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Filmmaking for change

3/2/2014

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This year’s panel at the George Lindsey UNA Film Festival is about “activist filmmaking.”  Our panelists will be talking about that category of documentary films made to inspire some kind of active change.  Each panelist has engaged in this type of filmmaking.  Ethan Marten has just completed “White Buffalo: An American Prophecy” which seeks to locate the source of peace and harmony found in Native American Spirituality for the benefit of all humankind.  Local filmmaker Wes Wages is currently working on two feature length documentaries, one involving Youth in Liberia and the other focusing on the value of higher education. And Robert Gray first film, "Mobile in Black and White," which was selected for screening at this year’s Lindsey Fest, “takes a hard look at the ways racism continues to pervade the structures and institutions of a supposedly post-racial world.”

The Lindsey Film Festival is driven by the belief that all filmmaking is important and it is our job to support those working independently of the Hollywood machine.  This was George Lindsey’s mission in creating the festival 17 years ago.  But films are important for different reasons.  Narrative films allow us to think about the human condition through the fictions they create.  Documentary films allow us to see the human condition through the reality they capture.  And activist films ask us to do something about the human condition they are documenting.  These films often spark loud debate; “An Inconvenient Truth” comes to mind.  And these films sometimes bring us to the understanding that we each are capable of actively engaging in the improvement of humanity. That’s something George would have liked.  We hope you will join us on Saturday, March 8, at 10am in the Guillot University Center Loft for “Activist Filmmaking,” moderated by Dr. Greg Pitts.


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12/22/2022 12:55:12 pm

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