On Screen/In Person Current Tours
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Tour A
The following films are traveling to the host sites listed below:
ARTSwego, Oswego, NY
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Clay Center, Charleston, WV
Cumberland County College, Vineland, NJ
Riverviews, Lynchburg, VA
St. John Film Society, St. John, USVI
Theater N, Wilmington, DE
SEPTEMBER 2011
What's 'Organic' About Organic?
Director, Shelley Rogers
 What's 'Organic' About Organic? dives into the challenges that arise when a grassroots agricultural movement evolves into a booming international market. Though the stories of farmers who steward land from Harlem to the foothills of the Rockies, from upstateNew York to Florida, the film offers audiences a deeper understanding of the complexities involved in creating a more sustainable food system.
OCTOBER 2011
Beatboxing - The Fifth Element of Hip Hop
Producer, Angela Viscido
Listen to our podcast with Beatboxing producer Angela Viscido and director Klaus Schneyder.
 In the late 70’s, a youth culture evolved from lower income neighborhoods of New York City under the name of Hip Hop. Apart from the four classic elements of graffiti, DJing, breakdancing, and rapping, the musical side of this culture was enhanced by a fifth element called 'Beatboxing'. From the hardship of poverty and the lack of instruments, a pioneer was inspired to imitate drum rhythms with his mouth - his brilliance creating the term 'Human Beatbox'. BEATBOXING features artists from the United States, Canada and across Europe, who demonstrate their amazing techniques.
NOVEMBER 2011
Out in the Silence
Directors, Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson
Listen to our podcast with Out In the Silence co-director Joe Wilson.
 When a popular 16-year-old jock is brutally attacked for coming out at his small town high school, his mother reaches out for help to the only person she feels she can trust, an openly gay man who lives 300 miles away--native son and filmmaker Joe Wilson. Returning home with camera in hand, Wilson documents the harrowing but ultimately successful battle waged by the teen and his mom against recalcitrant school authorities, the efforts of a lesbian couple to restore an historic theater in the face of vitriolic anti-gay attacks, and his own unexpected friendship with an Evangelical preacher. As walls are torn down and bridges built, Out in the Silence offers a fascinating and moving commentary on America's culture war.
FEBRUARY 2012
Concrete Steel & Paint
Directors, Cindy Burstein and Tony Heriza
Listen to our podcast with Concrete Steel & Paint co-directors Cindy Burstein and Tony Heriza.
 When men in a prison art class agree to collaborate with victims of crime to design a mural about healing, their views on punishment, remorse, and forgiveness collide. At times the divide seems too wide to bridge. But as the participants begin to work together, mistrust gives way to genuine moments of human contact and shared purpose. Their struggle to find creative common ground raises challenging questions about punishment, justice and reconciliation -- the insights gained are reflected in the art they produce in Concrete Steel & Paint.
MARCH 2012
Proceed and Be Bold!
Director, Laura Zinger
Listen to our podcast with Proceed and Be Bold! director Laura Zinger.
 Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. was not always a printing press and book artist. He used to live a middle class life like many other Americans, with a family and a job as a computer programmer at an international telecommunications company. Today, he is is widely known for his controversial posters and book art. In Proceed and Be Bold!, we follow Amos through art galleries to promote his work, and meet the people who 'understand him even better than he can,' as he puts it, in an effort to learn about what causes him to create his charged works of art, and how people react to them.
APRIL 2012
Milking the Rhino
Director, David E. Simpson
Listen to our podcast with Milking the Rhino director David E. Simpson.
 The Maasai tribe of Kenya and Namibia’s Himba--two of Earth’s oldest cattle cultures--are in the midst of upheaval. Emerging from a century of ‘white man conservation’ that turned their land into game reserves and fueled resentment towards wildlife, they are now vying for a piece of the wildlife-tourism pie. Charting the collision of ancient ways and Western expectations, Milking the Rhino tells intimate, hopeful and heartbreaking stories of people facing deep cultural change.
Tour B
The following films are traveling to the host sites listed below:
Allentown Symphony Association, Allentown, PA
Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, Annapolis, MD
Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA
Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ
Rehoboth Beach Film Society, Rehoboth Beach, DE
Rutgers, The State University of NJ, New Brunswick, NJ
Weinberg Center for the Arts, Frederick, MD
SEPTEMBER 2011
TRUST: Second Acts in Young Lives
Director, Nancy Kelly
Listen to our podcast with TRUST director Nancy Kelly.
 TRUST tells the story of eighteen-year-old Marlin, a struggling Honduran immigrant to the United States who has lived through some of the harshest cruelties imaginable. Committed to a psychiatric hospital, Marlin reveals her secrets to a counselor who recommends she join the Albany Park Theater Project, a teen theater company that makes original plays from company members’ life stories. Propelled by her experience with the company, Marlin transitions from a traumatized to empowered young woman. (Photo Amy Braswell, © Albany Park Theater Project 2009)
OCTOBER 2011
Little Town of Bethlehem
Director, Jim Hanon
Listen to our podcast with Little Town of Bethlehem director Jim Hanon.
 Little Town of Bethlehem shares the story of three men of different faiths, and their lives in Israel and Palestine. The film examines the struggle to promote equality through nonviolent engagement in the midst of incredible hostility that has dehumanized all sides. Their story explores each man's decision to risk everything, in order to bring an end to violence in their lifetime.
NOVEMBER 2011
In Good Time, The Piano Jazz of Marian McPartland
Director, Huey
Listen to our podcast with In Good Time director Huey.
 In Good Time, The Piano Jazz of Marian McPartland tells the story of McPartland's journey from playing piano at home as a child in England to becoming a jazz legend. Arriving in America after World War II with her husband Jimmy McPartland, she established herself as one of the leading musicians in the male dominated jazz world of the 1950s. McPartland, now 92, tells her own story through interviews filmed over four years along with performance and radio show footage. With Billy Taylor, Elvis Costello, Diana Krall, Bill Frisell, Nnenna Freelon, Renee Rosnes, Dick Hyman, and others.
FEBRUARY 2012
Money Matters
Director, Ryan Richmond
Listen to our podcast with Money Matters director Ryan Richmond.
 Money Matters is a coming-of-age story about a 14 year-old biracial girl, Monique Matters, as she tries to navigate faith and sexuality questions of adolescence, a dysfunctional single-mother household and the rough waters of our nation's capital's best kept secret -- the inner city. Monique never knew her father, and as her mother's disturbing past comes to light, she must somehow reconcile the relationships and circumstances surrounding her very existence.
MARCH 2012
Fambul Tok
Director, Sara Terry
Listen to our podcast with Fambul Tok director Sara Terry.
 Victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone's brutal civil war come together for the first time in an unprecedented program of tradition-based truth-telling and forgiveness ceremonies. Through reviving their ancient practice of fambul tok (family talk), Sierra Leoneans are building sustainable peace at the grass-roots level -- succeeding where the international community's post-conflict efforts failed. Filled with lessons for the West, Family Talk explores the depths of a culture that believes that true justice lies in redemption and healing for individuals -- and that forgiveness is the surest path to restoring dignity and building strong communities.
APRIL 2012
BLAST!
Director, Paul Devlin
Listen to our podcast with BLAST! director Paul Devlin.
 Welcome to astrophysics Indiana Jones style! Five-time Emmy winner Paul Devlin follows the story of his brother, Mark Devlin PhD, as he leads a tenacious team of scientists trying to figure out how all the galaxies formed by launching a revolutionary new telescope under a NASA high-altitude balloon. They hope to look back in time to reveal a hidden Universe of never-before-seen star burst galaxies, providing clues to the Evolution of Everything. From catastrophic failure to transcendent triumph, BLAST! exposes the surprising real life work of scientists.
Please contact your host site directly for screening times, dates and tickets.
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