News from New Day Films
Dear New Day Films Customers:
This fall, New Day is releasing five important new films on five very diverse topics:
• Every Mother’s Son — mothers of slain sons vs. police brutality
• Gay Youth — breaking the silence on gay teens
• Goodbye Baby — controversy over adoptions from Guatemala
• Freedom Machines — new technology for the disabled
• The Self-Made Man — “Is it ever rational to choose death?”
In this Fall 2005 newsletter, read more about these films and get information on discounts and news about your favorite films & filmmakers. To order from New Day Films, the only film distribution company run by the filmmakers themselves, go to www.newday.com <http://www.newday.com> .
Every Mother's Son
by Kelly Anderson, Tami Gold. This film profiles three women from very different walks of life who find themselves united to seek justice after their sons are unjustly killed by police. Their stories are tragic and the courage shown by the mothers heroic.
Freedom Machines
by Richard Cox, Janet Cole and Jamie Stobie. FREEDOM MACHINES dramatically broadens the concept of diversity through intimate stories of disabled adults and children using modern technologies to change their lives. It is a riveting reflection on the status of America's largest minority group: 55 million people with disabilities.
Goodbye Baby
by Pat Goudvis. Informed by the filmmaker’s own experiences: she has two children adopted from Guatemala and has lived there on and off for 25 years. GOODBYE BABY provides a rare glimpse into the dramatic and difficult world of intercountry adoption. GOODBYE BABY premieres at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts on November 3 at 6 PM, with an additional screening on November 5 at 1 PM.
The Self-Made Man
by Susan Stern. Facing a serious, possibly terminal, illness, Bob Stern decides to take his own life. His family tries to stop him. Bob sets up a video camera. Daughter Susan Stern (Barbie Nation) explores rational suicide,the right-to-die and difficult end-of-life choices facing an aging population.
Gay Youth
by Pam Walton. GAY YOUTH is a powerful and accessible educational video for high schools and colleges that breaks the silence surrounding adolescent homosexuality. This important video shows that information, acceptance, and support make enormous differences in the lives of these young people.
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Kelly Anderson’s Every Mother's Son received an Emmy nomination for "outstanding individual achievement in a craft: Directing." With Working Films in North Carolina Kelly is identifying organizations dealing with police brutality issues, to develop a strategy to help them use the film to help fight for police accountability and reform.
Pam Walton’s Liberty: 3 Stories about Life & Death is currently featured on LOGO, MTV's new gay cable channel, and was the Best Short Documentary at the Paris Lesbian Film Festival. It is scheduled as a formal workshop for the 2006 NCOA/ASA Joint Conference in Anaheim, California.
Amie Williams FALLON, NV: Deadly Oasis was shown at a US military base in Japan, where she spent a month teaching documentary film to Tsuda College in Tokyo. Tony Silver (Style Wars) produced Amie’s NO SWEAT, following two "sweatshop free" garment factories in downtown Los Angeles, comparing their very different business styles. It was telecast in September on KQED, San Francisco.
Recent screenings of Debra Chasnoff’s One Wedding and a Revolution include Vancouver Queer Film and Video, ChillFest (NJ), Cleveland Ingenuity Art and Tech Festival, Girl Fest Hawaii, Bent Lens (CO) and Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema (CA).
Let’s Get Real (Debra Chasnoff/Helen S. Cohen) screened at Girl Fest Hawaii. The Seattle School District No.1 acquired 150 copies and the Lafayette Parish School Board in Louisiana acquired 250 copies of Let’s Get Real for distribution to their schools this fall. It will be required reading for all Lafayette freshmen.
Jonathan Skurnik's Spit It Out is having great success in the disabilities film festival circuit, playing all over the world and racking up awards. This fall it screens in Sao Paulo, Tel Aviv and London.
Sarah Feinbloom's What Do You Believe? is being used by World Learning for International Development in their program in Albania, Fostering Religious Harmony. It will be featured this November at the Adolescent Spiritual Development Conference being held by the Council for Spiritual and Ethical at the University of San Francisco.
Jesse Epstein’s Wet Dreams and False Images was selected by Young Adult Library Services Organization, a division of The American Library Association (ALA), as one of the top six videos for young adults in 2005.
Joan Mandell has been invited to several college campuses to screen her New Day titles, Tales from Arab Detroit and Voices in Exile. Her most recent work, Arab American Road Movie, will be screened at the Detroit Docs and Brighton International Film Festivals.
Bob Richter’s Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins has just been released on DVD, Torture reports from Abu Ghraib makes this timeless film even more relevant.
Jay Rosenstein's In Whose Honor? American Indian Mascots in Sports has just been released on DVD. The recent decision by the NCAA to forbid such images in their tournaments makes this film even more timely today.
That’s a Family! (Debra Chasnoff/Helen S. Cohen) is available on DVD this fall. Special features include a director’s interview, clips from Debra’s other films and Spanish subtitles.
Rick Goldsmith (Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press and Everyday Heroes ) wrote and edited Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson's American Journey, a new documentary that premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October.
Andrea Leland (The Garifuna Journey received an NEA grant for her current project, "Jamesie, King of Scratch," about a Virgin Islands musician.
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