| Session 36 Saturday April 25, 3:30pm – 5:30pm AMC/LOEWS Boston Common: 175 Tremont St. Boston |
The Veiled Commodity 5min
“The Veiled Commodity” is a short film that employs
various design and animation techniques to tell a concise
history of slavery and the problems of its present day
counterpart; the trafficking and victimization of people
around the world.
Writers & Directors: Dickson Chow & Vinh Chung
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The Witness From the Balcony of room 306 -
32min
With every truth there bears a witness. And it is with this
thought that we hear Reverend Samuel “Billy” Kyles
story. In 1968 on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel Rev.
Kyles stood next to Dr. Martin Luther King as he was shot
down in cold blood. With support from Maxine Smith and
Dr. Benjamin Hooks we hear why Dr. King was in
Memphis and what went on in the last hour of his life.
Director: Adam Pertofsky
Producers: Vicki Tripp, R. Stephan Mohammed
Executive Producer: Margaret Hyde
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Herskovits At the Heart of Blackness 60min
Beautifully crafted story about how anthropologist
Melville J. Herskovits re-defined black history, making it
possible for a people formerly despised as “Negroes” to
pride themselves as African-Americans. Herskovits
himself was not black; he was a white man of Jewish
ancestry. But he acquired the power to re-make the
historical understanding of black people, and in the
process engaged in conflicts with black scholars and
white institutions of the day, and helped to propel African
Americans’ struggle against white supremacy. Rarely
seen archival, provocative animation, photo re-
enactments and leading scholars propel the story.
Herskovits At the Heart of Blackness asks viewers to
consider the fundamental idea: who has the power to
describe, define, and, ultimately, know the contours of
human cultural history, and to what end.
Director, Producer: Llewellyn Smith
Associate Producer: Kelly Thomson
Producer: Vincent Brown
Co-Producer: Wendy Riseborough
Executive Producer: Christine Herbes-Sommers
“The Veiled Commodity” is a short film that employs
various design and animation techniques to tell a concise
history of slavery and the problems of its present day
counterpart; the trafficking and victimization of people
around the world.
Writers & Directors: Dickson Chow & Vinh Chung
________________________________________
The Witness From the Balcony of room 306 -
32min
With every truth there bears a witness. And it is with this
thought that we hear Reverend Samuel “Billy” Kyles
story. In 1968 on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel Rev.
Kyles stood next to Dr. Martin Luther King as he was shot
down in cold blood. With support from Maxine Smith and
Dr. Benjamin Hooks we hear why Dr. King was in
Memphis and what went on in the last hour of his life.
Director: Adam Pertofsky
Producers: Vicki Tripp, R. Stephan Mohammed
Executive Producer: Margaret Hyde
________________________________________
Herskovits At the Heart of Blackness 60min
Beautifully crafted story about how anthropologist
Melville J. Herskovits re-defined black history, making it
possible for a people formerly despised as “Negroes” to
pride themselves as African-Americans. Herskovits
himself was not black; he was a white man of Jewish
ancestry. But he acquired the power to re-make the
historical understanding of black people, and in the
process engaged in conflicts with black scholars and
white institutions of the day, and helped to propel African
Americans’ struggle against white supremacy. Rarely
seen archival, provocative animation, photo re-
enactments and leading scholars propel the story.
Herskovits At the Heart of Blackness asks viewers to
consider the fundamental idea: who has the power to
describe, define, and, ultimately, know the contours of
human cultural history, and to what end.
Director, Producer: Llewellyn Smith
Associate Producer: Kelly Thomson
Producer: Vincent Brown
Co-Producer: Wendy Riseborough
Executive Producer: Christine Herbes-Sommers
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