from Duke:
Documenting a pioneering film distribution company and collective, the first to distribute feminist films in the early 1970s, the New Day Films Collection is an important record of both New Day’s formation and the Feminist Movement….   The Rubenstein is committed to preserving the New Day Films Collection for future generations to make this record of the evolution of progressive independent American filmmaking available for teaching and research.

The screening is on April 13th, the panel is on the 14th.
Full Frame will honor the 40th anniversary of New Day Films, a groundbreaking distribution company democratically operated by over 100 filmmakers.  The festival will exhibit New Day Film’s very first titles, directed by the founding members, which were recently archived at the Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University.  The four films will screen as one program: Liane Brandon’s “Anything You Want to Be” and “Betty Tells Her Story,” Jim Klein and Julia Reichert’s “Growing Up Female,” and Amalie R. Rothschild’s “It Happens to Us.” A separate panel conversation around New Day Film’s history and legacy will also take place at the festival.
Friday, April 13, 4:50 pm

• • Anything you Want to Be. Directed by Liane Brandon. 8 min.  1971
  • Betty Tells Her Story.  Directed by Liane Brandon. 20 min.  1972
  • Growing Up Female. Directed by Julia Reichert and James Klein. 1971. 50 min.  1971
  • It Happens to Us. Directed by Amalie R. Rothchild. 30 min.  1972

In other news…
Part #1 of BODY TYPED, WET DREAMS AND FALSE IMAGES, is currently touring Cuba through The Museum of Modern Art and The Americas Media Initiative.The goal of Closing Distances/Cerrando Distancias is to screen a selection of U.S. documentary short films that present unique and diverse local U.S. experiences to a wide Cuban audience that has very little information about the U.S. and, through cultural exchange, to increase understanding and foster dialogue between U.S. and Cuban citizens.

Seoul Train: Featured on CNN’s AC360 after the death of Kim Jong-Il, for a look inside North Korea and its human rights crisis.

Screenings

Weightless: Screening at American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association conference in April. Will also be featured in inaugural Fat Studies journal published by Routledge.

Silent Choices: Screening at Carleton College in February and as part of a reproductive choice symposium at Queens College in March.

My Perestroika: Screening at the first American film festival in Kiev, Ukraine, as part of  the American Documentary Showcase

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers: Screening at the first American film festival in Kiev, Ukraine as part of the American Documentary Showcase.

Maid in America: Screening at the Women, Social Justice, Documentary Symposium at Smith College March 30 – April 1

Land of Opportunity: Screening at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
conference in Boston (March 24) and the Southern Sociological Society conference in New Orleans (March 25)

Immigrant Nation: Screening at the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies conference in March.

Daddy and Papa: Screening at Southwest Social Science Association annual meeting and White Privilege conference.

Crossing Lines: Screening at Prasad Film and TV Academy and University of Madras Department of Journalism and Communication, Chennai, India; Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media, Bangalore, India.

Concrete, Steel & Paint: Screening for “On Screen/In Person,” the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation’s series that toured the eastern seaboard.

Children in No Man’s Land: Screening at US Embassy in Luanda, Angola, to a group of refugees and returnees as part of the American Documentary Showcase.

By Invitation Only: Annual Carnival season screening at Loyola University in New Orleans, LA.

Body Typed: Activists and educators engage audiences with a series of free online videos of the film.

Ask Not: Screening at New York Public Library.

Publicity

Weightless: Will be featured in the inaugural Fat Studies journal published by
Routledge.

ANPO: Art X War: Featured in the 2012 issue of The Journal of the Japanese Art Society of America.

Sequel

If the Mango Tree Could Speak: A sequel is being produced, re-visiting the same ten characters, all now in their mid-30s.

Study Guides

Straightlaced—How Gender’s Got Us All Tied Up: Now distributed with a 160-page curriculum guide to help educators untangle complexities of pressures to conform to gender norms and homophobia.

Sin País: Now with a new discussion guide developed by the San Francisco Film Society.

About the film:
In the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, a young coal miner named Lucas Chaffin toils one mile underground. Despite the harsh working conditions, Lucas takes fierce pride in the fact that he’s carrying on a family tradition. As a fourth-generation miner, working inside the earth is more than just a job to Lucas. He believes it’s his duty; a responsibility symbolized by the old coal hammer that he uses. It is the same hammer that was used for 26 years by the man he loves more than anything: his father, Luther Chaffin.

Luther—nicknamed “Bonecrusher” — was once a strong, handsome man. But now, at 61, he’s withered and sick; coal dust has ravaged his lungs. As life slips away, his greatest concern isn’t for himself; it’s for Lucas’s safety.

Bonecrusher is an intimate account of the love between a father and son and the powerful bond they share, a bond that is put to the test. It is also a stark journey to the coal fields of Dante, Virginia where a tight-knit community of miners face life with a toughness and camaraderie as enduring as the earth itself.

WHEN I CAME HOME is a film about homeless veterans in America: from those who served in Vietnam to those returning from the current war in Iraq. The film looks at the challenges faced by returning combat veterans and the battle many must fight for the benefits promised to them. Through the story of Herold Noel, an Iraq War veteran suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and living in his car in Brooklyn, WHEN I CAME HOME reveals a failing system and the veteran’s struggle to survive after returning from the war.

Congratulations to Keith and his crew on this prestigious award!