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Firelight Spring 2012 Calendar

Upcoming Events

Join us at these upcoming events featuring films and staff from Firelight.

Thursday, March 15, 7-9 PM
Freedom Riders Screening and Discussion with Stanley Nelson
Sponsor: African American Historical Society of Rockland County and the Fellowship Of Reconciliation
Location: Rockland Community College in Suffern, NY
For more information, go to: http://www.aahsofrockland.org/

Wednesday, March 21, 6:30 PM-8:00 PM
An Evening with Emmy Award-Winning Producer, Laurens Grant
Grant will show selections of her films:
* Jesse Owens, the latest film Grant directed which airs May 1st on PBS' American Experience
* Freedom Riders, the Emmy-winning documentary
* Grant's latest documentary, Rokia: Voice of a New Generation, a contemporary film about rising female music sensation Rokia Traore from Mali, West Africa
Sponsor: African American Women in Cinema
Location: Showbiz Cafe located at 19 W. 21st Street between 5th & 6th Aves in New York City.
For information, go to: https://www.ticketriver.com/event/3115-aawic-women-in-film-series
Fee: $10.00

Friday, April 6
Freedom Riders Screening and Discussion
Sponsor: NCBCP Black Youth Vote! Civic Leadership and Training Conference
Location: Washington D.C.
For more information, go to: http://ncbcp.org/programs/byv/

Wednesday, April 11
Jesse Owens Screening
Sponsor: Black Documentary Collective
Location: Harlem Stage in Harlem, NY
For more information, go to: http://www.facebook.com/blackdocumentarycollectivefanpage?sk=wall

Thursday, April 12 - 7:00 PM
Jesse Owens Screening and Discussion with Laurens Grant and Stanley Nelson
A Place of Our Own Screening and Discussion with Stanley Nelson (date TBA)
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple Screening and Discussion with Stanley Nelson (date TBA)
Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice Screening and Discussion with Stanley Nelson (date TBA)
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords Screening and Discussion with Stanley Nelson (date TBA) Sponsor: Full Frame Film Festival
Location: Durham, NC
For more information, go to: http://www.fullframefest.org/releases/2012/120306.pdf and the Full Frame website.

Tuesday, April 17
Jesse Owens Screening
Sponsor: Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Film Series
Location: IFC Center 323 Sixth Ave. @ 3rd St in NYC
For more information, go to: http://stfdocs.com/

Thursday, April 19
Jesse Owens Screening and Discussion
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Sponsor: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Location: Schomburg Center - 515 Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem, NY
For more information, go to: http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/64/node/132394

Friday, April 27
Jesse Owens Screening, panel discussion and reception
Sponsor: Wharton’s Sports Business Initiative, PBS Distribution, WHYY
For more information, go to: http://wsb.wharton.upenn.edu/calendar.html

Monday, April 30 6:30 PM
Jesse Owens Screening
Sponsor: New York Women in Film & Television
Location: Norwood Club, 241 West 14th Street, 4th Floor
For more information, go to: http://www.nywift.org/eventcalendar.aspx

Monday, April 30, 6:30–9:30 PM
A special evening recognizing the lifetime achievements of filmmaker Stanley Nelson
Sponsor: Council on Foundations and Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media
Location: JW Marriot, Los Angeles, CA
For more information, go to: http://gfem.org/node/8585. Tickets are $50. 
Register for this event or contact Evelyn Gibson (703-879-0691).

Tuesday, May 1, 8:00 - 9:00 PM ET
Jesse Owens Broadcast on PBS’ American Experience
For more information, go to: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/

Thursday and Friday, May 3rd and 4th
THE FIRELIGHT MEDIA PRODUCERS' LAB & OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS PRESENT:
Creating Social Impact through Story in a Transmedia World
A two-day Seminar
For more information, click here.

Saturday, May 12, 4:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Harlem Debut of the Film THE WAITING ROOM by Peter Nicks
FREE!
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard
New York, NY 10037

Registration recommended: www.schomburgcenter.eventbrite.com or call (212) 491-2040.
Sponsored by: Rooftop Films; Harlem Hospital Center; Hunter College Center for Health, Media and Policy; Firelight Media; and The Schomburg Center.

Through the voices of patients, families, doctors, and nurses in a Oakland, California hospital, The Waiting Room provides a dramatic look at our country’s health care system. The film is directed and produced by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Nicks.

Following the screening, there will a panel discussion with: N’Jeri Eaton - Associate Producer, The Waiting Room;Denise C. Soares, R.N., M.A.- Executive Director of Harlem Hospital Center and the Renaissance Health Care Network; and Dr. Tonya N. Walker - Emergency Medicine Physician at Columbia University Medical Center.

In addition, the Harlem Hospital Center will conduct blood pressure and glucose testing. Refreshments will be served. For more information about the The Waiting Room, go to: http://www.whatruwaitingfor.com/

Saturday, May 19, 9 PM
BROOKLYN DEBUT OF “THE WAITING ROOM” AT THE Rooftop Films Summer Series
Old American Can Factory
232 3rd St. Brooklyn, NY 11215
Tickets: http://rooftopfilms.com/2012/schedule/

Sunday, May 20, 6:00 PM
Freedom Riders Screening and discussion with Producer, Laurens Grant
The Dreamery Rural Arts Initiative on DreamAcres Farm presents the documentary film Freedom Riders and post-film discussion with the film's producer, Laurens Grant in the DreamAcres barn (between Spring Valley and Wykoff). Click here for more information.