documentary

Sanctuary TV producer Yaminay Nasir Chaudhri is reporting regularly from Pakistan, where she is staying with family while developing a new documentary project.  This, the first of her visual narratives of life as a migrant in cities she calls home, focuses on a worrisome phone call she received days before embarking on her journey...

"An incident that brought the unstable political situation in Pakistan uncomfortably close to home occurred on September 19 when a car bomb exploded a mere kilometer from my family's home in Karachi, Pakistan.

How to Shoot: Hands-on Digital Video

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    Join documentarian Jim de Sève in this hands-on lab specifically designed for improving your shooting skills.  Four exercises focus on:
    1. Going off automatic
    2. Motion and stability
    3. Covering the action
    4. Engaging the emotive potential of the camera
   
    Bring your video camera, if you have it—but not required.

BIO:  Jim de Sève is an award-winning documentary producer and director.  He teaches film production classes at Union College. 

One country's terrorist is another country's revolutionary...

The award-winning documentary "Freeing Silvia Baraldini" is a profound inquiry into the life of an Italian woman who became an American radical.  Silvia spent 24 years in prison following her conviction of helping to free Black Panther, Assata Shakur from prison.  Filmmakers Margo Pelletier and Lisa Thomas unlock a chapter in U.S. radical politics that has been until now, sequestered by the U.S. government.

Click here to see a trailer for "Freeing Silvia Baraldini" and find out more about the film!

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e-mail workshops@MediaSanctuary.org or call (518) 272-2390

 Learn everything you need to know about planning, shooting, editing and marketing the documentary you’ve been dreaming about, from a filmmaker who has done it.  

Former Black Panther, Mama Charlotte Hill O'Neal is an accomplished poet, musician and visual artist, and Founding Director of Tanzania's United African Alliance Community Center (UAACC), a community-based organization which promotes community development in rural Africa. The UAACC has a number of independent media projects as part of its powerful community work including hip hop, music production, photography, videography, poetry, theater and the development of an independent radio station. Four decades after leaving this country for exile in Tanzania, Mama Charlotte Hill O'Neal returns to share the inspirational story of how she and her husband's past as Black Panthers affects their work among the urban and village youth of East Africa and America.

7PM Screening of "Captured"  

Since 1979 Clayton Patterson has dedicated his life to documenting the final era of raw creativity and lawlessness in New York City's Lower East Side, a neighborhood famed for art, music and revolutionary minds. "Little brother is watching big brother"--traversing the outside edge, he's recorded a dark and colorful society, from drag to hardcore, heroin, homelessness, political chaos and ultimately gentrification.

PLEASE NOTE: The Director, Dan Levin has informed us that due to an unforeseen scheduling conflict, he will be unable to attend the screening for a Q & A.

Orgasmic Birth brings the ultimate challenge to our cultural myths by inviting viewers to see the emotional, spiritual, and physical heights attainable through birth. Director Debra Pascali-Bonaro shares what she calls the "best-kept secret" as we witness women in the ecstatic release of childbirth.

Panel after the film--

Founded in 2000, BirthNet is a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate the public about maternity care in order to improve it.

BirthNet's goal is to encourage all women and families to learn about their rights and options during the childbearing year. Birth options, such as where, with whom, and how to give birth, are reproductive rights.

We work to improve maternity care for women of all ages, ethnic backgrounds, races, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and socio-economic circumstances.

BirthNet coordinates programs with our Speakers Bureau. Our primary programs include:

Wake up and smell the global economy with acclaimed filmmaker Su Friedrich as she takes you from Guatemala to South Carolina to New York City to see how her morning cup of coffee has passed through the hands, and lives, of countless people. Co-sponsored by the Honest Weight Food Co-op.

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Filmmaker Su Friedrich Screens Her Coffee Epic
"From the Ground Up" at the Sanctuary

The Kahnawake Mohawk ironworkers who helped to build the famed bridges and skyscrapers of New York City lived with their families in 10 square blocks in Brooklyn—a neighborhood known as Little Caughnawaga. Reaghan Tarbell traces her family roots to create a portrait of this vibrant community and the women who sustained it.

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Native American Filmmaker Visits the Sanctuary

On Wednesday December 3, , we welcome video/web artist and all-around culture jammer Frank Lopez of Submedia.TV (coming to us from Vancouver, BC)! His work includes the post- Katrina music video "George Bush Don't Like Black People" (downloaded over one million times and counting) and the vlog "It's the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine" (which highlighted the Wafaa Bilal incident last spring). He'll be presenting "Ground Noise & Static," a powerful documentary filmed in the midst of the protests at last summer's 2008 political conventions.

7PM Show - followed by a Q&A discussion

Admission by donation ($10 suggested)

PLUS.....BYOB Bye Bye Bush afterparty with best of the Anti-Bush Era Videos

wear some anti-bush clothing

About Ground Noise & Static

In November, one or the other of the corporate candidates will
win, and then, as always, it will be what the people do, not the
politicians, that counts.