MOMA DOCUMENTARY FORTNIGHT SCHEDULE for CALL FOR CHANGE SERIES

Location:
All screenings will take place in The Museum of Modern Art s Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. The MoMA s address is 11 West 53rd Street / New York, NY / 10019

Getting to the MoMA:
Subway: E or V to Fifth Avenue/53 Street; B, D, or F to 47-50 Streets/Rockefeller Center.
Bus: M1, 2, 3, 4, 5 to 53 Street. (For more detailed directions, please see http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/directions.html)

Monday, February 20

6:00 pm
Third World Newsreel: Call for Change [part 1]. 2005. USA.
The activist media group Third World Newsreel has produced a series of shorts on national issues and on New York City's communities of color. Program includes:

Rising Up: The Alams, on a Bangladeshi family fighting the post-9/11 anti-immigrant crackdown;
Saj: Muslim in America, on a Muslim woman living in New York;
Dastar: Defending Sikh Identity, on job discrimination against Sikhs;
Among the First to Die, on Guatamalan immigrants in the Marines;
Just Ralph, on a Palestinian immigrant; and Work and Respect, on organizing domestic workers.

Program 69 min. New York premiere.
(Introduced by Dorothy Thigpen from Third World Newsreel, and the directors).

8:30 p.m.
Third World Newsreel: Call for Change [part 2]. 2005. USA.
Untold Legacy, on reparations for slavery;
Latino Poets Speak Out, a series of performance pieces;
Fulton and Franklin, on police bag searches;
Voices in the Street, on security at the Republican National Convention;
Military Option, on the military recruitment of high schoolers;
Military Promises, on mental health in the military;
She Rhymes Like a Girl, on Black women rappers;
Walking with FUREE, on demonstrations by Welfare recipients.

Program 75 min. New York premiere.
(Introduced by Thigpen and the directors).