Join us for FLEFF Week Two virtual talkbacks Sat April 2 and Sunday April 3
Watch the films via streaming on your own time this week and join us via Zoom for the talkbacks this coming weekend!
Click on the film titles to access the festival’s virtual Eventive portal & click on the Zoom link to register for the talkback. Click here to read bios of the speakers featured at the talkbacks.
Outcry and Whisper (Wen Hai, Zeng Jinyan, and Trish McAdam, Hong Kong/China, 2020)
Shot over eight years, Outcry and Whisper is a political manifesto for the resistance of women, whether workers, artists, intellectuals or militants, in Chinese and Hong Kong Society. Their accounts shine light on a ferocious battle for independence. The talkback will feature the filmmakers.
Talkback Saturday, April 2 10:00am EDT Register HERE.
Moderator:
Gina Marchetti, cinema studies scholar
Speakers:
Jinyan Zeng, co-director Outcry and Whisper
Trish McAdam, animator Outcry and Whisper
Wen Hai, co-director Outcry and Whisper
Xiao (Amanda) Ju, translator
Nationtime (William Greaves, US, 1972) — 50th Anniversary!
Nationtime is a report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black voices such as Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, Dr. Betty Shabazz, Richard Hatcher, Amiri Baraka, Charles Diggs, Isaac Hayes, Richard Roundtree and H. Carl McCall. Considered too militant for television broadcast, this new 4K restoration returns the film to its original 80-minute length and visual quality.
Talkback Saturday, April 2 5:00pm EDT Register HERE
Moderator:
Kenneth Clarke, Tompkins County Human Rights Commission
Speakers:
Scott MacDonald, cinema studies scholar
Yolanda Clarke, higher education professional and activist
Devil Put Coal in the Ground (Lucas Sabean and Peter Hutchison, US, 2021)
This film is an elegy to a vanishing Appalachia with personal storytelling from native West Virginians. It is a meditation on the suffering and devastation brought on by the coal industry and its decline; a crumbling economy; the ravages of the opioid epidemic; the irreparable environmental damage and its tragic impact on human health; and unfettered corporate power.
Talkback Sunday, April 3 1:00pm EDT Register HERE
Moderator:
Matt Holtmeier, cinema studies scholar
Speakers:
Stewart Auyash, public health professor
Anna Creadick, Appalachian studies scholar
Lucas Sabean, film director
Chelsea Wessels, cinema studies scholar
33 and Counting (Aisha Sultan, US, 2021)
A true-crime story about a 70-year-old grandmother from rural Missouri serving a life sentence for a murder she says her rapist committed.
Talkback Sunday, April 3 4:00pm Register HERE
Speakers:
Aisha Sultan, journalist
Raza Rumi, journalist
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