Third World Newsreel's 2012 Film Collection Presents Stories about Social Justice Movements and People of Color

 

2012 Catalog Features Fourteen New Films & Two Newly Preserved Newsreel Films

 

Representing More Than 40 Independent Filmmakers And New Work from Manthia Diawara and Thomas Allen Harris

TWN's new catalog is available online! Featuring thirteen independent films made by and about people of color, our new catalog includes titles from Haiti, Brazil, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, China, Turkey and the United States.

This package of essential Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender titles is a must for any educational collection.  It offers a powerful survey of LGBT experiences from award-winning directors, and includes best-sellers and classics from TWN's forty-year history of providing social issue media by and about people of color.  Featuring the works of Thomas Allen Harris, Abigail Child, and Shari Frilot.  Receive a 15% discount when you purchase the entire series.

Presenting challenging alternatives to mainstream representations of the peoples of the Middle East and the Middle East Diaspora, the titles in our collection document struggles against colonialism, occupation, gender oppression and unfair media representations.

The Newsreel collective produced some of the most riveting activist documentaries ever made in the United States. These films provide unique looks at the anti-Vietnam War, student, Black, Latino and Women's Rights Movements in the late 60s and early 70s. "The Newsreel is a radical news service whose purpose is to provide an alternative to the limited and biased coverage of television news. The news that we feel is significant - any event that suggests the changes and redefinitions taking place in American today, or that underlines the necessity for such changes - has been consistently undermined and suppressed by the media. Films made by the Newsreel are not seen once and forgotten." --The Newsreel Collective

A series of vibrant shorts from various NYC communities of color on their "sate of America" -- from the war to the economy to racial tensions and immigrant concerns.  Designed to provoke discussion, this series is a venue for marginalized communities to give voice to their issues and ideas for change.  Supported in part by the Open Society Institute NYC Community Fellowship Program, the Funding Exchange, and the North Star Fund.  Several pieces supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.

This collection of films exhibits the many lives people of African descent are living or have lived throughout the world.  Experiences of people interacting with different cultures make up many of the stories and explorations in these films and videos, from gripping documentaries to fantasies.

The lives, stories, and cultures of people of Asian-Pacific descent and Asian and Pacific locales are presented in these films and videos.  Several pieces from other collections are included in the Asian Pacific Studies collection.  These include the Asian Diaspora collection, the Call to Media Action and Call for Change series, and the Blindness Series.  For studies in Asian Pacific cultures, these titles are essential viewing.

Our growing collection of Latin American and Latino/a titles includes documentaries about indigenous rights in Colombia, Argentina and Guatemala, the effects of globalization and neoliberalism in Mexico and Argentina, the African and Asian diasporas on the continent, the uses and abuses of cesarian section in Brazil, music in Bolivia and a New York City Latino story. We also feature the work of Latino/a filmmakers Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gómez Peña and Alex Rivera, as well as TWN's classic collection of Newsreel documentaries about the Puerto Rican diaspora in New York City.

Our Women's Studies Collection offers a large selection of educational titles from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Europe and North America. Among our recent releases, we feature a documentary about the uses and abuses of cesarian section in Brazil, the fascinating story of a former Korean guerrilla fighter, and documentaries about the role of women in hip hop culture. Also, we're proud to present the latest work from acclaimed experimental filmmaker Tran T. Kim-Trang, Epilogue, a moving video essay about motherhood and mourning.

TWN has partnered with the Hip-Hop Association (H2A) to form, H2O NEWSREEL, the first distribution label dedicated to the educational market that offers the best in Hip-Hop Media, Education, and Culture. The mission of H2O NEWSREEL is to create distribution opportunities to independent and established Hip-Hop filmmakers, artists and educators that depict the variety of images and stories of Hip-Hop Culture.