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Dear New Day Films customers: Happy New Year!
We’re starting the year by celebrating the diverse venues in which our films are being used to make social change.
Right now, more than one of our films are being used by school districts to combat homophobia. One of our films was just part of a Congressional budget hearing. A third film is currently screening in a waiting room of the Mexican Consulate in Austin, Texas.
In this issue of the New Day Films e-newsletter you’ll find:
UPCOMING SCREENINGS - Where to preview our films this winter
DISCOUNTS - How to get 10-15% off at http://www.newday.com
RESOURCES - A Chicago public library tells how to build a doc screening program
NEWS & HONORS - News about your favorite films
UPCOMING SCREENINGS
Quilts in Women's Lives (By Pat Ferrero)
This film, which profiles women quilt makers, now has excerpts screening online. Go to http://www.folkstreams.net/homepage.html
for clips, interview transcripts, photos of the quilters and their work, links to quilt-related sites and resources, and the scoop on the making of the film.
The Collector of Bedford Street (By Alice Elliott)
This film about disability and community can be seen from Coast to Coast: Feb. 3, Southern California Association of Philanthropy conference, Los Angeles; Feb. 8, Council on Foundations, Family Foundations conference, New York; Feb. 10, San Diego Jewish Film Festival, La Jolla, CA; Feb. 29, North Carolina Jewish Film Festival, Durham, NC; March 21, Hartford Jewish Film Festival, Hartford, CT; April 23, New York State Association of Community and Residential Agencies, New York.
Downside Up (By Nancy Kelly)
How can art revive a city? This film tells how. Catch the screening on April 8 at the National Popular Culture-American Culture Association annual meeting, San Antonio, TX.
Los Trabajadores/ The Workers (By Heather Courtney)
This film takes you into the world of Mexican day laborers. It’s now screening in the waiting room of the Mexican Consulate in Austin, Texas as part of their outreach efforts to the immigrant community. In addition, it will screen in February as part of the World Community Film Festival in British Columbia, Canada . Filmmaker Courtney is currently in Mexico on a Fulbright making her new documentary, Letters from the Other Side, which tells the other side of the immigration story: the tale of the women left behind.
That's A Family! (By Debra Chasnoff and Helen S. Cohen)
This award-winning film about diverse families, told from the kids' perspectives, is booked for in-depth training for teachers and after-school service providers in early 2004 in New York City, Denver and Los Angeles. The trainings are hosted by local children's museums and are presented in collaboration with the US Conference of Mayors, the Child Welfare League of America, and the national Afterschool Alliance.
Watch the New Day Films website - http://www.newday.com - for the impending debut of the hot new Chasnoff & Cohen film about school bullying -- Let’s Get Real.
What Do You Believe? (By Sarah Feinbloom)
This thought-provoking look at American teens, spirituality, and freedom of religion will be screened as part of an interfaith youth event in Tempe Arizona in 2004. See the United Presbyterian Church in Tempe for the dates. What Do You Believe? has screened many places this year, including: the Religion Today Film Festival in Italy; Cinemagic, a film festival for youth in Belfast, Ireland; a conference for Muslim and Catholic women at St. Mary's College, and the National Association of Multicultural Educators conference.
DISCOUNTS
Take 10 percent off by ordering two of our films and 15 percent off for ordering three or more films. The discount applies to our entire collection, but in January and February, in celebration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and National African American History Month, we hope you’ll explore our collection of films featuring African American people and issues.
The Double Burden:Three Generations of Working Mothers
The Garifuna Journey
Hearts and Hands
M & M Smith: For Posterity's Sake
Poetic License
Stories of Change
The Way Home
Through a Glass, Lightly
Union Maids
RESOURCES
In these days of shrinking budgets, how can a public library launch a documentary film screening program and amass a collection of more than 200 indie documentaries? Read about the Evanston (Chicago) public library’s Reeltime Independent Film and Video Forum.
NEWS & HONORS
Women of Mystery (By Pamela Beere Briggs)
Check out the November 2003 issue of American Libraries magazine for their cover story on how Women of Mystery has spawned a unique screening/reading/discussion program in public libraries. The series links crime authors with social issues -- on the page, in film, and in the library. The article includes information on how to host your own program.
Home Economics (By Jenny Cool)
An article about Visual Anthropology and the making of Home Economics will be reprinted this Spring in Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World: A Critical Sourcebook, from Bedford/St. Martin's. Written by anthropologist Nancy Lutkehaus and filmmaker Cool, the article makes an ideal companion to the film.
Scout’s Honor (By Tom Shepard)
Todd Pittinsky, Associate Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, has developed a teaching note for Scout’s Honor to be used in university courses. Scout’s Honor won Best Documentary at the 14th Annual National Council on Family Relations Media Awards Competition. The film is being used by Human Rights Watch in the Los Angeles Unified School district in a campaign to combat homophobia in high schools. Watch for director Shepard’s new film about Jehovah's Witnesses and their contributions to civil liberties.
In Whose Honor? American Indian Mascots in Sports (By Jay Rosenstein)
In Whose Honor? American Indian Mascots in Sports has been updated for the 2004 academic year. It also recently screened at the Native Cinema Showcase in Santa Fe, NM.
Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press (By Rick Goldsmith)
Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press screened recently at Northern California’s Rafael Film Center with filmmaker Goldsmith and journalist and media critic Norman Solomon, who had just returned from Iraq. Tell the Truth and Run also recently screened in Berlin at the New Society for the Arts.
Everyday Heroes (By Rick Goldsmith)
Everyday Heroes was shown in Congress as part of 100 hours of testimony on AmeriCorps, the domestic youth service program.
Letters Not About Love (By Jacki Ochs)
Letters Not About Love screened in November at Fordham University/Lincoln Center Campus in New York City. Filmmaker Ochs is now finishing her latest film, Being Me (working title), about "The Girls Project," a New York City after-school program for empowering preadolescent girls.
Style Wars (By Tony Silver)
Style Wars, and its new 34 minute companion film, Style Wars Revisited, drawn from the new 2-disc DVD, have played numerous festivals in 2003, including: New York's H2O Film Festival, the Stockholm Film Festival, the Black Soil Film Festival in Rotterdam, In-Edit Film Festival in Barcelona and the Bergen Film Festival in Norway. Special screenings have also been held at the Siskel Center in Chicago and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
No Loitering (By Ellen Frankenstein)
The group of teens featured in No Loitering is now producing a short documentary for Beyond Borders. Along with other youth media groups around the globe, the Alaska teens will address the hot button issues of fear and security.
A Day's Work A Day's Pay (By Jonathan Skurnik)
A recent review in the journal Labor History called A Day's Work A Day's Pay "a paradigm-shifting work. It thoroughly challenges prevailing definitions of both 'welfare recipients' and 'workers.'” Filmmaker Skurnik is now completing Stutter Step, a film about a stutterer's journey of self-acceptance, and is filming American Shaman about the growing phenomenon of mainstream Americans using shamanic practices to heal themselves, their communities and the planet.
Daddy & Papa (By Johnny Symons)
“Wise, honest and provocative,” is what Video Librarian recently called Daddy & Papa. The film recently screened at New York’s Manhattan College and at screenings sponsored by the Philadelphia Dept. of Human Services and the Madison, WI, First Unitarian Society.
For the latest news on members, screenings, new films and discounts, as well as to order our print catalog, see www.newday.com.
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