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Winners announced for the 2019 Eisner Awards
Tom King, Mitch Gerads, Jen Wang, 'Giant Days' and more take home trophies.
The winners were announced last night for the 2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.
Tom King and Mitch Gerads, partners on the Mister Miracle series from DC, took home five awards between them. John Allison's Giant Days and The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang also took home multiple awards.
The Eisner Awards also inducted 10 people into the Hall of Fame last night: the judges chose Jim Aparo, June Tarpé Mills, Dave Stevens and Morrie Turner, while voters chose José Luis García-López, Jenette Kahn, Paul Levitz, Wendy and Richard Pini, and Bill Sienkiewicz to join the class of 2019.
Other awards given out last night included the The Bill Finger Excellence In Comic Book Writing Award, which was presented to Mike Friedrich and the late E. Nelson Bridwell, and the Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award, which went to Lorena Alvarez.
The 2019 recipients of the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award were Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, for his work on Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico, and comic artist Tula Lotay, AKA Lisa Wood, for creating the UK-based Thought Bubble Festival. And La Revisteria Comics in Argentina won the Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award.
You can see all the Eisner winners below, in bold.
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Author JK ParkinPosted on July 20, 2019 July 20, 2019 Categories AwardsTags awards, Bill Finger Award, Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award, cci2019, Eisner Awards, Hall of Fame, Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award, Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award3 Comments on Winners announced for the 2019 Eisner Awards
2019 Eisner Hall of Fame nominees announced
Jim Aparo, Dave Stevens, June Tarpé Mills and Morrie Turner will be automatically inducted, while voters will choose four more from a field of 14.
Comic-Con International has announced this year's nominees for the Eisner Hall of Fame. They include the four judges' choices — who will be automatically inducted — and 14 other nominees, four of whom will be inducted based on voters' choices.
The judges' choices are Jim Aparo, who is probably best known for his work on various Batman titles, including Batman and the Outsiders; Dave Stevens, creator of the Rocketeer; June Tarpé Mills, the Golden Age creator of Miss Fury; and Morrie Turner, creator of the Wee Pals newspaper strip in the 1960s.
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Author JK ParkinPosted on January 18, 2019 January 18, 2019 Categories AwardsTags Akira Toriyama, Alex Nino, Bill Sienkiewicz, Brian Bolland, Comic-Con International, Dave Stevens, Don Thompson, Eisner Awards, Hall of Fame, Jenette Kahn, Jim Aparo, José Luis García-López, June Tarpé Mills, Kevin Eastman, Lily Renée Peter Phillips, Lynn Johnston, Maggie Thompson, Morrie Turner, Naoki Urasawa, P. Craig Russell, Paul Levitz, Wendy & Richard Pini1 Comment on 2019 Eisner Hall of Fame nominees announced
Kalish, Ormes announced for Eisner Hall of Fame class of 2018
Comic-Con International announces the 2018 judge's picks and other nominees for this year's Eisner Hall of Fame.
Direct market pioneer Carol Kalish and black female newspaper cartoonist Jackie Ormes will be inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in July at Comic-Con International, as announced by CCI on their official blog this week.
Kalish, who worked as direct sales manager and vice president of new product development at Marvel Comics from 1981 to 1991, is credited with pioneering the comics direct market when it was in its adolescence, in part through a program in which Marvel helped pay for comic book stores to acquire cash registers. Kalish also spearheaded the expansion of the Marvel's distribution into major bookstores such as B. Daltons and Waldenbooks. Kalish passed away in 1991 from a brain aneurysm, at the age 36.
Ormes was the first, and for a long time only, black female newspaper cartoonist. In the 1930s she wrote and drew Dixie in Harlem comics featuring Torchy Brown. After returning to her roots in journalism, she published Candy, a single-panel cartoon about a witty housemaid in 1945. Then she created Patty-Jo 'n' Ginger, another single-panel cartoon about a pair of sisters, which ran for 11 years through 1956. Finally, from 1950 to 1954, Ormes revamped Torchy Brown into Torchy in Heartbeats, an 8-page color comic insert that included paper dolls. Ormes passed away in 1985.
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Author JK ParkinPosted on January 16, 2018 Categories AwardsTags Carlos Ezquerra, Carol Kalish, Charles Addams, Comic-Con International, Dave Gibbons, Eisner Awards, Françoise Mouly, Gus Arriola, Hall of Fame, Howard Cruse, Jackie Ormes, Jim Aparo, John Wagner, Karen Berger, Lily Renée Wilhelm Peters Phillips, Paul Levitz, Posy Simmonds, Rumiko Takahashi, S. Clay Wilson, Tarpé Mills, Thomas NastLeave a comment on Kalish, Ormes announced for Eisner Hall of Fame class of 2018
Comics Lowdown: Businessman wins against Marvel, DC Comics to use the word 'superhero'
Plus: assistant principal fired for Pepe the Frog book, new Madefire/DC Comics digital deal, and the hunt for H. G. Peter photos
When Graham Jules (pictured above) wrote his book, Business Zero to Superhero, he had no idea he would end up in a battle against the two largest comic publishers in the world. When his book was about to be published in 2014, he received a letter from Marvel and DC Comics claiming the word infringed on their jointly owned trademark since 1979. Jules, who also studies law, decided to represent himself in the case. A two-and-a-half year legal case ensued and this week, the two comic giants decided to drop the case for "commercial reasons." The entrepreneur estimates that he spent a total of £200 and 200 hours in writing letters.
"This is an amazing result. It shows that even the little guy can achieve something with determination."
It will not be surprising if his next book is about being a superhero of trademark cases.
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Author Stephanie ChanPosted on August 18, 2017 Categories Comics LowdownTags Comics Lowdown, copyright, DC Comics, Eisner Awards, golden age, Graham Jules, H.G. Peter, Hall of Fame, Madefire, Matt Furie, Pepe the Frog, The Adventures of Pepe and Pede, Todd Klein, trademarks, Wonder WomanLeave a comment on Comics Lowdown: Businessman wins against Marvel, DC Comics to use the word 'superhero'
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What happened to Kings Park Psychiatric Center on Long Island?
Here he shares with us his images and and the story of the Psychiatric Center on Long Island. Closed and abandoned since 1996, Kings Park Psychiatric Center stands as an otherworldly relic situated in Nissequogue River State Park in the hamlet of Kings Park, NY.
What happened to the Kings County Asylum?
Eventually, the Kings County Asylum began to suffer from the very thing that it attempted to relieve—overcrowding. New York State responded to the problem in 1895, when control of the asylum passed into state hands, and it was renamed the Kings Park State Hospital.
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After 1895, Kings Park State Hospital served the counties of Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk. 1916 Kings Park State Hospital. 1851 Kings County Lunatic Asylum at Flatbush, New York.
What is the history of the Kings Park Lunatic Asylum?
The Kings Park Lunatic Asylum was established in 1885 as an extension of the Brooklyn County Hospital complex located on Clarkson Ave. The location for the new asylum would be far away in rural Suffolk County, and it initially consisted of a few wooden buildings where residents could be rehabilitated.
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Oct 25, 2016 · The Kings Park Psychiatric Center on Long Island is one of the most infamous abandoned asylums in the country. It once housed thousands of New York's mentally ill, and the treatments performed at this institution were shocking by today's standards. Thanks to footage from YouTube Channel " The Proper People ," we can see inside this gargantuan, decaying …
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Why is President Trump Bailing Out His Dishonest, Power Freak, Democratic Rivals?
After buying into the coprolite being flung by the very curious Anthony Fauci, President Trump mismanaged the optics of the COVID-19 threat and sent most of the nation into hysteria.
His rivals in the Democratic Party took advantage and charged at every turn that he wasn't doing enough and so he responded with doing things that make no sense in terms of sound health policy, from running the wrong kind of sampling tests to determine how serious a threat COVID-19 is to buying more ventilators for the nation, ventilators that Trump should have been advised early on were an improper treatment the way they were being used and mostly doing nothing but killing those put on them.
Trump's economic policy has been as equally disastrous and actually may do more harm in the long run than his hysteria triggering COVID-19 actions.
His Democratic rivals have shut down large swaths of the country and they have been only able to do so without pitchfork revolutions because Trump has bailed them out with orders to finance nearly all those who have been hurt by the lockdown. And he is paying Wall Street a good chunk to distribute some of the cash to those on lockdown. Cash the government doesn't have and so is simply being printed out of thin air by the Federal Reserve Board.
As I point out in the EPJ Daily Alert, current Fed money supply printing is at levels we haven't seen in decades and there is no indication that it is going to stop anytime soon. There is a lot more money that Trump is ordering to be spent.
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Last Thursday, after reviewing 2,200 public comments regarding the MSLP, the Fed decided to lower the minimum loan amount from $1 million to $500,000, allowed lenders to retain a 15 percent rather than 5 percent share for certain loans, and increased eligibility to companies with an annual revenue of up to $5 billion instead of $2.5 billion. The $600 billion facility still has yet to open. But when it does, and if it gets fully funded, it will expand the Fed's balance sheet by approximately 10 percent.
The PPP could also expand the balance sheet by this amount, considering that the program started at $349 billion and has already grown to $670 billion. The same day as the MSLP release, it was announced that the PPP would expand to work with smaller nonbanks such as those in the farm credit system and community development institutions. The April 27 to May 1 US Small Business Administration Report showed that in the second round of funding there were over 2 million applications approved for $175 billion. This means that there is still a couple hundred billion dollars left which should be exhausted shortly. Given the number of approvals for these forgivable loans, would anyone be surprised if the program were expanded for a third time?
We can only wonder. But as a CNN interview with Larry Kudlow revealed, the top economic advisor to the president said that they might consider getting additional money for the PPP since:
This has been an extremely popular and effective program, no question about it. You know, keeping folks on the payroll is so important….we will be looking at that.
The Fed's most recent balance sheet update shows that only $19 billion from the PPP Liquidity Facility has been utilized thus far; therefore, we will continue to monitor this amount. Unfortunately, it could reach $600 billion in the months ahead. Both programs are unique because the public will be able to directly participate compared to other programs, in which most cannot, such as various Fed asset purchases, lending, and bond programs.
However, a third program might include Main Street as well. This too has been expanded as of last week: the $500 billion Municipal Lending Facility (MLF). The population requirements were lowered to accept cities with 250,000 residents (formerly 1 million) and counties with 500,000 residents (formerly 2 million). This may spawn more grant programs and other "investments" that could sweep the country and trickle down to members of the public.
Between the maximum capacity of these three programs, the Fed may contribute a $1.7 trillion increase to the money supply. How big the balance sheet will be by the time life returns to normal is anyone's guess. Also keep in mind that the effect of the banks later pyramiding this money is rarely ever discussed.
Yes, Trump is in way over his head. He triggered a panic for no good reason and now he is bailing out, to the tune of trillions of dollars, those that want to make him look like an incompetent.
What a disaster. What a clown. What an incompetent.
Capn Mike May 8, 2020 at 10:20 AM
What people don't seem to get is that Trump is the quintessential RINO. A liberal, New York "independent". You know, like Bernie Sanders.
In a 2004 interview, Trump told CNN's Wolf Blitzer: "In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat"
The Lab Manager May 9, 2020 at 9:11 AM
Trump is more of a populist than anything. The Democrats used to be somewhat populist, but now with them it is constant freak show of transweirdos, queerdos, illegal aliens first.
So what would you have him do RW? If he did nothing and people died, he would be criticized. He did some things like restrict travel in late January while being called a racist. Libertardians would have the left the borders open I would guess.


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Using new technologies and innovation is not usually about fixing what is directly broken in the old system but rather creating a new system to replace it. The Trifecta of internet (tablets), 3D printers, and drones can radically alter supply chains for many products and goods. This can apply to the medical industry, but also to spare parts, agriculture, fashion, and consumer goods. This trifecta will revolutionize life as we know it in coming years.
The Commission Of Science and Technology (COSTECH)'s research priorities in Human Capital Development, Health, Water and Sanitation, Energy, as well as Industry and Manufacturing1 are all served by further research and developing in the use of internet and cloud based STL files and 3D printing for the creation of manufactured products to fulfill the basic human needs. As each person with a printer can chose their own files for the products they want to to introduce to the market anyone with access to a 3D printer can become an entrepreneur. The access to the technology and to the machines to build such technologies is a necessary step in the industrial development of Tanzania. Machines and other products do not have to be imported from other countries indefinitely. Micro industrialization can begin here and now. With a printer, internet, solar, and some training anyone can be a small business owner. Their income entirely dependent on their creativity and resolve. This is using the principle at the core of the capitalism system of economics division of labor. If "making" is decentralized by leveraging 3D printing technology, people can more easily and equitably own the "means of production". Manufacturing becomes democratic and small scale with mini factories each making special order, unique products.
As more than 10% of youth are unemployed or underemployed there is great opportunity for expansion and growth of new employment and new industries that did not previously exist. These youth need to be have basic training in the practical application of electronics and engineering, rather than theoretical knowledge, to begin the design and production of products for the Tanzanian market, by Tanzanian citizens. Even if the designs are found online and resourced as Open Source, the person printing the product makes the full profit of its sale minus the cost of the plastic input and the "wear and tear" on the machine. The government of Tanzania is looking for "Big Results Now". With some investment in education, Tanzanian could be designing machines to sell to their neighbors, they could be designing new products never seen before, and could compete and integrate with the global market while localizing production.


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Victory Records est un label discographique américain basé à Chicago, fondé en 1989 par Tony Brummel. Elle dirige une société de distribution connue sous le nom de Another Victory, Inc. et sert également à la distribution de nombreux petits labels indépendants. Victory Records s'est également impliqué dans des relations avec des groupes tels que Streetlight Manifesto, Thursday, Hawthorne Heights, et A Day to Remember.

Histoire
Victory Records se focalise à l'origine sur les groupes axés punk hardcore et post-hardcore. Début 2002, 25 % des parts du label sont annoncées avoir été rachetées par Universal Music Group. Cependant, plus tard la même année, Victory annule le contrat de vente. Victory est actuellement en partenariat avec, et distribué par, RED Distribution de la société Sony. Le label sert également à la distribution des labels Red Cord Records et Standby Records.

En , Victory annonce la distribution du label basé à Boston, We Are Triumphant. Le label est dirigé par Greg Long et créé seulement neuf mois après la signature du contrat. Le , Victory annonce la distribution du label I Scream Records.

Groupes

Relations avec le label
La qualité de la relation entre le label Victory Records et ses artistes est mitigée. Au fil des années, de nombreux groupes affirment avoir été en conflit ou avoir engagé des poursuites judiciaires contre le label, tandis que d'autres groupes sont restés des années au label sans problème apparent.

L'ancien groupe du label, Thursday, s'est déjà confronté à Victory à la suite de problèmes liés à l'argent des ventes. Le groupe cite également un préjudice causé par l'équipe marketing de Victory Records ayant vendu des coussins péteurs pour faire la promotion de leur album  en 2001, contre leur gré. Thursday confie dans un DVD bonus inclus dans la compilation  avoir rejoint le label majeur Island Def Jam en 2002, et qu'après avoir rempli leur contrat, Tony Brummel et Victory Records ont de nouveau accueillis le groupe

Le groupe de ska punk Streetlight Manifesto est également entré dans de nombreux conflits avec Victory Records. Le groupe quitte le label peu après avoir fait paraître son album. En , Streetlight Manifesto, en conflit avec leur label, demande à leur fans de boycotter leur musique et autres produits à leur effigie mis en vente dans la boutique web de Victory Record.

Malgré ces controverses, les relations entre Victory Records et ses groupes n'ont pas toutes été aussi négatives. Close Your Eyes et Ill Niño affirment avoir été en bonne relation avec le label lors d'entretiens. Emmure et Endwell expliquent avoir toujours été soutenus par Victory Records. Emmure explique, en particulier,

Plaintes
Le , le groupe Hawthorne Heights annonce sur son site officiel son départ du label, et avoir engagé une poursuite judiciaire contre Victory en les accusant de pratiques frauduleuses et d' Brummel aurait notamment critiqué publiquement Ne-Yo, au nom des Hawthorne Heights. Le , Victory porte plainte à son tour contre Hawthorne Heights, pour non-respect de leur contrat et diffamation. En , Victory engage une poursuite contre Virgin/EMI Records accusant la société d'.

Le , A Day to Remember planifie une poursuite contre Victory pour non-respect de leur contrat. Les actions sont engagées le , et le groupe réclame ses  issus de leurs ventes. Victory Records réplique en accusant le groupe de ne pas honorer les 5 albums prévus dans leur contrat, et leur désir de changer de label pour un label majeur.

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Début , le label a grandement été critiqué pour avoir signé des groupes considérés comme inférieurs à ceux qu'ils signaient autrefois. Certains bloggers considère le groupe  comme le  Victory refusant tout commentaire concernant ce contrat, il continue malgré les critiques à faire la promotion du groupe. Le groupe, cependant, s'est permis de commenter ces critiques :

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Ford Foundation Announces 2019-2020 JustFilms Documentary Grantees
New York, NY (December 16, 2020) -- Today the Ford Foundation announced its overall 2019 and 2020 grant funding for social justice documentary film projects. JustFilms, part of the foundation's Creativity and Free Expression program, provided $8.1 million total in funding to support development, production and post-production for 77 short and feature length documentary projects and series.
JustFilms funds social justice documentary practices and the people, organizations and networks that support them. The 77 film projects funded over the past two years were connected by a commitment to use documentary practices to advance justice and equity and spanned diverse artistic forms, issue areas, and geographies. Key granting criteria included: projects which present singular analyses of vital social justice issues; films which explore new documentary languages to address the concerns of our times; and filmmakers committed to engaging with the ethics and power dynamics inherent to media representation.
"This set of projects and filmmakers exemplify the kind of critical engagement we all must make with the realities facing us today," said JustFilms Senior Program Officer Chi-hui Yang. "They make visible the larger, structural forces which shape inequality, build cultural power for those in front of and behind the cameras and find artistic frames to help us engage with what might be new or already familiar."
Filmmakers of color directed 64 percent of the projects and 60 percent were directed by women. Included are works which explore disability aesthetics; offer portraits of individuals such as Gil Scott-Heron, Helen Keller and Nikki Giovanni; assess the urgent dynamics of climate gentrification; and expose the racial bias in facial recognition algorithms. The films span countries and continents, with projects from Argentina, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, South Africa, and the United States.
The projects supported through 2019 and 2020 are:
A Camera On My Lap (South Africa)
Director: Shelley Barry
Producer: Shelley Barry
A CAMERA ON MY LAP is an exploration of the aesthetics of cinematography and the storytelling it evokes, from the perspective of a woman in a wheelchair in South Africa.
Aggie (USA)
Director: Catherine Gund
Producers: Catherine Gund and Tanya Selvaratnam
AGGIE is a feature-length documentary that explores the nexus of art, race, and justice through the story of art collector and philanthropist Agnes "Aggie" Gund's life.
Ailey (USA)
Director: Jamila Wignot
Producer: Lauren DeFilippo
Alvin Ailey was a visionary artist who found salvation through dance. An immersive portrait told in his own words and through the creation of a new commission inspired by his life, AILEY fully profiles this brilliant and enigmatic man who—when confronted by a world that refused to embrace him—determined to build one that would.
Always in Season (USA)
Director: Jacqueline Olive
Producer: Jessica Devaney
When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother's search for justice and reconciliation begins while the trauma of more than a century of lynching African Americans bleeds into the present.
An Act of Worship (USA)
Director: Nausheen Dadabhoy
Producers: Sofian Khan, Heba Elorbany and Kristi Jacobson
AN ACT OF WORSHIP is an exploration of the last 20 years of Muslim life in America. The documentary weaves together present-day vérité material of three women activists who came of age after 9/11 with archival footage, home videos and oral histories sourced from Muslim communities across the country. Pivotal moments in U.S. history are retold from the perspective of the Muslim community, opening up a window into their world through collective memory. Guided by their personal experiences as Muslim Americans, the filmmaking team takes charge of the narrative of their community, which has thus far been defined by outsiders. This is what it means to be a Muslim in America.
Asian Americans (USA)
Executive Producers: Jeff Bieber, WETA; Stephen Gong and Donald Young, CAAM; Sally Jo Fifer, ITVS; Jean Tsien
Series Producer: Renee Tajima-Peña
Producer for Flash Cuts: Eurie Chung
Producers: S. Leo Chiang, Geeta Gandbhir and Grace Lee
Consulting Producer: Mark Jonathan Harris
Asian Americans is a five-hour film series that chronicles the contributions and challenges of Asian Americans. The series looks at ways in which the Asian experience in the U.S. illuminates the larger American story and explores the role Asian Americans have played in the evolution of the American identity, in the context of migration, diversity and global connectedness.
Bartolo (USA)
Director: Leandro Fabrizi
Producers: Leandro Fabrizi and Patricia Benabe
In a rural town tucked in the mountains of Lares, Puerto Rico, ten families decide to move into an abandoned school building and transform it into their new living quarters.
Blacked out Dreams (USA)
Director: Adeleke Omitowoju
Producers: Steven Pargett and Sabaah Folayan
Blacked Out Dreams is a documentary series that explores the resilience of black youth who are forced to navigate broken education systems. It combines cinema verité and first person footage from young people in communities around the United States - wrapped together with poetry and striking visual sequences that provide a sensory experience of the life and perspective of the subjects.
Borderland (USA)
Director: Pamela Yates
Producer: Paco de Onís
Borderland is an American human rights story that focuses on local heroes who are risking it all to stand up to the inhumane immigration policies that started on the Southwestern U.S./Mexico border but have now spread to the whole country through a border-industrial complex. The feature-length documentary interrogates questions of America's humanitarian values and who we are as a nation.
Cairo, IL Project (USA)
Directors: Little Egypt Productions Team
Producers: Karin Chien, Nick Davis, Wynne Hannan, Harold S. Jones, Lisa Malloy, JP Sniadecki, Steve Tarver, Robin Thornquist, Ray Whitaker, Marcella Woodson
CAIRO, IL PROJECT offers a collectively-authored portrait of Cairo, Illinois, a former industrial and agricultural empire at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers that was a nexus for civil rights in the 1960s. Through intimate depictions created collaboratively, the film celebrates Cairo's vitality and rich history while advancing efforts for environmental, artistic and economic well-being in defiance of systemic injustices.
Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters (USA)
Directors: Rosalynde LeBlanc, Tom Hurwitz, ASC
Producers: Rosalynde LeBlanc and Duana C. Butler
CAN YOU BRING IT: BILL T. JONES AND D-MAN IN THE WATERS traces the remarkable story of how one of the most celebrated works of art to come out of the age of AIDS revitalized two disparate communities, 30 years apart, both struggling to make sense of the plagues of their generations.
Chocobar (Argentina)
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Producers: Benjamin Domenech, Joslyn Barnes, Santiago Gallelli, Matías Roveda
Javier Chocobar was shot dead fighting the removal of his indigenous community from their ancestral land in Argentina. His death appeared in a video on YouTube. This documentary unravels the 500 years of "reason" that led to this shooting, both with a gun and a camera, and contextualizes it in the system of land tenure that emerged across Latin America.
City Hall (USA)
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Producers: Frederick Wiseman and Karen Konicek
City government touches many aspects of our lives and yet most of us are unaware of or take for granted the services that are performed. CITY HALL, by Frederick Wiseman, shows the efforts by the Boston city government, led by Mayor Martin Walsh, to address racial justice, affordable housing, climate action, homelessness, and support for seniors, immigrants, and veterans.
Coded Bias (USA)
Director: Shalini Kantayya
Producer: Shalini Kantayya
CODED BIAS explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.
Dear Evanston (USA)
Directors: Erika Alexander and Whitney Dow
Producers: Ben Arnon, Xan Parker, Erika Alexander, Whitney Dow
Imagine if there were cameras on Rosa Parks from the earliest days of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. DEAR EVANSTON trains the cameras on the next Rosa Parks - Evanston, Illinois Alderwoman Robin Rue Simmons - as she attempts to do what the U.S. Congress, past presidents, and all of American society have been unable to accomplish for over 150 years - make reparations for Black Americans.
Disclosure (USA)
Director: Sam Feder
Producers: Amy Scholder and Sam Feder
Throughout film and TV, DISCLOSURE shows how the fabled stories of Hollywood have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how trans people have been taught to feel about themselves.
Down a Dark Stairwell (USA)
Director: Ursula Liang
Producers: Ursula Liang and Rajal Pitroda
When a Chinese-American police officer kills an unarmed black man in a darkened stairwell of a New York City housing project, it sets off a firestorm of emotion and fractured calls for justice. When he becomes the first NYPD officer convicted of an on duty shooting in over a decade, the fight for justice becomes complicated, igniting one of the largest Asian-American protests in history and disrupting a legacy of solidarity.
Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility (USA)
Directors Gretchen Sorkin and Ric Burns
Producers: Emily Pfeil, Emir Lewis, Kathryn Clinard and Steven Bennett,
Co-producer: Greg Sorin
Chronicling the riveting history and personal experiences – at once liberating and challenging, harrowing and inspiring, deeply revealing and profoundly transforming – of African Americans on the road from the advent of the automobile through the seismic changes of the 1960s and beyond – "Driving While Black" explores the deep background of a recent phrase rooted in realities that have been an indelible part of the African American experience for hundreds of years – told in large part through the stories of the men, women and children who lived through it.
Essential (USA)
Director: Kenny Leon
Producers: Robe Imbriano, Innbo Shim
ESSENTIAL is a short documentary musical based on the calls and letters from prisoners in Houston's Harris County Jail during its Covid-19 outbreak. Almost 90% of its prisoners are locked up pre-trial because they can't afford bail. Through the musical narration of Stew and Heidi Rodewald, these prisoners ask if race and poverty should be a death sentence.
Exception to the Rulers: The Story of Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! (USA)
Directors: Tia Lessin and Carl Deal
Producers: Karen Ranucci and Caren Spruch
This personal documentary will tell the story of Amy Goodman's life and work while also presenting a chronicle of our modern history. The news that she presents does not highlight the usual TV pundits who, as she says, "know so little about so much," but the voices of those who actually live the realities on the ground and fight back against injustice. The film looks behind the scenes at how, out of the ashes of 9/11, Goodman and a team of dedicated journalists built the world's only live, daily simultaneous radio, TV, and internet news program, bringing non-commercial independent news to millions around the globe. Goodman's is a story that shows the power that is in all of us when we stand up to giants.
Fandango at the Wall (USA)
Director: Varda Bar-Kar
Producers: Kabir Sehgal, Doug Davis
Executive Producers: Quincy Jones, Andrew Young, Carlos Santana
Co-Producers: Marietta Ulacia
FANDANGO AT THE WALL follows Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra founder Maestro Arturo O'Farrill and Grammy Award winning music producer Kabir Sehgal to Veracruz, Mexico. Together they recruit son jarocho ("Veracruz Sound") masters Wendy Cao, Fernando Guadarrama, Ramón Gutiérrez, Patricio Hidalgo, and Tacho Utrera for a live album recording at Fandango Fronterizo, a festival founded by Jorge Francisco Castillo taking place at the U.S.-Mexico border.
First Vote (USA)
Director: Yi Chen
Producer: Yi Chen
FIRST VOTE is a feature length documentary exploring the intersection of immigration, racial justice and voting rights through the diverse experiences and perspectives of four Asian American voters' civic participation from 2016 to 2018 in Ohio and North Carolina.
Flower (USA)
Producers: Misty Copeland, Leyla Fayyaz, Nelson George
FLOWER is a dance film experience that incorporates art-activism and social justice components to highlight the nation's growing homelessness crisis, specifically in the Bay Area city of Oakland, California.
For the Love of Rutland (USA)
Director: Jennifer Maytorena Taylor
Producer: Jennifer Maytorena Taylor
In a hardscrabble Vermont town, partisan rancor breaks open in the middle of a mayoral race, touched off by a thwarted attempt to bring new life to the community through refugee resettlement. After a lifetime of being invalidated and shamed for her poverty and addiction, Stacie Griffin emerges as an unlikely and resilient leader in a town divided.
Fruits of Labor (USA)
Director: Emily Cohen Ibañez
Producer: Emily Cohen Ibañez
A teenage farmworker dreams of graduating high school, when increased ICE raids in her community threaten to separate her family and force her to become her family's breadwinner. Set in an agricultural town on the central coast of California, this feature documentary film is a lyrical meditation on adolescence, nature and ancestral forces.
Free Renty: Lainier v Harvard (USA)
Directors: David Grubin
Producer: David Grubin
FREE RENTY: LANIER V HARVARD tells the story of one African-American woman's struggle to reclaim her heritage. Tamara Lanier's lawsuit against Harvard makes the explosive issues of white supremacy and reparations vividly personal.
Gather (USA)
Director: Sanjay Rawal
Producers: Tanya Meillier, Sterlin Harjo
GATHER is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide.
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (USA)
Directors: Michèle Stephenson, Joe Brewster
Producers: Michèle Stephenson, Joe Brewster
GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT pushes the boundaries of biographical documentary film to reveal the enduring influence of one of America's greatest living artists and social commentators. Juxtaposing intimate vérité footage with visually innovative treatments of her poetry and rich archival footage, along with Giovanni's own captivating contemporary performances, GOING TO MARS recounts the story of the artist and her works of resistance through the tumultuous historical periods in which she lived. From the Civil Rights Movement, to the Black Arts Movement, to present-day Black Lives Matter, Nikki provokes and inspires.
Hamtramck, USA (USA)
Directors: Razi Jafri, Justin Feltman
Producers: Razi Jafri, Justin Feltman, Doug Blush
Through the exploration of daily life and democracy in America's first Muslim-majority city, HAMTRAMCK, USA examines the benefits and tensions of multiculturalism.
Hard To Swallow (USA)
Directors: Tunde Wey, Ruth Gebreyesus, Theo Schear
Producers: Tunde Wey, Ruth Gebreyesus, Theo Schear
HARD TO SWALLOW follows Nigerian immigrant, chef, and writer Tunde Wey as he explores the social and political implications of food consumption and production across the United States.
Her Socialist Smile (USA)
Director: John Gianvito
Producer: John Gianvito
An experimental documentary essay on the political imagination of iconic humanitarian, author, and advocate for the blind Helen Keller.
How To Fix A Primary (USA)
Director: Brittany Huckabee
Producers: Brittany Huckabee, Joshua Seftel
An inside account of an outsider campaign in the 2018 midterm elections, HOW TO FIX A PRIMARY digs into a story that is roiling Democratic Party politics nationwide, highlighting the role of power and money in a system many believe is broken – but can be fixed.
I Called For You In Silence (Mexico)
Director: Jose Maria Espinosa de los Monteros
Producers: Paloma Cabrera Yañez, Juan Pablo Espinosa de los Monteros
Facing a lack of support from the authorities amid mounting forced disappearances, a group of mothers from Sinaloa go out with pickaxes and shovels in search of their disappeared children. This is the story of Las Rastreadoras de El Fuerte, a collective of women who go on daily searches under a blistering sun with one objective: to find their loved ones.
In Balanchine's Classroom (USA)
Director: Connie Hochman
Producers: Connie and Mark Hochman
Balanchine's former dancers reveal startling new facets of the legendary choreographer as they open the door to his private classroom - his laboratory, set against their present-day efforts to keep his legacy alive.
In Plain Sight (USA)
Director: PJ Raval
Producer: Farihah Zaman
IN PLAIN SIGHT is an anthology docuseries radically reframing the immigrant experience, in support of the abolition of US migrant detention. The film chronicles a coalition of artists and activists who collaborated on a trans-national, trans-media artwork targeted at immigrant detention facilities, many of which are operating in communities without taxpayers knowing at all.
In Search of Bengali Harlem (USA)
Directors: Vivek Bald & Alaudin Ullah
Producer: Susannah Ludwig
Alaudin Ullah, an actor and playwright from Spanish Harlem, searches for answers about his Muslim immigrant parents. As he travels from the streets of New York City to the villages of Bangladesh, we discover a lost history of undocumented migrants from colonized India who became part of African American and Puerto Rican communities in the 1920s-40s - and uncover a hidden story of trauma in his mother's past.
John Lewis: Good Trouble (USA)
Director: Dawn Porter
Producers: Laura Michalchyshyn, Dawn Porter, Erika Alexander, Ben Arnon
JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE is an intimate account of legendary U.S. Representative John Lewis' life, legacy and more than 60 years of extraordinary activism — from the bold teenager on the front lines of the Civil Rights movement to the legislative powerhouse he was throughout his career.
LakeHouse Films' Gil Scott-Heron Documentary (USA)
Director: Orlando Bagwell
Producers: Orlando Bagwell and Yvonne M. Shirley
LakeHouse Films' Gil Scott-Heron Documentary explores the artist Gil Scott-Heron -- his life, work, and the times in which he lived.
Latino Vote: Dispatches from the Battleground (USA)
Director: Bernardo Ruiz
Producers: Bernardo Ruiz, Andrea Cordoba
In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, national news media outlets have scrambled to cover the impact of the "Latino vote," acknowledging that there has never been a monolithic "Latino" electorate, much less a "sleeping giant" (the term used by major news outlets to describe Latino voters in past election cycles). LATINO VOTE: DISPATCHES FROM THE BATTLEGROUND follows the efforts of grassroots organizers, community leaders and political operatives working to ensure high Latino voter turnout.
Lift (USA)
Director: David J. Petersen
Producers: Mary Recine, Martha Southgate
Executive Producer: Sam Pollard
Through the eyes of young, underprivileged ballet dancers, LIFT shines a light on the invisible story of homelessness in America. Guided by their mentor who grew up in a shelter, these children follow an extraordinary, eight-year journey to step from a shelter into the spotlight to express their own story, one rarely seen on a ballet stage.
Manzanar, Diverted (USA)
Director: Ann Kaneko
Producers: Ann Kaneko, Jin Yoo-Kim
MANZANAR, DIVERTED tells the story of intergenerational women from Native American, Japanese American World War II incarceree and local environmentalist communities who lead the fight to defend Payahuunadü (the Owens Valley) from the insatiable thirst of Los Angeles, owner of 90 percent of the land. They form an unexpected alliance to fight for dignity, their home and for future generations.
Memories From The Forest (Paraguay)
Director: Paz Encina
Producers: SILENCIO CINE & SABATÉ FILMS (Paraguay) / BLACK FOREST (Germany) / REVOLVER & FORTUNA FILMS (Holland) / MPM & EAUX VIVES PRODUCTIONS (France)
The Asojá flies, the bird-god-woman of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode indigenous culture, and brings the memories. The Asojá flies and tells us that Ayoreo means man, human being. MEMORIES FROM THE FOREST, is a film about deforestation and clearing of the forest, a film about immigration, a film about remembering, and especially all that makes us happy.
Mississippi Red (USA)
Director: Kelly Duane de la Vega
Co-Director: Zandashé Brown
Producer: Jessica Anthony
An intimate set of portraits offer a window into the experience of growing up female in the Deep South through the lens of race, religion and the political establishment.
Murders that Matter (USA)
Directors: Marco Williams
Producers: Marco Williams
MURDERS THAT MATTER documents Movita Johnson-Harrell, an African-American Muslim mother who, in the aftermath of her youngest son's murder, vows to save all Black sons on both sides of the gun.
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (USA)
Director: Ric Burns
Producers: Leigh Howell; Kathryn Clinard; Bonnie Lafave
OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller.
Oscar's Comeback (USA)
Director: Lisa Collins
Co-Director: Mark Schwartzburt
Producers: Lisa Collins, Mark Schwartzburt
Co-Producer: Anthony Jamison
In Association With: PJ Bowser Productions LLC; C-Hundred Film Corp (Jim McKay, Michael Stipe); Cinema Conservancy (Jake Perlin)
Gregory, South Dakota. Farmbelt, USA. Behind-the-scenes, an epic melodrama slyly unfolds across 12 years around a motley band of volunteers struggling to put on an annual mom-and-pop film festival, in their skeptical all-white small-town, to champion their unlikely Black 'native son': overlooked early 1900s film pioneer Oscar Micheaux (a.k.a. the "Godfather of Independent Cinema"). Amid the expanding festival, which draws people of color to Main Street, a cautionary modern-day Race Movie emerges -- echoing Micheaux's controversial works -- that illuminates the thorny crossroads of racial panic, economic inequity, gender imbalance, and rural strife, as Gregory confronts its buried Black and Lakotan 'roots.'
Outta The Muck (USA)
Directors: Ira Mckinley & Bhawin Suchak
Producers: Ira Mckinley, Bhawin Suchak, Tracy Rector, Sam Pollard, Darian Henry
Told through stories that transcend space and time, OUTTA THE MUCK presents an intimate portrait of a family and community that resists despair with love, and remains fiercely self-determined while forging its own unique narrative of Black achievement.
Papers: An American Tragedy (USA)
Director: Frank Chi
Producer: Kica Matos
In PAPERS, filmmaker Frank Chi will retell the story of modern American immigration in the structure of a Shakespearean tragedy. Focused on one of the most consequential but least talked-about laws in American history, the Hart-Celler Act of 1965, Chi will trace the actions of seven presidents over 50 years that led to three momentous events: the creation of a "legal" immigration system that's led to dramatic demographic change, the creation of an "undocumented" immigration wave born from poorly written laws, and the nativist backlash to both that has shaken our politics and culture.
Philly D.A. (USA)
Directors: Ted Passon, Yoni Brook
Producers: Ted Passon, Yoni Brook, Nicole Salazar, Josh Penn, Michael Gottwald, Dawn Porter
A groundbreaking documentary series embedded inside the shocking election and tumultuous first term of the most controversial District Attorney in the nation, and his experiment to upend the criminal justice system from the inside out.
Primera (USA/Chile)
Director: Vee Bravo
Producers: Vee Bravo, Kevin Lopez, Catherine Gund
PRIMERA tells the story of Felipe and Angie, two parents-turned activists, immersed in Chile's revolutionary path to a new constitution. They become part of a national uprising that demands equity and dignity for millions of Chileans living in poverty. Feeling the pressure of continuous protests, the government reluctantly agrees to hold a referendum on the existing constitution. Felipe and Angie fend off a fierce government repression that sought to put fear into the millions of Chileans who cast their vote on October 25, 2020.
Razing Liberty Square (USA)
Director: Katja Esson
Producers: Katja Esson, Ann Bennett
RAZING LIBERTY SQUARE follows the redevelopment of Liberty Square, a historic African American public housing project in Miami and its impact on long-time residents. As Miami's beachfront real estate is threatened by rising seas, the high ground of Liberty Square, ten miles inland, has become the frontline for the newest manifestation of racial injustice - climate gentrification.
Run With It (USA)
Directors: Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman
Producers: Dee Hibbert-Jones, Nomi Talisman, Amilca Palmer
RUN WITH IT is an animated documentary feature film that explores the crisis in the criminal justice system and the U.S. racial divide through the eyes of De'Jaun Correia, a young Black man on the Dean's List at Morehouse College guided by the memory of his uncle Troy Davis who mentored him from death row.
Seeds (USA)
Director: Brittany Shyne
Producer: Danielle Varga
Executive Producer: Sabrina Schmidt Gordon
SEEDS is a portrait of a centennial African-American farm in Thomasville, Georgia. Using lyrical black and white imagery, this meditative film examines the decline of generational Black farmers and the significance of owning land.
Simple As Water (USA)
Director: Megan Mylan
Producers: Robin Hessman, Megan Mylan
SIMPLE AS WATER is a meditation on parental love from Academy Award-winner Megan Mylan. Portraits of Syrian families fractured by war and now living in Turkey, Greece, Germany, Syria and the U.S. form a finely rendered illustration of the human cost of war, and the elemental bonds of family.
Slave Rebellion Reenactment (USA)
Directors: Dread Scott and John Akomfrah
Producers: Antenna.works and Smoking Dogs Films
SLAVE REBELLION REENACTMENT is a community-engaged artist performance and film that reimagines the German Coast Uprising of 1811, the largest revolt in U.S. history.
Sounds Like Thunder (USA)
Director: Dara Kell
Producers: Dara Kell, Sabrina S. Gordon, Sheila Shirazi
SOUNDS LIKE THUNDER follows civil rights leader Rev. Dr. William Barber, as he revives Dr. Martin Luther King's 1968 Poor People's Campaign. Battling death threats and disability, Reverend Barber's message of hope touches people from many walks of life. Told through song, prayer and testimony, this is the story of the birth of a new movement to help heal the United States.
Storm Lake (USA)
Directors: Jerry Risius, Beth Levison
Producer, co-director: Beth Levison
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Art Cullen and his family fight to protect their rural Iowan farming community through their biweekly newspaper, The Storm Lake Times, even as the paper hangs on by a thread. Twice a week, they work as civic watchdogs to protect their hometown and the legacy of credible journalism—come hell or pandemic.
Storming Caesars Palace (USA)
Director: Hazel Gurland-Pooler
Producer: Hazel Gurland-Pooler
Consulting Producer: Jamila Wignot
STORMING CAESARS PALACE is the untold story of Black women who took on presidents, the mob, and everyday Americans, challenging the pernicious lie of the "Welfare Queen." The film introduces activist Ruby Duncan and a band of ordinary mothers who launched one of the most extraordinary yet forgotten feminist, anti-poverty movements in our history.
Takeover! (USA)
Director: Emma Francis-Snyder
Producer: Tony Gerber
Consulting Producer: Miguel Melendez
Executive Producer: Lynn Nottage
On July 14, 1970 a radical Puerto Rican organization, The Young Lords, took over the condemned Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx, demanding New York City take seriously the healthcare needs of their community and build a new hospital. The occupation lasted twelve hours, and the minute-by-minute events will serve as the narrative motor propelling this film. TAKEOVER! will weave in and out of "The Lincoln Offensive," always returning to the day's events as the spine of the story. Interwoven scenes will explore the actions that led to the takeover and the history of Lincoln Hospital, originally built in 1889. The film will also dive into personal character portraits, highlighting what drove these teenagers to put their lives on the line, not just for the betterment of their community, but to continue the fight for community control and universal healthcare.
The 8th (Ireland)
Directors: Aideen Kane, Lucy Kennedy & Maeve O'Boyle
Producers: Aideen Kane, Lucy Kennedy, Maeve O'Boyle & Alan Maher
THE 8th tells the story of how Ireland overturned one of the world's most restrictive laws on abortion, framed by an exploration of the political and cultural history that charts the transformation of a country.
The In Between (USA)
Director: Robie Flores
Producers: Alejandro Flores, Kellen Quinn
THE IN BETWEEN is a lyrical coming-of-age story of growing up on the border. Told collectively through a wide cast of characters, it follows a chronology of formative moments from early childhood into young adulthood on the Mexican-American border, taking audiences beyond the headlines into the ordinary and extraordinary moments of daily life.
The Memory of Butterflies (Peru)
Director: Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski
Producer: Isabel Madueno Medina
THE MEMORY OF BUTTERFLIES submerges viewers in the period when rubber fever exterminated the indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon. Following the traces of Omarino, Aredomi, and Julia, three indigenous characters who are the protagonists of the propaganda images of La Casa Arana, the film takes us on an evocative journey between archival material and present day.
The Neutral Ground (USA)
Director: CJ Hunt
Producer: Darcy McKinnon
THE NEUTRAL GROUND is a feature length documentary about New Orleans' fight over monuments and America's centuries-long relationship with the Lost Cause. THE NEUTRAL GROUND follows writer and comedian CJ Hunt as he documents the struggle to remove and the struggle to preserve New Orleans' confederate monuments.
The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show (USA)
Director: Yoruba Richen
Producers: Valerie Thomas, Joan Walsh
Co-producers: Joy Reid, Peter Saraf, Leah Holzer
THE SIT IN: HARRY BELAFONTE HOSTS THE TONIGHT SHOW captures the historic week in February 1968 when Johnny Carson handed his desk over to Belafonte, the singer, actor and activist. With the country unraveling over war and civil rights, Belafonte and his multiracial band of guests projected a universal vision of the United States the country still hasn't lived up to.
The Tuba Thieves (USA)
Director: Alison O'Daniel
Producer: Rachel Nederveld
From 2011-2013 a rash of tuba thefts occurred in high schools across Southern California. THE TUBA THIEVES does not tell the story of the thieves or the missing tubas. Instead, it asks what it means to listen.
This Land (USA)
Director: Sara Terry
Producers: Alysa Nahmias, Sara Terry
When housing on the lowest rung of the American Dream is being devoured by the wealthiest of the wealthy, whose dream are we serving? THIS LAND examines the wealth gap through the lives of mobile home parks residents struggling to keep a roof over their heads, as it explores the urgent question—when are the rich, rich enough?
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (USA)
Director: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Producers: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Johanna Giebelhaus, Chad Thompson, Tommy Walker
TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM, explores the extraordinary life and artistry of the legendary Nobel laureate. The film covers her remarkable journey from Lorain, Ohio to Stockholm, Sweden, and beyond. Her 11 novels include The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved, which was made into a feature film by Oprah Winfrey. Her career also includes non-fiction books and plays, her role as editor of iconic African American figures and as an educator at Princeton University. Interviewees include Morrison, Hilton Als, Angela Davis, Fran Lebowitz, Walter Mosley, Sonia Sanchez, and Winfrey among others.
Troubled Water (USA)
Director: Will Parrinello
Senior Producer: Stephen Talbot
Producers: Will Parrinello, Rick Tejada-Flores
When mining and hydroelectric projects threaten vulnerable water supplies in Chile, El Salvador, and Honduras, native people who live on the land take action. TROUBLED WATER follows their fight as they face death threats and murder while defending their precious resources from exploitation by multinational corporations. Their struggle for environmental justice reveals a troubling pattern of corruption throughout Latin America.
Unapologetic (USA)
Director: Ashley O'Shay
Producers: Ashley O'Shay, Morgan Elise Johnson
After two Black Chicagoans are killed, millennial organizers challenge an administration complicit in state violence against its residents. Told through the lens of Janaé and Bella, two fierce abolitionist leaders, UNAPOLOGETIC offers a deep look into the Movement for Black Lives, from the police murder of Rekia Boyd to the election of Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Users (USA)
Director: Natalia Almada
Producers: Josh Penn, Elizabeth Lodge Stepp, Natalia Almada
Is technology an expression of our humanity or is technology destroying our humanity? As our society moves increasingly towards a "technopoly" civilization, this visual essay documentary will explore the unintended and often dehumanizing consequences of our society's embedded belief that technological progress will lead to the betterment of humanity.
Vernon Jordan: Make It Plain (USA)
Producer: Dawn Porter
VERNON JORDAN: MAKE IT PLAIN explores Vernon Jordan's rise from the segregated South, his tenure as the head of several civil rights organizations, and his current position as a partner at a corporate law firm and financial behemoth Lazard. Jordan is one of the most influential African American thought leaders in America. And yet, he is one of the least well known of the civil rights icons.
Voice of the People: The Battle for Free Press in Indian Country (USA)
Directors: Rebecca Landsberry, Joe Peeler
Producers: Garrett Baker, Conrad Beilharz, Tyler Graim
In 2015, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation was only the fifth Native American tribe to establish a free and independent press. But after three years of hard-hitting journalism, a small faction of politicians conspired to dismantle it overnight. Forced to report censored news, tribal journalists join forces with citizen activists and elected officials to expose the corruption and bring their free press back.
Waging Change (USA)
Director: Abby Ginzberg
Producer: Abby Ginzberg
WAGING CHANGE shines a spotlight on the challenges faced by restaurant servers and bartenders who are forced to rely on tips to feed themselves and their families. The film reveals an American workers' struggle hidden in plain sight: the effort to end the federal tipped minimum wage of $2.13 per hour and the #MeToo movement's effort to end sexual harassment.
Wake Up on Mars (France/Switzerland)
Director: Dea Gjinovci
Producers: Dea Gjinovci,Sophie Faudel, Britta Rindelaub, Jasmin Basic, Heidi Fleisher
In a small Swedish village, a 10-year-old boy attempts to come to terms with the mysterious illness of his two sisters. While the entire future of his family hangs in the balance of a pending asylum request, he dreams of building a spaceship to leave it all behind.
Welcome to Chechnya (USA)
Director: David France
Producers: Alice Henty, Joy A. Tomchin, Askold Kurov, David France
With searing urgency, WELCOME TO CHECHNYA shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ pogrom raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a remarkable approach to protecting anonymity exposes this under-reported atrocity -- and an extraordinary group of people confronting evil.
What We Leave Behind (USA)
Director: Iliana Sosa
For the past twenty years, my 89-year-old grandfather, Julian Moreno, has embarked on a monthly 17-hour bus ride across the US-Mexico Border in order to visit my family that now lives in the U.S. As a first-generation Mexican American, I explore my relationship with my grandfather and how this film has allowed me to examine my privilege and complicated relationship with a land and family that I never really knew. I explore how immigration, intergenerational trauma, class and citizenship has impacted my family using his bus ride as a way to discuss these different themes.
When They Walk (USA)
Director: Jason DaSilva
15 years ago, I was diagnosed with a rare and relentless form of Multiple Sclerosis. Now quadriplegic, my biggest struggle is living in a world not made with people like me in mind. Faced with the issue of global inaccessibility, I created AXS Map: an online database of accessible places. As I attempt to map accessibility around the globe, I hear the stories that often go unheard: the stories of a community of people like me. When They Walk is the final film in my trilogy, but it's not only my story - it's ours.
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Decorative Club is a house for exclusive décor items in Hyderabad. The visit to this place was intended to allow the students to get an intricate knowledge of various advance accessories that are used in beautifying homes and commercial places. The owners of the Decorative Club, Mr. Manoj Goyal & Mr. Deepak Goyal has helped with their precious time to our students in getting acquainted with the latest décor patterns, the range of plywood and laminates, styles of bidding, and more from the racks.
The field and store visits will boost the knowledge and confidence of the students. It enables them to give the enhanced and sophisticated appearance to their future projects.


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Tim Shriver to Deliver Keynote at Lutheran Services in America 2017 Annual Conference
Tim Shriver, Chairman of Special Olympics, will deliver the closing keynote address at the Lutheran Services in America 2017 Annual Conference on Saturday, May 6 in Washington, DC.
Tim Shriver is a social leader, an educator, author, film producer and entrepreneur. As Chairman of Special Olympics he serves over 5.3 million Special Olympics athletes and their families in 169 countries.
Shriver has been a part of an amazing team that has created exciting new Special Olympics programs in athlete leadership, cross-cultural research, health, education and family support. Among them, Special Olympics Healthy Athletes® has become the world's largest public health examination and education program for people with intellectual disabilities, and Special Olympics Project Unify has become a powerful new program promoting school-based social inclusion and unified leadership. In addition, he has worked to garner more government support for issues of concern to the Special Olympics community, testifying before the United States Congress and challenging government leaders worldwide to respect the dignity and possibilities of people with intellectual disabilities.
The LSA Annual Conference brings together hundreds of nonprofit Lutheran social ministry leaders united in the mission of transforming lives and communities. The 2017 event will be held in Washington, DC, May 4-6 and will recognize the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation and the 20th anniversary of Lutheran Services in America. Shriver's keynote presentation will explore how his faith and personal connections have inspired his journey to public service, his recent book: Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most and his long-standing advocacy work on behalf of those marginalized.
For more information, go to http://www.lutheranservices.org/AnnualConference2017


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Russian air defense raises stakes of U.S. confrontation in Syria
Scenes from Aleppo
The Syrian government has dropped two chlorine bombs in the past month on the besieged, rebel-held city.
Images from inside the Syrian city.
Dec. 19, 2016 Syrians evacuated from Fuaa and Kafraya, two Shiite villages under rebel siege, are welcomed by pro-government forces as they arrive in Jibrin, on the eastern outskirts of Aleppo. George Ourfalian/AFP/Getty Images
By Karen DeYoung
Karen DeYoung
Associate editor and senior national security correspondent
Russia's completion this month of an integrated air defense system in Syria has made an Obama administration decision to strike Syrian government installations from the air even less likely than it has been for years, and has created a substantial obstacle to the Syrian safe zones both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have advocated.
Deployment of mobile and interchangeable S-400 and S-300 missile batteries, along with other short-range systems, now gives Russia the ability to shoot down planes and cruise missiles over at least 250 miles in all directions from western Syria, covering virtually all of that country as well as significant portions of Turkey, Israel, Jordan and the eastern Mediterranean.
By placing the missiles as a threat "against military action" by other countries in Syria, Russia has raised "the stakes of confrontation," Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Sunday.
While there is some disagreement among military experts as to the capability of the Russian systems, particularly the newly deployed S-300, "the reality is, we're very concerned anytime those are emplaced," a U.S. Defense official said. Neither its touted ability to counter U.S. stealth technology, or to target low-flying aircraft, has ever been tested by the United States.
"It's not like we've had any shoot at an F-35," the official said of the next-generation U.S. fighter jet. "We're not sure if any of our aircraft can defeat the S-300."
For more than two years, Syria has tacitly accepted U.S. and coalition airstrikes against the Islamic State, in areas relatively far afield from where the civil war is being fought. An agreement signed by Moscow and Washington last fall, after Russia sent its own air force to join that of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is designed to ensure that U.S. and Russian planes stay well away from each other.
But the ongoing Russian-Syrian siege of Aleppo, and the failure of diplomatic negotiations to stop it, has forced the administration to reconsider its options, including the use of American air power to ground Assad's air force.
The possibility of using U.S. air power in the civil war, even to patrol a safe zone for civilians, has never been favored by the Pentagon, which has argued that it would involve preemptory strikes on Syria's fixed air defenses. Now, with the installation of a comprehensive, potent Russian air defense system, many military officials see it as risking a great power game of chicken, and possible war, according to senior administration officials.
Several officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Russian capabilities and recent high-level White House meetings on Syria, Iraq and the Islamic State, including a Friday gathering of the National Security Council chaired by President Obama. The NSC session largely focused on the Mosul offensive begun against the Islamic State this week, and an upcoming operation against the militants in the city of Raqqa, their Syrian headquarters.
Consideration of other alternatives, including the shipment of arms to U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in Syria, and an increase in the quantity and quality of weapons supplied to opposition fighters in Aleppo and elsewhere, were deferred until later, officials said. U.S. military action to stop Syrian and Russian bombing of civilians was even further down the list of possibilities.
Another senior official dismissed what he called Moscow's "yard sale approach" of displaying all available systems to attract potential purchasers, and said last month's S-300 deployment did not much change Russian capabilities from where they have been over the past year. Russian arms sellers have repeatedly hailed the performance of their weaponry in Syria and claimed heightened sales abroad.
U.S. strikes in heavily populated western Syria, despite the presence there of al-Qaeda-affiliated forces of the Front for the Conquest of Syria, formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra, have been few and far between, precisely to avoid the risk of civil war involvement and, more recently, confrontation with Russia.
An attack early this month that eliminated a senior Front official in Idlib province, in northwestern Syria, was carried out by an unmanned U.S. drone, with notice provided to Russia.
Moscow has denied that Russian and Syrian attacks have intentionally struck civilians, saying they are directed toward the Front, some of whose forces are mixed with the rebels in Aleppo and elsewhere. In early September, Kerry said the United States would join with Russia in attacking the al-Qaeda forces, in exchange for a Russian and Syrian cease-fire and the delivery of humanitarian aid to besieged civilians.
It was when that agreement fell apart — and the United States suspended contacts with Russia over Syria as hundreds of civilians have been killed in the brutal bombing of Aleppo — that the Russians moved to install S-300 missiles. They formed the final component of an integrated air defense system, along with S-400 and other surface-to-air systems previously deployed in and around Russia's Hmeimen air base in Latakia province along the Syrian coast.
Amid widespread talk of U.S. "kinetic" action to stop the Aleppo slaughter, the Russian Defense Ministry warned of the "possible consequences," noting that "the range [of the defense systems] may come as a surprise to any unidentified flying objects."
Russian soldiers and officers, it said, were working on the ground throughout territory controlled by the Syrian government and "any missile or airstrikes . . . will create a clear threat to Russian servicemen."
In addition, the ministry said, following the Sept. 17 U.S. airstrike that inadvertently killed dozens of Syrian soldiers in eastern Syria, "we have taken all necessary measures to avoid any such 'mistakes' against Russian troops and military installations in Syria."
Neither the administration, nor either of the presidential nominees, has ever favored using U.S. combat forces in Syria's civil war. But the use of air power to create a zone inside the country where civilians could be safe from relentless airstrikes by Syria and Russia has long been advocated by regional allies and domestic critics of what is seen as a weak administration policy.
Both Clinton and Trump have favored such a strategy — in Clinton's case, since she was secretary of state. Trump has advocated establishing a safe zone inside Syria as a way to stem the flow of Syrian refugees to Europe and this country.
But while such zones — protected by U.S. air power — were established during years past in Iraq, Libya and Bosnia, all were against relatively weak opponents and conducted under United Nations authorization. Neither presidential nominee has addressed the question of comprehensive Russian air defenses.
Although Kerry has continued to try to revive the cease-fire, U.S. leverage against Russia appears minimal. Following talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. European and regional allies last weekend, Kerry said that increased sanctions against both Russia and Syria were under consideration.
Meanwhile, Russia on Monday offered an eight-hour pause to the Aleppo bombing this week to allow Front militants and civilians to leave the city.
Little consensus within administration on how to stop fall of Aleppo to Assad
Kerry urges war crimes probe into Syrian and Russian bombing of civilians


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A La Jolla Cosmetic Surgery Practice Has Success With Newest Generation of Laser Lipolysis
Dr. Richard Chaffoo says San Diego and La Jolla cosmetic surgery patients have an effective solution for unwanted fat and cellulite with Smartlipo TriPlex™.
La Jolla, California (October 2014) — Dr. Richard Chaffoo (www.lajollaskin.com) customizes laser treatments at his La Jolla cosmetic surgery practice using the Cynosure® Smartlipo TriPlex, a next-generation laser that the triple board-certified plastic surgeon says is highly effective at efficiently reducing unwanted fat and cellulite.
"The TriPlex system represents the newest generation of laser lipolysis and provides our liposuction patients in La Jolla with significant benefits when compared with older liposuction alternatives," Dr. Chaffoo says.
Those benefits include reduced liposuction procedure time, less downtime for recovery, and less bleeding and bruising than after traditional liposuction, Dr. Chaffoo says.
The La Jolla plastic surgeon, a laser liposuction specialist, says the TriPlex system features 3 distinct wavelengths that each target specific body contouring concerns. Dr. Chaffoo can blend the wavelengths to customize treatments for each patient, depending on his or her needs.
The Cynosure Smartlipo TriPlex laser system can remove unwanted fat, as traditional liposuction does, but its laser technology also helps to tighten the skin for a smooth contour after the fat inside is removed. Additionally, it treats cellulite and facial acne scars, making it a versatile part of Dr. Chaffoo's practice, he says.
"The system is a wonderful asset for a plastic surgeon like myself who treats a range of concerns," he says. "It's a vital component in my success and the success of my patients who want to improve their bodies and their confidence."
Dr. Chaffoo says that the system is advanced and complex, which allows for a high level of customization and tailored treatments, but which also requires a practitioner who is experienced.
"It's important for patients to choose a qualified specialist with experience using the new generation of lasers," Dr. Chaffoo says. "This helps ensure patients aren't disappointed with the results and that their safety is the foremost priority."
Dr. Chaffoo is affiliated with Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla and personally consults with each patient before recommending a specific treatment. With more than 20 years of experience, Dr. Chaffoo and his practice are well-established as part of the La Jolla community.
"We've built lasting relationships with our patients and members of the elective healthcare industry, allowing us to be at the forefront of aesthetic innovations," Dr. Chaffoo says. "Offering the Cynosure TriPlex laser to residents throughout San Diego is an example of how our patients benefit from those relationships."


These first hair flowers are from WREN Handmade on Etsy. Her description says 2 inch flower bobby pins, but I think the 2 inch part refers to the bobby pin, not the flower. The flower seems to be about half an inch long.
I love how small and dainty they are.
I love that you get three of them because 3 is a good number.
I love how the colors and prints compliment each other so well.
Photos courtesy of WREN Handmade.
The next flowers are over-the-top awesome!! Large, simple, and statement-making, these flowers are the perfect accessory to take any outfit over the top. Check out Emersonmade for the full assortment, but here are some of my favorites.
How about in a more formal setting? What do you think? I love how the simplicity of the flower co-exists with the formality of the dress and event.
Ooo I love those flowers! I personally go for something big (and you could totally pull them off too!) - my big hair would unintentional eat those beautifully delicate bobbypins.


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Premiership countdown: Who's who in the zoo?
HOT PROPERTY: Lebogang Manyama is on top of the scoring charts. (Ashley Vlotman, Gallo Images)
Fighting for survival
As it happened: Orlando Pirates 1-1 SuperSport United
WRAP: PSL
Timothy Molobi
Johannesburg - It's that time of the season when the Absa Premiership table starts to take shape as teams at the top and those at the bottom begin to assume their natural log positions
Relegation dogfight
Only nine points separate the bottom eight teams – three wins for three points each would close this gap – and, at the rate at which things are going, the relegation battle looks certain to go down to the wire.
With 30 more points for each club to still play for, bottom-of-the-log Baroka could still win the title. Wishful thinking!
Mathematically speaking, though, Baroka could finish with 44 points if they win all their remaining matches – and if the other teams all lose theirs – and lift the title, as they predicted at the beginning of the season.
With two victories in 20 matches, it is hard to imagine where more wins will come from.
It has been a struggle for the newcomers, who got the baptism of fire in their maiden season in the Absa Premiership.
But they are not alone in the predicament – another newcomer, Highlands Park, has also found the going very tough.
Together with Bloemfontein Celtic and Free State Stars, they occupy the bottom four spots on the table, and their prospects of survival look slim. Ajax Cape Town and Orlando Pirates are not out of the woods either and find themselves at the wrong end of the table.
Title contenders
With just four points currently separating the top five teams, there is no guarantee who will lift the trophy at the end of the season. Bidvest Wits, Cape Town City, SuperSport United, Kaizer Chiefs and Mamelodi Sundowns are the lead contenders.
However, having played four fewer games than most of the other teams, defending champions Mamelodi Sundowns are best placed to retain their title.
Although games in hand do not always translate into points, Sundowns is well-positioned to win at least three games.
And, as long as other title contenders continue to drop points with regularity, Sundowns will remain title favourites.
Possible banana skin
Travelling across the continent will test Sundowns, Wits and SuperSport's resolve, and put their title credentials to the test.
Cape Town City and Kaizer Chiefs will be hoping that the trio slips up, giving them the opportunity to take advantage at the top.
Sundowns take on Polokwane City on Tuesday ahead of a trip to Uganda for a second-leg CAF Champions League match against Kampala City Council on Saturday.
Bidvest Wits, SuperSport United and Platinum Stars will not be involved in league fixtures – they will be playing in the Nedbank Cup on Wednesday evening.
The game will be taxing for The Students after being in East London on Tuesday, where they played to a goalless draw against Chippa United. Saturday saw them clashing with Al Ahly in Cairo. They will end off in the Mother City, taking on Cape Town All Stars.
Meanwhile, Matsatsantsa are in Sudan for this evening's clash (on Sunday) with Sudan's Al-Ahly Shendi. They have to travel back for their game against the Royal Eagles at Harry Gwala Stadium.
Dikwena have been on a revival after winning three games on the trot and forcing their way into the top-eight bracket. They are also away in Uganda this weekend before taking on AmaZulu.
Cavin Johnson must be happy with how his players have turned their season around thus far.
New Year blues
Four clubs – all in the league's bottom half – are still searching for their first win this year. One would need binoculars to see how far back Pirates and Polokwane City last won league matches.
Baroka last won in October and have gone 14 matches without a victory.
Pirates are second on the list, having had their last victory in November.
The once-mighty Sea Robbers are going through a lean spell, which has seen them going 11 games without a win.
Their new coach, Kjell Jonevret, looks like he has stabilised the defence as they have conceded only three goals in as many games.
It is the other end of the field that should be worrisome for the Swede.
Pirates only scored three goals – all coming from behind – in the three games he has overseen.
After a promising start, the wheels seem to have come off for Polokwane City, who have now gone seven matches without collecting maximum points.
They lost two matches and drew five.
Their Belgian coach, Luc Eymael, has resigned and left with immediate effect.
Sharp shooters
Even more concerning to Pirates followers is that top striker Tendai Ndoro has not scored since early December.
The Zimbabwean has also lost his place in the starting line-up. This has allowed Cape Town City's captain, Lebogang Manyama, to catch up on the scoring charts.
They are both on 11 goals and the momentum to pip Ndoro to the award seems to be with Manyama.
Bidvest Wits' Gabadinho Mhango and Polokwane's Rodney Ramagalela are on eight goals each.
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Kicking off the event will be a keynote presentation by Bill Moore, Editor-In-Chief of EVWorld.com – an online publication whose objective is "to provide a human face to the topic of sustainable transportation with a focus on the people and policy, as well as transportation." Bill will present the history of the electric bike movement, overall global market data and an overview of various electric bicycle technologies.
Also speaking at the event will be Bruno Maier, Sr. Vice President of Marketing, from the Bikes Belong Coalition. Maier will discuss what is happening across the country to create safe places for people to ride, and the role that electric bikes can play in the future of getting more people on bikes.
With the task of securing key consumer media journalists for the event, Interbike has retained the services of Truth Be Told Public Relations (TBTPR) in Beverly Hills, CA. TBTPR has already confirmed participation from several major national & regional outlets, whose combined circulation is more than 4 million readers. TBTPR has extensive experience with top-tier local and national media outlets, and will work to ensure that the event is well attended.
Interbike will open the event to local bicycle retailers after 2pm, allowing for test rides, and conversations with both manufacturers and media. Retailers interested in attending must register by calling 949-226-5754.
Bicycle Retailer & Industry News is one of the event's key supporting sponsors, and will produce a special e-bike supplement with an event recap, photo pages and articles about what retailers need to know about this emerging market. BRAIN publisher Marc Sani has seen the electric bike boom grow overseas and is pleased to see Interbike stage this event.
Also supporting the event is the Light Electric Vehicle Association (LEVA). LEVA represents the strategic interests of light electric vehicle retailers, dealers, distributors, manufacturers and suppliers to promote the development, sale, and use of light electric vehicles worldwide.
Companies interested in one of the limited number of sponsorship opportunities should contact Andria Klinger, Sales Manager, at 949-226-5745, or [email protected] for more information.


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"Plastic Action" is the name of the Birchall Foodservice programme to control single use plastics and support the UN Clean Seas international campaign.
Caterers are being urged to 'do their bit' and get involved in the global battle against plastic pollution. It's time to take drastic action: Plastic Action!
Consumers are becoming more environmentally aware and expect traders to have answers. We hope our input will assist you in your decision-making and enable you to better address your customers' queries and concerns.
Plastic Action is an ongoing campaign and we will be bringing you regular news and updates via a dedicated news section in your Stir it up Promotions brochure. If you would like to see our newsletter on all things plastic please ask your sales contact for a copy.
Colin Birchall
Industry News Headlines.
Sodexo banning straws and stirrers.
Marks and Spencer joins Global Ghost Gear Initiative – a group committed to driving solutions to the problem of lost and abandoned fishing gear worldwide.
Country Range group engaging with all suppliers to replace single use plastic.
Birchall Foodservice stops plastic wrap for Stir it Up magazine from June 2018.
Hilton has pledged to ban plastic straws from 650 Hotels worldwide.
Selfridges bans fizzy drinks in plastic bottles
Waitrose to stop using disposable coffee cups
BBC Catering Service: By 2020, the BBC hopes to be free of single-use plastic across all sites
Richard Walker: MD & Sustainability director or Iceland: Walker threw down the gauntlet to the industry, pledging to remove all palm oil from Iceland own label food by the end of 2018, to tackle devastating rainforest destruction in southeast Asia. Walker has also stunned the recent Wrap-pact (involving almost 60 industry giants), claiming it doesn't go far enough.
BIODEGRADABLE PLASTICS?
This article helps remedy the misconceptions surrounding 'biodegradable plastics' and the processes involved in successful biodegradation. You may see plastic advertised as 'biodegradable', but in reality this simply isn't the case.
However, this doesn't mean that there aren't more environmentally responsible alternatives on the market. Below is our guide to what we believe are the more environmentally viable options and our reasons why.
AVOID 'biodegradable plastic': Biodegradable plastic is constructed from PLA (Poly-lactic acid) which is a derivative of genetically modified maize. It isn't unusual to find products that are made from such materials to be marketed as 'biodegradable', however when the products are exposed to conditions such as those found in the sea, landfill or even your compost heap, the biodegradation process simply cannot take place. Furthermore, there aren't currently any specialised composting facilities in the UK that will accept these kinds of products. In addition to this, the issue is further exacerbated as this material contaminates regular plastic recycling, causing whole batches to be sent to landfill.
AVOID 'degradable' plastic: Often falsely marketed as 'biodegradable', oxy-degradable, and photo-degradable plastics, these 'degradable plastics' are simply regular plastics with the addition of chemicals, to assist breaking it down into smaller pieces. With the problem of micro plastics becoming clearer, it is surely better to keep the item in one piece. Our best advice is to avoid them all together.
Other Plastic: Polypropylene (type 5) and Crystal Polystyrene (type 6) are used to make most other single-use plastic glasses. While these plastics are not as sought after as PET, they are clean, uncoloured, single material plastic and will be readily accepted in mixed recycling. Polypropylene remains the most inexpensive, while crystal polystyrene remains the only option for stemware.


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