Chicago’s Media Burn collective is dedicated to the preservation of and distribution of guerilla television documentaries made in the 1970s and 1980s outside the television industry. Their archives number over 8,000 films. Media Burn asked two American filmmakers: Lori Felker, from Chicago, and Dmitri Devyatkin, from New York and two Russian filmmakers, Dmitri Kalashnikov and […]
Split Show: Grad Worker Sit-In and Toni Morrison Documentary
Earlier this afternoon, graduate workers from the Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA) occupied the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s administration building to demand fair pay and improved policies for graduate employees. For the first segment of today’s show, TAA representatives Megan Kennedy and Ellen LeClere report live from the sit-in at Bascom Hall to explain the graduate workers’ […]
This is Home documentary film screening
This award-winning documentary captures the experience of four families, refugees from Syria, as they struggle to adjust to life in Baltimore. After the 90-minute film, community leaders will facilitate small group discussions on the film’s topics and discuss refugee resettlement programs in Madison and local refugee experiences. Light refreshments will be served. Co-sponsored by Jewish […]
This is Home documentary film screening
This award-winning documentary captures the experience of four families, refugees from Syria, as they struggle to adjust to life in Baltimore. After the 90-minute film, community leaders will facilitate small group discussions on the film’s topics and discuss refugee resettlement programs in Madison and local refugee experiences. Light refreshments will be served. Co-sponsored by Jewish […]
Chamber of Commerce Presents Bias Film Screening at Orpheum Theater
A new documentary film by Robin Hauser called bias made its way to Madison on the evening of Tuesday, June 5. Though the film is on the festival circuit, the screening in Madison was for a slightly different crowd: workers. Nearly six hundred employees in business, health, and education from across the city came […]
Racial Justice Film Series
The Madison Public Library starts a new film series focused on racial justice this week. For the kickoff, on Wednesday, January 24th the Central Library will screen the documentary “Race: The Power of an Illusion,” which traces the concept of “race” in North America and the now-debunked 19th century pseudo-science that legitimized it. Community Shares […]