Posts Tagged ‘documentary’
Documentary screening and gallery exhibition highlight border towns, draw somber crowd
Amidst chilly Friday night winds, people gathered at Lake Merritt Tower to watch Undeterred, a film highlighting the effect that the increased militarization of border towns has on surrounding communities. The event included a screening of the film and a gallery exhibition titled “Recognition: Labor Meets Art in Explorations of Social Justice and Identity,” which…
Read MoreLighthouse Mosque hosts screening of “The Honest Struggle” documentary
On Saturday, Justin Mashouf, director of a new documentary “The Honest Struggle”, and Darrel “Sadiq” Davis, his subject, screened their film at the Lighthouse Mosque in Oakland. The documentary follows Davis, an African-American ex-offender and a Muslim, as he struggles to re-eintegrate into society.
Read MoreA Lovely Day: A new documentary highlights Hip-Hop therapy in local high schools
In 2009, Tomás Alvarez III sat at his desk as a group of nine teenagers filed into his classroom at Oakland High School. This was the fifth year of his Beats, Rhymes and Life program, which uses hip-hop music as a form of therapy for at-risk teenagers. Alvarez began the class in the usual fashion,…
Read MoreOakland schools combat bullying with film
From September 17 through October 4, most of Oakland Unified School District’s middle and high school students will view the documentary “Bully.”
Read MoreProjet En Vue collects the life stories of Oaklanders in sound and photos
Two months ago, two Oaklanders started “Projet En Vue.” The idea is simple: they walk around Oakland and find interesting people to talk to. They document the interviews on their website, building an online gallery that reflects “an eclectic, vibrant, interesting” Oakland community.
Read MoreDocumentary critiques juvenile correctional system
A twenty-minute documentary, produced by the North Oakland-based Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, examines failures in the California juvenile justice system and explores alternative methods in juvenile rehabilitation being used across the country
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