Join SCRIBE VIDEO CENTER this September for a dynamic month of film focused on advocacy through storytelling!
Friday, September 12 @ 7pm
✊ VIRTUALLY FREE (USA, 2020, 40 minutes) by Andre Robert Lee
preceded by FIGHT UNTIL WE DECAY (USA, 2024, 9 minutes) by Ami Glazer
These two impactful films focus on the experiences of formerly incarcerated youth and the ongoing fight to transform the juvenile justice system and stop mass incarceration.
Thursday, September 18 & Friday, September 19 @ 7pm
📽 BODY OF WORK: TONY HERIZA
Join us for two evenings with filmmaker and educator, Tony Heriza. Harkening back to his collective filmmaking background, Heriza’s two projects: “Facing the Wind” and the “Art of Survival” will illustrate how those collaborative roots dictate the stories he documents.
Friday, September 26 @ 7pm
🔥 THE FIVE DEMANDS by Andrea Weiss and Greta Schiller (USA, 2023, 74 minutes)
Through archival footage and present-day interviews, The Five Demands is the riveting story of a student strike fueled by the revolutionary fervor sweeping the United States at the time.
PAST EVENTS:
Seeking Mavis Beacon
directed by Jazmin Jones, produced by Guetty Felin
Who was Mavis Beacon, the eponymous software course that taught millions of people to type in the ‘80s? Seeking Mavis Beacon is a hybrid documentary blending myth and memory to uncover the story of Mavis Beacon. We follow director Jazmin Jones and co-collaborator Olivia McKayla Ross as “e-girl detectives” in search of Renee L’Esperance, the Haitian woman who modeled as the in-game typing instructor in 1987. “Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing” sold 10 million copies worldwide and L’Esperance became the face of the educational software. Though Mavis Beacon became a household name for millennials, Renee was paid $500 for the use of her image and would soon fade into obscurity. The film highlights ethical questions about representation and education while investigating, “What ever happened to Mavis Beacon?”