2010 N E W RELEASES American Studies 3 Latin American Studies 3-5 African Diaspora 4-7 The Work of Jamika Ajalon 6 Maghrebi Immigration 7 Hip-Hop Media 8-9 Asian Pacific Diaspora 10 Korean Studies 11 World Geography 12 Muslim Diaspora 12 Indigenous Studies 13 2009 & 2008 Releases 14-15 A MERIC A N S TUDIE S /L A TIN A MERIC A N S TUDIE S . NEW2010 10% discount on 2010 DVD releases when you Our mission is to foster mention promo code the creation, appreciation and dissemination of social issue media made by or about people of color. The HOW TO ORDER: importance of the media Optical Revolution tells us how Website: www.twn.org promoted by the organization NEW YA N Q U I W ALKE R US political history relates to the is its ability to effect social A N D T H E O P T I C A L current political, social and econom- Email: [email protected] change, to encourage people REV O LUTI on ical context and how art can be a means to subvert and transcend to think critically about their Kathryn Ramey, 2009, 33 min. Phone: (212) 947-9277 ext. 11 This film explores a now-obscure even the most oppressive of narra- lives and the lives of others, American expansionist, William tives. Fax: (212) 594-6417 and to propel people into Walker, who through military force "The filmmaker raises compelling action. and coercion became president of questions about visual perception Mail: Third World Newsreel Nicaragua in 1856. Walker was one Today, TWN carries on the and the construction of history." 545 8th Avenue, 10th Floor of many expansionists who believed Tribeca Film Festival New York, NY 10018 progressive vision of its it was America's Manifest Destiny to "The stylized strategy of the conquer all of the Americas and who founders, and remains the filmmaker captures the mythology We accept institutional engaged in border raids in Canada, purchase orders, credit oldest media arts organization of her allusive subject in this Mexico, the Caribbean and Central unusual work." cards and PayPal accounts. in the United States devoted America. Filmmaker Kathryn Ramey Black Maria Film + Video Festival, New Remember to add $20 for to filmmakers of color and blends found footage, documentary Jersey shipping and handling. photography, ethnographic inquiry, their global constituencies. w Jury's Choice, Black Maria Film + and personal travelogue with experi- Video Festival mental film techniques such as w Best Short Documentary, Athens TWN is supported in part by the National Endowment hand-processing, optical printing, International Film + Video Festival for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the and time-lapse to detour and derail w Ann Arbor Film Festival New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Ford the various approaches to history- w Tribeca Film Festival, New York w Chicago Underground Film Festival Foundation, the Funding Exchange and the North Star making that have been applied to Fund, as well as individual donors. this story. Yanqui Walker and the DVD Sale: $200 $180 Cover and Page 2 Photos by Marta Rodríguez and Fernando Restrepo 2 website: www.twn.org, email: [email protected] telephone: (212) 947-9277 ext. 11, fax: (212) 594-6417 [ 33 ] L A TIN A MERIC A N S TUDIE S /A FRIC A N D I as POR A L A TIN A MERIC A N S TUDIE S /A FRIC A N D I as POR A rainforest to the degradation of the wrenching interviews, black and NEW refugee camps. Never Again aims white photographs, and footage of S L A V E R O U T E S : to make certain that their story is aftermath of a guerilla massacre, An RESISTA N C E , heard. Empty House Falls makes real A B O LITI on the hardship endured by the victims DVD Sale: $225 $202.50 A N D Cr E A T I V E of Colombia’s complex war. Pro G R ESS Jayne Cortez, 2009, 100 min. w Best Documentary, aluCine Toronto T H E Ur A B Á Tr IL O G Y Latino Film and Video Festival From the 1400s to the 1800s In the violent and complex conflict millions of Africans were forcefully that has racked Colombia, the most DVD Sale: $225 $202.50 removed from Africa and shipped vulnerable are always the most across the Atlantic to the so-called affected. The Urabá Trilogy pres- "New World". In 1808, the passage ents the stories of Afrocolombian of the Transantlantic Slave Trade peasants displaced from their land Act made transporting or importing in the armed conflict between the slaves in the United States or its national army, Colombian guerillas, territories illegal. and the right-wing paramilitary in the isolated province of the Chocó. NEW To commemorate the 200th anni- An Em PT Y Ho U S E versary of the abolition of the FALLS Transatlantic Slave Trade by the US, Marta Rodríguez and Fernando Restrepo, NEW NEW distinguished scholars, writers, musi- 2004, 52 min Sor AYA , Lo V E I S NEVE R A GAI N cians, visual artists, and organizers Marta Rodríguez and Fernando Restrepo Marta Palma is just one of the N O T F or G O TTE N 2001, 56 min countless refugees left homeless Marta Rodríguez and Fernando Restrepo, from the international community Survivors of gruesome massacres by and profoundly traumatized by 2006, 52 min. convened at New York University to paramilitary death squads in Chocó, Colombia’s 50-year long civil war. "Soraya Palacios has to abandon discuss slavery, the slave trade and Colombia, tell their stories in the first Together with her children, Marta her homeland after her husband's its consequences, in plenary, panels, part of The Urabá Trilogy. This watched helplessly as her husband assassination by paramilitaries. As a readings, performances, conver- film captures their clamor for justice died of bullet wounds inflicted by mother of six children, she does her sations and film/video screenings. and repatriation to their lands, and guerrillas. Marta and her children flee best to provide as much as she can Participants included Maya Angelou, their search for emotional closure their village and attempt to recon- for them. Like so many other Afro- Rex Nettleford, Amiri Baraka, Ali through the processes of memory struct a life in the town of Turbo, Colombian women displaced from Mazrui, Nicole Lee, Randy Weston and testimony. The film weaves where family and friends help them Choco, her daily struggle reflects her and many others. This video docu- through the stories of the people of get back on their feet. At the age of desire to resist forgetting her culture ments selected scenes from the the Chocó themselves, who vividly 45, Marta becomes ill and dies. Is and history". --African Diaspora Film symposium. Festival recount through music, dance, art, it the trauma, heartache, or sense- DVD Sale: $225 $202.50 and their own gripping narration the less violence that surrounds her DVD Sale: $225 $202.50 uprooting from humble lives in the that lead to her illness? With heart- [ 4 ] website: www.twn.org,www.twn.org email: [email protected] telephone: (212) 947-9277www.twn.org ext. 11, fax: (212) 594-6417 [5 5 ] A FRIC A N D I as POR A / T HE W ORK OF J A MIK A A jal ON A FRIC A N D I as POR A / M A GHREBI IMMIGR A TION NEW L’ E SP R I T Pr ÊT- À- PA R TEGE R Jamika Ajalon, 2009, 28 min. Documents an artist’s work- shop held in Dakar, Senegal, in 2008, where artists from Africa and Europe explore nEW is sans papiers (without papers). issues surrounding fashion, T H E W AY N or T H : The documentary shows these sport and diasporic art and MAGH R E B I Wom E N women's struggles to cultivate alter- identities. The artists collab- I N M A R SEILLE native economic and social support orate with each other and Shara K. Lange, 2008, 60 min for themselves in a society that has locals to create work which "I thought that in France life would historically ignored or misunderstood is built on cultural exchange, be easier—it’s the land of liberty. But them. it wasn’t like that at all." dismantling antiquated “These women's lives in the frames of essentialists Black --Fatima Rhazi context of a France that seemed and African identity aesthetic subjective identities as simultane- on the brink of exploding, provide and narratives, but also the ever ously a site and/or imago of both From Marseille come the stories the opportunity for an “inside present interchange between resistance and possible futures. The of North African women making view” of part of one of the most consequential mass migrations European and African art practice trick is to disentangle stereotypes new lives for themselves in tense, complex, contemporary France. in the world today as the Islamic on an international scale. Part of the from her realities which elucidate her population of Europe grows.” Prêt-À-Parteger traveling exhibit. space in history and beyond as an Riots throughout France in November Paul Stekler, Director of Last Man archetype of resistance not solely Standing 2005 and the presidential election in DVD Sale: $175 $157.50 against oppressive forces but also 2007 are backdrops to this docu- k Arab Film Festival, San Francisco for future worlds which allow for fluid mentary about community activist k Cinemateque de Tanger, Morocco ‘free’ existences.