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Great Opportunity For Chicago-based Filmmakers – DEADLINE
Kartemquin films, which produced outstanding documentaries like Hoop Dreams and The Interrupters is looking for diverse filmmakers for their Diverse Voices in Docs professional development program. The application deadline is December 3, 2013 – you can access the application HERE
Here’s some more information on Kartemquin and the program from one of my favorite blogs, Shadow & Act:
Laura Kina’s Art Exhibit 11/16/13 in Maryland
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Blog Post: So, Where Are You From?
Another very thoughtful blog post on growing up in a culturally mixed family: https://medium.com/race-class/a1bd3e46cc3c
from medium.com/race-class
Submissions Open for NAACP Image Awards
Although it comes with a hefty price tag ($200), if you know of a worthy filmmaker, actor, singer or writer who tells Mixed Roots Stories, this is a great way to show your support. The fee is tax deductible and they are accepting submissions until November 15, 2013. Click this link for their Guidelines and Instructions packet: https://www.naacpimageawards.net/submissions/45th_NIA_GuidelinesandInstructions.pdf
Lionsgate Buys Interracial Comedy Pitch
from indiewire.com
Gary Anthony Williams and Jeannie Roshar are an interracial writing team (who also direct and act). They co-founded the LA Comedy Shorts Festival, which premiered the short film I Own You – about the ups and downs of interracial love. They have now sold the film as a feature to Lionsgate (the company that brought us Crash, Precious)
Here’s a plot synopsis of the film, written by Roshar:
Ronnie, an African-American man, and Betsy, his Caucasian wife, are shocked to learn that in the 1800’s, her family owned his in slavery. At first, Ronnie brushes it off, but then an ax, a dashiki, Oprah Winfrey and a cotton ball cause him to look at his wife in a whole new way.
We’ll be keeping track of the film here on our blog. Let us know if you had a chance to see the short and what your thoughts are! We at MixedRootsStories.org are cautiously optimistic.
View Artist Laura Kina’s Work in New Delhi, India (11/8/13)
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Press Release
CARE Package c/o New Delhi, IndiaCurated by Ombretta Agró Andruff in collaboration with the artistsOpening Reception: Friday, November 8th, 2013. 6:30pm onwardsIndia International Centre Follow the project on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ IIC is thrilled to announce its upcoming exhibition, CARE Package c/o New Delhi, India, with an opening reception onNovember 8th, 2013. The show runs from November 7–15, 2013. Inspired by the concept of “CARE Package”, the exhibition brings together five international women artists from Asia or of Asian descent, touching venues in North America as well as Asia. The exhibition debuted in the USA at Twelve Gates Gallery in Philadelphia (October 2012) and is traveling next to IIC, New Delhi before going on to Phnom Penh, Cambodia [the city named in the title changes according to the hosting location]. A rich tradition exists throughout Asian countries of gift packages exchanged as social contract and, while unwritten, they embody strong cultural, social, political and economic codings. In North America, care packages are associated with gifts sent from loved ones to their children and youth who are away from home (usually off to camp, college, or the military). Historically the CARE package was the unit of aid at the core of the food relief effort developed in 1945 by the USA-based humanitarian CARE organization and was sent to a large number of Europeans at risk of starvation in the wake of World War II. It soon became an icon of American generosity and global leadership. In an era where the concept of “American generosity and global leadership” is a far cry from its meaning during the post-war years and very much up for debate, the participating artists tell stories that grew out of their own personal history and cultural heritage to tackle issues of nationhood, race, gender, religion, and economic exploitation on a world scale, in the context of emergent global capitalism. Storytelling and a deep interest in history and untold stories is a shared strategy amongst this newly formed collective of interdisciplinary women artists who have historical and contemporary links to disparate geographies such as India, Pakistan, Japan, Cambodia, Canada and the USA. In a grass roots diplomatic effort, they are collaborating with an Italian, New York/ Miami-based curator to conduct a trans-cultural dialogue between their works, their countries of origin, and the intersections and migrations between. Artists: Shelly Bahl (born in Benares, living between New York and Toronto); Shelly Jyoti (Born in Rohtak, living in New Delhi); Laura Kina (born in Riverside, CA, to an Okinawan father and Basque/Anglo mother, and living in Chicago); Saira Wasim (born in Lahore, living in California); and Cambodian-American Anida Yoeu Ali (born in Battambang, Cambodia, raised in Chicago, currently living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia). For more information, contact curator Ombretta Agro’ in Miami ombretta@ombrettaagro.com This New Delhi exhibition is organized by India International Centre. |
CMRS 2014: Call for Proposals & Registration
Critical Mixed Race Studies is looking for scholars of all areas to contribute to the 2014 conference. The theme for 2014 is: Global Mixed Race. We are teaming up with them to bring arts and cultural programming; we’re looking for filmmakers and performers. Click the link and apply! http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e80f9aab434abae2b4b391cae&id=d92657eda3&e=56b2d4ea9b
Many Wonderful Quotes to Ponder: Coming Out as Biracial
From medium.com/human-parts/c25d6ae8f2af
We’re very moved by this new blogpost written by Stephanie Georgopulos (Twitter handle: @omgstephlol)
Some quotes to pique your interest in clicking the link below and joining the conversation:
“Even with my white skin, I didn’t know the white experience entirely. I didn’t know it because when people use that poisonous n-word, I instantly think of my mother—and how people have used that word to hurt her simply for lack of time and effort. I think about the things my parents sacrificed to be together, things bigger than letters can spell…When #shitblackmomssay trended on Twitter, I laughed. I was on the inside of something, for once.
“[Being biracial is] witnessing one of the most exciting conversations about race since the civil rights movement, and wondering whether you’re the white voice that should shut up and listen, or the black voice that should speak out, or the mixed voice that should ???.”
Click here for the rest of this insightful post: https://medium.com/human-parts/c25d6ae8f2af
- From medium.com/human-parts/c25d6ae8f2af
New UK Film Looks at Interracial Relationships
The theme for the 2014 Critical Mixed Race Studies conference is ‘Global Mixed Race,’ so we were excited to learn about this new film: The Colour of Love – a documentary out of Southampton, England. You can watch the trailer for the film on the official website: http://don338.wix.com/don#!the-colour-of-love