2011 Events
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22nd
NOLF Planning Meeting & Film Screening Antenna Gallery 3161 Burgundy Street New Orleans, LA 70117 6:00 pm Meeting - 7:00pm Screening FREE admission and refreshments At the planning meeting we will discuss the 2nd Annual “MIXED MESSAGES” group art exhibit, a proposed literary component for the festival and more. The planning meetings are open to anyone who wants to contribute to the upcoming festival. We welcome your ideas and support! NEO NED” by Van Fischer Like most kids, Ned (Jeremy Renner) idolized his father, dreaming of one day following in his footsteps. Unfortunately his father was a two-bit crook who spent most of his life in jail. Without a family of his own, Ned falls in with the Aryan Brotherhood and is soon after placed in a mental hospital, where he is mesmerized by a young African-American girl (Gabrielle Union) who believes Adolf Hitler was reincarnated within her. What follows is a gritty character study and poignant love story of 2 people brought together by a seemingly impossible connection, both discovering that there is more to a person than what lies on the surface. (97 minutes) Seating is limited. Please rsvp at [email protected]. For more information contact [email protected]. |
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THURSDAY, JULY 28th - Film Screening & Discussion
SKIN by Anthony Fabian Antenna Gallery 3161 Burgundy Street New Orleans, LA 70117 7:00pm Screening Free Admission SKIN is one of the most moving stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa: Sandra Laing is a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, who lovingly bring her up as their ‘white’ little girl. But at the age of ten, Sandra is driven out of white society. The film follows Sandra’s thirty-year journey from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in a changing world - and triumphs against all odds. (107 minutes) Seating is limited. Please rsvp at [email protected]. Hosted by New Orleans Loving Festival and Press Street / Antenna. |
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FRIDAY, JUNE 17th - Film Screening & Discussion
PINKY by Elia Kazan Antenna Gallery 3161 Burgundy Street New Orleans, LA 70117 6:30pm Reception – 7:00pm Screening Free Admission Pinky (Jeanne Crain), a black woman who works as a nurse in Boston, finds she is able to “pass for white.” Afraid her true heritage will be discovered, she leaves her white fiancé (William Lundigan) and returns home to Mississippi. There, she helps her ailing grandmother (Ethel Waters) by caring for her employer (Ethel Barrymore), an imperious plantation owner. When she names Pinky heiress to her estate, the community rises in resentment, triggering a sensational court trial. Subject of landmark Supreme Court case in film censorship, this story about a mulatto woman’s rights against prejudice, became itself, a battle for civil rights. (102 minutes) Presented by New Orleans Video Voices. Refreshments provided by The Cupcake Fairies. Special guest Darius Johnson, Vice President, New Orleans Chapter of the NAACP. Seating is limited. Please rsvp at [email protected]. |
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SUNDAY, JUNE 12th - Community Celebration & Film Screening!
LOVING DAY! Antenna Gallery 3161 Burgundy Street New Orleans, LA 70117 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm Free Admission LOVING DAY fights racial prejudice through education and builds multicultural community. It’s a global network of annual celebrations that you can host or attend. It’s also an educational campaign that you can be a part of every day. Find out more at lovingday.org, and join us at Antenna for good food and music by The Burrito Juke Joint during our regular gallery hours, or at 7:00pm for a free screening: MR. & MRS. LOVING by Richard Friedenberg In Central Point, Virginia, a sleepy rural town where blacks and whites have long lived in harmony, Richard Loving, a poor white laborer, falls in love with Mildred Jeter, a young black woman. Mixed-race relationships are accepted here, but marriage, in 1960, is illegal under a miscegenation law dating from slave times. (105 minutes) Seating is limited. For additional information contact [email protected]. Please follow the New Orleans Loving Festival on Facebook. |
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SATURDAY, JUNE 11th - Gallery Opening & Reception
MIXED MESSAGES: Multiracial Identity Past & Present Antenna Gallery 3161 Burgundy Street New Orleans, LA 70117 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Free Admission A group exhibit featuring artwork by Niko Busciglio, Helen Maurene Cooper, Michele Burton-Oatis, Stephanie Hierholzer, Aubrey Roemer, Karel Sloane-Boekbinder, Chase Markovich, Paige Valente, Christopher Porché West, and Bottletree. Food and music by Chef Aiji and DJ Yamin from the The Burrito Juke Joint. Complementary drinks from Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum! Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, noon to 5:00pm. The Mixed Messages art exhibit closes June 26, 2011. For more information contact [email protected] or visitwww.press-street.com. |
Untitled Photo by Helen Maurene Cooper
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FRIDAY, JUNE 10th - Film Screenings & Discussion
SOMETHING OTHER THAN OTHER & ONE BIG HAPA FAMILY Ashé Cultural Arts Center 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. New Orleans, LA 70113 6:30pm Opening Reception / 7:00pm Screening Free Admission SOMETHING OTHER THAN OTHER by Jerry A. Henry & Andrea J. Chia Filmmakers Jerry Henry and Andrea Chia started to film a video diary on the day they found out that she was pregnant. As the parents of a multiracial child they examine racial identity in this experimental personal documentary. They filmed the birth in an unconventional way - instead of using video, they decided to shoot it on Super 8mm and to shoot it frame-by-frame, like an animation. New parents Jerry and Andrea have endured their own share of discrimination growing up. They hope their newborn son can grow up identifying as something other than "other." (7 minutes) ONE BIG HAPA FAMILY by Jeff Chiba Stearns After a realization at a family reunion, half Japanese-Canadian filmmaker, Jeff Chiba Stearns, embarks on a journey of self-discovery to find out why everyone in his Japanese-Canadian family married interracially after his grandparents’ generation. This feature live action and animated documentary explores why almost 100% of all Japanese-Canadians are marrying interracially, the highest out of any other ethnicity in Canada, and how their mixed children perceive their unique multiracial identities. (85 minutes) A short Q&A with award winning filmmaker, Jeff Chiba Stearns, will follow the screening. Co-presented by Press Street / Antenna, the New Orleans Film Society, and Charitable Film Network. |