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Third World Newsreel screenings this Wednesday, 3/22

TWN ImMediacy Series presents ::
The Katrina Chronicles | Part I
Wednesday, March 22nd | 6pm to 7pm

Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue at 2nd Street
$5.00 admission

Third World Newsreel presents a series of screenings on contemporary topics needing immediate attention in its new ImMEDIAcy Series. This first screening is a series of shorts by filmmakers in the Katrina ravaged areas of the Gulf Coast. The videos youll see here, we guarantee, you havent seen anywhere else!

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| ImMEDIAcy Series Program

People Say | by Mary Beth Black | 5 minutes

Claiming Open Spaces | by Austin Allen |
New Orleans Segment |7 minutes

N.O. Evictions | by FluxRostrum | 6 minutes

N.O. East | by Mary Beth Black | 9 minutes

B.W. Cooper and the Panthers | by FluxRostrum | 9 minutes

Walking to New Orleans | Mardi Gras 2006 segment | by Royce Osborn | 10 minutes

People Say by Mary Beth Black | 5 minutes
Set to a soundtrack reminiscent of the 1960s, this insightful video montage embodies the full range of images, sights and emotions that need no further explanation.

Claiming Open Spaces by Austin Allen | New Orleans Segment 7 minutes
African-American culture clashes with the design of the modern American city and provides the historical context for what is happening now in New Orleans and its crucial role in continuing African American tradition and culture.

N.O. Evictions by FluxRostrum | 6 minutes
The images are everywhere: peoples belongings getting trashed by the authorities with no recourse in sight. What rights are lost in times of disaster?

N.O. East by Mary Beth Black | 9 minutes
New Orleans East is a neighborhood forgotten among the rubble. This is where a large population of Vietnamese have lived on the outskirts of New Orleans for generations. How have they coped as a minority within a minority?

B.W. Cooper and the Panthers by FluxRostrum | 9 minutes
Malik Rahim, founder of Common Ground Collective, describes growing up in B.W. Cooper, the largest public housing project in New Orleans. As a member of The Black Panthers in the 1970s Malik recalls the vitality of the place and, compared to now, the resulting post-Katrina ghos
town is a preview of the new face of New Orleans.

Walking to New Orleans | Mardi Gras Segment 2006 | by Royce Osborn | 10 minutes
Royce Osborn is a New Orleans based filmmaker working with National Black Programming
Consortia to create Walking to New Orleans, a long form documentary on the rebuilding of an important world city through the eyes, experiences, and struggles of individuals who are vital to the city's future. This piece is an excerpt of Royces recent footage of the 2006 New Orleans Mardi Gras.