amaurosis Tran T. Kim-Trang 2002, 28 min., Color, US Amaurosis is an experimental documentary about Nguyen Duc Dat, a blind, American Asian guitarist living in Little Saigon, California. Dat was a 'triple outcast': blind, Amerasian and an impoverished o...
Angels of the Earth, The Patricio Luna Producer: CEFREC/CAIB 2001, 40 min., Color, Bolivia In his first trip to the city, Sinchi faces deceit, violence and rejection from strangers and from his long lost brother, Antonio. This short drama is a cautionary tale about the dangers of city life ...
Another Brother Tami Gold Producer: AndersonGold Films 1998, 51 min., Color, US Through found photographs, audiotaped interviews and archival footage, ANOTHER BROTHER tells the story of Vietnam veteran Clarence Fitch. Clarence Fitch was a man of and for his times, an African Ame...
Asian Boys Angel Velasco Shaw 1994, 19 min., Color, US This documentary was produced in collaboration with performance artist Nicky Paraiso for his critically acclaimed multi-media performance at P.S. 122. Eleven different interviews with "Asian Boys" are...
Between the Cup and the Election Monique Mbeka Phoba & Guy Kabeya Muya 2008, 56 min., Color/BW, DRC/Belgium Inspired by the 2006 elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formery Zaire, a group of film students sets out to make a film. With the help of veteran filmmakers Monique Mbeka Phoba and Guy...
Beyond the Bricks: A New Era of Education Derek Koen Producer: Ouida Washington 2010, 31 min., Color, US BEYOND THE BRICKS follows African‐ American students Shaquiel Ingram and Erick Graham as they struggle to stay on track in the Newark public school system. Fifteen year‐old Shaquiel is a bright studen...
Black Body Thomas Allen Harris 1992, 7 min., Color, US Thomas Allen Harris uses text, special effects, and a single bound male nude to emphasize the humanity underlying the multiple definitions of black identity and subjectivity. The audience may be asked...
Boys of Summer Keith Aumont Producer: Keith Aumont & Ariana Garfinkel 2010, 94 min., Color, Curaçao/US On the tiny Caribbean island of Curaçao, Manager Vernon Isabella has sent his Little League All-Stars to the World Series for seven consecutive years, routinely defeating such baseball powerhouses as ...
Call to Manhood Narcel G. Reedus 1994, 57 min., BW, US CALL TO MANHOOD is an emotional testament to the brothers who are reaching back into the community to save young black boys. This documentary traces the steps taken by the Fulton County Human Services...
Closer to the Dream (Long Version) Guetty Felin & Hervé Cohen 2008, 102 min., Color, US An electoral road movie about Barack Obama and the movement that united Americans across party, racial and ethnic lines. In 2008 Haitian-American filmmaker Guetty Felin, her husband, French filmmaker ...
Closer to the Dream (Short Version) Hervé Cohen & Guetty Felin 2008, 54 min., Color, US An electoral road move about Barack Obama and the movement that united Americans across party, racial and ethnic lines. In 2008 Haitian-American filmmaker Guetty Felin, her husband, French filmmaker H...
Ezekiel's Dream Narcel G. Reedus 1994, 15 min., BW, US EZEKIEL'S DREAM starring Steve Coulter is a visual poem describing the last thoughts of a black man perparing for the fight of his life. This film has garnered numerous awards and has screened in Berl...
Fathers, Sons & Unholy Ghosts Danny Thompson & Glen Noble Producer: Sankofa Film and Video Collective 1994, 13 min., Color, UK This moving narrative is a unique exploration of the multi-layered and often underexamined relationship between fathers and sons. When Martin, a young father, is left alone one weekend with his son, h...
For Colored Boys Who've Considered Homicide Narcel G. Reedus 1995, 27 min., Color, US In this spiritual drama, an ancestor (Thomas Merdis) travels through time and space to interrogate a murderer (Chong Thi Nguyen) to find out why young black boys are killing each other.
"FOR COLOR...
The Good Son Michael Sandoval 2002, 9 min., BW, US Pummeling abag, a young Filipino-American fighter forges a space for himself in Queens, New York City -- a house dominated by the sermons of his minister father. Beneath the surface of this unspoken t...
Here to Stay ManSee Kong Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop 2008, 7 min., Color, US Illustrates the effects of gentrification in Manhattan’s Chinatown as an elderly man and fellow tenants in endangered single-room occupancy building await the results of an anti-eviction lawsuit. A TW...
History Doesn’t Have to Repeat Itself Stéphane Gérard 2014, 85 min., Color, France/US Forty-three years after the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, filmmaker Stéphane Gérard travels to New York City in an attempt to find the activist community that was born out of this historical moment and to ...
In a Perfect World… Daphne McWilliams Producer: Daphne McWilliams & Sam Pollard 2015, 76 min., US IN A PERFECT WORLD… Explores all the requisite dynamics of what it is to be a man raised by a single mother. The inspiration for the film came from the director's own relationship with her son who has...
In the Event Anyone Disappears Allan Siegel Producer: Third World Newsreel 1974, 25 min., Color, US This documentary examines conditions faced by US prisoners in the early 70s, conditions that have remained virtually unchanged until today. Shot inside men's maximum-security prisons in Trenton and Ra...
Jareena, Portrait of a Hijda Prem Kalliat 1990, 25 min., Color, India This video offers a profile of a transsexual and her community in the Indian city of Bangalore. It provides a unique insight into the lives of Hijdas, a society of eunuchs numbering in the tens of tho...
Little Brother: A Do Right Man (Chapter 3) Jasmin Tiggett Producer: Nicole Franklin, Epiphany, Inc. 2012, 17 min., Color, US LITTLE BROTHER is a series of short documentary films dedicated to giving Black boys a unique voice. Beginning in 2010, filmmakers Nicole Franklin and Jasmin Tiggett started taking an annual look at B...
Little Brother: Manchild in the Promised Land (Chapter 5) Nicole Franklin Producer: Nicole Franklin & J. Tiggett 2015, 17 min., Color, US LITTLE BROTHER: MANCHILD IN THE PROMISED LAND is Chapter 5 of the film series that features young Black boys and their thoughts on Love. This chapter was filmed in Tucson, AZ, where the young men have...
Little Brother: The Street (Chapter 2) Nicole Franklin Producer: EPIPHANY Inc. 2012, 17 min., Color, US LITTLE BROTHER is a series of 15-minute documentary films dedicated to giving Black boys a unique voice. Beginning in 2010, filmmakers Nicole Franklin and Jasmin Tiggett started taking an annual look ...
Little Brother: Things Fall Apart (Chapter 1) Nicole Franklin & Jasmin Tiggett Producer: EPIPHANY Inc. 2010, 18 min., Color, US LITTLE BROTHER is a series of 15-minute documentary films dedicated to giving Black boys a unique voice. Beginning in 2010, filmmakers Nicole Franklin and Jasmin Tiggett started taking an annual look ...
Mark of a Man (Newsreel #28) San Francisco Newsreel 20 min., BW, US An anti-recruting film. How Army trains its men to fight against the people of Vietnam. Recent American veterans of the Vietnamese war describe their experiences. Made by San Francisco Newsreel....
Mas Man Dalton Narine 2010, 56 min., Color, Trinidad/US Mingling traditional Carnival elements with abstract ideas, Emmy Award winner Peter Minshall goes chic to chic with upper crust art in Trinidad’s annual spring festival. The film captures his flair fo...
Military Option Al Santana & Alonzo Speight Producer: Third World Newsreel 2005, 11 min., Color, US Women, money and travel. It's still the hook that military recruiters are using on young men, as two students discover at a Queens recruitment office. A look at the military recruitment process thro...
Military Promises Kamisha S. Producer: Third World Newsreel 2005, 8 min., Color, US Brian was recruited into the US Navy, much to his filmmaker sister’s dismay. Pressured by a family history filled with those who served in uniform, as well as calls and visits from recruiters who offe...
Negritude: A Dialogue Between Wole Soyinka and Senghor Manthia Diawara 2015, 59 min., Color, USA/France/Germany/Portugal This imagined dialogue between Léopold Sédar Senghor, one of the founding fathers of Negritude, and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka was reconstructed almost entirely from archival materials. It probes the...
Older Women and Love Camille Billops & James Hatch 1987, 26 min., Color, US Using interviews and dramatizations, this film achieves a touching and often humorous look at social attitudes towards relationships between older women and younger men. The filmmakers are involved on...
On the Downlow Abigail Child 2006, 54 min., Color, US "On the Downlow" presents an intimate portrait of four men negotiating their bisexual desire within the African-American community of Cleveland, Ohio. These men selfdescribe as "dipping on both sides ...
Race Against Prime Time David Shulman 1985, 60 min., Color, US An award winning documentary about TV news and racial conflict in Miami.
In 1980, Arthur McDuffie, an African American community worker was brutally kicked, beaten and clubbed to death by Miami po...
A Refutation of Time Dan Boord & Greg Durbin & Luis Valdovino 1997, 8 min., Color, US/Argentina A student from the Large Midwestern Universe receives an unusual e-mail message in the Logic Lab. The communication concerns, the nature of time, tango singer Carlos Gardel, the humorist Will Rodgers,...
Remembering Jason Nashid Fareed Producer: Third World Newsreel Workshop 2000, 24 min., Color, US Dedicated to "those we have lost to needless violence", REMEMBERING JASON portrays the lives of those connected to him. After living what could be termed a normal life--school, sports, music--Jason Th...
Rouch in Reverse Manthia Diawara 1995, 52 min., US/UK Malian filmmaker and scholar Manthia Diawara critiques visual anthropology through the work of Jean Rouch....
Slowly, This Arthur Jafa 1995, 26 min., Color, US When two friends meet in a crowded Manhattan restaurant, the conversation takes an unexpected and intimate turn. Speaking from their experiences as a Japanese American man and an African American man,...
A String of Pearls Camille Billops & James Hatch 2002, 56 min., Color, US With this film, Camille Billops completes her family's trilogy - three documentaries that cover more than thirty years: "Suzanne Suzanne", shown in the New Director's series at the Museum of Modern Ar...
The Survivor’s Project: Voices from the Inside-Out! Cabral Larc Trotman 2007, 45 min., Color, Canada THE SURVIVOR'S PROJECT: VOICES FROM THE INSIDE OUT! explores the traumatic impact and implications of gun violence on young people, and young black men in particular, living in low-income, racialized ...
Teach Our Children Christine Choy & Susan Robeson Producer: Third World Newsreel 1972, 35 min., BW, US This film focuses on the historic 1971 Attica prison rebellion in upstate New York. It targets the conditions that caused prisoners to take drastic steps toward securing their basic rights. The film...
The Throwaways Bhawin Suchak & Ira McKinley Producer: Bhawin Suchak & Ira McKinley, Executive Producer: Sam Pollard 2014, 62 min., Color, US THE THROWAWAYS is a personal exploration of the devastating impact of police brutality and mass incarceration on the black community told through the eyes of formerly incarcerated activist Ira McKinle...
Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela Thomas Allen Harris Producer: Thomas Allen Harris 2005, 73 min., Color, US In the wake of his stepfather’s death, Thomas Allen Harris embarks on a journey of reconciliation with the man who raised him as a son but whom he could never call "father." As part of the first wave ...
Vest Made of Money Patricio Luna Producer: CEFREC/CAIB 1998, 25 min., Color, Bolivia In this Aymara folktale about greed and betrayal, Satuco sells his possessions and hides the cash in his vest. In the process, he turns his back on his wife and his community.
Confronting the sign...
Wave: A True Story in Hip Hop Tony Wesley & Brian Bullock Producer: Tony Wesley & Brian Bullock 2016, 46 min., Color, US See how the legendary Tony "Mr. Wave" Wesley went from a kid in the Bronx to an international B-Boy superstar to entrepreneur and activist. This film includes never before seen archival pictures and i...
We Demand Freedom Allan Siegel Producer: Third World Newsreel 1974, 55 min., Color, US This film traces the development of prison philosophy; how prisons have been used historically and their function today. From the period of the slave trade through the mid-70s, this film shows how the...
What Are Our Women Like in America? Balvinder Dhenjan Producer: Third World Newsreel 1994, 12 min., Color, US An insightful and hilarious account of one immigrant Indian man's attempt to come to grips with American pop culture and "Westernized" Indian women. A TWN Workshop Production....
Who's Afraid of Ngugi? Manthia Diawara 2006, 83 min., Color, US/Kenya Novelist, essayist, playwright, journalist, editor, academic and social activist Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born in Kenya, in 1938 into a large peasant family. In 1977 his novel Petals of Blood was publish...
Yanqui Walker and the Optical Revolution Kathryn Ramey 2009, 33 min., Color, US/Nicaragua This film explores a now-obscure American expansionist, William Walker, who through military force and coercion became president of Nicaragua in 1856. Walker was one of many expansionists who believed...
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