Your Help with My Media Justice Class

Hello my friends family,
I wanted to see if I could get your help. I am once again teaching a video arts class this time afterschool at UPA with Oakland Leaf in the Fruitvale with some beautiful and talented students. We are having are having a problem getting all the video cameras we need. Eventually we might even get a grant to buy some cameras but in the meantime I was hoping I could get your support in borrowing some cameras to use on Monday and Wednesday afternoons. I was able to borrow some cameras over the summer and never had a problem; they were all returned safe and sound.

Please let me know as soon as possible if you, someone you know or an organization might have a camera we could borrow. If you happened to know of someone or an organization that was even interested in donating a camera or two since we are a not profit we could easily make it tax deductable for you.
We are in need of about 4 or more home video type cameras that use mini dv. (if you arent sure just give me call or I can take a look at the camera)

You would be an integral part in making our projects a success and of course I would be ever greatful. When we have the end of the year presentation you will be included in our acknowledgements and maybe in the credits if the projects come out ready! Also if you are interesting in volunteering Monday (3:30-6:30) and Wednesday(1:30-3:30) (if you are a youth I might be able to pay you a stipend!) let me know...

Any and all support you could offer is really much appreciated. No it would be more than appreciated. Really. Abrazos.
415-516-9686 Maya

My Film in SF Latino Film Fest

Hey all I just got some great news! The Last Word just got accepted to the San Francisco International Latino Film Festival!!!! Nov 15, 7pm. I'll let you know when I get more information but hopefully those of you who are in California can make it out finally!!!! YAY!!!! I will be on a panel about hip hop and politics aparently. I needed some good news, its been a rough week.
Its so interesting to have worked so hard for so long (about a year ago I started this project) and be able to look back and see how far I have come. I sometimes cringe looking at my work realizing there are still things I would love to change and could make better but I suppose thats the reason I have to do more projects: growth and progress. And to do this work with the help and support of such an overworked and underpaid community...I hope to one day be a vehicle for giving recognition to those communities that have supported me. Much love, Maya

Savage Inequalities

Check this audio of this interview of Kozol author of Savage Inequalities.

Jonathan Kozol on "Shame of the Nation"

Counterspin (1/6/06-1/12/06)

This week on CounterSpin: In his new book Shame of the Nation: the Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America, Jonathan Kozol draws a grim picture of U.S. public schools, particularly those in poor urban neighborhoods. He graphically reports on the decaying infrastructure, the under-spending and overcrowding; the lack of art and music teachers, librarians, doctors—many of the things that are taken for granted in better-off, whiter public schools. But the central theme of Kozol's book, the theme that seems to connect these other troubling factors, is race. Kozol argues that racial segregation in public schools is beyond critical—perhaps as bad as it was three decades ago, with some formerly integrated schools becoming re-segregated.

Jonathan Kozol joins CounterSpin for a special extended discussion of public schools, race and the press.

Hezbollah

*British MP George Galloway takes on Sky News (Fox’s UK counterpart)
about the War on Lebanon. It’s amazing!

MadCat Women's International Film Festival

MadCat PREMIERES AND SPECIAL EVENTS
MadCat is proud to present the Northern California Premiere of local
award-winning filmmakers Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre's
groundbreaking documentary Maquilapolis. This project is about the
brutal
conditions of Tijuana's assembly factories, the maquiladoras and how a
group
of courageous women have band together to fight the multinational
corporations who run them. MadCat presents the premiere at the Grand
Lake
Theater in Oakland, September 21, Tickets $10. This screening is a
fundraiser and will benefit the Wellstone Democratic Club and Global
Exchange. MadCat will also present Maquilapolis in SF at Yerba Buena on
Sun,
Sept 24!

The Festival screens the SF premiere of How Little We Know of Our
Neighbours, a new documentary by award-winning filmmaker, Rebecca
Baron. How
Little We Know of Our Neighbours is an engrossing study of the Mass
Observation movement in Britain-an eccentric social science enterprise
begun
in 1937 that used hidden cameras to record and scrutinize behavior in
public
spaces. Initially concerned with anthropology, the outfit became a
civil spy
unit during World War II before re-emerging as a market research firm
in the
'50s. How Little We Know of Our Neighbors considers this fascinating
history
of state-sanctioned snooping in relation to contemporary issues of
surveillance and privacy. This film screens in Surveillance Times at
ATA on
Fri, Sept 22.



See Movies you wont find anywhere else!
MadCat's screenings include diverse thematically-curated shorts
programs,
trailblazing documentaries, and slide presentations by local artists.

HIGHLIGHTS of the 10th Annual MadCat Film Festival
OPENING NIGHT-The Dwellers
Tues € Sept 12 € El Rio € 8:30 pm € Free BBQ at 6:30 pm
An ode to dwellers everywhere, whether in the city, country or the dry
plains of the desert. Documentary and surreal images explore home and
how we
place ourselves in this world. Greta Snider premieres new Viewmasters
from
her 3D documentary series. Also screening works by Maryam Kashani,
Angela
Reginato and Chelsea Walton. With live music by Paper Boats and Silian
Rail.

A MADCAT RETROSPECTIVE-Local Ladies: A MadCat Retrospective
Wed € Sept 13 € El Rio € 8:30 pm € Free BBQ at 6:30 pm
A selection of the best 16mm film from the past TEN years of MadCat.
See
works by: Donna Carter, Samara Halperin, Greta Snider, Chelsea Walton,
Chris
Willging, and others Also new works by Kerry Laitala and Jeanne Liotta!
All
filmmakers will be present for the screening.

Rural Women: Finding Independence
Fri € Sept 15 € ATA € 7:30 pm
These unique documentaries depict women with entirely different
approaches
to gaining independence. In a water deprived Iranian village, Atefeh
stands
alone defending her fields from Mother Nature's arid whims. Unafraid of
hard
work and tough negotiations, Atefeh stands her ground, a lone woman, to
save
her livelihood. In The Angelmakers, several women in a small town in
Hungary
change their fate and that of the town through a series of irreversible
acts
of desperation.

Motion Stopped: An Evening of Animation
Tues € Sept 19 € El Rio € 8:30 pm € Free BBQ at 6:30 pm
Take an erotic musical tour of the sensual and obscene, go behind the
scenes
of Norman McLaren's innovative animation, and journey through cut-out,
puppet, hand-drawn and computer animated worlds.

Psycho Vision: 3D Hallucinations
Wed € Sept 20 € El Rio € 8:30 pm € Free BBQ at 6:30 pm
Journey back to your childhood. We'll provide the Viewmasters and the
magic,
and you just click and enjoy. Vladimir, the Viewmaster maven, comes to
town
with her Vladmaster series, premiering, Fear & Trembling, and others.
Also
in attendance is Zoe Beloff with her 3D 16mm film and slide show
performance, the saturated colorful world of Claire and Don in
Slumberland!

Maquilapolis
Thurs € Sept 21 € Grand Lake Theater € 7:30 pm
A riveting political documentary about and by workers in Tijuana's
assembly
factories, the maquiladoras. This intimate film chronicles a tightly
knit
community that sits in the shadow of one of Tijuana's 800 multinational
factories that thrive off of Mexico's cheap labor force. Directors
Vicky
Funari and Sergio De La Torre in person.

Surveillance Times
Fri € Sept 22 € ATA € 7:30 pm
Video surveillance, surreptitiously recorded phone conversations,
renegade
radio stations. These innovative documentaries reveal the power of
modern
surveillance technologies and the incumbent whittling away of civil
liberties and upending of notions of privacy.

Charming Augustine: A 3D Film
Sat € Sept 23 € Yerba Buena € 7:30 pm
A story of love, madness and the loss of control in glorious 3D.
Experience
what cinema might have been like had it been invented in the 1880s.
Filmmaker Zoe Beloff in person.

Maquilapolis
Sun € Sept 24 € Yerba Buena € 7:30 pm
A repeat screening with local filmmakers Funari and De La Torre in
person.

Wishing Worlds
Tues € Sept 26 € El Rio € 8:30 pm € Free BBQ at 6:30 pm
Stories from Pakistan, The Netherlands, Germany and France follow
lunatics
in search of a homeland, young lovers in a surreal musical, an
underwater
struggle, and much more.

Charming Augustine: A 3D Film
Tues € Sept 26 € PFA € 7:30 pm
Repeat screening. Filmmaker in person.

CLOSING NIGHT-A Quiet Storm: Live Music Set to Silent Films
Wed € Sept 27 € El Rio € 8:30 pm € Free BBQ at 6:30 pm
Australian filmmaker Sally Golding and sound artist Joel Stern present
an
improvisational three-projector performance. 16mm films by Kerry
Laitala,
Courtney Hoskins and Sheri Wills set to live music by Tartufi and The
Secrets of Family Happiness.

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MadCat Film Festival VENUES
El Rio
3158 Mission St. @ Precita in San Francisco
Tues and Weds, Sept 12, 13, 19, 20, 26 & 27
Movies 8:30 pm; FREE BBQ at 6:30 pm
Rain or Shine
Tix: $7-20. Cash Only. 21 and over.
(415) 282-3325, www.elriosf.com/

Artists' Television Access (ATA)
992 Valencia St. @ 21st in San Francisco
Fri, Sept 15 & 22. Movies 7:30 pm
Tix: $7-20. Cash Only.
(415) 824-3890, www.atasite.org

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St. @ Third in San Francisco
Sat and Sun Sept 23 and 24, 7:30 pm
Tix: $9. Cash or Credit Cards
(415) 978-2700, www.ybca.org

Grand Lake Theater
3200 Grand Avenue in Oakland
Date September 21, 7:30 pm Tix: $10.
Advance tickets available by calling (415)
255-7296 Mastercard and visa accepted only in advance of the screening.
(510) 452-3556, www.grandlaketheater.com


Pacific Film Archive (PFA)
2575 Bancroft Way in Berkeley
Date: Sept 26, 7:30 pm
Tix: $8. Cash or Credit Cards
(510) 642-5249, http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/

There will always be tickets at the door!

For an entire line-up go to http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org
MadCat Women's International Film Festival
639 Steiner Street
San Francisco, CA 94117 USA

Phone: 415 436-9523
Fax: 415 934-0642
info@madcatfilmfestival.org





MadCat Women's International Film Festival
639 Steiner Street Unit C
San Francisco, CA 94117 USA

Ph. 415 436-9523
Fax. 415 934-0642
E. info@madcatfilmfestival.org
www.madcatfilmfestival.org

The 10th Annual MadCat Women's International Film Festival
Screening the Best films by women directors from around the world
When: September 12-27 in San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley.
www.madcatfilmfestival.org

Saturday: Conscious Youth Media Crew

Wzup everyone,

I wanted to invite yall to an art show/ fundraiser at Gallery One at
the Embarcadero in SF on Saturday August 12th that is being hosted by
HOMEY, the Counscious Youth Media Crew, and Huaxtec.

We will be highlighting art and photography inspired by and
contributing to the Immigrant Rights Movement. CYMC will be premiering
their summer documentaries and running a photo booth.

Art By:
Jesus Barraza
David Sanchez
Francisco Dominguez
Lucha
Drama One
Lady Tragik
David Cruz
Kevin Chan
Henry Morales
Gaby Arvisu
y los HOMEYS

Please pass it on and come thru to support.
Much love
Nancy

WOC Film Festival Notes

I got to Santa Cruz late last night for the MALCS and Women of Color film festival. The air here in the evening is just like I remember it, salty, misty but not too cold and full of memories: Late night beachside talks with friends, intense relationships, growth, radio shows and music intensity, aftershow happy hours, friends only a few minutes away, deep sorrow and regret, memories of friends who have parted this world, and of course recent memories of last years film festival filled with late night dancing and fun, inspiration films and filmmakers, and coming away with a renewed commitement to my art.
So here I am a year later and my own film, video, my baby pues...will be debuting at her first film fest...I'm so excited I can hardly think of anything else...

I was worried that I didnt bring enough clothes for the cooler weather since I have been loving the perfect to hot weather in the east bay this summer...puro sandals, light pants/skirts and cute tops...

I went to what is the third day of the MALCS conference today saw a couple of cool panels and then we broke for lunch...I slipped away back to my friends cute little house in the beach flats to work out some of the last minute kinks in my documentary "The Last Word" so I can hand it to the film festival folks ASAP so they can have a better copy for the showing on Sunday. Its pretty stressful to still be making last minute changes especially when some of the seemingly small changes end up messing up some other part like the sound or an extra space where there shouldnt be one.

I hope I didnt miss any last detail. Right now I am just waiting for my computer to export the video to a dvd and be done with it. If I have time tonight or tomorrow I will make a few extra copies to see if I can sell some. I wonder if $10 is a good price or if that is too expensive. I think I will see what happens and if somebody really wants it I will enact a sliding scale.

I hope Lakeisha and Rinchen can make it out on Sunday...until this thing finishes outputting...I wait.