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November 2: Third World Newsreel and NewFilmmakers Series present “American Elections Program”

(New York, NY)— Third World Newsreel (TWN) and NewFilmmakers Series are proud to present three documentaries about American Elections. Please join us on Monday, November 2nd at 6PM.

OCOEE, directed by Bianca White & Sandra Krasa, 26 min
In the early twentieth century, Ocoee was home to one of Florida’s most prosperous African American communities. On Election Day 1920, Mose Norman and July Perry attempted to vote and the African American community was erased from Ocoee’s history, until now. Through the voice of the grandson of the man that was lynched that day, Ocoee exposes the events that ensued when two black men exercised their right to vote. Now, Ocoee must confront its past in an effort of reconciliation and healing.

CHICAGO CONVENTION CHALLENGE, directed by the Newsreel Collective, 17 min
Using footage taken in the midst of demonstrations during the Democratic National Convention of 1968, this film conveys the immediacy of anti-war organizing in meeting rooms, at rallies and in the streets. It is a valuable historical portrait of events that culminated in police riots against the protesters.

JUST RALPH, directed by Clifton Watson, 11 min
An alternately serious and humorous “day in the life” of Ralph, a Palestinian-American grocery store owner, whose Brooklyn store is the neighborhood drop-in center. As the 2004 election approached, Ralph reflected on being a Palestinian and on voting for the first time, while the neighborhood chimed in. A short that wrecks the western media stereotype of Palestinians and displays a truly multicultural neighborhood. Part of the 2005 Call for Change Series.

Monday, November 2nd at 6PM
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue, at 2nd Street
New York, NY
Admission: $5

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Third World Newsreel (TWN) is a media arts organization dedicated to fostering the creation, appreciation and dissemination of independent social issue media made by and about people of color. TWN also has a variety of workshops and classes throughout the year on film and video production. TWN is supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, the North Star Fund, the Funding Exchange, the Asian Women Giving Circle, Materials for the Arts, as well as individual donors. Visit www.twn.org.

Newfilmmakers NY screens every Wednesday at Anthology Film Archives, one of the leading theaters in New York City. It is the longest running screening series in New York and one of the longest running ones in the nation. This unique series gives filmmakers the opportunity to screen their work for local audiences and to promote themselves to national distributors.

Anthology Film Archives is an international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video with a particular focus on American independent and avant-garde cinema and its precursors found in classic European, Soviet and Japanese film. Evolved from roots and visions that go back to the early Sixties, when Jonas Mekas, the director of the Film-Makers’ Cinematheque, a showcase for avant-garde films, dreamed of establishing a permanent home where the growing number of new independent/avant-garde films could be shown on a regular basis.

Third World Newsreel
Contact: Roselly Torres
Tel: (212) 947-9277 ext. 17
Email: distribution@twn.org