This Thursday at 5pm, join us at DocLands for a special DocTalk panel featuring
@alexjbledsoe . She’ll be sharing more about the journey and screening new footage from her debut feature @oaklead , which follows our community in Oakland, CA as we fight to protect one another from lead poisoning in our own homes and schools — and confront over a century of environmental racism.
Learn more and support the team at the link in our bio!
Aloha kakoū! Come join us in Brooklyn for a screening presented by @futureoffilmisfemale and @nitehawkcinema on January 28th!
#documentaryfilm #womeninfilm #protectmaunakea
Thank you so much to our 26 generous donors for helping @oaklead reach $4,500 this month! This Giving Tuesday, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to @OAKLEAD (link in bio). As many of you know, this has been a community-led labor of love for 7 years and we’re finally finished filming. Now, we just need your help to finish editing! OAKLEAD follows our community as we fight to protect one another from lead poisoning in our own homes and schools — and confront over a century of environmental racism. This story starts in Oakland but has global impact, as 1 in 3 children worldwide are currently experiencing lead poisoning. The impact of our film is already in motion — influencing public policies and school curricula — but we can have the greatest impact when the film is finished and released!
With utmost gratitude,
Alex & the OAKLEAD team
SAVE THE DATE! We’ve got a special screening opportunity coming up in one week! ✨✨✨
We can’t think of a better time of year to share STANDING ABOVE THE CLOUDS with everyone than in Lonoikamakahiki season and in celebration of Lā Kūʻokoʻa! For one week (NOV 28 - DEC 5) we will be making the film available to rent online through the KINEMA platform. Prices will be sliding scale, starting at $4.99, and all proceeds will go to supporting Mauna Kea Education and Awareness.
Link goes live at 8AM (PST) on November 28!
Mahalo piha to our co-sponsors Pacific Islanders in Communications, Hawaii Women in Filmmaking, and PEAK!
On October 22nd-24th we were honored to produce Psalm for the Mismemoried - an immersive installation, at the Douglass Theatre in Macon, GA. For three days, community members engaged with the timeline, experienced an interactive virtual reality film, and shared stories from their own experiences as well as family stories of Central State Hospital in Milledgeville. We discussed how psychiatric hospitals, prisons and detention centers are all a part of the medical industrial complex and continue to harm and pathologize our communities as an extension of state control, eugenics and experimentation. Thank you to everyone who joined and supported this work.
Stay tuned for more from our Psalm for the Mismemoried virtual reality immersive in Macon!
We’re so excited to share that our short film has been officially selected for the SF Transgender Film Festival 🏳️⚧️💫 @sftransfilmfest
📍 SF Transgender Film Festival🗓 November 13⏰ 7 PM🎥 The Big Roxie Theater
This short film has been such a labor of love, and it means so much to have it celebrated in our second film festival!! Thank you to everyone who’s been part of this ride with us. We couldn’t have done it without the brilliant @breaktide . Thank you Alex & Jalena, Samia, Gyzelle, Riley! 💖 All the amazing art handlxrs featured in the film, @aaaaadriiiannnnn@nahkoura , @yomahra@_kamalnassif_@_impossiblerealities , @staramerasu music, @eungiej00 and Jorge Gonzalez’ design.
🎟 If you’re in the Bay, come join us at the Roxie! We’d love to see you there.
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#SFQFF #SFTransFilmFestival #QueerFilm #TransFilm #FilmFestivalSeason #TheBigRoxie #ShortFilm
Thank you WPGA TV and @destinhowardtv for uplifting Psalm for the Mismemoried and the story of Central State Hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia. In a time when our histories are intentionally being erased, it’s more important than ever to tell the stories of how the medical industrial complex has facilitated state control and violence. We’re honored to add Psalm for the Mismemoried to the cultural archive and community dialogue as we transmute one of many institutional sites of harm across the country, and rehearse new visions for community-led care.
Content note: racism, ableism, state violence and institutional harm will be referenced
#transformtheMIC #endeugenics #culturalmemory #film #360film #georgia #macon #milledgeville #psalmforthemismemoried #centralstatehospital
Our first day of Psalm for the Mismemoried in Macon, Georgia was a success! This immersive installation honors ancestors left behind at Central State Hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia — and explores complex histories of racism, classism and ableism in medical institutions.
Join us tomorrow (October 23) and Friday (October 24) at @thedouglasstheatre :
Thursday, Oct 23
- 2-6pm: Open hours
- 4-5pm: Artist talk with Cara Page @changingfrequencies and Carlos Johns-Dávila @carlosjohnsdavila with Alex J. Bledsoe @alexjbledsoe and Leslie Lissaint @leslielissaint of @breaktide
- 6:30-8pm: Special panel featuring Tracie Revis @___loving__life Deitrah Taylor @deitrahjtaylor & Cara Page @changingfrequencies
Friday, Oct 24
- 10am-noon & 2-5pm: Open hours
Thank you to our partners, @thedouglasstheatre@breaktide & @blurrednyc , and to @visionary2003 for incredible media support!
1 week until Psalm for the Mismemoried comes to Macon, Georgia (October 22-24)! Link in bio for tickets & more info.
This IG Live features Cara Page (writer-director), Tamika Middleton (actor, Hattie) & Adaku Utah (actor, Future) — the brilliant, Black feminist, abolitionist organizers who brought the film, Psalm for the Mismemoried, to life 🎬🔥
The announcement is out on my dream collaboration! Earlier this year I got to direct a short documentary for @mrapinoe and @sbird10 about my first mentor, the one and only @sarahcrowell65 ! I am endlessly grateful to be one of the many students who have been shaped by Sarah’s talent, kindness, and passion for dance and storytelling. Getting to work with some of my favorite people, step into my beloved mentor’s life, and learn about menopause was a life path affirming full circle moment.
The Second Spring comes out October 31st on @togethxr
Executive Produced by @mrapinoe@sbird10@cammbg
Produced by @alexjbledsoe
Cinematography by @aurorabobora
Sound by @ligeirohenrique
Edited by @ddiroy
Associate Produced by @maya.cueva_@jessthe.yosabokid
Assistant Camera @rileyenjoysthings
Assistant Editor @amelia.alemayehu
Color by @roastnpost_oakland
Sound Mix by @davidsandwisch
Film Processing by @spectrafilm
Production Company @atouchmore
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