YOUNG @ HEART
By Stephen Walker

DECEMBER 12, 2009
6:00 PM, FREE Admission

Samuel DuBois Cook Fine Arts Center
Dillard University
2601Gentilly Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70112

Get ready to rock with the most entertaining golden oldies you will ever meet in the senior citizen's choir Young@Heart. With a show only weeks away, they must learn a slate of new songs ranging from James Brown to Coldplay. The chorus’ director leads them through tough rehearsals, proving that rock and roll can be hard work––especially if you’re hard of hearing! Climaxing in a triumphant performance, their inspiring story celebrates the unbreakable bonds of friendship and the life-affirming power of music.  (148 minutes)

New Orleans Community Cinema is a monthly screening series, that pairs independently produced documentary films, on timely and important social issues, with leading organizations working on related issues in communities across the country. Community Cinema screenings are followed by a short panel discussion, featured speaker, or other presentation.

Speakers:
Lou Furman, Golden Heart Players
Robert Tannen, Creative Industry
Jerald L. White, Charitable Film Network 
 
Hosted by: 
CHARITABLE FILM NETWORK, Public Broadcasting Service, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Independent Television Service, and Dillard University Theater Department.
 
For more information visit myspace.com/communitycinemaneworleans, communitycinema.org or contact mail@chairtablefilmnetwork.org.

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MIX, MINGLE & MUNCH
Please Join the Charitable Film Network for a Special Networking Event with the Japan Society of New Orleans!

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
7:00PM to 8:30PM

ANTENNA GALLERY
3161 Burgundy Street
New Orleans, LA 70117

Our monthly informal social gathering brings New Orleans artists, activists, non-profits, and community residents together in the same space for networking and fun.  Enjoy Japanese food, beer and sake, make new contacts and learn more about the Japan Society of New Orleans.
 
FREE Admission

Hosted by the CHARITABLE FILM NETWORK, Antenna Gallery, Japan Society of New Orleans, and Whole Foods Market.  For more information contact mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org or call (504) 896-7333.

BETWEEN THE FOLDS
By Vanessa Gould

NOVEMBER 21, 2009
6:00PM, FREE Admission

Antenna Gallery
3161 Burgundy Street
New Orleans, LA 70117

Think origami is just paper planes and cranes? Meet a determined group of theoretical scientists and fine artists who have abandoned careers and scoffed at graduate degrees to forge new lives as modern-day paper folders. Together they reinterpret the world in paper, creating a wild mix of sensibilities towards art, science, creativity and meaning. (55 minutes)  Join us for Japanese food, beer and sake after the screening.

New Orleans Community Cinema is a monthly screening series, that pairs independently produced documentary films, on timely and important social issues, with leading organizations working on related issues in communities across the country. Community Cinema screenings are followed by a short panel discussion, featured speaker, or other presentation.
Special Guest:
Mike Turner, Japan Society of New Orleans
 
Hosted by: 
CHARITABLE FILM NETWORK, Antenna Gallery, the Japan Society of New Orleans, Public Broadcasting Service, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Independent Television Service.
 
For more information visit myspace.com/communitycinemaneworleans, communitycinema.org or contact mail@chairtablefilmnetwork.org.

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"FRESH" Film Screening & Compost Demo with Will Allen

NOVEMBER 16, 2009
5:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.

Our School at Blair Grocery - MAP
1740 Benton Street
New Orleans, LA 70117  

5:00 P.M. OPEN HOUSE
Stop by and meet the staff and students at Our School at Blair Grocery. Tour our farm, learn more about the story of the school and see directly our work towards food security and youth empowerment in the lower ninth ward. 

6:00 P.M. GROWING POWER WORKSHOP
Participate in a composting Q & A session with WILL ALLEN - Founder of Growing Power (Milwaukee), Agriculturalist, Food Justice Activist, and a recipient of the 2008 MacArthur Foundation’s Genius Award.

6:30 P.M. FILM SCREENING - FRESH, by Ana Sophia Joanes
FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. (72 minutes)

A $10 Donation is Suggested. All proceeds will benefit Our School at Blair Grocery.  
SPACE IS LIMITED! Please r.s.v.p. at mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org or (504) 896-7333.

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New Orleans Community
Cinema Screening

A BONUS SCREENING of COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS
By Benjamin Franzen & Kembrew McLeod

NOVEMBER 13, 2009
6:00PM, FREE Admission

Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities - MAP
(Patrick F. Taylor Auditorium)
938 Lafayette St
New Orleans, LA 70113

Can you own a sound? As hip-hop rose from the streets of New York to become a multibillion-dollar industry, artists such as Public Enemy and De La Soul began reusing parts of previously recorded music for their songs. But when record company lawyers got involved everything changed. Years before people started downloading and remixing music, hip-hop sampling sparked a debate about copyright, creativity and technological change that still rages today. (56 minutes)

New Orleans Community Cinema is a free monthly screening series, that pairs independently produced documentary films, on timely and important social issues, with leading organizations working on related issues in communities across the country. Community Cinema screenings are followed by a short panel discussion, featured speaker, or other presentation.

Speakers:
DJ Soul Sister
Jerald L. White, Charitable Film Network
Additional speakers to be announced

Hosted by:
CHARITABLE FILM NETWORK, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Public Broadcasting Service, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Endowment for the Arts, The Future of Music Coalition, City of New Orleans Office of Film & Television, Louisiana Office of Entertainment Industry Development, and the Independent Television Service.

For more information visit myspace.com/communitycinemaneworleans, communitycinema.org or contact mail@chairtablefilmnetwork.org.

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4TH ANNUAL NEW ORLEANS
Please join us for 24 Hour Comics Day - An International Day of Comic Creation, where cartoonists are challenged to produce a 24-page comic book - written, drawn, and completed in 24 consecutive hours!

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2009

10:00AM - 2:00PM
Whole Foods Market (Arabella Station)
5600 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70115
(504) 899-9119

LOCAL YOUTH are invited to a morning of comic fun!  Meet New Orleans Cartoonist Eli Ivory and his comic drawing students.  FREE drawing lessons, healthy snacks and prizes! 

3:30PM
Antenna Gallery
3161 Burgundy Street
New Orleans, LA 70117

CARTOONISTS from New Orleans and beyond challenge themselves to complete a comic book in 24 hours!

The event is sponsored by CHARITABLE FILM NETWORK, Ivory Comics, Antenna Gallery, National Art & Hobby, Antigravity Magazine, Crescent City Comics, and Whole Foods Market. 

For more information contact mail@chairtablefilmnetwork.org.

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New Orleans Community
Cinema Screening

Samuel DuBois Cook Fine Arts Center
Dillard University
2601 Gentilly Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70122

Pat Spurgeon has big dreams to make it as an indie rock musician. Just as his career is about to take off, he suffers an incredible setback when one of his kidneys begins to fail. Follow Pat on his emotional search for a living organ donor. But can he balance his health with a rock 'n’ roll lifestyle? (86 minutes)

New Orleans Community Cinema is a monthly screening series, that pairs independently produced documentary films, on timely and important social issues, with leading organizations working on related issues in communities across the country. Community Cinema screenings are followed by a short panel discussion, featured speaker, or other presentation.

Speakers:
Katy Quigley, Organ Donor
Torie Kranze, National Kidney Foundation of Louisiana
Dr. George Loss, Ochsner Abdominal Transplantation Section
Jerald L. White, Charitable Film Network

Hosted by:
Charitable Film Network, Dillard University Theater Department, Public Broadcasting Service, Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Independent Television Service.

For more information visit myspace.com/communitycinemaneworleans, communitycinema.org or contact mail@chairtablefilmnetwork.org.

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National Night Out in Faubourg St. Roch!
Please join us for an evening of community fun at the 26th Annual National Night Out Against Crime - a unique crime/drug prevention event.

August 4, 2009
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
FREE Admission

St. Roch / Harold Sampson, Jr. Park l MAP
‎1830 St Roch Ave
New Orleans, LA 70117

• Enjoy live music (Gospel and Jazz)
• A Community Drum Circle
• Great food, and
• Games and prizes for the entire family

NATIONAL NIGHT OUT is designed to: Heighten crime and drug prevention awareness; generate support for and participation in, local anti-crime programs; strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships; and send a message to criminals, letting them know that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back.

Last year's National Night Out campaign involved citizens, law enforcement agencies, civic groups, businesses, neighborhood organizations and local officials from over 15,000 communities from all 50 states, U.S. territories, Canadian cities and military bases worldwide. In all, over 37 million people participated in National Night Out 2008.

For more information contact the Crescent City Peace Alliance at rdouglasl210@gmail.com or the Charitable Film Network at mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org.

Sponsored by the Crescent City Peace Alliance, Faubourg St. Roch Improvement Association, St. Roch Community Church, National Association of Town Watch, Target and the Charitable Film Network.

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2009 Claymation Nation Summer Camp
Screening & Award Ceremony

July 25, 2009
3:00pm

Studio at Colton
2300 St. Claude Avenue
(Red Ball Room)
New Orleans, LA 70117
FREE Admission

Please join us on Saturday, July 25th for a special screening and awards ceremony for our Claymation Summer Camp participants. CFN staff, instructors and student artists will be on hand to answer questions about the fall claymation program. We will also share details about fall media-making classes for youth.

Sponsored by Charitable Film Network, Crescent City Peace Alliance, Ivory Comics, Stretching Sky Arts Laboratory, Scrub Brush Productions, AMACO/Brent, United Way for the Greater New Orleans Area, and Afterschool Partnership.

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MIX, MINGLE & MUNCH
Please Join the Charitable Film Network for a Special Networking & Open Studio Event!

Friday, June 19, 2009
6:00PM to 7:00PM

STUDIO AT COLTON - Studios 207 & 208
Charles J. Colton School
2300 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70113

Our monthly informal social gathering brings New Orleans artists, activists, non-profits, and community residents together in the same space for networking and fun.  Enjoy FREE refreshments, check out our studio space at the Colton school, make new contacts and promote your creative projects.
Hosted by the Charitable Film Network.  Sponsored by Whole Foods Market.  For more information contact mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org or (504) 896-7333.

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AMACO/Brent Ceramics Laboratory
Grand Opening Reception!
JOIN US for two creative workshops and fun, at the Grand Opening of the AMACO/Brent Ceramics Lab.  Enjoy FREE refreshments and more! 

Friday, June 19, 2009
6:30 pm to 9:30 pm

STUDIO AT COLTON - Studio 101
Charles J. Colton School
2300 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70113

6:30 pm to 7:30 pm: Make ceramic "Franken-Creatures" with Instructor Kaliecia Smith.

8:00 pm to 9:00 pm: Sign up for the "Ghost Movie Throw Down," and recreate your own steamy version of the now famous "Potter's Wheel Scene" from the movie GHOST - between Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze.  We'll supply the Video Camera, Cue Cards and Pottery Wheels!  Don't miss this unique competition.  The best actors will receive a prize from the AMACO/Brent Ceramics Laboratory.

For more information contact Hao-Peng Liao at pongpong@gmail.com or (504) 669-0066.

Sponsored by AMACO/Brent, Stretching Sky Arts Laboratory, Studio at Colton, Whole Foods Market and the Charitable Film Network.

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CFN NEWS FLASH!

June 18, 2009 - The Charitable Film Network receives Greater New Orleans Foundation - Environmental Fund Grant to coordinate an Environmental Justice Video Competition among at-risk youth and other underserved populations.

For more information contact mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org

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CFN NEWS FLASH!
May 29, 2009 - Charitable Film Network's Director invited to speak at National Environmental Justice Conference on Engaging Students in Climate Change!

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New Orleans Community
Cinema Screening

CRIPS & BLOODS: Made in America
By Stacy Peralta

SUNDAY, MAY 24, 2009
6:00 PM, FREE Admission

Studio at Colton, Red Ballroom | MAP
(Charles J. Colton School)
2300 St. Claude Avenue, Studio 208
New Orleans, LA 70117

CRIPS & BLOODS is the first major nonfiction film to term the decades-long gang strife in South Central Los Angeles as a war on the scale of Kosovo, Mogadishu or Northern Ireland. Stacy Peralta's bracing film grimly examines the causes and nature of the area's epidemic violence. Laying out a history while talking directly to former and current members of the Crips and the Bloods, his picture assumes a wide audience that's little informed on the horrors. (148 minutes)

New Orleans Community Cinema is a monthly screening series, that pairs independently produced documentary films, on timely and important social issues, with leading organizations working on related issues in communities across the country. Community Cinema screenings are followed by a short panel discussion, featured speaker, or other presentation.

SPEAKERS:
Jerald L. White, Charitable Film Network
Additional speakers to be announced

Hosted by the CHARITABLE FILM NETWORK, Studio at Colton, Public Broadcasting Service, Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Independent Television Service. For more information look here or contact mail@chairtablefilmnetwork.org.

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CFN NEWS FLASH!

May 12, 2009 - The Charitable Film Network receives grant award from Poets & Writers to host a 6 week writing workshop with local author and playwright, Pamela Davis-Noland...

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New Orleans Community
Cinema Screening

ASK NOT
By Jonny Symons

SUNDAY, MAY 10, 2008
5:00 PM, FREE Admission

Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center | MAP
1618 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70113

ASK NOT is a rare and compelling exploration of the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. The film exposes the tangled political battles that led to the discriminatory law, and profiles charismatic activists determined to abolish it.  As the war rages on, ASK NOT reveals personal stories of gay Americans who serve in combat under a veil of secrecy.  (54 minutes)

SPEAKERS:
Rachel Powell, Soulforce
Jerald L. White, Charitable Film Network
Additional speakers to be announced

Hosted by the CHARITABLE FILM NETWORK, Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center, Public Broadcasting Service, Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Independent Television Service.  For more information look here or contact mail@chairtablefilmnetwork.org.

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MIX, MINGLE & MUNCH...
Please Join the Charitable Film Network for a Special Speed Networking & Fundraising Event!

Thursday, April 16, 2009
6:00PM to 8:00PM

STUDIO AT COLTON - Studio 103A
Charles J. Colton School
2300 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70113

GET HOOKED UP! This monthly informal social event brings New Orleans artists, activists, non-profits, and community residents together in the same space for a "speed-dating style" networking event. CONNECT, COLLABORATE and CONTRIBUTE to the Community-at-large with the Charitable Film Network. Come early, bring business cards, enjoy FREE refreshments, make new contacts and promote your creative projects.

Voluntary Donations will be accepted to benefit a Youth Mural Project at the Colton School - A joint collaboration between Charitable Film Network, Crescent City Peace Alliance, Inkwell Press, NY2NO.Com, School at Blair Grocery & YAYA. Please join us and HELP RAISE MONEY this special project!

For more information contact the Charitable Film Network (CFN) via Meetup mail, mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org or (504) 896-7333.

Hosted by CFN and Viorel Hodre Light Sculptures - Studio -103A.  Sponsored by Whole Foods Market.

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New Orleans Community
Cinema Screening

TAKING ROOT: The Vision of Wangari Maathani
By Lisa Merton & Alan Dater

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2009
6:00 PM, FREE Admission

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
Monroe Hall - Room 157
6363 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70118

TAKING ROOT tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy—a movement for which this charismatic woman became an iconic inspiration.  (80 minutes)

New Orleans Community Cinema is a monthly screening series, that pairs independently produced documentary films, on timely and important social issues, with leading organizations working on related issues in communities across the country. Community Cinema screenings are followed by a short panel discussion, featured speaker, or other presentation.

INVITED SPEAKERS:
Monique Harden, Advocates for Environmental Human Rights
Karen Reichard, Ph.d., Women's Resource Center, Loyola University
Allison Inman, Charitable Film Network

Hosted by the CHARITABLE FILM NETWORK, Loyola University, Public Broadcasting Service, Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Independent Television Service.  For more information look here or contact mail@chairtablefilmnetwork.org.

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CFN NEWS FLASH!

April 21, 2009 - The Charitable Film Network receives an Economic Opportunity Grant award from the Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation. The award will be used to to develop and market an e-commerce website for the Charitable Film Network. CFN will sell films, music, books and other items made by Louisiana media-makers on the new e-commerce website.

For more information contact mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org

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MIX, MINGLE & MUNCH...
Please Join the Charitable Film Network for a special Speed Networking & Fundraising Event!

Friday, March 27, 2009
6:00PM to 7:30PM

STUDIO AT COLTON - Studio 220
Charles J. Colton School
2300 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70113

GET HOOKED UP! This monthly informal social event brings New Orleans artists, activists, non-profits, and community residents together in the same space for a "speed-dating style" networking event. CONNECT, COLLABORATE and CONTRIBUTE to the Community-at-large with the Charitable Film Network. Enjoy FREE refreshments, make new contacts and promote your creative projects.

Voluntary Donations will be accepted to benefit WHERE YA' RACK - a Young Leadership Council (YLC) project to install unique and secure bicycle parking racks throughout New Orleans, to encourage cycling as an environmentally friendly and healthy transportation option for commuting, short trips, and errands. Racks are purchased by citizens, businesses or property owners and installed by YLC member-volunteers. Please join us and help us raise money for Colton's "Where Ya' Rack" bike rack.

Hosted by Charitable Film Network. Sponsored by Whole Foods Market. For more information contact mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org or (504) 896-7333.

ITVS Community Classroom -
FREE Workshop for Teachers

SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2009
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Studio at Colton  (Charles J. Colton School)
2300 St. Claude Avenue, Studio 208
New Orleans, LA 70113

Featuring video from the documentary KNOCKING, by Joel P. Engardio and Tom Shepard

ITVS Community Classroom is an educational resource providing new documentary video content and accompanying curricular materials, lesson plans and homework assignments to high school and community college instructors and youth-serving, community-based organizations.

Video content will include approximately 15 minutes excerpted from an independently-produced documentary film scheduled for broadcast on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. Content is grouped into subject-specific segments that correspond to lesson plans and educational activities. All materials are designed with key education standards in mind and available, along with the video content, on a DVD-ROM and online.

For more information or to RSVP contact mail@chairtablefilmnetwork.org

ITVS Community Classroom is a product of the Independent Television Service and KQED Education Network, with support from PBS Teachers, the National Council of Churches, American Association of Community Colleges, 4-H, National Council for the Social Studies and National Council of Teachers of English.

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February 6 to 12, 2009

Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center | MAP
1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.
New Orleans, Louisiana 70113

Presented by Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center, Amnesty International, and Southeastern Louisiana University.  For more information visit www.zeitgeistinc.net, contact (504) 352-1150 or rene@zeitgeistinc.net.

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Leadership Summit - FREE Screening

TALKIN' WATER
By Shannon Sonenstein, DCTV & Charitable Film Network

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2009
1:00 PM

Newcomb College Institute at Tulane University
LBC Ballroom (Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life)

Disillusioned by the media coverage of Hurricane Katrina, four girls –two from New Orleans and two from New York City– set out to tell the "real" story. Armed with video cameras and a sense of responsibility, the project quickly becomes personal as the girls explore issues of race, class and government – and are surprised to discover as much about themselves as New Orleans.

Please join film Producer/Director Shannon Sonnenstein for a Q&A discussion with youth filmmakers Briceshanay Gresham and Rodneka Shelbia after the screening.

For more information contact mail@charitablefilmnetwork.

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New Orleans Community
Cinema Screening

ARUSI PERSIAN WEDDING
By Marjan Tehrani

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2009
5:00 PM, FREE Admission

Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center | MAP
1618 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70113

Iranian American filmmaker Marjan Tehrani chronicles her brother's return to Iran during the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, as he travels with his American wife to have a traditional Persian wedding and explore his lost heritage. In weaving the couple's personal story with historical footage, ARUSI considers the history, impact and troubled relationship between Iran and America. (54 minutes)
New Orleans Community Cinema is a monthly screening series, that pairs independently produced documentary films, on timely and important social issues, with leading organizations working on related issues in communities across the country. Community Cinema screenings are followed by a short panel discussion, featured speaker, or other presentation.

SPEAKERS:
Dr. Behrooz Moazami, Assistant Professor, Loyola Univ of New Orleans, History Department
Dr. Timothy Cahill, Associate Professor, Loyola University of New Orleans, Religious Studies Department
Allison Inman, Charitable Film Network

Hosted by the CHARITABLE FILM NETWORK, Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center, Public Broadcasting Service, Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Independent Television Service.  For more information look here or contact mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org.

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ITVS Community Classroom -
FREE Workshop for Teachers

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2009
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Studio at Colton
2300 St. Claude Avenue, Studio 208
New Orleans, LA 70113

Featuring video from the documentary SENTENCED HOME, by Nicole Newnham and David Grabias.

ITVS Community Classroom is an educational resource providing new documentary video content and accompanying curricular materials, lesson plans and homework assignments to high school and community college instructors and youth-serving, community-based organizations.

Video content will include approximately 15 minutes excerpted from an independently-produced documentary film scheduled for broadcast on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. Content is grouped into subject-specific segments that correspond to lesson plans and educational activities. All materials are designed with key education standards in mind and available, along with the video content, on a DVD-ROM and online.

For more information or to RSVP contact mail@chairtablefilmnetwork.org

ITVS Community Classroom is a product of the Independent Television Service and KQED Education Network, with support from PBS Teachers, the National Council of Churches, American Association of Community Colleges, 4-H, National Council for the Social Studies and National Council of Teachers of English.

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MIX, MINGLE & MUNCH...
Please Join the Charitable Film Network for a special
Speed Networking & Fundraising Event!

Friday February 27, 2009
6:00PM to 7:30PM

The Studio at Colton - Studio 208
(Charles J. Colton School)
2300 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70113

$5 Voluntary Donations will be accepted to benefit the LOUISIANA FILM FESTIVAL - Student Division

GET HOOKED UP! This monthly informal social event brings New Orleans artists, activists, non-profits, and community residents together in the same space for a "speed-dating style" networking event. CONNECT, COLLABORATE and CONTRIBUTE to the Community-at-large with the Charitable Film Network. Enjoy FREE refreshments, make new contacts and promote your creative projects.

For more information contact mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org or (504) 896-7333.

Hosted by Charitable Film Network.
Sponsored by Whole Foods Market.

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ITVS Community Classroom -
FREE Workshop for Teachers

SATURDAY, JANUARY 10 and 31, 2009
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Studio at Colton
2300 St. Claude Avenue, Studio 208
New Orleans, LA 70113

Featuring video from the documentary HIP HOP: Beyond Beats & Rhymes, by Byron Hurt.

ITVS Community Classroom is an educational resource providing new documentary video content and accompanying curricular materials, lesson plans and homework assignments to high school and community college instructors and youth-serving, community-based organizations.

Video content will include approximately 15 minutes excerpted from an independently-produced documentary film scheduled for broadcast on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. Content is grouped into subject-specific segments that correspond to lesson plans and educational activities. All materials are designed with key education standards in mind and available, along with the video content, on a DVD-ROM and online.

For more information or to RSVP contact mail@chairtablefilmnetwork.org

ITVS Community Classroom is a product of the Independent Television Service and KQED Education Network, with support from PBS Teachers, the National Council of Churches, American Association of Community Colleges, 4-H, National Council for the Social Studies and National Council of Teachers of English.

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New Orleans Community
Cinema Screening

TULIA, TEXAS
By Cassandra Herrman & Kelly Whalen

SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 2009
5:00 PM, FREE Admission

Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary
Arts Center | MAP
1618 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70113

In 1999 undercover narcotics agent Thomas Coleman executed one of the biggest drug stings in Texas history. Coleman and his drug task force arrested 46 Tulia residents—of which 39 were African American—on charges of suspected drug dealing. TULIA, TEXAS is the story of a small town's search for justice and the price Americans pay for the nation's war on drugs. (57 minutes) 

SPEAKERS:
Speakers: Kelly Whalen, Director of Tulia, Texas
Brian Denzer, New Orleans Citizen Crime Watch
Jerald L. White Charitable Film Network

Hosted by the CHARITABLE FILM NETWORK, Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center, Public Broadcasting Service , Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Independent Television Service.  For more information Look Here.

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ITVS Salon for
Independent Producers

SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 2009
3:30 PM, Admission FREE!

Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center | MAP
1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.
New Orleans, LA 70113

Join ITVS's Director of Programming, Erica Deiparine-Sugars and area filmmakers to discuss producing for public television. Erica will give a brief introduction to ITVS and its place in the public media landscape. She will also discuss the funding opportunities for independent producers available at ITVS. ITVS funded producers, including Kelly Whalen (TULIA, TEXAS), Lolis Eric Elie (FAUBOURG TREME) and Rebecca Snedeker (BY INVITATION ONLY), will be on hand to share their experiences with taking their documentaries to the public television audience.

Hosted by: ITVS, PBS, CPB, Zeitgeist and the Charitable Film Network.
For more information contact mail@charitablefilmnetwork.org