Addressing Academia: Three Documentary Makers Present Their Real World Work
Addressing Academia:
Three Documentary Makers Present Their Real World Work
Films
in Series:
500 Years
Later (2005) March 10
All About Darfur
(2005) March 12 & 14
The Untold Story of
Emmett Louis Till (2005) March 12
500
Years Later
with Executive Producer/Writer M.K. Asante, Jr.
Friday, March 10
Beautifully filmed with compelling discussions with the world’s leading scholars, 500 Years Later (directed by Owen Alik Shahadah) explores the collective atrocities that uprooted Africans from their culture and homeland, and scattered them into the vehement winds of the New World, 500 years ago.
M.K. Asante, Jr., is an award-winning author and filmmaker. His first book, Like Water Running Off My Back, received the Academy of American Poets Jean Corrie Prize for its title poem. The Los Angeles Times called Asante's latest book, Beautiful. And Ugly Too "a thought provoking journey down the lonely road of wisdom and whiplash."
His visit is sponsored by the Coalition of Pan-African Scholars (COAS) as part of Africa Week at Cornell. COAS will host a reception for M.K. Asante in the Willard Straight Hall International Lounge on Friday, March 10 at 5:30pm that will feature a short talk, poetry reading/book signing and introduction to 500 Years Later. The reception is open to the public. Mr. Asante will also introduce the screening at 7pm and answer questions afterwards.
During the 2nd Annual Africa Week,
various organizations, scholars, vendors and artists from Africa and the Diaspora
will unite to celebrate the diversity and splendor of African peoples, cultures
and forms. Complete with an Independence Day Banquet and dance, Keynote presentations,
Panel Discussion,
cultural and fashion shows, Africa Week promises to be a spectacular event for
all. For more information about the Second Annual Africa Week, visit http://www.rso.cornell.edu/coas
All
About Darfur
With Filmmaker Taghreed Elsanhouri
Saturday, March 11
"A sensitive and non-sensational portrayal of the war and destruction in Darfur that privileges the voice of the average Sundanese." (Salah Hassan, Cornell University)
Ms. Elsanhouri will be on campus
to participate in the symposium, “Challenges to Humanitarian Action in
the Twenty-First Century: Lessons from the Most Difficult Cases,” sponsored
by Africana Studies, Caceres-Neuffer Foreign Affairs Society, French Studies,
History, Institute for African Development, Institute for European Studies,
the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, University Lectures Committee
and the Peace Studies Program.
The symposium will take place March 10 – 12 in G-08 Uris Hall. For more
information visit
http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/Europe/events/calendar.asp
The
Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
With Filmmaker Keith Beauchamp
March 12
“Required viewing for anyone interested in the struggle for American racial equality” (Christian Science Monitor), Keith Beauchamp’s powerful documentary played a significant role in the Justice Department’s decision to reopen the case after 50 years.
His visit is sponsored by NAACP at Cornell and will tie-in with the symposium “Strange Fruit: Lynching, Visuality and Empire,” organized by the Society for the Humanities, and slated to occur during the first part of March.
Images:500 Years Later (top); All About Darfur (middle); The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (bottom)