"Resistance & Joy: Reclaiming Identity" Screening and Talk with Filmmakers
Long-Lost French Film “Palestine Vaincra” Set to Premiere in New York and London
The "Resistance & Joy" Screening Tour is a bold new initiative by Color Congress presenting a powerful slate of short documentaries,…
Our Exhibitions showcase films, filmmakers, and communities, bringing crucial issues to the forefront. These events serve as dynamic platforms for…
us at TWN for our free seminars focused on enhancing skills and understanding in social justice media. These sessions…
For anyone whose wanted more information on the relationships between white people, Black people, and Asian people in the Mississippi Delta after watching Sinners, can’t recommend this documentary enough! To examine racial triangulation and look at Asian people of multiple generations speaking with a Southern twang you don’t see too often fawn over and buy into whiteness, while also inherently recognizing that they have more in common with Black folks is a really fascinating look into race that while quiet,…
Very important, beautiful, and insightful. Speaks to those in the african diaspora who are spiritually displaced and are looking for guidance. Definitely needs to be more accessible.
possession not as something chaotic and uncontrollable but structured and sacred (rico speight)
theater packed for zen’s first twn screening!!!
Pain as yet to be metabolized knowledge… yet also, it remains, simply pain.
Incredible just how huge a film can feel in such a short runtime. Devastating
This feels like two-hours of truth in a 25 minute runtime as it explores a history of abuse, addiction and love in one Southern California family.
It's all so clear minded and straight forward and plain spoken... so it's a bit of a surprise when the documentary suddenly cuts to a completely forced and artificial act of framing and blocking.
But not as big a surprise as when that very scene leads to the most authentic, cathartic, and comionate moment…
The opening lines slipped under my skin like needles and have not left. Every statement, frank and forthright, about the violence Suzanne experienced at the hands of her father, about her mother's ive-complicit role, about the violence her mother experienced, about the way her family viewed it, every word, every moment, everything in this film is an exposure, a raw, brutal tearing away of veils, of walls, of lies. I cannot help but project my own experiences; this would be…
It is astounding to witness the ways parents don’t understand their own pain and then infuse such pain into the generations that follow.
