Learn everything you need to know about planning, shooting, editing and marketing your documentary in four information-packed hours. Veteran documentary filmmaker Jim de Seve leads an energizing session to get you off your couch and make the documentary you've been dreaming about. All welcome, but not for the faint-of-heart! De Sève is an award-winning documentary producer/ […]
Trojan Herstories is a women's oral history project that will train local women from diverse communities in audio/video and oral history production. This two-day workshop is for Troy women to become active participants in the representation of their communities, and raise awareness about the disenfranchisement of women. This workshop is designed for community organizations who serve […]
The award-winning documentary Freeing Silvia Baraldini (2009), by filmmakers Margo Pelletier and Lisa Thomas, is a profound inquiry into the life of an Italian woman who became an American radical. It records the life of former political prisoner Silvia Baraldini, who was arrested by the FBI in 1982 and sentenced to 43 years in prison. […]
The personal becomes political in an exhibition integrating stories of young women in North Troy today with those of their turn-of-the-century counterparts. This exhibit juxtaposes large-scale prints of contemporary scrapbooks alongside images of diaries kept by young women growing up in the 1900's Victorian-era Troy. Brenda Ann Kenneally with the Upstate Girls. In partnership with […]
Want to know how to derail a $100 million dollar green-washing campaign? Need to raise the ire of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce? Ready to strike back at the agents of greed and corruption that have sent the world into a tailspin? Mike Bonanno will show you how The Yes Men do it!
Two-time Juno award-winning banjo master Jayme Stone's last album Africa to Appalachia, was a boundary-crossing musical collaboration. His tour, in support of the new CD Room of Wonders, inspired by folk dances from around the world, features a stellar band with fiddle pioneer Casey Driessen.
In Nostalgia for the Light (2010) acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzman traveled to the driest place on earth, The Atacama Desert of Chile, for his new film, Nostalgia for the Light. The sky is so translucent astronomers see right to the boundaries of the universe. The harsh heat of the sun keeps intact the human […]
Raw, extreme and revolutionary, saxophonists Fred Ho and Dr. Salim Washington will concertize with interactive video on the nature and ecology of anti-manifest destiny Marxist visions. This is a not-to-be-missed event in which the Original Asiatic Black Man meets the Original Africanistic Yellow Man for a convocation of revolutionary love, imagination and musical ecstasy. Food […]
Anyone who has an interest in basic documentary photography can learn how to take a camera off automatic! You'll learn how to stop, look, listen, and find the meaning and splendor in the everyday sidewalks that you travel. Learn about composing the frame and shooting in available light. We will leave no fledgling blade of […]
A day of skill-sharing and planning featuring workshops with many local and regional teachers to help build a network of shared values and knowledge around urban gardens, food networking, food preservation, passive and alternative energies, water catchment, and social justice. Together we can manifest the critical and necessary transition from resource-rich industrial capitalism to bio-regional […]
Author Jim Howard Kunstler will speak on the multiple crises in capital markets, world energy supplies, and the need to make other arrangements for daily life in the years ahead. In particular, the implications for how we inhabit the landscape. Co-sponsored by the Uptown Initiative. James Howard Kunstler has written extensively about the mutilated everyday […]
This culture will eat you alive…Fight back, resist and survive! If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water, fouled the air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist? If creatures from outer space made the water so poisonous you wouldn’t dream of drinking it, would you try […]
Join us for a Survivalist Media Workshop with Media Pirate, "The Stimulator" Frank Lopez as he explains the who, what, why of his snarky show and learn how the f@*k he does it! This workshop is on DIY distribution, radical aesthetics, stealing stuff from the internet, collaborating with video ninjas across the land, and funding it […]
As a substitute for Richard Wolff’s canceled presentation, radical media maker Franklin López will be appearing instead with a program of new work! Franklin López is an anarchist filmmaker from occupied Borikén (Puerto Rico.) He is the founder of SubMedia.tv, an independent video ensemble that cranks out anarchist, anti-capitalist, anti-colonial films and agit-prop. The films […]
Join in an afternoon of creative production, networking youth media makers and newbies from across the state to discuss issues shout out by youth. Youth media makers will break into teams to create short video projects about key issues and challenges in their lives. Their work will be premiered that evening at the NY Youth […]
Join us for our Second Annual NY Youth Shout Out! Media Festival. Come witness a cavalcade of creativity featuring youth media makers across New York State, providing a window on the next generation of filmmakers as well as networking, skill-sharing, and media making opportunities for these young artists and organizers. At a potluck that precedes […]
The Northeast Animal Liberation Festival begins with a vegan potluck BBQ. It will be followed by a panel discussion which will include animal liberation activists Peter Young, Jenny Brown of Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, and Camille Hankins of Win Animal Rights and No Kill New York. The panel will be followed by Peter Young's new […]
Narrative journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc will respond to questions by photo journalist Brenda Ann Kenneally about her current Sanctuary exhibit, Scrappin’ Upstate. LeBlanc will explore the issues addressed in Scrappin’ Upstate, and the vital role of independent journalism, with a focus on marginalized members of society: adolescents living in poverty, prostitutes, women in prison, etc. One […]
This hands-on lab is specifically designed to improve your shooting skills. The key areas covered include: going off automatic, motion and stability, covering the action, and engaging the emotive potential of the camera. Bring a video camera if you have one – but it is not necessary. For adults and teens. Jim de Sève is an […]
In the powerful 2010 documentary Not Just a Game: Power Politics & American Sports (based on Zirin's best-selling book, The People's History of Sports in the United States), author and activist Dave Zirin argues that, far from providing merely escapist entertainment, American sports have long been at the center of some of the major political […]
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