APRIL 30 -- "Morristown: in the air and sun" at the Athens International Film Festival. 8:00 PM at the Athena Cinema. http://athensfest.org/f/working-for-a-living
APRIL 20 -- Class presentation "Documentary Traditions," 6:20-9 pm Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
APRIL 18, 19 -- Panel discussion about documentary filmmaking with Barbara Garson, George Stoney, and Peter Miller and screening "Morristown: in the air and sun" - the Left Forum, Pace University, NYC. http://www.leftforum.org/
APRIL 8 -- "Morristown: in the air and sun" 8 pm benefit for the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition at MonkeyWrench Books 110 E. North Loop, Austin, Texas.
APRIL 2009 - 2010 -- It is the 20-year anniversary of the Pittston strike. "Justice in the Coalfields" tells the story from the miners' perspective. For a review of the film, click here. The newly remastered dvd will be available in the next few weeks. See the trailer for "Justice in the Coalfields."
MARCH 5
"To Save the Land and People" 7 pm screening ACC Eastview Campus.
FEBRUARY through JUNE
The Kentucky Channel (Kentucky Educational Television) will air Headwaters: Real Stories from Rural America.The Appalshop series includes Shelter, His Eye is on the Sparrow, Rough Side of the Mountain, and To Save the Land and People.
KET Headwaters Schedule FEBRUARY 20
"Morristown: in the air and sun is a John Michaels Award Nominee at the Big Muddy Film Festival.
31st Big Muddy Film Festival
DECEMBER 14, Sunday 3:30-5:30
"Morristown: in the Air and Sun" screening and discussion with filmmaker, Episcopal Church of the Resurrection 2200 Justin Lane, Austin, Texas.
NOVEMBER 29,30
"Morristown: in the Air and Sun" screening Artivist Film Festival, Mexico City.
NOVEMBER 22
"Morristown: in the Air and Sun" screening with filmmaker, Women and Fair Trade, American Friends Service Committee, Austin, Texas. AFSC
NOVEMBER 18
The "Morristown: in the Air and Sun" trailer will air on national Free Speech TV tomorrow night as part of a program about the auto industry. GRITtv with Laura Flanders
OCTOBER 24
"Morristown: in the Air and Sun" screening and panel discussion, Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC) Austin, Texas. http://www.texasfolklife.org/events_day.html?day=20081024
JUNE 5-7
"Morristown: in the Air and Sun" SUNY, Stoneybrook Center for Study of Working Class Life How Class Works-2008. Screening and discussion with Anne Lewis and Fran Ansley Friday, June 6 2:00 - 3:30. http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/conference/2008/
MAY 2-4
National Jobs with Justice Conference, Providence, RI with East Tennesee Jobs with Justice members Fran Ansley, Jim Sessions and others and Anne Lewis. Cips from "Morristown: in the Air and Sun" in sessions, evening screening. http://www.jwj.org/projects/conference.html
MAY 2
"Morristown: in the Air and Sun" Park Slope United Methodist Church, Brooklyn, NY 6:30 with Anne Lewis.
MAY 1
"Morristown: in the Air and Sun" May Day Film Labour Night, Geneva Switzerland, hosted by the International Metalworkers' Federation.
APRIL 24 - MAY 2
Festival Internacional de Cine de la Frontera, Ciudad Juarez, "Morristown: in the Air and Sun" http://presidencia.gob.mx/prensa/ultimasnoticias/?contenido=34185
APRIL 13
Labor Notes Conference, Dearborn, MI screening 10:45 am with Fran Ansley. http://www.labornotes.org/conference
APRIL 5
Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, San Antonio, Texas Saturday at 7:00 pm followed by plática with Anne Lewis. CineMujer Festival. http://www.esperanzacenter.org
APRIL 3
East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, screening at 7:00 pm followed by panel discussion. Part of Farmworker Awareness Week.
MARCH 29
University of Southern Illinois, 6:30. Screening "Fast Food Women" and keynote talk by Anne Lewis about the intersections of class, race, and gender. First Feminist Film Festival. Sponsored by the University Professionals of Illinois, AFT. MARCH 28-30
Appalachian Studies Association Annual Conference, Marshall University, Huntington, WV.
Winner of the Jack Spadero Award for Outstanding Documentary 2007. Award acceptance by Appalshop's Mimi Pickering.
FEBRUARY 22
University of Kentucky Writers Program presentation "On Our Own Land" and "Fast Food Women."
FEBRUARY THROUGH APRIL
AMBULANTE: Gira de documentales 2008. The film will be touring Mexico with 42 screenings in a number of cities. These include Ciudad Juárez, DF, Guadalajara, León, Mérida, Metepec,
Monterrey, Morelia, Oaxaca, San Cristóbal de las Casas, San Luis Potosí, and Tijuana.
Filmmaker, Anne Lewis, will be in Morelia for screenings on Feb. 16 and a workshop.
http://www.ambulante.com.mx/2008/es/documental.php?id=16
FEBRUARY 8
Berea College at 7:00 pm with filmmaker Anne Lewis and humanities advisor Fran Ansley in the Chapel. Public invited. Hosted by the Appalachian Center, the Center for Excellence in Learning through Service, and the Center for International Education.
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NOVEMBER 11
Latin American Film and Video Festival UNC Chapel Hill Global Education Center 2:15 pm
with Howie Machtinger and filmmaker Anne Lewis
http://www.ilas.unc.edu/film/festday11.htm
NOVEMBER 9
Cucalorus Annual Festival of Independent Film Friday 4:30 - 6:30 pm
with filmmaker Anne Lewis
http://www.cucalorus.org/
OCTOBER 28
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Sunday 2:30 pm
http://www.hsdfi.org/2007Website/festival.htm
OCTOBER 23
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Tuesday 3:00 pm
http://www.hsdfi.org/2007Website/festival.htm
OCTOBER 19
Peggy Browning Fund National Law Students Workers' Rights Conference
7-9 pm with filmmaker Anne Lewis and humanities advisor Fran Ansley
http://www.peggybrowningfund.org/
OCTOBER 18
Austin Film Festival 3:00 pm HIdeout 617 Congress Avenue Austin, TX
With filmmaker Anne Lewis
http://www.austinfilmfestival.com/new/
OCTOBER 11
Austin Film Festival 9:30 pm Regal Arbor Theater 9828 Great Hills Trail Austin, TX
With filmmaker Anne Lewis
http://www.austinfilmfestival.com/new/
OCTOBER 1
Free Screening, 6 pm Committee on Political Education (COPE) meeting, TSEU hall 1700 South First Street, Austin, TX
With filmmaker Anne Lewis
http://www.highlandercenter.org/anniversary/program.asp
SEPTEMBER 27
Screening, 7:30 pm Executive Auditorium, SVHEC, Virginia Highlands Community College, Abingdon, VA.
Listen to "Earshot" Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 1:30p.m. EST on WEHC-FM,
90.7 for an interview with Anne Lewis.
SEPTEMBER 27
D.C. Labor Film Festival, 12 noon AFL-CIO 815 16th St. NW Washington D.C.
http://www.dclabor.org/ht/display/ProgramDetails/i/23256
SEPTEMBER 16
D.C. Labor Film Festival, 7pm SEIU 910 17th St NW Washington D.C.
http://www.dclabor.org/ht/display/ProgramDetails/i/23256
SEPTEMBER 1
Screening, 75th Anniversary Celebration Social Justice Film Series. Highlander Research and Education Center, New Market, TN.
With filmmaker Anne Lewis
http://www.highlandercenter.org/anniversary/program.asp
AUGUST 15
Featured film, Laborlore Conversations IV, 7 PM. Sponsored by the American Folklife Center. Library of Congress, Washington DC.
With filmmaker Anne Lewis
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/laborlore/
JULY 25
Screening and response, Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Berlin, Germany.
With principal humanities advisor Fran Ansley
JULY 19-21
Gloucester (England) Conference on Law and Justice in the Age of Globalization: In Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
With principal humanities advisor Fran Ansley
JULY 7
LaborFest 2007. Roxie Theater 3117 16th St. San Francisco. 7 PM. Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Labor Center.
http://www.laborfest.net/
JUNE 29
US Social Forum Film Festival. 3:20 PM Atlanta Central Library auditorium. Materials available at the screening and at the Highlander information table. http://ussf2007.org/
With filmmaker Anne Lewis
MAY 25
Screening and music panel http://cinemaonthebayou.com/index.htm
With composer Dirk Powell. Winner: Audience Choice for Cultural Documentary
MAY 16-19
Annual women’s collective bargaining conference, Univ. of Illinois Labor Education Program, Chicago, Illinois.
MAY 12
Resistencia Books 1801A South First Street, Austin Texas, 7:30pm www.resistenciabooks.com
With filmmaker Anne Lewis
MAY 5
Workshop on “Searching for New Paradigms? Understanding Class and Caste within a World of Global Inequalities” Emory University College of Law, Atlanta
With principal humanities advisor, Fran Ansley
APRIL 27
Reel Work Labor Film Festival, screening Cabrillo Community College Forum, Watsonville, CA www.reelwork.org
Labor Notes Troublemaker Institute, San Jose CA, workshop and special screening
With filmmaker Anne Lewis
APRIL 26-28
Labor’s Voices III, Media for a New Workers Movement CUNY Graduate Center New York, NY
APRIL 14
Southern Region Central Labor Council and State Fed conferenceNashville, Tennessee
APRIL 13-15
Latin American Solidarity Conference and Mobilization for Farmworker Justice, Chicago, IL
APRIL 12
Roane State Community College, Oak Ridge Campus
With principal humanities advisor, Fran Ansley
MARCH 23
Labor and Community Film Series, Resource Center of the Americas, Minneapolis, Minnesota – sponsored by the Labor Education Service UM www.laboreducation.org
MARCH
Annual meeting of the United Association of Labor Educators (UALE), National Labor College, Silver Spring, MD
Previews
FEBRUARY, 2007
Cinemas Albuquerque Latino Film Festival – New Mexico Women in Film award.
Northwest Folklife Documentary Film Festival “Crossing Borders”
Screening and discussion as part of symposium on “Immigration Policy: Who Belongs?” at Cornell Law School, hosted by the Cornell Journal of International Law, Ithaca, NY
WINTER, 2006
Meeting of law professors and others at fourth Worldwide Meeting of GAJE, the Global Alliance for Justice Education, Cordoba, Argentina
SUMMER, 2006
Meeting of law professors, attorneys, and others at International Network on Transformative Employment and Labor Law (INTELL), Cuernavaca, Mexico
Showing for staff, allies and clients of Centro de Derechos del Migrante in Zacatecas, Mexico
Austin Film Society Docs-in-Progress for media artists and community activists
MARCH, 2006
Conference at UT-Knoxville on “The New Latino Immigration in Tennessee” – screening for general public
APRIL, 2006
Showing at union hall in Morristown for members of Koch Foods organizing committee, UFCW Local 1995
SPRING/SUMMER 2005
Raw footage from UFCW campaign at Koch Foods shown to management as a response to its claim that union’s description of conditions in the plant was unfounded. Informal neutrality agreement was eventually gained. |