We are excited to announce the broadcast premiere of Bending Sticks: The Sculpture of Patrick Dougherty on public TV in 2016. Thanks to the Southern Documentary Fund, UNC-TV, and SCETV for birthing the REEL SOUTH Series. More about the series. . . REEL SOUTH 2016 The American South – its…
Peace in Our Pockets screens at the Global Peace Film Festival in Orlando, FL, Saturday, October 3rd @ 8:30pm and Sunday October 4th @ 12:30 pm. We look forward to sharing with the Orlando community and local organizations and peacebuilders. More about the festival. . . The Global Peace Film…
We were very excited to receive great news today - an invitation to screen at the Global Peace Film Festival in Orlando, FL, Sept. 28-Oct.4. We look forward to sharing this inspiring Kenyan story and connecting with local organizations and other peacebuilders. From the festival website: The…
The following post comes from Willis Adika Adeya, Chairman of Kariobangi Mirror in Nairobi, Kenya. Kariobangi Mirror is a community based organization providing platforms for citizen journalists, artists, and activists a space to nurture and maximize their potentials and amplify their voices. Several months ago, filmmaker Kenny Dalsheimer contacted me…
Thanks to Kariobangi Mirror and others for hosting the third slum tour screening of Peace in Our Pockets in Mathare #10, Nairobi. Lead organizer of these events, Willis Adika Adeya wrote that this new initiative is awessome as it allows them to reach many people and engage in debate and…
We are very happy to have completed Peace in Our Pockets this past Feb. 2015 and having the film roll out internationally in diverse settings. The film website has also been redesigned to highlight how the film is being used as a tool for change by peacebuilders and how screenings…
At the Asheville Area Arts Council's Creative Sector Summit, A New Kind of Listening will be screened on Saturday morning, 4/25 from 10-11 a.m., followed by a drop-in forum with the Asheville Inclusive Arts Coalition to answer questions for arts organizations about accessibility and the importance of having an ADA…
The following article comes via Building Peace, an online magazine from Alliance for Peacebuilding. The film references the tension and violence in this part of Kenya at a time when I was shooting the film. We are looking forward to March screenings organized as part of Una Hakika, a project…
We are excited to share about two screenings this month. Aweil, South Sudan Helena Puig Larrauri and Michaela Ledesma, co-organizers of Build Peace, reached out to us to bring the film to their good work in South Sudan. Helena wrote: The project in Aweil will introduce a group of people to…
Thanks to Professor Tetsushi Ogata at UC-Berkeley for reaching out to us for our first university screening of the rough cut. In October Professor Ogata showed the film in his class, "Conflict Resolution, Social Change and Cultures of Peace" class, an upper division course taught in the Peace and Conflict…
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