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Event Archive: 2006
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April 13
Lillian Jiménez:
"Antonia Pantoja: Forging a Path for Puerto Rican Civil Rights in the U.S."
Lecture at 7:00 pm, Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center
For nearly thirty years, Lillian Jiménez has worked as a media arts center manager, independent producer, media activist, exhibitor, funder and educator. She founded and for a decade directed Seeing Through AIDS, a pioneering media literacy project training thousands of health care providers to incorporate media into their AIDS counseling, prevention, and support work. She has conducted media literacy workshops on Latino stereotypes, self-representation, color/race, and the construction of whiteness. Jiménez is the founding chair of the National Association of Independent Latino Producers (NALIP), a membership organization for Latino producers, and serves on the board of The Funding Exchange and The North Star Fund.
She is currently the Executive Director of the Latino Educational Media Center and serves as Producer/Director for Abriendo Camino:Antonia Pantoja, an hour-long documentary on visionary leader Dr. Antonia Pantoja, who fought for language and education rights, advocated for cultural pluralism, and in 1996 was the first Puerto Rican woman to receive the Medal of Freedom.
April 18
Fair Use, Free Speech and Contract Clearance
Progress in Year One of the Fair Use Initiative
The Center hosts a panel on fair use and contract clearance, reporting on progress in industry practices since the launch of the Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use. Joining Professors Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi will be legendary cinema vérité filmmaker Albert Mayles (also accepting a CINE lifetime achievement award that day), award-winning documentary filmmaker Gordon Quinn, and the Independent Television Service’s vice president for distribution, Tamara Gould. Get details>>
April 25
Fair Use, Licensing, and Intellectual Property Rights
An In-Depth Discussion at the Nashville Film Festival, Nashville TN
Byron Hurt (Beyond Beats and Rhymes), F. Casey Del Casino (attorney and author of The Potential Harm of Musical Parody: Toward an Enlightened Fair Use Calculus), and the Center’s outreach coordinator Agnes Varnum will appear on a panel discussion on fair use, discussing the Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use and how to use the tool in expanding freedom of expression. For panel details and ticketing, visit Nashville Film Festival>>
March 13
Taking the Law Into Your Own Hands
Panel Discussion at SXSW in Austin, TX
Center director Pat Aufderheide spoke on using fair use as a tool at the all-in-one music, film and interactive media festival.
Go to SXSW>>
March 16-26
Co-presented with the School of Communication's Center for Environmental Filmmaking, American University is proud to support the 14th Annual Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital. Overview of events at AU are as follows:
March 16
Screening: Buyer, Be Fair: The Promise of Product Certification
By John de Graaf
*TIME & LOCATION CHANGE: Two Screenings: 6:00 PM & 8:00 PM
Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center, AU Main Campus
Q&A with filmmaker following the screening.
March 20
Screening & Panel: Banking on Disaster
By Adrian Cowell
6:30 PM, Wechsler Theatre, Mary Graydon Center
Panel with Adrian Cowell and Steve Schwartzman of Environmental Defense Fund following the screening, moderated by Pat Aufderheide.
March 21
An Evening with Chris Palmer:
How to Film Sharks and Bears and Live to Tell About It
7 PM, Butler Board Room, Mary Graydon Center
Award-winning environmental filmmaker and founder of AU's Center for Environmental Filmmaking Chris Palmer shares highlights from his 20+year career. Always entertaining, this program fills to capacity - arrive early!
The following is not a part of the official EFF program, but is being offered in addition, and is free and open to the public:
March 22
Clip Screening & Discussion with Adrian Cowell:
Finding the Story: From the Amazon to Burma and Back
6 PM, Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center
Cowell's films include the Opium series (from 1966 - 1978), The Decade of Destruction (1990) and most recently The Heroin Wars.
Go to the Center's EFF page for full program descriptions>>
March 23
School of Communication Reel Journalism Film Festival presents
Democracy on Deadline with filmmaker Cal Skaggs
Screening: 7:00 PM, Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center
A cutting-edge documentary on the often-dangerous but critically important work of independent journalism, unafraid to challenge power—not only in Sierra Leone and Russia but in Washington, D.C. Q & A after film with producer and director, Cal Skaggs and journalist Ken Silverstein. Patricia Finneran of SILVERDOCS will moderate.
More on the Reel Journalism Film Festival>>
February 23
 Sweet Honey In The Rock:
Raise Your Voice
Screening at 6:30 PM, Wechsler Theatre, Mary Graydon Center
Co-sponsored by the University Honors Program, the Department of History, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Department of Performing Arts, AU Choir, AU Gospel Choir, Washington College of Law, Women and Gender Studies Program, and the AU Chapter of the NAACP
Raise Your Voice explores Sweet Honey In The Rock's roots, celebrates its music and effectively captures the tremendous energy unleashed on stage and the emotional interplay between Sweet Honey and its hand-clapping, arm-waving audiences, which group member Carol Maillard calls a "circle of communication." Through behind-the-scenes rehearsal footage, the film also offers an acute understanding of the hard work that goes into honing this distinctive sound.
Sweet Honey in the Rock's 30th anniversary year (2003) is the subject of this film produced and directed by filmmaker Stanley Nelson, recent recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship Award genius grant.
 Post-screening discussion with Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock and AU Distinguished Professor Emerita of History, Curator Emerita at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History, and a member of the SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) Freedom Singers in the 1960's. Dr. Reagon received the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship (1989), the Heinz Award for the Arts and Humanities (2003), and the 1995 Presidential Medal for her many contributions as a scholar, composer, singer, author, and activist. Reagon has also served as a consultant composer and performer for several film and video projects, including two award-winning programs for PBS, "Eyes on the Prize" and "We Shall Overcome." Professor Michael Mass, Director of the University Honors Program, will moderate the post-screening discussion.
 February 1, 2006
Clearance, Copyright and Fair Use for Filmmakers with Michael C. Donaldson
3 - 5 PM, Wechsler Theatre, Mary Graydon Center
Los Angeles-based entertainment attorney Michael C. Donaldson, one of the legal advisors to the Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use, provided a free overview of the basic issues filmmakers need to look at every time someone asks “Do I have to clear this?” and work with attendees to answer questions concerning specific projects.
Michael C. Donaldson earned his law degree in 1967 at the University of California at Berkeley after a three-year stint in the United States Marine Corps. He has been an entertainment lawyer for more than thirty years. He is General Counsel to the Independent Feature Project/West (IFP/W) and the International Documentary Association (IDA). He is a member of the Beverly Hills Bar Association (Past Co-Chairman, Entertainment Section), California State Bar Association, American Bar Association (Sports and Entertainment Section) and Los Angeles Copyright Society. He is listed in Who's Who in American Law, current edition. Donaldson wrote Do It Yourself! Trademarks & Copyrights in 1995 which is in its second printing and Clearance and Copyright: Everything the Filmmaker Needs to Know, published by Silman-James in 2003.
January
30, 2006
Making Your Documentary Matter
9 - 6 PM at American University's McDowell
Formal Lounge
Registration is required.
 Engagement
strategies not only make powerful tools to extend the reach and
effectiveness of your documentary, they can also be part of your
fundraising plan!
Join filmmakers,
outreach specialists and foundation representatives for a series
of panel discussions on the latest in documentary outreach, including
keynote speaker Cynthia Lopez from P.O.V./American
Documentary, Inc. Photo from speaker Sandi Dubowksi's
Trembling Before G-d. Space
is limited! Register Now >>
January
19, 2006
Film Screening: Race is the Place
By Ray Telles and Rick Taj
Presented in honor of the American University Martin Luther King
Jr. Celebration 2006
6:30 PM Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center
 Race
is the Place offers a different way to look at one of the most
pressing social issues in America today: racism. The film
offers its analysis through the prism of performance, music, poetry
and art. Dramatic scenes, musical performances, monologues, poetry
slams and visual art are intercut with documentary sequences and
archival materials from popular culture, including Hollywood films,
old newsreels, photographs, early sound recordings, posters and
product packaging. The result is an elegantly blunt commentary on
the endless permutations and continued survival of racism in the
United States.
Artists featured in Race
is the Place include: Danny Hoch (actor, writer), Culture Clash,
Amiri Baraka (poet), Kate Rigg (satirist), Piri Thomas (poet), Boots
Riley (musician), Haunani Kay Task (writer), Andy Bumatai (comedian),
Ahmed Ahmed (comedian), Beau Sia (actor), Lalo Guerrera (musician),
Mayda del Valle (poet), and features the visual art of Ben Sakoguchi,
Faith Ringgold, Michael Ray Charles, Paula de Joie, Betye Saar,
and Enrique Chagoya.
See
the entire MLK 2006 schedule>>
January
13, 2006
 Public
Media Roundtable
Presented by David Liroff, VP & Chief Technology Officer,
WGBH
"In a global village, where is the 'public square'?"
12 - 2 PM at Hall of States, Room 333, 444 N.
Capitol Street NW, Washington DC
Boston public TV station WGBH
is one of the leading producers of PBS national programming….Nova,
Frontline, Masterpiece Theatre, Mystery! ,
Antiques Roadshow, Between the Lions and more. As
government discussions of fairness and balance and dwindling funding
for public television stations casts doubt on the future of public
broadcasting, how is WGBH adapting? Liroff will
discuss the new windows that new technologies offer. Read Liroff's comments>>
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