The Community Media Project presents:

Africa Beyond, an ongoing film series is a new curatorial direction for the Community Media Project.

This series will expand the scope of our previous programming, which was Africa-centered. This does not mean that films and filmmakers from the continent will be excluded or ignored, however, the films selected for this series will mirror the black experience through key social, cultural and historical milestones and events in America and sometimes beyond its boundaries.

Films under the African Beyond banner will correspond to a chosen theme or current programmatic emphasis. In its first year, programs were selected to correspond to a new course taught in the film department Conversations with Filmmakers and Critics: Radical Black Film (film 301-005).

The CMP's second programming emphasis is its Producers' Forum, which invites the community to discuss contemporary documentary works with guest presenters and filmmakers at selected venues within the central city.

In the past, we have hosted the Producers' Forum in partnership with Milwaukee's Black Historical Museum, Latino Arts Inc, and America's Black Holocaust Museum. Guest filmmakers have included Sam Pollard, Louis Massiah, Stanley Nelson, Linda Goode-Bryant and Laura Poitras, Marco Williams and Whitney Dow.

All CMP programs in the Union Theatre are free and open to the public- however when off campus, we ask for a voluntary donation to support the partnering venues.

In 2007 we received a Cultures and Communities CUP grant to support a film series titled Disparities and Misconceptions, curated by Donte McFadden, a doctoral candidate in Modern Studies and presented at the America's Black Holocaust Museum one Thursday each month.

To see a complete and current schedule of the Community Media Project's programs please visit our blog at: www.communitymediaproject.blogspot.com

The Community Media Project is a division of the UWM Peck School of the Arts Film Department founded in 1985. It has served diverse audiences by presenting engaging and ground-breaking screenings and film Forums-representing the many and scattered African Diaspora.

The mission of the CMP is to provide artistic programming and outreach for under-served audiences--at UWM and in Milwaukee’s central city. We do this by offering free film screenings and film and video workshops.

For 17 years, the CMP has provided programming that is diverse and inclusive in its scope. Much of what we have accomplished has been facilitated through partnerships with community-based agencies (YMCA, Boys and Girls Clubs, Children's Outing Association, Mid-Town Neighborhood Association, Neighborhood House, Journey House and El Puente Alternative High School).

For further information
Portia Cobb, Director
(414)-229-6015
filmwebsite@uwm.edu