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The Roxbury Film Festival is the largest festival in New England dedicated to showcasing films that celebrate people of color. Our mission is to provide an opportunity for audiences to view these works and experience stories often overlooked in mainstream media. While New England filmmakers of color are the focus of the festival, we also screen films by filmmakers from various backgrounds and regions.
The festival is co-sponsored by ACT Roxbury and The Color of Film Collaborative with assistance from The Roxbury Film Festival Planning Committee.
ACT (Arts, Culture & Trade) Roxbury, a program of Madison Park Development Corporation, celebrates culture and the arts by using these resources as valuable assets to foster the physical, economic and social revitalization of Roxbury. For more information about ACT Roxbury, visit our website (www.actroxbury.org).
The Color of Film Collaborative is a collaborative made up of people of color and others with an interest in creating and developing positive images of people of color in the media and performing arts. Our mission is to foster, support and create positive images of people of color in film, video, theater and other media, by providing an environment in which filmmakers, actors, performing artists and others with an interest in media, can share and develop their ideas, their visions and their work with peers. The Color of Film Collaborative offers workshops on how to make movies, screenwriting and acting. For more information about The Color of Film Collaborative, visit the website (www.coloroffilm.com).more...
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Roxbury Film Festival Celebrates 11th Year with Over 50 Films, July 30-Aug. 2
Pre-fest Screening with Boston Jewish Film Festival Kicks Off Festivities, July 22
Boston, MA, July 13, 2009 - The 11th annual Roxbury Film Festival (RFF) kicks off this year with a pre festival screening of Herskovits At the Heart of Blackness, co-presented by the Boston Jewish Film Festival. This documentary will show Wednesday, July 22nd, 7 pm, at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline, MA.
For RFF information and ticket prices go to www.roxburyfilmfestival.org or call 617.541.3900
The kick off film, produced by Boston-based Vital Pictures, examines the story of how Melville J. Herskovits, a white Jewish- American anthropologist, acquired the power to re-invent our historical understanding of black people in the mid-20th century. The documentary combines rarely seen archival footage- including film shot by Herskovits in West Africa in the 30-40s— together with interviews with leading scholars of race and culture – including Kwame Anthony Appiah, Vince Brown and Johnnetta Cole. Original animation and dramatic ‘photo-collage’ re-enactments propel the viewer on a surprising intellectual journey between the historical and contemporary – reminding us that Herskovits’ work and life raise questions that are still crucial today.
"We look forward to another successful collaboration with the Boston Jewish Film Festival who has been very supportive of our festival in the past," said Lisa Simmons, president of the Color of Film Collaborative, co-producer of the festival. “Films like this one have a wonderful way of telling our collective stories – stories that often go untold in mainstream media, which is why the Roxbury and Boston Jewish Film Festivals are so important” Said Michelle Baxter, Director of ACT Roxbury.
For tickets go to www.coolidge.org, or the Coolidge Corner box office; $9.75 general admission, discount price $6.75 for Coolidge, ACT, TCOF and BJFF members.
About the Roxbury Film Festival
The Roxbury Film Festival (RFF) is the largest film festival in New England dedicated to films that celebrate people of color. The 11th Annual RFF takes place July 30th through August 2nd. More than 50 films for this year’s festival will be screened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Tower Auditorium at Massachusetts College of Art, Roxbury Center for Arts at Hibernian Hall, and Annex Auditorium at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Updated information on special guests, panels, awards and other festival events can be found at www.roxburyfilmfestival.org. RFF is co-produced by ACT Roxbury (www.actroxbury.org), a program of Madison Park Development Corporation, and The Color of Film Collaborative (www.coloroffilm.com.
About the Boston Jewish Film Festival
The Boston Jewish Film Festival presents the best contemporary films from around the world on Jewish themes at its annual November Festival and throughout the year. Through features, shorts, documentaries, and conversations with visiting artists, the Festival explores Jewish identity, the current Jewish experience, and the richness of Jewish culture in relation to a diverse modern world. The Boston Jewish Film Festival, Inc. is a 501(c)3, not-for-profit arts organization. For more information, visit the Festival website at www.bjff.org
About Vital Pictures
Vital Pictures, Inc. (http://www.vitalpix.com) is a Boston based film production company headed by two veteran PBS producers – Llewellyn Smith and Christine Herbes-Sommers. Vital Pictures creates films that energize public discourse on social justice issues, with provocative storytelling, careful research and innovative production design. They are producers for the PBS series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?, winner of the 2009 duPont Columbia Award for Excellence in Journalism.
The Roxbury Film Festival is the largest festival in New England dedicated to showcasing films that celebrate people of color. Our mission is to provide an opportunity for audiences to view these works and experience stories often overlooked in mainstream media. While New England filmmakers of color