CHANNELS: STORIES FROM THE NIAGARA FRONTIER PREMIERE SCREENING
$1-10 sliding scale admission
THU., APR. 18TH @ 7:00 PM LOCATION: MARKET ARCADE FILM + ARTS CENTER (639 MAIN ST.)
Channels: Stories from the Niagara Frontier is Squeaky Wheel’s production initiative that connects area filmmakers with activist and community groups to make short documentaries about social justice issues impacting our region. Come see the 4 new videos completed through this project in the 2012-13 year. After the screening, filmmakers and representatives from each participating group will be on hand to address audience questions and comments.
THE PROJECTS:
Buffalo First w/ Kyle Toth + Ryan Delmar - This film will present a true depiction of our city as a "local living economy": focusing on the importance of local and community ownership, diversity, place-making, environmental and social implications of our business and cultural practices, smart civic planning, and a strong community of local businesses serving the needs of the community.
Erie County Fair Housing Partnership w/ Brian Milbrand - How is it that Buffalo is one of the most segregated cities in the U.S.? How did segregation even happen here--and in other Rust Belt cities far removed from the Jim Crow south--in the first place? If Buffalo had segregation, did it also have civil rights activists like those in the south? This film will attempt to answer these questions by exploring Buffalo's history of racial segregation and its activist challengers through interviews with participants, and by using archival images and documents. The ultimate goal is to show that segregation was created and sustained by human decisions and hard work, and it can be unmade the same way.
Mental Health PEER Connection w/ Sam Avery - NY State is struggling over the future of its involuntary outpatient psychiatric program, which forces community residents labeled with mental illness, by court order, into a public treatment system with as many as 10,000 reported cases of abuse per year. What if involuntary treatment of this kind not only perpetuates existing discrimination and abuse towards people labeled with mental illness, but is also less effective at promoting recovery and more likely to engender lifelong disability and helplessness for the people it is intended to help? This video will examine the perspective of people affected by involuntary psychiatric treatment and enlighten audiences about more compassionate, hopeful and effective care that has demonstrated significantly higher recovery rates from serious mental illness.
New Directions Youth and Family Services w/ Jeff Maciejewski - This film will allow young people in foster care to voice their personal experiences, challenges, and triumphs while documenting the social injustices they must overcome within the educational, legal and economic systems including stigma, racial disparities, poverty, and conflicting value systems.
Learn more about the Channels program and the participating filmmakers here. This year's projects have been made possible with the generous support of the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
THE PROJECTS:
Buffalo First w/ Kyle Toth + Ryan Delmar - This film will present a true depiction of our city as a "local living economy": focusing on the importance of local and community ownership, diversity, place-making, environmental and social implications of our business and cultural practices, smart civic planning, and a strong community of local businesses serving the needs of the community.
Erie County Fair Housing Partnership w/ Brian Milbrand - How is it that Buffalo is one of the most segregated cities in the U.S.? How did segregation even happen here--and in other Rust Belt cities far removed from the Jim Crow south--in the first place? If Buffalo had segregation, did it also have civil rights activists like those in the south? This film will attempt to answer these questions by exploring Buffalo's history of racial segregation and its activist challengers through interviews with participants, and by using archival images and documents. The ultimate goal is to show that segregation was created and sustained by human decisions and hard work, and it can be unmade the same way.
Mental Health PEER Connection w/ Sam Avery - NY State is struggling over the future of its involuntary outpatient psychiatric program, which forces community residents labeled with mental illness, by court order, into a public treatment system with as many as 10,000 reported cases of abuse per year. What if involuntary treatment of this kind not only perpetuates existing discrimination and abuse towards people labeled with mental illness, but is also less effective at promoting recovery and more likely to engender lifelong disability and helplessness for the people it is intended to help? This video will examine the perspective of people affected by involuntary psychiatric treatment and enlighten audiences about more compassionate, hopeful and effective care that has demonstrated significantly higher recovery rates from serious mental illness.
New Directions Youth and Family Services w/ Jeff Maciejewski - This film will allow young people in foster care to voice their personal experiences, challenges, and triumphs while documenting the social injustices they must overcome within the educational, legal and economic systems including stigma, racial disparities, poverty, and conflicting value systems.
Learn more about the Channels program and the participating filmmakers here. This year's projects have been made possible with the generous support of the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
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