* Monday, April 2, 2007 @ 8:00PM @ Wagner College, One Campus Road, Spiro Hall – 4, Staten Island, NY. Showing with Sara Newens’ short, ALL THIS BLUES. Tara Wray will be there for the screening and Q & A. FREE!

* Tuesday, April 3, 2007, 5:30-8:30PM @ Pratt Institute, 61 St. James Place (corner of Lafayette), Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Note: this is a press screening for the Brooklyn Arts Council’s 41st International Film and Video Festival, for which MANHATTAN, KANSAS has been named “Best Film,” but all are welcome to attend! FREE!

* Saturday, April 14, 2007 as part of the Wisconsin Film Festival. 5:30PM @ Bartell Theatre, 113 East Mifflin Street, Madison, WI, www.wifilmfest.org/. Tara Wray will be there for the screening and Q & A. $7.

* Tuesday, April 24, as part of White River Indie Films, White River Junction, VT. Exact Time & Location TBA (stay tuned to myspace.com/manhattan_Kansas for more details).

* Saturday, May 5, 2007 @ 8:30PM as part of the Brooklyn Arts Council 41st International Film and Video Festival. Screening @ the Brooklyn Museum Cantor Auditorium as part of Target First Saturdays. 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY, (718) 638-5000. (tinyurl.com/2xqqfv). FREE!

Dinka Diaries
dir. Filmon Mebrahtu, USA, 2005, 56 mins
In English, Dinka with English subtitles

DINKA DIARIES, an interwoven story of three Southern Sudanese teenagers who resettle in the Philadelphia area and adjust to the new American culture and way of life, airs during April on a number of PBS stations nationwide.

… Realistic, sensitive, and often gently humorous, DINKA DIARIES offers a unique look into new immigrant communities which are becoming an increasingly visible part of America’s contemporary urban landscape..

Professor Lee Cassanelli,
History and African Studies
University of Pennsylvania

.. For Joseph, Mike and Abraham (not, of course, their African names), the U.S. is a land of opportunity, but also responsibility; Mebrahtu films Deng Kuol, Abraham’s brother, walking the city as he listens to a taped message from the elders of Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, reminding him that he has come here to send money back home. It is also a place where the strong ties that bind them to their culture and each other are always under attack. While one African-American girl in Mike’s Central High class laments the slave master’s success at severing tribal and familial loyalties ? “When we were brought here, we were, like, so much stronger than we are now” ? another informs him, “The point of America? is to do what’s best for you, not everyone else.” … DINKA DIARIES is an eye-opening status report on the United States’ ability to live up to its own ideals…

Screen Picks by Sam Adams
Philadelphia City Paper

DINKA DIARIES is distributed for home and education through Documentary Educational Resources at www.der.org/films/dinka-diaries.html.
Please visit www.reelvoices.org/diaries/schedules.htm for updated PBS air dates as stations continue to announce their schedules..

Here are dates/times/locations announced so far-

April 2, 11pm Jacksonville, FL WJCT Public Television
April 4, 1am Simulcast on 9 South Dakota Public Television stations
Vermillion KUSD
Rapid City KBHE
Sioux Falls KCSD
Aberdeen KDSD
Brookings KESD
Eagle Butte KPSD
Lowry KQSD
Pierre KTSD
Martin KZSD
April 5, 9:30pm Simulcast on 3 West Virginia Public Television stations
Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill WSWP
Charleston-Huntington, WPBY
Clarksburg-Weston, WNPB
April 6, 10pm Eureka, CA Redwood Empire Public Television
April 6, 10pm Simulcast on 11 South Carolina Public Television stations
Columbia WRLK-TV 35
Allendale & Augusta, GA WEBA-TV 14
Conway/Myrtle Beach WHMC 23
Charleston WITV 7
Florence WJPM-TV 33
Beaufort & Hilton Head, Savannah, GA WJWJ-TV 16
Greenwood WNEH 38
Rock Hill & Charlotte, NC WNSC-TV 30
Greenville & Asheville, NC WNTV 29
Spartanburg & Asheville, NC WRET-TV 49
Sumter WRJA-TV 27
April 9, 3am San Diego, CA KPBS Public Television
April 10, 11:30am San Antonio, TX KLRN Public Television DT-9.2
April 10, 11pm San Antonio, TX KLRN Public Television DT-9.2
April 12, 6pm San Antonio, TX KLRN Public Television DT-9.2
April 14, 1:30pm San Antonio, TX KLRN Public Television DT-9.2
April 15, 1am San Antonio, TX KLRN Public Television DT-9.2
April 17, 11pm Salt Lake City, UT KUED Public Television
April 18, 9pm New York, NY WNET Public Television Digital TV - WLIW World
April 18, 9pm Boston, MA WGBH Public Television Digital TV - WGBH World
April 18, 12am Simulcast on 9 Alabama Public Television stations
Huntsville WHIQ 25
Florence WFIQ 36
Mt. Cheaha WCIQ 7
Birmingham WBIQ 10
Demopolis WIIQ 41
Montgomery WAIQ 26
Louisville/Texasville WGIQ 43
Dozier WDIQ 2
Mobile WEIQ 42
April 19, 4am New York, NY WNET Public Television Digital TV - WLIW World
April 19, 4am Boston, MA WGBH Public Television Digital TV - WGBH World
April 19, 10am New York, NY WNET Public Television Digital TV - WLIW World
April 19, 10am Boston, MA WGBH Public Television Digital TV - WGBH World
April 19, 4pm New York, NY WNET Public Television Digital TV - WLIW World
April 19, 4pm Boston, MA WGBH Public Television Digital TV - WGBH World
April 22, 3am Simulcast on 2 Kansas Public Television stations
Topeka KTWU 11
Iola K30AL 30
April 22, 3am Simulcast on 9 Alabama Public Television stations
Huntsville WHIQ 25
Florence WFIQ 36
Mt. Cheaha WCIQ 7
Birmingham WBIQ 10
Demopolis WIIQ 41
Montgomery WAIQ 26
Louisville/Texasville WGIQ 43
Dozier WDIQ 2
Mobile WEIQ 42
April 22, 3am Austin, TX KLRU Public Television
April 22, 3am Amarillo, TX KACV Public Television
April 22, 4am Simulcast on 16 Kentucky Public Television stations
Ashland WKAS-DT 25
Bowling Green WKGB-DT 53
Covington WCVN-DT 54
Elizabethtown WKZT-DT 23
Hazard WKHA-DT 35
Lexington-Richmond WKLE-DT 46
Louisville WKPC-DT 15
Louisville WKMJ-DT 68
Madisonville WKMA-DT 35
Morehead WKMR-DT 38
Murray-Mayfield WKMU-DT 21
Owensboro-Henderson WKOH-DT 31
Owenton WKON-DT 52
Paducah WKPD-DT 29
Pikeville WKPI-DT 22
Somerset WKSO-DT 29
April 22, 4am Boston, MA Boston Public Television WGBX-44
April 22, 4am Richland, WA Richland Public Television KTNW-31
April 22, 4am University Park, PA Penn State Public Broadcasting WPSU
April 22, 6am New York, NY WNET Public Television Digital TV - WLIW World
April 22, 6am Boston, MA WGBH Public Television Digital TV - WGBH World
April 29, 11pm Milwaukee, WI Milwaukee Public Television MPTV-36
April 30, 2am Milwaukee, WI Milwaukee Public Television MPTV-HD

DINKA DIARIES is a presentation of the Independent Television Service (ITVS) LInCS program, the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), and a co-production with Philadelphia Public Television WYBE

CONGRATULATIONS!

It was a great pleasure to see so many DER films featured in this years Finger Lakes Film Festival in Ithaca New York. One of our newest releases CARTONEROS will be screened along with a Q&A by the filmmaker Ernesto Livon Grosman on Saturday March 31st at 4:30.

Your fellow filmmakers include:
Rehad Desai: BUSHMAN’S SECRET
Chris Horner: DISAPPEARING OF TUVALU
P. Kerim Friedman: ACTING LIKE A THEIF and MAHASWETA DEVI
Filmon Mebrahtu: DINKA DIARIES
Rebecca Rivas: AT HIGHEST RISK

If you plan to attend, let us know.

See the link below for the full schedule.

www.ithaca.edu/fleff/calendar.html

The Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival
is proud to co-sponsor the 32nd annual
The Scholar and Feminist Conference
“Fashioning Citizenship: Gender and Immigration”
at Barnard College
Friday, March 23 – Saturday, March 24, 2007

Please visit www.barnard.edu/bcrw for registration and program information.

Fashioning Citizenship promises provocative analysis of global contemporary conflicts over immigration, and careful consideration of the political implications of today’s activist responses. Panelists featured include documentary filmmakers Natalia Almada, Maria Hinojosa, Shari Robertson, and Michael Camerini.

Registration for the conference will take place in Barnard Hall, located directly beyond Barnard’s gates on the west side of Broadway at 117th Street. For directions to campus via subway or bus, or for maps of the area, please visit www.barnard.edu/visitors/directions.html.

Barnard Center for Research on Women
email: bcrw@barnard.edu
phone: 212.854.2067
web: www.barnard.edu/bcrw

Independent Lens, “The film festival in your living room” brings you the
second annual “film festival at your fingertips.” We invite independent
filmmakers to submit short-form films, 10 minutes or less in length and in
all genres.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2007 (FIVE WEEKS FROM TODAY)

The grand prize-winning short film will be awarded $2,500 and be considered
for a national broadcast premiere on the Emmy award-winning PBS series,
Independent Lens.  Ten additional winners will receive $1,000 each and be
showcased on the Independent Lens website at PBS.org.

For guidelines and more information visit: www.pbs.org/independentlens

Watch the Independent Lens Online Shorts Festival!
Go to: www.pbs.org/independentlens/onlineshortsfestival

The DER fiscally sponsored doc “Twisted: A Balloonamentary” had it’s SOLD OUT premiere at SXSW Film Festival. Here’s filmmaker Naomi Greenfield’s first hand report.

Last Saturday in Austin, Texas was the World Premiere of my film, TWISTED: A Balloonamentary, at the South By Southwest Film Festival. Since I returned this past Thursday, I’ve been trying to process everything that happened and somehow encapsulate for those of you who were not there but with whom I would like to share this incredible experience in my life. I’ve also apparently needed a lot of sleep, because I’ve been taking frequent naps as my body tries to recover from the sleepless work nights of the past 2 months (and the past 3.5 years for that matter!)

Among the highlights of the experience were the giant 15ft by 15ft balloon sculpture that was built by a group of twisters who saw the film a few weeks ago at a private screening and were inspired to help us. They flew from Kansas City, MO and got all the balloons donated for this incredible spectacle that was up all week in the lobby of the Omni Hotel in downtown Austin. We were also so lucky to have Vera, one of our main cast members, there to celebrate with us and go on interviews and do Q and A with us after the film. Our incredible street team–TEAM TWISTED–donned their balloon dog T-shirts and gave out fliers, pins, balloon dogs and promoted the film all over the city of Austin. By Saturday night, there was not a person Sara and I met who didn’t know about our film (even Morgan Spurlock of Supersize Me said “Oh, the balloon doc–you guys are everywhere!”) Sara and I did 5 television interviews and a whole bunch of print, radio and podcasts. And best of all, we SOLD OUT our premiere, which people told us was unprecedented for our theatre location and time. It was an incredible experience to have people come up to us and say how much they loved the film and were moved by it. It honestly could not have been more perfect.

Attached is the link to some Kodak Gallery photos to give you a taste of all the happenings in Austin. Sara and I are recuperating a bit but soon enough will be gearing up for the Newport Beach Film Festival in April, where we were just invited to screen. You can follow our film going ons at www.twistedballoondoc.com. We will have our press links and blog updates up this week, and we’re all over Google now too!

Thanks again for all your support! Hope we can bring
the film to a theatre near you soon!

Love, NAOMI

Dear Filmmaker, The 11th Annual MadCat Women’s International Film Festival is seeking submissions! Please spread the word. MadCat seeks films directed or co-directed by women that are produced ANY year. MadCat accepts ALL GENRES – experimental, documentary, animated, narrative, hybrid, etc. The Festival favors work that pushes the genre and expands notions of visual storytelling.

Please go to www.madcatfilmfestival.org for an entry form.  Please read it over, fill it out and submit it along with your submission tape or dvd. MadCat may be moving offices in the coming months – if you send your submission in after April 1st, 2007 please check out web site for an updated address before submitting your film or video. You can also find our guidelines and frequently asked questions on our web site. Please be sure to email us your street address, phone numbers etc. as well as sending in your submission form and preview.

Please pass the MadCat Call for Submissions on to other filmmakers you know. We are always seeking a diverse body of filmmakers.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
MadCat Film Festival
www.madcatfilmfestival.org

The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is currently accepting applications for a DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT AND INDUSTRY INITIATIVES (1 YEAR, FULL-TIME CONTRACT POSITION, STARTING IMMEDIATELY)

The annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival – the largest festival of its kind in Canada – is seeking a dynamic self-starter for a key executive role.   Now entering its eighth year, imagineNATIVE is an international showcase for Indigenous film, video, radio, new media, and installation art. Located in a beautiful arts-focused building at 401 Richmond Street West in Toronto, imagineNATIVE is a community-based festival committed to the development and promotion of Indigenous artists and their work. This is an amazing opportunity to be a part of a successful, growing organisation that has become one of the leaders in Toronto’s vibrant independent film festival scene.   The role will offer a high profile in the arts community and the candidate will nurture and develop key contacts within both the public and private sectors.

Responsibilities

Fundraising:
Corporate fundraising and development: researching and initiating new, and maintaining and building existing relationships with corporate, foundation, consular, community organizations, and other private sector partners
Sponsorship database development and regular maintenance
Working with the Executive Director to write government grants and reports
Developing and regularly updating fund development goals and direction, including new sponsor targets and sponsor levels
Developing sponsorship opportunities related to programming and special initiatives

Managing Festival’s Industry Series:
Programming and managing the festival’s annual workshops and panels
Managing the industry and market initiatives of the festival including submitting funding applications to funders that specifically fund industry and market initiatives
Soliciting and maintaining relationships with buyers/industry delegates, inviting and hosting buyers/industry delegates at the festival
Overseeing buyers/industry delegate activities
Tracking sales and acquisitions on an on-going basis

Qualifications:

University or college degree in areas including: humanities, fundraising, arts administration or commensurate experience in the not-for-profit sector or media industry
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Grant or proposal writing experience; writing samples will be requested for interview
Personable and confident, with strong negotiation experience
Self-starter with the ability to set and meet deadlines and targets
Ability to work independently and manage a number of projects simultaneously
Strong organizational and analytical skills; ability to think strategically
Knowledge of the landscape of Aboriginal media arts in Canada an asset

Deadline: March 26, 2007

Apply in writing to: Personnel Committee, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, 401 Richmond St. West, Suite 417, Toronto, ON, M5V 3A8 OR Fax: (416) 585-2313. You may also email your resume (as an .rtf or .pdf file) to: info@imaginenative.org . Please write Development Position in the subject line.

For more information about imagineNATIVE, please visit our website, www.imaginenative.org. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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10th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film Manchester, England 28 June - 2 July 2007

RE:
1. Acting Like a Thief, P. Kerim Friedman, Shashwati Talukdar, India, 2005, 15 mins.
2. Iauaretê - Waterfall of the Jaguars, Vincent Carelli, Brazil, 2006, 48 mins.
3. Remembering John Marshall, Alice Apley, David Tames, USA, 2005, 16 mins.
4. The Agouti`s Peanut, Paturi & Komoi Panara, Brazil, 2005, 51 mins.

We are pleased that these DER New Releases have been selected for the following prizes: a new Music & Performance Prize screening (Acting Like a Thief, currently scheduled for Friday, 29th June, 11.30 am), the Material Culture Prize Screening (Iauaretê - Waterfall of the Jaguars, currently scheduled for Friday, 29th June, 9 am), the Special Interest Screening (Remembering John Marshall, currently scheduled for Saturday, 30th June, 9 am) and the RAI/Basil Wright Prize Screening (The Agouti`s Peanut, currently scheduled for Friday, 29th June, 11.30 am). We congratulate all our directors. With almost 300 entries received, the pre-selections were highly competitive, especially given the limited screening time at the Festival. All entries will be available for individual viewing at the Video library during the film festival and the joint conference and will be listed in the catalogue and on the website.

We very much hope you will be able to attend the festival, the conference and the various workshops and events.

The 1st University of Virginia/Virginia Film Festival Film Program
Film Around the World
Denmark and Sweden • May 12-19, 2007
Registration Deadline:  March 28,2007
www.virginia.edu/travelandlearn/2007film.html
1-800-FIND-UVA (346-3882), 434-243-2277
travelandlearn@virginia.edu  www.virginia.edu/travelandlearn

Join us in Copenhagen, one of Europe’s oldest yet cosmopolitan capitals, for this cinema insider’s visit to Denmark and Sweden. We will explore the past and present world of Scandinavian filmmaking, which recently spawned the influential Dogme95 movement and its Vow of Chastity which seeks to refocus film on the narrative. Two Danish films were among this year’s Oscar nominees:  Susanne Bier’s After the Wedding and Søren Pilmark’s Helmer and Son. And, of course, Swedish filmmaking is legendary.

Journey with us as we meet with the best Danish filmmakers, including Vinca Wiedemann and Lone Sherfig; visit Danish film studio Zentropa (Lars Von Trier’s studio) and Nordisk (the oldest in Europe); converse with scholars at the Danish Film Institute and the University of Copenhagen; screen the best of the Danish and Swedish films; spend a day in the Medieval town of Lund, Sweden and visit the film program at the University of Lund; and enjoy the beauty of a Scandinavian spring. www.virginia.edu/travelandlearn.
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Sincerely,

Richard Herskowitz
Director of the Virginia Film Festival
and
Joan Gore, Ph.D.
Director of Adult Travel Programs
School of Continuing and Professional Studies

Opening Wed. March 7th at 7:00 THE FILMS OF JOHN MARSHALL will be screened every night through Sunday March 11th.
When John Kennedy Marshall passed away in April 2005, he left behind a legacy that encompassed more than thirty documentary films, as well as years of activism in support of the Ju/’hoansi people of southwest Africa, and the founding of the distribution company Documentary Educational Resources (DER). A towering figure in the intertwined worlds of documentary and ethnographic filmmaking, Marshall was practically born into his life-path:in 1950,his father Laurence (the retired founder of the electronics firm Raytheon Corp.) brought his entire family, including wife Lorna and daughter Elizabeth, to the Kalahari Desert to take part in an expedition in search of the bushmen who were believed still to be surviving by hunting and gathering.Intent on finding and documenting these cultures, Laurence organized his family into an anthropological team, parceling out their various roles: Lorna was to make ethnographic studies, Elizabeth was to write a book detailing their experiences,and 18-year-old John was to document what they found with his Bell and Howell 16mm camera.

The family did indeed encounter a group of Bushmen living deep in the desert, who had had no direct contact with whites. This group, the Ju/’hoansi, began a relationship with the Marshalls that would continue through three generations. John filmed the Ju/’hoansi throughout the fifties, producing numerous films, including THE HUNTERS (1957),which became a staple of anthropological cinema (though Marshall himself came to repudiate it as a subjective construction rather than a legitimate document). In the late fifties, however, Marshall was barred from entering South Africa as a result of his support for the Ju/’hoansi, a ban that extended for some twenty years (decades spent shooting Frederick Wiseman’s TITICUT FOLLIES, filming the civil war in Cyprus for NBC,and creating a series of films on the Pittsburgh police department, including INSIDE/OUTSIDE STATION 9). Finally,in 1978,Marshall was able to return to South Africa,where he was shocked and saddened to discover the devastation of the Ju/’hoansi’s culture.Newly committed not only to filming the Ju/’hoansi,but to working actively with them and on their behalf,Marshall spent much of the remaining 27 years of his life joining their fight, in the face of overwhelming forces of oppression and subversion, a struggle ultimately documented in the magnificent, six-hour, five-part series, A KALAHARI FAMILY,which Anthology is proud to present in its entirety. Special thanks to Cynthia Close of Documentary Educational Resources,the distributor of all films in this series.

THE HUNTERS
1957,72 minutes,16mm,b&w.
THE HUNTERS,which follows the hunt of a giraffe by four men over a five-day period, was shot in 1952-53 on the third Smithsonian/Harvard- Peabody-sponsored Marshall family expedition to Africa to study the Ju/’hoansi, one of the few surviving groups that lived by hunting-gathering. Made when Marshall was a young man, THE HUNTERS became a classic and enjoyed phenomenal success. For most of his career though, Marshall repudiated the film on the grounds that it was an artistic creation, a product of his own imagination, and that consequently it misrepresented the real nature of the culture. Throughout his career he used the film to argue for a more meaningful collaboration between anthropology and documentary filmmakers.
With:
PLAYING WITH SCORPIONS (1972,4 minutes,
16mm,color) Children tempt fate,playing with scorpions.
&
Alice Apley & David Tames
REMEMBERING JOHN MARSHALL (2006,
16 minutes,video,color)
–Wednesday, March 7 at 7:00 &
Thursday, March 8 at 9:00.

N!AI, THE STORY OF A !KUNG WOMAN
1980, 59 minutes, 16mm, color. Co-directed by Adrienne Miesmer.
This film provides a broad overview of !Kung life, both past and present, and an intimate portrait of N!ai,a !Kung woman who in 1978 was in her mid- thirties. N!ai tells her own story, and in so doing, the story of !Kung life over a thirty-year period. “N!AI,broadcast as part of the Odyssey series on PBS, reflects a turn in Marshall’s work from creating a film record of cultural practices to [becoming a] committed participant filming the struggles of a marginalized minority.N!AI presents the utter despair of the now impoverished and dependent community living in Tshumkwe. Through a skillful mix of footage from the 1950s and late 1970s,Marshall presents a powerful view of the dramatic transformation of Ju/’hoansi life, from independent hunter-gatherers, to despised minorities, as told through the impassioned voice of the indigenous narrator,a woman Marshall had known since she was a child…”–Alice Apley &
David Tames,NEW ENGLAND FILM
Preceded by:
BITTER MELONS(1971,30 minutes,16mm,color) This is a film about a small band of /Gwi San living in the arid landscape of the central Kalahari Desert in Africa.The hardships of their everyday survival are woven into the songs of a blind musician, Ukxone, who composes music on a hunting bow. His songs evoke the /Gwi landscape and its
diverse wildlife, and depict the routine of their daily lives.
–Wednesday, March 7 at 9:30 &
Friday, March 9 at 7:00.
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INSIDE/OUTSIDE STATION 9
1970,90 minutes,16mm,b&w.
A number of short sequences show some of the events in the daily lives of several policemen:their intervention in domestic quarrels, the handling of a hit-and-run case, the approaches taken toward loitering youths, a drunk and disorderly charge being made in Magistrate’s Court,and the interrogation of a burglary suspect. Police-force candidates are shown being interviewed by members of the police department. They discuss their reasons for wanting to be policemen and their thoughts about themselves and their jobs, placing the film in the context of the community from which the department draws its personnel.
–Thursday, March 8 at 7:00.

Please attend and spread the word about two screenings of “Don’t Fence Me In: Major Mary and the Karen Refugees from Burma.”  The film will screen Tuesday, March 13, 12 noon at The Commonwealth Club of California, 595 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, for reservations: (800) 847 7730 www.commonwealthclub.org and at the World Affairs Council, Thursday, March 29, 6pm, 312 Sutter St. 2nd Floor. www.itsyourworld.org/program.php?page=1845  I will be in speak at both events.

The screenings are sponsored by the International Rescue Committee:  www.theirc.org/sf

I look forward to seeing you there.

Best wishes,

Ruth

“Don’t Fence Me In” is the captivating portrait of 70-year-old freedom fighter Major Mary. Her charismatic storytelling is accompanied by rare clandestine footage smuggled out of the refugee camps along the border of Burma and Thailand. The film reveals the Karen refugee’s spirit and determination to survive as political and historical forces conspire against them.  In 2006, the film won the Grand Jury and Audience Awards for Best Documentary at the San Diego Women’s Film Festival, the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary at the D.C. International Film Festival and a Director’s Citation Award from the Black Maria Film Festival.