Let’s Get Reel: "Interrupted: Prologue to a Mem-noir"
Introducing our brand new virtual film series!
Location
Online
Date & Time
October 29, 2020, 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm – Canceled
Description
Join us for our first session of Let's Get Reel: Intersectional Race Film Discussion Series. We will be watching Interrupted: Prologue to a Mem-noir a 20 minute film by UMBC alumna Pamela Woolford focusing on anti-Blackness in America. We will then have a discussion with Pamela Woolford and attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions. Learn more about Interrupted here: http://www.mem-noir.com
Pamela Woolford makes films integrating literary, dramatic, and movement-based arts. Her work reflects on memories to amplify voices of Black women and others whose joy, history, and inner life are under-explored in American media and popular art. Her film awards include a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award, the 2019 Black Continental Independent Movie Award for Originality, the 2019 CR8:BLK Black Women Cinema Week Audience Choice Award, the 2018 North Beach American Film Festival Jury Award, the 2018 Canada Shorts Award of Commendation, and the 2018 Experimental Forum award for vision and unique contribution to cinema. Learn more about Pamela and her work here: http://www.pamelawoolford.com/
The Let's Get Reel: Intersectional Race Film Discussion Series seeks to explore how filmmakers from diverse backgrounds and lived experiences make meaning of their various social identities through the lens of race. How does education, religion, national origin, generation, socioeconomic status, ability status, sexual orientation and gender identity get impacted by our racialized realities here in the U.S. and globally? How can films be tools for disrupting harmful images and false narratives? How can filmmakers help us imagine new pathways to achieve equity, justice and collective liberation for all of humanity?
A Webex Event link will be posted here in advance of the film discussion.
This event is co-sponsored by the Office of Alumni Engagement.
All UMBC undergrads, grads, staff, faculty, and alumni are encouraged to attend! For any questions, please contact Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion, & Belonging at i3b@umbc.edu.
