▶️New video to support small business & worker rights
And a beautiful interview with Duke where I spill a little 🫖.
Events & Releases
Thank you to Mary Lynn Myers and Duke Divinity School for this special interview that is close to my heart. They did a wonderful job editing this (and I feel like I revealed a lot?!) https://divinity.duke.edu/news/behind-camera
A House for My Mother will play at the 18th Annual Philadelphia Indendependent Film Festival. Dr. Nero and others in attendance. 3:35 pm on Saturday, May 10, at the Canal Street Film Center, 941 N. Front Street in Philly. Get tickets here: https://bit.ly/TicketsPIFF
Quyen Nguyen-Le’s Threads, part of an episodic series, will premiere in San Francisco at CAAMFest on May 10! Graeful to have contributed to this project as a DP with other local film folks. Tickets here: https://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/ticketsearchcriteria.aspx?evtinfo=932382~3315ea8e-6067-489d-a85c-d97badc41f3f&epguid=826982a9-76a9-4452-bd62-4ea009a83c5c&
WATCH: Thank you to Siembra NC for inviting us to be a part of building the Fourth Amendment Workplaces initiative with this video featuring North Carolina businesses. This resource empowers workplaces to know their rights and protect their workers, customers, and places of service to the community.
Director & Producer: Victoria Bouloubasis
Editor & Producer: Pilar Timpane
DP: Derek Lee Anderson, Pilar Timpane
Sound: Dorian Gomez
PA: J’sha Gift
Featuring: Cheetie Kumar of Ajja, Angela Salamanca of Centro, Steve Mitchell of Scuppernong Books, Matt Davis of Deep Roots Market.
Private businesses have rights; as do all individuals working and living in this country. While producing this, getting to know these business owners and managers, it was helpful to connect the dots of how our communities must work together to protect our constitutional rights. And in doing so, to protect workers from extrajudicial attacks.
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Thank you to Indy Week for this great interview about The Last Partera ahead of our premiere last month!
And a huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our world premiere and helped make this day special!
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Durham: The Oscar winning doc this year NO OTHER LAND is about Palestinian land rights and my friends have literally fought to bring it to the Carolina Theatre. Get tickets to the one night only showing on May 19. The film has no official U.S. distro because of the content and fear, so it’s super important to support this screening. https://tickets.carolinatheatre.org/eventperformances.asp?evt=640&
Musings
Films I loved at Full Frame:
Seeds. This gentle, slow black & white documentary was imbued with so much care and focus, it was easy to forget the world around you. At the same time it never backed down from telling the true and unseen stories of these Black farmers throughout the South. I understood completely why this won the Sundance Grand Jury prize.
Kudos
Dear pal Suzannah Herbert (and producer Darcy McKinnon) will premiere her film Natchez at Tribeca 2025!
An enormous and ugly crying congratulations to Ana Hoppert Flores for her recent admission to the MFA Film program at UT Austin. Linklater much!? We would only share her with amazing folks such as those at UT Austin. But ultimately they are the lucky ones. ;)
Call your reps! https://5calls.org