01 Friday Apr 2011
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Education, Media Mobilizing Project, Nadine Patterson, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Prisons, Schools
The march has passed, but you can still make a difference by contacting your state representative and writing the governor directly. This video was made by the Media Mobilizing Project.
12 Saturday Feb 2011
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Watch a channel here that US cable companies have decided is unworthy of your time: Al Jazeera English. When the whole world is watching the people’s uprisings in North Africa- Tunisia, Egypt, and Algeria- we need more access to different points of view now more than ever. What do you think?
Al Jazeera English: Live Stream – Watch Now – Al Jazeera English.
08 Saturday Jan 2011
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Always Emerging, Black Film, book, Cinema, DGA, Diversity, Geena Davis, Hollywood, independent cinema, Independent Film, Independent Producers, Lulu, NAACP, Nadine Patterson, Philadelphia Filmmaker, Toni Cade Bambara, women in film
People: Why Selling Out by Perpetuating
Negative Stereotypes and Making Bank is
a Form of Cultural Suicide “
02 Sunday Jan 2011
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Fill in the online form here and let the FCC know what you really think about the merger. Take action while there is still time to save the Internet and free speech online as we know it.
24 Friday Dec 2010
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10 Friday Dec 2010
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Black Panthers, Germantown, Nadine Patterson, Night Catches Us, Philadelphia Filmmaker, Tanya Hamilton, The Roots
Philadelphia filmmaker Tanya Hamilton has made a wonderful film called NIGHT CATCHES US. Set in 1976 Philadelphia in Germantown, this film gives a unique look at Black life. The confluence of personal drama, political backstory, and historic archival footage of Black Panther meetings and events make this an authentic drama. And the fact that The Roots provide the soundtrack and that it was shot in Philly (which looks gorgeous in it’s leafy Quaker City/beautiful urban decay splendor) and you have a cinematic treat. Please see it while it is in theaters, now. NIGHT CATCHES US is currently playing at the RITZ 5 in Center City Philadelphia.
01 Wednesday Dec 2010
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Black Film, dance film, Fundraising for Film, hipcinema, hipcinema gear, lenny seidman, Macbeth, Nadine Patterson, Philadelphia Film, Shakespeare, Sia Kpakiwa, tango macbeth, the scottish play, weird sisters, zane booker
We are going for the gold in 2011! Tango Macbeth is a dance film version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Zane Booker is the choreographer and Lenny Seidman is the composer. Sia Kpakiwa plays Lady Macbeth. The film is set within a contemporary production of the play for a preview audience (think Vanya on 42nd Street meets Blood Wedding). We received a $10,000 grant from the Independence Foundation for research and development of the concept. You can contribute to Tango Macbeth at IndieGoGo here.
The plan is to develop the music in January 2011 and prepare to shoot the final film at the end of the year. Which means we will be in perpetual fundraising mode from now until the film is released. We have set up a shop at CafePress called HipCinema Gear where each purchase will contribute towards the funding of Tango Macbeth.
01 Monday Nov 2010
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$8 seniors/students; $5 Scribe members
After absconding with illegal drugs that wash ashore on the Mayan coast, three Mexican fishermen sell them to the corrupt local police for a handsome sum. An experimental documentary that uses fictional elements, Al Más Allá places the personal moral degeneration of the fishermen in the political context of a nation struggling on the edge of the global economy. Lyrical, visually intriguing, and entertaining, Al Más Allá is at once reportage into the expansive world of drug trafficking across Mexico and an ironic indictment of the cult of the documentary filmmaker whose romantic visions of herself and her mission often obscures the very truth she seeks. Lourdes Portillo will not be in attendance due to personal emergency. [Below is a photo from event. Nadine Patterson and Veronica Castillo-Perez lead discussion after Al Más Allá.]
Directed by Leticia Roa Nixon (in person), Carlos Pascual (in person) and Laura Deutch (in person)
El Sol Sale chronicles the rapid growth of the Mexican community in the historically immigrant neighborhood of South Philadelphia. Told through the first hand experiences of the main subjects who have been a formative part of this development over the last 20 years, a collective story of the community unfolds. However with growth and assimilation, come problems, resistance and efforts to organize. El Sol Sale presents stories from the subjects’ memories, reflections and perspectives about the complexity of searching for a better life in a country that is not one’s own. (US, 2010, 40 minutes)
Scribe Video Center presents these films in partnership with Casa Monarca and Film and Media Arts Department at Temple University
30 Saturday Oct 2010
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A Fistful of Popcorn, African Films, Carol Welsch, Cynthia Vandenberg, movies, Nadine Patterson, Princeton, talking about films, Trenton Foreign Film Festival
Click here to view: Carol Welsch speaks with Nadine Patterson and Cynthia Vandenberg about the Trenton Foreign Film Festival.
14 Tuesday Sep 2010
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Click here: David Pierotti says PBS and APT fiction programs are too British. He says we need more local production. Great article on the need for more American productions of drama in the PBS landscape.
