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February 15-16, 2006
The Films of Thomas Allen Harris
UWM Union Theatre
2200 East Kenwood Boulevard
All screenings are free.

Raised in the Bronx and Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, Thomas Allen Harris is an award-winning filmmaker and cultural warrior whose documentary films, installations, and experimental videos have been featured in venues across the international landscape on television, at festivals, museums, and galleries. Harris is the recipient of numerous awards, grants and fellowships from such institutions as the Sundance Institute, the Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Paul Robeson Fund, and the Lannan Foundation. A Harvard graduate, Harris taught for eight years as an Associate Professor of Media Arts at the University of California, San Diego.

The filmmaker will be in attendance for the screening on February 16.

Wednesday, February 15 at 7:00 pm
É Minha Cara/That’s My Face
(USA, 56 minutes, 35mm, 2001)

A documentary film exploring exploring identity and spirituality across three generations of an African-American family in the USA, East Africa and Brazil. International Filmmaker Award by the Toronto Black Film/Video Network; Gordon Parks Award Finalist, 2001 IFP Market, Best Documentary Awards at the 2002 Denver Pan-African Film Festival, the San Francisco Black Film Festival, the Atlanta Film Festival and OUTFEST 2002.

Vintage• Families of Value
(USA, 72 minutes, 35mm, 1995)

A feature length mytho-poetic film about African-American families as seen through the eyes of black queer siblings. Winner of the 1996 Golden Gate Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival and Best Documentary from the 20th Annual Atlanta Film and Video Festival.

Thursday, February 16 at 7:00 pm
The Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela
(USA, 73 minutes, 35mm, 2005)

Filmmaker in attendance! A documentary about the first wave of South African exiles who kept the anti-apartheid movement alive from East Africa, Europe, United States and Cuba. The film received its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and broadcast on P.O.V. American Documentary is slated for October 2006.

March 2-6, 2005
Cinemas of the Scattered African Diaspora
A Celebration of Ousmane Sembene
Moolaadé (2004)
Borom Sarret (Cart Driver) (1964)
Black Girl (La Noire de…) (1965)
Mandabi (The Money Order) (1968)
Xala (The Curse) (1975)

November 5-7, 2004
Cinemas Of The Scattered African Diaspora
in the Union Theatre
I’ll Sing For You
By Jacques Sarasin

February 28-March 2, 2004
French Film Festival
Two Films from Senegal
" Little Senegal" and "Karmen Gei"

October 24-26, 2003
Waiting for Happiness
by Abderrahmane Sissako

Bamako Sigi-Kan
Manthia Diawara

SIA, the Dream of the Python
by Dani Kouyate

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The Producers’ Forum brings independent filmmakers to Milwaukee to share their films and to interact with interested viewers.

Past producers' Forums
Two Towns of Jasper by Marco Williams and Whitney Down
" Two Towns of Jasper" is a feature-length documentary about the murder of James Byrd, Jr. on June 7, 1998, one of the most vicious racially motivated murders since the 199 lynching of Emmett Till occurred in Jasper, Texas. Byrd, and African American was chained behind a pick-up truck and dragged for three miles until his body disintegrated. Three white men from Jasper, with ties to white supremacist groups, were arrested and later convicted of the crime.

A collaborative effort between a black and white filmmaker, and filmed from January through December 1999, "Two Towns of Jasper" records the white and black residents of Jasper with two separate crews. An all white crew documented the white community, and an all black crew filmed the black community.

Producers Marco Williams and Whitney Dow bring their celebrated, provocative film to Milwaukee for a sneak preview before a January 2003 P.O.V. (PBS) broadcast. Audience members will have a chance to discuss with the filmmakers their process in exploring the Jasper tragedy, its context and its aftermath.