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The New Day Newsletter
Fall, 2000
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For more than 25 years, New Day's independent filmmakers have
produced award-winning educational films and videos on social
issue topics. In this newsletter, you'll find descriptions of
our newest films, ~~~~~~~~~ ---New Releases
Faye Lederman recently joined New Day with her film WOMEN OF THE WALL, the story of a women's group struggling for the right to pray freely at Jerusalem's Western Wall. The film was awarded first prize/Religion Category in the Judah Magnes Museum video competition, and is a wonderful tool for examining religious freedom and women's rights. New member David Yanofsky comes to New Day with POETIC LICENSE. It's a look at the high-energy, youth world of poetry slams and the growing spoken word movement. Poetic License is currently playing at major film festivals around the country. Filmmaker Andy Abrahams Wilson announces the release of his newest documentary HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS. It is a beautiful film about caregiving for a dying partner, and using creativity to transcend the grief of dying. You can also purchase his previous award-winning film BUBBEH LEE AND ME from New Day Films. Current New Day member Lisa Merton and partner Alan Dater add another film to their collection, with THE WORLD IN CLAIRE'S CLASSROOM. It's a thought-provoking profile of how a white school teacher in a predominently white school can give her students a true experience in multicultural education. You can still purchase their previous film, Home to Tibet. Coming soon to New Day is the newest film by long-time member Robert Richter, FATHER ROY: INSIDE THE SCHOOL OF ASSASSINS. "Powerful...recommended for all video collections" according to Library Journal, it documents the struggle to find and reveal the truth about the U.S. Army School of the Americas, as seen through the life and daring actions of Fr. Roy. Check the web site (www.newday.com) for updated information as it arrives. BIONIC BEAUTY SALON, by new member Gretchen Stoeltje, is a chronicle of fact and fiction about the female body, addressing the insecurities in women of all ages who learn to place their self-worth in the measure of their beauty. Its primary audience is teenage girls but should include anyone who struggles to understand female socialization, and anyone who has ever assessed the physical beauty of a woman. Check our website for an update!
Also, you can now search for your favorite topics, titles or filmmakers
straight from our home page. Check out this new service at: www.newday.com.
STILL MISSING, Theresa Tollini's film about children abducted by non-family members, will screen at the 2000 Hot Springs documentary Film Festival in Arkansas, October 13-22. CARVED FROM THE HEART: a portrait of grief, healing and community, by Ellen Frankenstein and Louise Brady, will air this fall as part of the PBS series Independent Lens. Independent Lens is a PBS series featuring work of independent filmmakers for national public television. Check your local listings for air date and time. Tony Silver's STYLE WARS will screen at the Brooklyn Museum version of that exhibition on hip hop, then in November at the Experience Music Project in Seattle. The Brooklyn Museum exhibition is their version of the show that originated at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, where the film was also screened. Marlene Booth will be screening her film, YIDL IN THE MIDDLE: Growing Up Jewish in Iowa, and speaking about how we talk about diversity and difference at Wartburg, Grinnell, and Barnard College during the fall semester.
The Jan Karski Award for a film on moral courage went to Bob Richter's
new film FATHER ROY: INSIDE THE SCHOOL OF ASSASSINS (coming soon
to New Day!!!) at a special event held in Washington DC at the
Embassy of Poland. Karski was in the Polish government in exile
during World War Two and was the first person from his country
to alert the western world to the Holocaust going on in Poland.
Bob's previous two films, DO NOT ENTER: The Visa War Against Ideas and HUNGRY FOR PROFIT are both still available through New Day.
New Day Films will be on hand at the National Media Market in Las Vegas beginning October 11th. Please stop by our booth, and be sure to visit with our amazing booth handlers, Andy Abrahams Wilson and Laurel Chiten. They will be able to answer all your questions about New Day.
Jay Rosenstein was recently awarded funding from the Independent Television Service for "The Amasong Choir: Beauty and Justice," the story of Champaign, Illinois lesbian/feminist choir and their rise from rag-tag beginnings into a nationally recognized musical ensemble. You can order his previous film, IN WHOSE HONOR? AMERICAN INDIAN MASCOTS IN SPORTS. Two hundred copies of THE GARIFUNA JOURNEY, by filmmakers Andrea E. Leland & Kathy Berger, were sent to Belize to be distributed to schools throughout the country. Andrea Leland traveled to Belize and met with National Garifuna Council members to discuss the distribution of the tapes. A grant from the Rotary Club of Evanston, Illinois paid for the duplication. The documentary is currently being used to teach documentary film in Guatemala City, and is being subtitled in Spanish. Berger and Leland recently received an Illinois Humanities Development Grant, which will enable them to return to Belize in the fall and begin a follow up documentary on Garifuna healing practices. BEAUTY BEFORE AGE, Johnny Symons' award-winning documentary about growing older in gay male culture, was broadcast this summer and fall on PBS stations in San Francisco, San Jose, and Chicago. The film screened this spring at the national conferences of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Society on Aging, and Seniors in a Gay Environment (SAGE). Johnny is in production on a new film, DADDIES, about gay men raising children. Pat Ferrero had a retrospective of her Native American issue films at the EthnoFilm Fest in Berlin this summer. Highlighted was the New Day Classic HOPI: SONGS OF THE FOURTH WORLD as well as a broad selection of other Native American films commissioned for permanent installation at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in PITTSBURGH, PA. Debra Chasnoff and Helen Cohen's film IT'S ELEMENTARY-Talking About Gay Issues in School continues to serve as a pivotal resource as more school communities and teacher education programs grapple with how to address anti-gay prejudice. It recently was showcased at the National Education Association annual conference and as part of the training program of Teach for America. Chasnoff and Cohen's HOMES AND HANDS-Community Land Trusts in Action was recently screened at a benefit hosted by the Institute for Community Economics to promote the development of community land trusts throughout the western United States." Beth Harrington (THE BLINKING MADONNA & OTHER MIRACLES) has concluded the Martha Swetzoff and Jane Gillooly's award-winning film THEME: MURDER was one of 12 American productions to be selected for screening at INPUT, the international public television conference. The film screened in the spring at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival and the Atlanta Film and Video Festivals. Children's fantasies and the power of their imaginations are explored
in a new black and white film by Tony Silver is now at work on the DVD for STYLE WARS, as well as a new film about Marshall Arisman, one of America's coolest visual artists and teachers. It is a feature-length documentary, shot in super 16 and DVCam. Eric Stange (CHILDREN OF THE LEFT) and colleague Melissa Banta just received a production grant
from the National Endowment for the Humanities for THE MURDER
OF DR. PARKMAN, a film about how historians do history, with historian
Simon Schama. Rick Goldsmith (TELL THE TRUTH AND RUN: GEORGE SELDES AND THE AMERICAN PRESS) is in the final editing stages of a feature-length documentary about a year in the life of an AmeriCorps team, working with at-risk kids in their communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The working title is WORLDS OF DIFFERENCE, scheduled for completion in January, 2001. |