW Ottenberg-Winans Fellowship for African Studies (2019) for her ongoing research on Afro-gestural vocabularies Embodied Witness: Performing Memory for Black (re)Cognition, recently presented as a film essay and participatory engagement at the 2022 Black Portraitures VII Conference: Play & Performance at Rutgers University. Her work has been supported with artist grants and residencies from the National Performance Network (NPN), Vermont Studio Center, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Shunpike Arts, and 4Culture. Her curatorial projects include the permanent exhibition Mystic of a Woman on Rita Marley at the Bob Marley Museum, illusive self at Taller Boricua Gallery, NY, and MFON in Seattle (2019-2020), a five month-long series of exhibitions and talks she conceived and organized in partnership with MFON Women Photographers of the African Diaspora, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Frye Art Museum, and Photographic Center NW. Berette is the Curatorial Fellow at On the Boards where her collaborative performance project ‘[UN- TITLED]’is in development, co-commissioned by BRIC Arts New York. She serves as professor/Art Liaison Program Manager at Henry Art Gallery and is the founder of Black Cinema Collective – a project of i•ma•gine e•volve.
Maya Smith completed her undergraduate and master’s degree at New York University in the joint MA/BA program with the Institute of French Studies. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in Romance Languages and Linguistics. Her scholarship broadly focuses on the intersection of racial and linguistic identity formations among marginalized groups in the African diaspora, particularly in the postcolonial francophone world. Her book, Senegal Abroad: Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries, was published with the University of Wisconsin Press in January 2019. Through a critical examination of language and multilingual practices in qualitative, ethnographic data, Senegal Abroad shows how language is key in understanding the formation of national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities among Senegalese in Paris, Rome, and New York. This is a book about language attitudes, how they influence people’s local and global interactions with the world, how they change through the experience of migration, and how in turn they affect migrants’ language use. Senegal Abroad received the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies at the MLA 2021. In addition to the Senegalese Diaspora, Maya focuses on how blackness is constructed in the French Caribbean and is also interested in language pedagogy. She is also devoting time to public scholarship seen in her recent publication in Yes! Magazine: “Enunciating Power: Amanda Gorman and My Battle to Claim My Voice.” Maya has been the recipient of various grants including the Camargo Foundation's Author-in-Residence Fellowship, the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty, the UW Research Royalty Fund Fellowship, the Simpson Center Society of Scholars.
Partnered Films series organized in collaboration with BCC's lead organizer Berette S Macaulay, NWFF's Artistic Dir. Rana San & team, and UW French Lecturer Richard Watts, with the Henry's Youth & Public Programs Manager and Curator, Ian Siporin and Mita Mahato.
Katz Lecture organized by Simpson Center's Director Kathleen Woodward and Programs & Events Manager, Caitlin Palo.
Sponsored by Simpson Center for the Humanities in co-presenting partnership with UW African Studies Program, Black Cinema Collective, Henry Art Gallery, and Northwest Film Forum.
BETWEEN THE FRAMES: Virtual Screening + Discussion
BETWEEN THE FRAMES is a film program in Redmond that uses visual storytelling to promote and deepen our understanding of different histories, traditions, and cultures.
These films, situated in the Black North American and South Asian contexts, are linked by themes of memory, acceptance, self-love, and the complexities of the diasporic experience. In particular, they explore and disrupt the deep connections between internalized racial biases and colorism within and between Black and South Asian communities.
Rewatch the program on YouTube
This program features:
WHAT’S YOUR BROWN NUMBER? (2015, India, 4:31 mins)
Directed by Vinnie Ann Bose; Produced by Studio EeksaurusKAALA (2019, India, 15:24 mins)
Directed by Tarun Jain; Produced by Nasira Khan
ABOUT THE FILMS + ARTISTS
WHAT’S YOUR BROWN NUMBER? (2015, India, 4:31 mins)
Directed by Vinnie Ann Bose; Produced by Studio Eeksaurus
What's Your Brown Number? is an animated satire on colorism that questions the nuances of idealized beauty based on skin tone in India.
VINNIE ANN BOSE
VINNIE ANN BOSE is an Indian born animator, living and working in France since 2018. She holds a Bachelors in Animation Film Design from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, India and a Masters in Animation film direction from Joined École de la poudrière, Valence, France.
What is your Brown Number? was part of an incubation student project that Vinnie made while studying at NID under the mentorship of Suresh Eriyat of Studio Eeksaurus.
She is currently working on a short film project titled "Sulaimani" and a TV series project for children titled "Mousse & Bichon", as author and director.
KAALA (2019, India, 15:24 mins)
Directed by Tarun Jain; Produced by Nasira Khan
Kaala (Black in Hindi) is a short socio-political film specifically on hate crimes against African nationals that occurred in New Delhi, India in 2016 and 2017.
TARUN JAIN
TARUN JAIN is an acclaimed filmmaker from New Delhi, India. His short film, Amma Meri has screened in over 48 festivals including the Oscar Qualifying Tampere Film Festival, IFFI Goa, MIFF, IDSFFK, and Dharamshala, India.
His latest film Kaala (2019) is based on the racist attacks on the Africans in New Delhi, India. Kaala (2019) had its world premiere at the Oscar Qualifying Cinequest Film and VR Festival in the USA and also played at Rapid Lion Film Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was screened at the Coalition of South Asian Film Festivals (CoSAFF), a first of its kind event that brought together seven well-established South Asian film festivals across North America in 2020.
Moderated discussion led by Dr. Nalini Iyer
DR. NALINI IYER
NALINI IYER is Professor of English at Seattle University and current holder of the Theiline Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair for the Humanities. She teaches postcolonial studies including South Asian and African writing, and courses on postcolonial and transnational feminisms. Her research focuses on three interrelated areas: the hegemony of Anglophone writing in South Asia, South Asian diaspora studies, and Partition Studies. Her publications include the following: Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India (co-edited with Bonnie Zare, Rodopi 2009); Roots and Reflections: South Asians in the Pacific Northwest (co-authored with Amy Bhatt, University of Washington Press 2013); and Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays in Memory, Culture, and Politics (co-edited with Amritjit Singh and Rahul K. Gairola, Lexington 2016/Orient Blackswan 2016). She is the Chief Editor of South Asian Review and the first woman to hold that position in the journal’s forty-year history.
This program was organized by Savita Krishnamoorthy
Media design by Chile Dulce
Presented by Black Cinema Collective (BCC)
www.blackcinemacollective.org
This project is supported in part by grants from the City of Redmond and 4Culture
BETWEEN THE FRAMES: Outdoor Screening
BETWEEN THE FRAMES is a film program in Redmond that uses visual storytelling to promote and deepen our understanding of different histories, traditions, and cultures.
These films, situated in the Black North American and South Asian contexts, are linked by themes of memory, acceptance, self-love, and the complexities of the diasporic experience. In particular, they explore and disrupt the deep connections between internalized racial biases and colorism within and between Black and South Asian communities.
This program features:
BLACK SOUL (2002, Canada, 9:50 mins)
Directed by Martine Chartrand; Produced by National Film Board, CanadaRECOILED (2019, USA, 8:02 mins)
Directed by Claire Grim; Produced by Shalom Simmons
September 2021 @ the Buoyant Pavilion in Downtown Park, Redmond
Available every Tues, Wed, & Thurs
8 – 10 pm PST
*Films will play on loop
ABOUT THE FILMS + ARTISTS
BLACK SOUL (2002, Canada, 9:50 mins)
Directed by Martine Chartrand; Produced by National Film Board, Canada
Black Soul an animated short, is a lyrical discovery through constantly shifting images into the journeys of Black peoples through Africa and North America. A grandmother’s memory becomes the gateway into stories of defining moments in Black History, a legacy bequeathed to the next generation to never forget, to safeguard, and to pass on.
MARTINE CHARTRAND is a Canadian Haitian filmmaker who directed the award-winning short film T.V Tango (1992) for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). She made her second film for NFB entitled Black Soul (2000), an animated short tracing the memory of Black History, which garnered 23 awards, including the Golden Bear at the Berlinale 2001. Her third film, MacPherson (2012), inspired by a song from Quebec singer-songwriter Félix Leclerc, won the First Prize and the Best Canadian Short Film Public Award at the Montreal International World Film Festival in 2012.
RECOILED (2019, USA, 8:02 mins)
Directed by Claire Grim; Produced by Shalom Simmons
Recoiled unpacks themes of stereotypes, disrupting hegemonic standards of beauty, and the stigmatization of black hair. It reiterates the importance of valuing one’s authentic self, pride in your culture, and in the positive representation of Black voices.
This animated short is produced by 6 students in the Electronic Arts Program at Missouri State University; Claire Grim (Writer/Director), Shalom Simmons (Writer/Producer), Shelby Corely (Art Direction), Matt Fuller (Technical Direction), Brandon Huddleston (Original Music), and Kersten Schatz (Producer/Screenplay). Recoiled won the Broadcast Education Association’s 2019 Best of Festival award in the Screenwriting category.
This program was organized by Savita Krishnamoorthy
Media design by Chile Dulce
Presented by Black Cinema Collective (BCC)
www.blackcinemacollective.org
This project is supported in part by grants from the City of Redmond and 4Culture
#blackcinemacollective #betweentheframes