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...
by Frances Phillips | Apr 2, 2014 | 2012, Media Arts, News
Filmmaker Sophie Constantinou of Citizen Film, who is collaborating with Urban Strategies, Inc. to create Green Streets: Turning Trash into Cash in an Inner American City announces two work-in-progress screenings of the film at the Western Addition branch of the San...
