by Frances Phillips | Sep 27, 2021 | 2018, Media Arts, News
What We Carry with Us, a series of micro-documentaries created by LGBTQ+ refugee storytellers and Creative Work Fund grantee Sam Ball of Citizen Film, topped 210,000 views with world premieres at the Frameline LGBTQ+ International Film Festival. Watch the latest...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 18, 2021 | 2018, Media Arts, News
Filmmaker Sam Ball of Citizen Film has been collaborating with Jewish Family and Community Services – East Bay and other immigrant-serving organizations to create short documentary stories of LGBTQ refugees whose lives or well-being were in danger in their home...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 16, 2021 | 2018, Media Arts, News
On the run in East Africa, Mx. X. wards off evil with a magic broom. In a refugee camp, a growing LGBTQ+ community weaves rainbow bracelets to wear in a daring act of solidarity and resistance. Armed with a new US passport, Hector returns to Mexico for the first time...
by Frances Phillips | Oct 25, 2019 | 2018, Media Arts, News
Film director Sam Ball of Citizen Film has been collaborating with the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life’s curator Francesco Spagnolo and refugees from Africa, the Middle East, and Nazi Germany to investigate their prized possessions as stories. In...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 16, 2015 | 2012, Media Arts, News
On January 14, 2015, The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation of Atlanta, is screening Green Streets, a work-in-progress film that follows the story of 29-year-old entrepreneur Tyrone Mullins and his friends as they develop a business enterprise that manages recycling...
