Third World Newsreel 545 8Th Avenue, 10Th Floor War, Student, Black, Latino, and Women's New York, NY 10018 Rights Movements in the Late 60S and Early 7 0 S
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NEWSREEL women's rights movement 4 black power movement 6 latino/a power movement 8 anti-war and student movements 11 community activism 15 NEWSREEL COLLECTION Our mission is to foster the creation, appreciation and dissemination of social issue media made by or about people of color. Today, TWN carries on the progressive vision of its founders, and remains the oldest media arts organization in the United States devoted to filmmakers of color and their global constituencies. HOW TO ORDER Online: www.twn.org We accept institutional purchase orders, credit cards and PayPal Email: [email protected] The Woman's Film accounts. Remember to add p r o d u c e d s o m e o f Phone: (212) 947-9277 ext. 11 $20 for shipping and handling. The Newsreel collective the most riveting activist documentaries Fax: (212) 594-6417 Get a 10% discount on Newsreel titles when you mention promo ever made in the United States. 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TWN thanks the New York Women in Film & Television and the National Film --The Newsreel Collective Preservation Foundation for the restoration of The Woman's Film and People's War, respectively. [ 2 ] www.twn.org www.twn.org [ 3 ] W OMEN ' S R IGHTS W OMEN ' S R IGHTS THE WO MA N ' S F I L M M A KEO U T Women's Caucus--San Francisco 1972, 12 min. Newsreel, 1971, 40 min. The outward silence of a woman Produced collectively by women, making out with a boy in a car is this documentary is a valuable contrasted by her anxious inner historical document of the origins of monologue. Various shades of the modern women's movement in boredom, frustration and curi- the United States. The film delves osity are expressed in a shameless into the lives of ordinary women from articulation of the complexities of different races, educational levels female desire. Alternately funny and and class. The women talk about poignant, this film gives voice to a the daily realities of their lives as woman’s silence. wives, home-makers, and workers. They speak, sometimes with hesi- DVD Sale: $225 tancy, often with passion, about the oppression of women as they see it. U P A G A I N S T T H E Wa L L M I S S A M ERIC A DVD Sale: $225 1968, 8 min. Feminists opposed to the narrow JE A N E T T E Ra N K I N construct of submissive femininity The Woman's Film BRIG A DE attack the Miss America Pageant as 1968, 8 min. the epitome of the oppressive objec- In an effort to attract thousands of tification of women. The response women to march on Washington Feminist activists in the 1960s of protestors is to parade a sheep against the Vietnam War in January wearing the ‘Miss America’ sash on passionately resisted the objectification of 1968, organizers opt for a ‘digni- the boardwalk of Atlantic City. and disparagement of women. Feminists fied and respectable’ peace parade. linked the economic and sexual Other women involved are frus- DVD Sale: $225 trated because the demonstration e x p l o i t a t i o n o f w o m e n a n d d e f i e d s e x i s m , poses no threat to policy makers in misogyny, and patriarchal culture. Washington. One woman is uncom- promising: “I don’t feel like being peaceful!” DVD Sale: $225 [ 4 ] [email protected], (212) 947-9277 ext. 11 www.twn.org [ 5 ] B LACK P O W E R M OVEMENTS B LACK P O W E R M OVEMENTS BO bb Y S E A LE B L A CK PA NTHER 1969, 15 min. 1968, 15 min. In this prison interview, co-founder Originally released as Off the Pig, of the Black Panther Party Bobby Black Panther is a compelling Seale denounces the racist tactics document of the Black Panther of the police and calls for people Party leadership in 1967. This to mobilize against oppression. historic film contains a prison inter- A defiant political prisoner, Seale view with Huey P. Newton as well as insists his spirit will not be broken footage of Bobby Seale reading the even while he is confined in inhuman party’s 10-Point Platform. conditions; while you can jail the revolutionary, the revolution will not DVD Sale: $125 be jailed! C O mmu N I T Y DVD Sale: $125 C ONTROL Newsreel, 1969, 50 min. M AY DaY PA NTHER This film documents one of the most 1969, 15 min. important struggles for education in At a May Day demonstration to free the sixties. In 1968, under intensive Black Panther Party leader Huey P. community pressure from Black Newton, speakers link the struggles and Latino communities, the State of oppressed people everywhere. of New York chose three New York Philosopher and activist Angela City school districts to become part Davis and others sympathetic to the of an experiment in community-run Black Panthers speak passionately education. In Ocean Hill-Brownsville, and with urgency about the neces- the community board requested sity of confronting injustice and the reassignment of perceived as Black Panthers giving power to the people. racists. The request brought the wrath of the United Federation of DVD Sale: $125 Teachers, city and state bureau- Responding to the pervasive racism of the 1960s cracies, and ultimately a citywide and vilified by the media, the Black Panther teacher's strike. Party not only advocated armed resistance in DVD Sale: $225 self-defense but also provided economic and material assistance to communities in need. [ 6 ] [email protected], (212) 947-9277 ext. 11 www.twn.org [ 7 ] LATINO / A P O W E R M OVEMENTS LATINO / A P O W E R M OVEMENTS L I N C O L N H OS P IT A L T H E Ca S E A G A I N S T 1970, 12 min. L I N C O L N C ENTER Frustrated by the disconnect 1968,12 minutes between provided mental health More than 20,000 Latino fami- services and the needs of the lies were displaced to make way predominately Puerto Rican and for Lincoln Center, home to the Black community in the South Metropolitan Opera and the New Bronx, workers take over the Lincoln York Symphony. This film examines Mental Health Center and run it "the patrons of art" complex (corpo- themselves. Because “the whole rations and wealthy families) and the system conspires to make people culture displayed there. Juxtaposing sick,” the community actively envi- the atmosphere of Lincoln Center sions a radical redefinition of health with the vibrant street culture of a and wellness. displaced neighborhood, the film DVD Sale: $125 correctly predicts the process by which the West Side was to be B RE A K A ND ENTER turned into a high-rent area for the ( R O mp I E N D O P U ERT A S) upper middle class. 1970, 42 min. Puerto Rican Demonstration in Washington DC. This film captures the militant DVD Sale: $125 antecedents to today's housing M Y C O U N T R Y reclamation movement in New Latino communites were fractured by policies of O CC up IED York City. In 1970, several hundred Tami Gold & Heather Archibald, neglect and marginalization. Community programs Puerto Rican and Dominican fami- 1971, 30 min were established to provide food, clothing and lies reclaimed housing left vacant by In this moving film, the personal the city. They pulled the boards off health services in their communities. testimonies of Guatemalan Indians, the doors, cleaned and repaired the peasants, and guerrillas are drama- buildings and moved in. E L P U E B LO SE LE VA NT A ( T H E P E O P L E A R E R ISING) tized to provide the narration for a 1971, 50 min. DVD Sale: $225 powerful overview of the history of In the late 60’s, Puerto Ricans living in New York City faced racial discrimi- U.S. destabilization of democracy in nation, deficient community services, and few job opportunities. A classic of Central America. Latino/a cinema, El Pueblo Se Levanta captures the compassion and mili- tancy of the Young Lords as they address these injustices by implementing DVD Sale: $175 their own health, educational, and public assistance programs. DVD Sale: $225 [ 8 ][ 8 ] www.twn.org www.twn.org [ 9 ] [email protected], (212) 947-9277 ext.