MAKE A MOVIE IN 2017!
EPFC | January 5th, 2017
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Winter Youth Class: We The People
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Free Family Friendly Workshop Saturday, January 7 at Echo Park Lake
Winter Youth Class: We The People
MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Jennifer Juniper Stratford
Hello. This is JJ Stratford and I will be curating Marvelous Movie Mondays for all of September!
Every Monday I will share videos of TV shows that go “Behind the Scenes” of their own productions revealing it’s process and technology to form a bizarre media feedback loop.
To start things off here is a Behind-the-Scenes of STUDIO SEE, a magazine-style children’s TV show that aired from February 5, 1977 to February 24, 1979 on PBS, with reruns continuing through the early 1980s.
Created by Jayne Adair, Studio See was produced by South Carolina ETV. The behind the scenes episode was it’s final episode in the series.
MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!!
Guest curator: Joel Wanek
>> RUGBY BOYZ (2006/video/7m) <<
This intimate portrait of a group of young Filipino boys is so full of joy and heartache at the same time. Filmmaker Khavn De La Cruz shows various ways the boys escape from their harsh, bleak surroundings by playing rugby, singing karaoke, swimming, and sniffing glue.
http://dafilms.com/download/key/wyjA27zr9U
MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!!
guest curator: Joel Wanek
Happy August, EPFC Universe! And, welcome to the first installment of my little five-part series entitled YOU CAN’T BLAME THE YOUTH which features short films made by and/or about young people.
The title of the series comes from a Peter Tosh/Bob Marley tune which reminds us that young people are not to blame for the state of the world. They inherit the lessons and behaviors we give to them.
Much of my adult life has been spent working with young people of all ages. Over the years I’ve realized that being around children and young adults keeps me positive and hopeful about the future. Without them it’s all doom and gloom, in my universe.
So, to start us off on our journey this month, I’m featuring a film by a 16-year old Syrian filmmaker named Muna, one member of the innovative ANOTHER KIND OF GIRL COLLECTIVE. The group was formed in Jordan in 2015 by the documentary filmmaker Laura Doggett.
All the young filmmakers in the collective are refugees living in flux in Jordan, many in refugee camps. Despite the dire and bleak conditions they are living, the films are filled with so much beauty, wonder, and hope. They take their bare surroundings and imagine such colorful, rich, and boundless times ahead.
DREAMS WITHOUT BORDERS by Muna / Another Kind of Girl Collective
Check out EPFC’s front window over the next few weeks and you will see a compelling documentary that transforms 100 murder sites in Los Angeles into art.
As part of LA’s Public Art Biennial Current:LA, Mexican Artist Teresa Margolles created La Sombra (“The Shade”), a large temporary monument in Echo Park that used water gathered from the cleansing of these murder sites as part of its construction.
The sculpture is currently on view at the north east corner of Echo Park Lake. In addition to screening at EPFC, the documentary is also showing at various shops in Echo Park including El Clasico Tattoo and Eyla Hair Salon.