Minneapolis City Council VP Andrea Jenkins, the first out transgender African American woman elected to U.S. public office, gave a powerful speech contextualizing the death of George Floyd while in police custody.
Update: after this post, Andrea appeared on MSNBC:
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by Nate Hood
Monday, April 27, 2020
Combined, these shorts create an empathetic experience that leaves us eager for more. Hopefully James and Schofield will continue to make more of these vignettes available.
http://www.unseenfilms.net/2020/04/nate-hoods-quarantine-qapsule-22.html
Kate Erbland Apr 3, 2020 11:00 am
PILOT SEASON
Tribeca continued its tradition of opening submissions to independently produced TV pilots in 2020. The following group of filmmakers participating in the virtual N.O.W. Creators Market were to debut their pilots as part of the 2020 Tribeca TV Pilot Season program:
By Andy Hirschfeld • 04/07/20 2:31pm
For filmmakers like writer and director Dimitris Tsilifonis, whose VR film A Safe Guide to Dying is set to premiere at Tribeca the Oculus release will help stand out for the general public. “This is a tremendous opportunity amidst this very difficult situation,” Tsilifonis told Observer. Tsilifonis said that although he and his team are blessed to be included in the online release, they are dismayed they won’t get to network with other filmmakers and get direct feedback from the audience—a concern echoed by Los Angeles filmmaker Andrea James, the director of the series Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps which is part of Tribeca’s TV Pilot Program this season.
“You never know which interaction is going to be the one that leads to an amazing opportunity,” James told Observer. “I’m still holding out hope that it can figure out some sort of in-person thing later in the year…everybody is doing their best in this unprecedented situation to try to find a way to continue supporting filmmakers. it’s so remarkable the situation that we find ourselves in. I feel like everybody’s trying to get innovative and trying to be creative.”
– https://observer.com/2020/04/tribeca-film-festival-online-transition-filmmakers-coronavirus/
Posted: 17 March 2020 By: Daniel Green
Transgender rights activist Andrea James is building an interactive data visualisation platform mapping people and media outlets that publish biased content about gender identity and expression.
The Transphobia Project will examine articles covering this topic across all English language publications and assign them a ‘t-index’ which works as a bias score – the higher the t-index, the more biased the content, the author or the platform is.
The interactive chart then allows users to see connections between publications and journalists who create this content.
https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/transphobia-project-aims-to-encourage-newsrooms-to-work-with-trans-communities-for-better-coverage/s2/a753238/
SUNDAY, FEB. 2, 2020
The Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios Producers Award for Documentary Features went to Diane Becker and Melanie Miller of Fishbowl Films, for Whirlybird.
–https://www.shootonline.com/news/minari-boys-state-win-top-jury-honors-sundance-fest
By MARK OLSEN, JEN YAMATO
FEB. 1, 2020 6:05 PM
This year’s 28 prizes were awarded to 25 films from filmmakers representing a wide range of nationalities and backgrounds. Twelve (48%) of the winning films were directed by at least one woman, ten (40%) were directed by one or more people of color, and two (8%) were directed by a filmmaker identifying as LGTBQ+.
Documentary Features: Diane Becker and Melanie Miller of Fishbowl Films, “Whirlybird” (U.S.A.)
Also previously announced, the Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Awards went to Diane Becker and Melanie Miller (producers of “Whirlybird”).
Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Documentary Features: Diane Becker & Melanie Miller of Fishbowl Films, “Whirlybird”
JANUARY 28, 2020 Mira Zimet
Matt Yoka was at a professional camera store when he heard the news that his documentary, Whirlybird had also been accepted. “I remember the sales guys couldn’t be bothered with my questions — and then I got a call from my executive producer, telling me we got into Sundance. I started fist-pumping and pointing to the sales guys, giving them a big thumbs-up,” he said.
3:15 PM PST 1/26/2020 by Daniel Fienberg
Whirlybird is informative and thrilling. It’s also profound and sad. And maybe it’s got threads of inspiration and uplift as well. That’s a wide range of responses, and it’s as much as you could have hoped for if you watched those Los Angeles-set documentaries and knew Zoey had a great story of her own.
–https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/whirlybird-review-1272702
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