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April 25: Creatively Speaking Film Series at BAM, Brooklyn, NY; 2 p.m.
Seventh annual Media That Matters festival winners By Standing: The Beginning of an American Lifetime and I'm Not a Boy will be screened at the Creatively Speaking Film Series as part of the Young at Heart program at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) on Friday, April 25th at 2pm.Since its foundation at Harlem Stage twelve years ago, the Creatively Speaking Film Series has highlighted and promoted the spirit of communities of color through a mix of creative and innovative film, video short narratives, documentaries and feature length films. BAM is excited to bring the series to Brooklyn audiences and beyond.
The Young at Heart segment is a "series of six short films, both narrative and documentary, appealing to the inquisitive mind and open heart in each of us," and the day's session will play as follows:
- By Standing: The Beginning of an American Lifetime (5 min) by Karen Lin and Karin Chien starring Kelly Tsai
- Drawing Angel (18 min) by Rosalyn Coleman Williams and Craig Williams
- Still Standing (8 min) by Paola Mendoza
- I'm Not a Boy (6 min) by Julie Joyce
- A Period Piece (20 min) by Camille Holder Brown
- Black Woman (9 min) by Joyia Bradley
The session will end with a Q&A session with some of the filmmakers and other special guests.
The Young at Heart segment is only the first in the three-day Creatively Speaking Film Series. Other sessions include Love Stories and All Dance, All the Time. See the BAM website for more details on these sessions and more. General admission for each session is $11, or a discounted price of $7 for BAM Cinema Club Members and $7.50 for children, students, and seniors. Tickets are available online, by phone at 718.777.FILM (theater ID #545), or at BAM Rose box office.
You can view all of the Media That Matters films online, as well as find ways to take action, by clicking on the film information tabs here.
by Austra Zubkovs
Published on April 25, 2008
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