In Our Own Voices: African American Filmmakers

Oscar Micheaux

What:
In Our Own Voices: African American Filmmakers

(African American filmmakers symposium hosted by the School of Media Arts)

When:
Wed Feb 3, 4pm – Sat Feb 6, 6pm

Where:
The University of Arizona

Reframing Race Movies: Oscar Micheaux and His Audiences : February 4, 2010,

4 PM-6:30 PM


Film scholar and author Pearl Bowser will discuss Oscar Micheaux—the most prolific African-American filmmaker to date and a filmmaking giant of the silent period. Both artist and showman, Micheaux stirred controversy in his time as he confronted issues such as lynching, miscegenation, peonage and white supremacy, passing and corruption among black clergymen.

Presentation followed by Screening of Body and Soul; dir. by Oscar Micheaux, 1925, starring Paul Robeson. (102 min.) With live piano accompaniment by Suzanne Knosp, Professor of Dance/Music Director for Dance, University of Arizona School of Dance

University of Arizona, Hosclaw Hall, 100A, 1017 N Olive Road, N Tucson, AZ 85721

Contact Hanson Film Institute program director Victoria Westover at:

Victoria(at)hansonfilm(dot)org

520-626-9825.

In Person: Documentary filmmaker Noland Walker : Saturday, February 6th, 4 PM


Noland Walker is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker whose films have premiered at Sundance Film Festival, screened in festivals worldwide, and have been broadcast nationally on television. His work includes wriiting and co-producing the acclaimed documentary, Jonestown: the Life and Death of People's Temple, co-producing and co-directing Citizen King, a two-hour film about the last years of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life, and producing an episode of the groundbreaking 1998 series Africans in America.

The symposium will end with a 20-minute clip introduced by Pearl Bowser of a work in progress: Oscar's Comeback: Festival of the Unconquered; dir. by Lisa Collins and Mark Schwartzburt.


UA Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Auditorium Rm. S202

1130 N MOUNTAIN AVE (SE corner of Mountain Ave. & Speedway Blvd.

Tucson, AZ 85721

Contact Hanson Film Institute program director Victoria Westover at:

Victoria(at)hansonfilm(dot)org

520-626-9825.