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For more than 27 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, notices of upcoming broadcasts and screenings in your area, recent awards, and up-to-date information on New Day films and filmmakers.
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CONTENTS
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---New Releases
---Website News
---Upcoming Broadcasts & Screenings
---Member News
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NEW RELEASES:
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AMERICAN ODYSSEY (www.newday.com/films/AmericanOdyssey) from new member Christina
Monnier is a documentary short about the folks who crisscross
the country in those cosmic pods known as Airstream trailers.
In addition to screenings at numerous film festivals, "American
Odyssey" will be shown at The Society for Visual Anthropology
Film and Video Fest at the annual AAA (American Anthropological
Association) conference in Washington, D.C December 2001, and
at the PCA (Popular Culture Association) conference in Toronto
in March, 2002. In September "American Odyssey" screened in Portugal
as part of the Festival Internacional de Cinema, Figueira da Foz.
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UPCOMING BROADCASTS & SCREENINGS
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IN WHOSE HONOR? AMERICAN INDIAN MASCOTS IN SPORTS (www.newday.com/films/InWhoseHonor.html) by New Day's Jay Rosenstein
is now being broadcast on the Worldlink satellite channel, available
to all Direct TV and Echo subscribers, as part of a new multi-part
series, 1st People's TV. Visit the Worldlink website (www.worldlink.org)
for dates and times. Also, Rosenstein's film ERASED is currently airing periodically on the Independent Film Channel.
New Day member Rick Goldsmith has signed a deal memo with the
Sundance Channel for a 2-year licensing agreement, to begin February,
2002, for the Sundance Channel to cablecast TELL THE TRUTH AND RUN: GEORGE SELDES AND THE AMERICAN PRESS (www.newday.com/films/TelltheTruthandRun). In a separate development,
TELL THE TRUTH AND RUN is now being duplicated with closed captioning.
THE OPTIMISTS: THE STORY OF THE RESCUE OF THE BULGARIAN JEWS FROM
THE HOLOCAUST (www.newday.com/films/TheOptimists), a film by Jacky Comforty,
will have its Washington DC Premiere at the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum on December 2, 2001. THE OPTIMISTS is winner
of a CINE Golden Eagle, 2001; Co-Winner of the Peace Prize at
the Berlin International Film Festival 2001; First Prize Winner
in the category of "Documenting the Jewish Experience" at the
Jerusalem International Film Festival 2000; and "Best Documentary"
at the Hope and Dreams Film Festival, 2001
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MEMBER NEWS
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Pat Ferrero's new release, YIELD TO TOTAL ELATION: THE LIFE & ART OF ACHILLES RIZZOLI, (www.newday.com/films/YieldToTotalElation) was recently screened
at the 2001 Virginia Film Festival, the theme of which this year
was Masquerade. The film will also screen at the Santa Fe Film
Festival in early December. According to John Beardsley of Harvard's
Graduate School of Design, "Although Rizzoli is generally presented
as an outsider artist, this film confirms important connections
between his work and Beaux-Arts drafting traditions, narrative
architecture, and utopian planning. It should be of great interest
to anyone interested in visionary art or architecture."
WOMEN OF MYSTERY: THREE WRITERS WHO FOREVER CHANGED DETECTIVE
FICTION, (www.newday.com/films/WomenOfMystery)which was reviewed in the
November 2001 issue of Booklist, has been selected for the January
2002 Booklist Editor's Choice list. The film has been selected
by the National Museum of Women in the Arts for its Literary Program,
as well as by The Library of Congress' State Centers for the Book
for statewide screening-reading-discussion programs. In November,
producer-director Pamela Beere Briggs attended a screening of
the film in Anchorage, Alaska hosted by the Alaska Center for
the Book, and taught a filmmaking workshop at the University of
Alaska. The film is also being broadcast in Canada, the UK, Yugoslavia,
and Israel.
HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS (www.newday.com/films/Hopeisthethingwith), New Day Member Andy
Abrahams Wilson's newest title in the New Day Films collection,
recently was honored with a CINE Golden Eagle Award. The film
also has been cited for excellence by the American Art Therapy
Association for its portrayal of the healing value of artistic
expression in the face of death and dying.
THE GARIFUNA JOURNEY (www.newday.com/films/GarifunaJourney) by New Day Members Andrea
E. Leland and Kathy L. Berger, was screened at the "International
Council for Traditional Music Conference" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
this past July. Andrea Leland, ethnomusicologist Oliver Greene
and anthropologist Malcolm Servio-Mariano presented a panel on
the process of collaboration as a method of liberation at this
same conference. A videotaped interview with Leland along with
a copy of The Garifuna Journey was submitted to the United Nations
by the National Garifuna Council of Belize. The documentary,
along with other materials, was submitted in support of their
application for the title: "Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible
Heritage of Humanity." The United Nations awarded the Garifuna
this prestigious title in 2001.
Andrea E. Leland is currently producing a third documentary on
Garifuna culture. This documentary will focus on a traditional
Garifuna healer and midwife who lives in Belize and the close
relationship she has with her daughter who lives in Chicago.
A 10 minute trailer entitled "Moms Medicine, a mother and daughter
worlds apart" is available for previewing.
After a remarkable White House screening for the heads of 100
national children's, education, and civil rights advocacy organizations,
Debra Chasnoff and Helen Cohen's THAT'S A FAMILY! (www.newday.com/films/ThatsAFamily) is starting to be used in
schools and community agencies to help to raise awareness of differences
and promote respect among elementary and middle-school aged children.
Training programs for teachers, social workers, and counselors
are using it as well. The National S.E.E.D. Project (Seeking
Equity in Education) has used the film in diversity training sessions
with their facilitators all over the country and the National
YWCA has promoted THAT'S A FAMILY! for use by member organizations
in their Week Without Violence program. It's also screened at
scores of education and child welfare conferences including the
North American Council on Adoptable Children and the Coalition
of Essential Schools.
Five years after its release, IT'S ELEMENTARY: TALKING ABOUT GAY ISSUES IN SCHOOL (www.newday.com/films/ItsElementary), by Debra Chasnoff and Helen
S. Cohen, has become required viewing in countless university,
education, and social work courses, helping to lay a foundation
for the next generation of teachers and counselors. Both the
full-length and training versions of the film are now available
in Spanish! Love Makes a Family, a group in Oregon, is using
IT'S ELEMENTARY for a Middle School Transition Project to decrease
harassment of children from gay- and lesbian-headed households
and increase awareness of family diversity.
Joan Mandell, TALES FROM ARAB DETROIT, (www.newday.com/films/TalesfromArabDetroit) recently completed
five public service spots about Arab American response to "9-11"
which aired during Thanksgiving week on local PBS stations. The
interstitial spots were commissioned by ITVS for national broadcast.
The Society for Ethnomusicology screened Mandell's TALES FROM
ARAB DETROIT at its annual conference held last month in Southfield,
Michigan. The film is now included in the National Video Resources
website (www.viewingrace.org) in the "After 9-11" section. The
video was reviewed by Peter Nichols for his "Home Video" column
in the Sunday New York Times.
Thanks again for your interest in NEW DAY FILMS (www.newday.com)!!!
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