GET
DOWN Campaign, Maysles Cinema, and Global Network of Black Pride
Invite You To An Evening of Film and Fellowship
In partnership with BE Life Media and Until There's A Cure
"WORLD
AIDS DAY 2013"
NO MORE STIGMA
FILM SERIES
and
DBGM, Inc.
presents
You Are Not Alone
the film by Antoine Craigwell
Sunday, December 1st, 2013
World Aids Day
5:00pm Meet and Greet Reception
6:00pm Screening
7:30pm
- 9:30pm Holiday Fellowship Potluck Mixer
at
Maysles Cinema
343 Lenox Avenue, Harlem, NY
Between 128th and 129th Streets
GET YOUR TICKETS!!! $25 GET DOWN/Until There’s A Cure Ticket
Includes
Screening, Until There's A Cure fundraising red bracelet, potluck dinner mixer
and beverages
On Thursday, June 27th, the GET DOWN Campaign’sNo More Stigma Film Series kicked off NY Pride with Global Network of Black Pride at Maysles Cinema, Harlem, NY. In conjunction with partner organizations GMAD, SWERV Magazine, Harlem Pride, Anti Violence Project and Until There's A Cure, there was a special Harlem Pride and NYC Pride Week screening of the feature documentary film T.V. Transvestite. The film was preceded by the short "The Show Must Go On: The Story Of Snookie Lanore".
The event was hosted by Tamara Williams who plays Danielle from the hit Youtube web series, No Shade and Destiny DuMure Pucci (Nashid Corbin), and Executive member of Gay Men of African Descent Youth Advisory Board. The feature was preceded by the short film The Show Must Go On: The Story Of Snookie Lanore by director Zachary Kussin, who was in attendance for the post-screening Q&A. The guests were then treated to a Mini-Ball (three categories) featuring The Paragon House of GianMarco Lorenzi and hosted by Iconic Father Kamari Lorenzi – Miyake Mugler.
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GET DOWN Campaign, Maysles Cinema, and Global
Network of Black Pride
Invite You To An Evening of Pushing The Conversation Forward
In partnership with GMAD, SWERV, Harlem
Pride, Anti Violence Project and Until There's A Cure
"CELEBRATING BALLROOM HISTORY"
NO MORE STIGMA FILM SERIES
presents
T.V.
Transvestite
the first-ever feature ballroom
scene documentary film by
Simone di Bagno and Michele Capozzi Before Paris is Burning,
there was T.V. Transvestite.
A
rare glimpse into Harlem’s Ballroom Community in 1982.
preceded by
The Show Must Go On: The Story of
Snookie Lanore
a documentary short directed by
Zachary Kussin
Thursday, June 27th 2013
6:30pm Meet and Greet Reception
7:30pm Screening
Poetry By Sephology The Lyrical Prodigy
In person Q&A with filmmakers immediately following the
screening
Post-Screening Mini-Ball featuring The Paragon House of
GianMarco Lorenzi
Commentator & Host
Iconic Father Kamari Lorenzi – Miyake Mugler
Private HIV Testing by GMAD available
at
Maysles Cinema
343 Lenox Avenue, Harlem, NY
Between 128th and 129th Streets
GET YOUR TICKETS!!!
$10 General Admission
$25 GET DOWN/Until There’s A
Cure Fundraising Ticket
Includes
UTAC Red Bead Bracelet and UTAC and Celebrity Poster
SPACE IS LIMITED. GET ADVANCED TICKETS HERE: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/403827
Special
fundraising partnership with Until There’s A Cure®
Get
Down is partnered with Until There’s A Cure®. Until There’s A Cure® is a
national organization dedicated to eradicating HIV/AIDS by raising awareness
and funds to combat this pandemic. Fueled by concerns about the effects of
HIV/AIDS on the lives of their children, two California mothers were inspired
to create the non-profit organization Until There’s A Cure® Foundation in
1993. The Foundation was the first non-profit organization to create and
sell a bracelet to raise funds for a cause.
The GET DOWN Campaign, Maysles Cinema,
and partners Global Network of Black Pride, GMAD, MEGA Personalities and
A-Marketing/Be Life Media screening of “The Other City” by director
Susan Koch.
(From Left to Right) Kim J. Ford, founder GET DOWN campaign and No More Stigma Film Series; Ulysses Williams, VP Operations, Global Network of Black Pride and Ksisay of Maysles Cinema.
(From Left to Right) Romeo So-Leng Milan, GMAD and Kim J. Ford
Kim J. Ford kicking off the evening
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We just witnessed HISTORY. The second swearing
in of the first African American President of the United States. With
an eye on Washington – or is it "DC, The Chocolate City"– we bring you
our No More Stigma Film Series at Maysles Cinema on February 7th - African American HIV Awareness Day.
Maysles Cinema, the GET DOWN Campaign and our event partners A-Marketing, MEGA Personalities, Global Network of Black Pride present the documentary film "The Other City".
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In every city, there's another city that visitors rarely see. But this
other city isn't just anywhere, it's in Washington, D.C. The very city
that is home to the capital of the most powerful country in the world
has an HIV/AIDS rate that is not only the nation's highest, but rivals
some African countries. "The Other City" introduces us to the people
who live in the shadow of the Capitol but remain almost invisible to the
lawmakers and lobbyists who live there.
Produced by Sheila C. Johnson, “The Other City” tells the stories of people who haven’t let lack of
government assistance stop them, and have taken matters into their own
hands. After contracting HIV from a boyfriend who didn’t disclose he
was infected, Jose Ramirez devotes his life to promoting HIV awareness
among Hispanic teens. While living with AIDS and fighting desperately to
keep herself and her three young children from being thrown out of
their home, J’Mia Edwards realizes she can play a role in helping
others. A one-time addict now living with AIDS, Ron Daniels saves lives
by providing clean needles and helping drug users receive treatment.
And finally, the staff of the AIDS hospice Joseph’s House struggles to
provide solace to terminal patients’ last days, to deal with their own
sense of loss, and their constantly declining funding.
Courtesy of Cabin Films. Photo by Jonah Koch. J'mia Edwards,
a young mother living with AIDS, faces a 2-3 year wait for housing.
For these activists, remedies can’t be found within the confines of
an office or a regular schedule: for some the work encompasses
round-the-clock care-giving, and for others a never-ending trek through
the squalid drug dens and clandestine park trails where people engage in
risky behavior. Informal HIV/AIDS organizations are set up wherever
people can congregate to share experiences and offer mutual support.
Still, without financial support, large-scale progress is beyond the
scope of these endeavors. In this environment, forward movement means
providing comfort for the afflicted and saving as many lives as
possible.
Come join us for the screening of "The Other City" at Maysles Cinema. The event will be hosted by Richard E. Pelzer II and Ulysses Williams (Global Network of Black Pride). Doors open for a cocktail reception at 6:30pm and screening starts at 7:30pm. Maysles Cinema is located at
343 Malcolm X Boulevard / Lenox Avenue, between 127th and 128th Street. Two blocks from the #2/#3 trains to 125th Street, near the world famous Apollo Theater. Admission is $10.
WE WERE HERE IS FIRST
DOCUMENTARY TO TAKE A DEEP AND REFLECTIVE LOOK BACK AT THE ARRIVAL AND IMPACT
OF AIDS IN SAN FRANCISCO
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30TH, 2012
At MAYSLES CINEMA
343 Lenox Avenue, New York, NY
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ORGANIZATIONS A-MARKETING, GMHC,
THE LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER
LOGO NETWORK AND POZ MAGAZINE
Still image from We Were Here courtesy of New Yorker Films
The GET DOWN Campaign’s No More Stigma Film Series continues on
October 30th at Maysles Cinema in Harlem, NY with the feature documentary film We Were Here.
We Were Here,
directed by David Weissman, is the
first documentary to take a deep and reflective look back at the arrival and
impact of AIDS in San Francisco. It explores how the City’s inhabitants were
affected by, and how they responded to, that calamitous epidemic.
We Were Here documents
the coming of what was called the “Gay Plague” in the early 1980s. It
illuminates the profound personal and community issues raised by the AIDS
epidemic as well as the broad political and social upheavals it unleashed. It
offers a cathartic validation for the generation that suffered through, and
responded to, the onset of AIDS. It opens a window of understanding to those
who have only the vaguest notions of what transpired in those years. It
provides insight into what society could, and should, offer its citizens in the
way of medical care, social services, and community support.
Filmmakers David Weissman and Bill Weber co-directed the 2001 documentary, The Cockettes, chronicling San
Francisco’s legendary theater troupe of hippies and drag queens, 1969 – 1972. We Were Here revisits
San Francisco a decade later, as its flourishing gay community is hit with an
unimaginable disaster.
The October 30th event will begin with a reception at
6:30pm, the screening at 7:30pm and a post-screening Q&A with director
David Weissman. We Were Here will be
preceded by a short documentary entitled Something About Katie,
directed by Rutger’s
University journalism major Kyle Sweet, created under the GET DOWN Campaign’s
Summer 2012 internship program.
In 2010, the GET DOWN Campaign launched with goal of educating
and spreading awareness about HIV/AIDS to a primary audience of 13-24 year old
teens and young adults and a secondary audience of their care givers. Through social media, blogging, viral
content, events and now the No More Stigma Film Series, GET DOWN continues
using digital media to engage audiences around HIV/AIDS and sexual health. After developing the concept of for the
No More Stigma Film Series, GET DOWN’s founder and executive producer Kim J. Ford approached Maysles Cinema’s Jessica Green, cinema
director, about getting involved.
Says Ford “Since we launched with Harlem’s FACES NY as our charity
partner and are now expanding to partner with Harlem United, it made sense to
approach Maysles
Cinema.” The Maysles Cinema, the only independent film
house north of Lincoln Center in Manhattan, is dedicated to the exhibition of
documentary film. Ford continues “With their roots in the Harlem community,
accessibility, Summer programs for youth, and social issue oriented
programming, we knew Maysles Cinema
was the right partner.” The short
film Something About Katie, produced under GET DOWN’s Summer 2012 Internship Program, is an example of viral content
produced by and about the youth that GET DOWN seeks to reach.
GET DOWN understands that there is a need for more HIV, AIDS,
and overall sexual health awareness.
Additionally, more education is required around gender and sexual
identity. Stigma and shame is still a huge barrier to testing. The
No More Stigma Film Series seeks to stimulate open conversation about HIV,
AIDS, Stigma and Sexual Identity. “The No More Stigma Film Series”, says
Ford, “has as its goal to to reinforce the fact that HIV/AIDS does not
discriminate.”
The No More Stigma Film Series kicked off in June with the
feature documentary The Carrier and a sneak preview of the highly anticipated 25 To Life. The October 30th screening of We
Were Here marks the second of a three event
screening series in 2012. The
final event of 2012 will take place on December 1st – World
Aids Day.
The husband can barely
look his wife in the eye when she accuses him of having unprotected sex with
other women. The husband steals
glances and shoots back denials, never quite looking her directly in the eye. The wife continues. She accuses him of infecting her with
HIV. The husband responds with the
accusation that it might have been her ex-boyfriend that gave it to her, and
she in turn, gave it to him. A
typical argument between husband and wife, except that the husband has three
wives and this conversation was captured by a documentary crew in a rural
village in modern day Zambia, Africa.
This scene in the film “The
Carrier”, a must-see feature length documentary film by first-time director
Maggie Betts, serves as a gap closer
between the HIV epidemic among African Americans in the U.S. and our distant
“cousins” on the continent. As I
watched the film, I could not help but feel connected.
Still Image From "The Carrier"
Albert Maysles (seated) and Maggie Betts, director, "The Carrier" at the No More Stigma Film Series
“The Carrier” was
the first feature film shown at the debut of GET DOWN and Maysles Cinema’s No More Stigma Film Series on
Thursday, June 21st. The evening opened with a sneak preview super trailer
from another first-time director Mike
Brown. “25 To Life” chronicles the aftermath of former Howard University
student William Brawner’s stunning announcement that he was HIV positive. The forthcoming feature
documentary captured the reaction of William’s close friends, former Howard
classmates, and family to his public disclosure on commercial radio. According to the film, William’s mother
instructed him at age two to never disclose this HIV status. It was this, states William, that
caused him to suppress this secret so deep down inside, that as a sexually
active young adult, he was promiscuous and had unprotected sex. The feature film will chronicle
William’s redemptive journey to find past lovers and make amends with those his
decisions have impacted, including his protective mother.
Still Image From "25 To Life"
Peelahr Moore and Leah Thompson, producers, "25 To Life" at the No More Stigma Film Series
According to “25 To
Life” producer Leah Thompson, the
film includes interviews with his mother, wife, and a few of those past lovers.
The full-length film has had a few
test screenings and according to director Brown “A number of people who have
seen the latest cut of "25 To Life" have said that the film will
be an explosive conversation starter around sex, STDs, relationships, and
beyond. To help us keep the
dialogue productive, we will enlist the support and assistance of experts
and organizations such as the Balm in Gilead, Black AIDS Institute, the CDC,
and the NAACP, to name a few.” “25 To Life” has received funding and
support from organizations such as the Ford Foundation, Sundance Documentary
Institute, and IDA.
Q&A Panel at the No More Stigma Film Series. From left: Adrian Guzman, Center For HIV Law & Policy, director Maggie Betts, producers Leah Thompson and Peelahr Moore, David Lopez, Harlem United and moderator De'Von Christopher, President &CEO Bleu Life Media.
De'Von Christopher and Jessica Green, Cinema Director.
A post-screening
Q&A, was moderated by De’Von Christopher,
president and CEO of Bleu Life Media (Bleu
Magazine), included the filmmakers along with Adrian Guzmanof the Center
For HIV Law and Policy/TeenSENSE and David
Lopez of Harlem United. The conversation became quite spirited around the
issue of criminalization of HIV, and whether someone who is HIV positive and
has unprotected sex without disclosing their status should be prosecuted as a
criminal. GET DOWN covered this
topic last year’s in the blog “Is It A Crime? A Look At HIV Criminalization in
the U.S.” Stopping by the event
was Maysles Institute Founder Albert
Maysles, who felt strongly that the world needed to see these films and
that “The Carrier” is a film that deserves distribution. We’re with you Mr. Maysles. We’re with you.
The No More Stigma Film Series will continue on
August 23rd, October 30th and December 1st for
World Aids Day 2012. Doors are 6:30pm and the screening
starts at 7:30pm.
To support and find
out more about Maggie Bett’s “The Carrier”, go to http://www.facebook.com/thecarrierfilm
and visit their website here http://www.thecarrierfilm.com/.
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