FILM
The Directors Chair: Visceral discussions that are festival focused with signature programming, which critically examine cultures, communities, and social issues that have been marginalized, displaced or erased. More specifically film and photography become a tool for the action of “Perspective Taking”. Participants engage amongst a diverse panel after viewing the curated materials and make new connections, exchange resources and most importantly, apply and share gained knowledge.
Vonnia Harris Davis and the panel seek to present a critical examination of the social barriers faced by minorities. (Communities, Cultural Practices, Gender, Race). These conversations are fruitfully curated under The 4-Quarter Film Festival and the team has committed to facilitating conversations in a relaxed, safe and supported space.
TROUBLE THE WATER
Meet 24-year-old aspiring rap artist and '“wild and free woman archetype” Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her husband Scott. Kimberly turns her new video camera on herself and her neighbors trapped in their Ninth Ward attic as the storm rages, the levees fail and the flood waters rise. Kim will leave your heart wanting more. Michael Moore, gave her a camera for 6 month to document he journey of heroic displacemeNT
FINDING VIVAN MAIER
Vivian Maier, (born February 1, 1926, Bronx, New York, U.S.—died April 20, 2009, Oak Park, Illinois), American amateur street photographer who lived her life in obscurity as a nanny and caregiver in the suburbs of Chicago while producing an expansive body of photographic work that became a media sensation in late 2010, nearly two years after her death. Discovered in 2007, a cache of Maier’s never-printed negatives, undeveloped rolls of film, and unedited movies fascinated the public as her story unfolded.
GREY GARDENS
rey Gardens is a 1975 American documentary film by Albert and David Maysles. The film depicts the everyday lives of two reclusive, upper-classwomen, a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale, who lived in poverty at Grey Gardens, a derelict mansion at 3 West End Road in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival but was not entered into the main competition
THE WILD WONDERFUL WHITES OF WEST VIRGINIA
Stemming from generations of coal miners working in risky job conditions, most of the White family possesses a fatalistic attitude and a lack of fear of death. The discussion will focus on the ‘wild women archetype” in the White family. In this keep-you-on-the-edge-of-your-seat film, various members recall violent fights and other other crimes include larceny, prescription fraud, shootings, armed robbery, forgery, stabbings, and parental custody.
BOOKS
Title: ROOT SHOCK Author: Dr. Fullilove
Title: Black vernacular intellectual
Title: Women Who Run With Wolves: Author: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
