On Screen In Person

Concrete, Steel, and Paint

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Feb 072012

Visiting Filmmakers: Directors, Cindy Burstein and Tony Herziga

Film and event with Film-Maker: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, Time 7pm

When men in a prison art class agree to collaborate with victims of crime to design a mural about healing, their views on punishment, remorse, and forgiveness collide. At times the divide seems too wide to bridge. But as the participants begin to work together, mistrust gives way to genuine moments of human contact and shared purpose. Their struggle to find creative common ground raises challenging questions about punishment, justice and reconciliation — the insights gained are reflected in the art they produce in Concrete, Steel and Paint.

The DIRECTORS will be at Riverviews to introduce their film.
Cindy Burstein is an award-winning independent producer. Formerly a community organizer, she received her MFA from Rutgers University to pursue the use of documentary film as a tool for dialogue and civic engagement. She also works with other independent filmmakers to develop public engagement initiatives for theatrical releases, broadcast premieres and educational distribution. She is a 2010 recipient of the Leeway Transformation Award, a fellowship which recognizes women artists engaged in social change.

Tony Heriza
Since co-founding the Community Media Workshop in Dayton, Ohio in 1974, Tony Heriza has been involved in many aspects of media for social change: producing, editing, teaching and working with community organizations. His work has been broadcast nationally on PBS and featured in many festivals. He is now the Director of Educational Outreach for the American Friends Service Committee and along with his co-producer, Cindy Burstein, is an active member of the New Day Film distribution co-operative.

Beatboxing–The Fifth Element of Hip Hop

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Sep 232011

Beatboxing:The Fifth Element of Hip-Hop

Friday, October 21st at Riverviews

This Friday, Riverviews will screen the film, Beatboxing: The 5th Element of Hip-Hop and welcome filmmaker, Angela Viscido.

Doors open at 6:30 with live beatboxing performances and graffiti painting. Enjoy a drink and meet the artists and performers before the film.

The film will screen at 7pm and will be followed by a
question and answer session with the filmmaker.

beatbox

synopsis:
In the late 70’s, a youth culture evolved in the poorer parts of New York which combined several disciplines under the name of Hip Hop. The four classic elements of graffiti, DJing, breakdancing, and rapping, were enhanced by a fifth element called ‘Beatboxing’. From the hardship of poverty and the lack of instruments, a pioneer was inspired to imitate drum rhythms with his mouth – his brilliance creating the term ‘Human Beatbox’. BEATBOXING features artists from all over the world demonstrating their amazing techniques.

about the filmmaker:
Producer, Angela Viscido was born and raised in Wales and has been a resident of New York City for the past 22 years, Angela is a videographer, editor, entrepreneur and the President of Eclectrix, Inc., a full service multimedia specializing in live performances. She has captured creative icons such as Hiram Bullock, The Drifters, Bernard Purdie and Lou Marini, Toshi Regan, Citizen Cope and others.

Suggested donation: $10 general admission, $5 for students
434-847-7277
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Whats Organic About Organic?

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Aug 132011

Sept 16 at 7pm . What’s ‘Organic’ About Organic? dives into the challenges that arise when a grassroots agricultural movement evolves into a booming international market. Though the stories of farmers who steward land from Harlem to the foothills of the Rockies, from upstate New York to Florida, the film offers audiences a deeper understanding of the complexities involved in creating a more sustainable food system.

Director, Shelley Rogers will come to Riverviews to introduce her film . Shelley Rogers grew up in rural East Tennessee. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Art History from Smith College. After an internship at the Media Education Foundation, she grew determined to help use media for social change. She began her filmmaking career as part of her Master’s degree in Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. Currently, she is a freelance filmmaker in New York City. Inspired by her interest in food politics, public health, and environmental stewardship, she is now focusing her energy on her first feature-length documentary, “What’s Organic About ‘Organic’?” She believes it is our social responsibility as citizens in a democracy to stand up for our right to live in a healthy environment and have access to diverse, independent media. She sustains an urban existence by tending to her worm-composting bin and an active involvement in NYC food and farm politics.

Out In Silence

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Aug 072011

The announcement of filmmaker Joe Wilson’s wedding to another man ignites a firestorm of controversy and a quest for change in the small Pennsylvania hometown he left long ago. Drawn back by a plea for help from the mother of a gay teen being tormented at school, Wilson takes viewers on an exhilarating journey through love, hate, and understanding in rural America.

OUT IN THE SILENCE breaks the mold of the traditional documentary. It is not solely observational, not a memoir, and not a news piece. As filmmaker, as protagonist, as insider and outsider, Wilson uses the camera to empower, to challenge, to confront, and to look beneath the veneer of the fragile balance of order in his conservative hometown.

JOE WILSON, Co-Producer/Director will be at Riverviews to introduce this film (details: TBA) Joe Wilson got involved in documentary filmmaking through his social activism on human rights issues. Frustrated by the limitations of traditional organizing and advocacy and the constraints of his role as a program officer at a private foundation, he picked up a camera with hopes of reaching broader audiences with stories that would inform and compel people to act.

DEAN HAMER: Scientist turned filmmaker Dean Hamer became interested in journalism and filmmaking as a result of being a frequent guest on television news shows to discuss his research on AIDS, human sexuality and behavior genetics. Convinced that there was a better way to communicate the complex scientific and social ideas raised by these topics, he decided to try his own hand at turning these stories into compelling documentaries.

Hamer’s debut film THE PREACHER AND THE POET was a winner of the PBS/Independent Lens Online Shorts Festival. In collaboration with Qwaves.com partner Joe Wilson he has produced over a dozen pieces for national cable television and won numerous awards. He has also consulted for many documentary and news productions and written three award-winning nonfiction books including The Science of Desire, which was a New York Times Book of the Year.

view the trailer or read more at: http://wpsu.org/outinthesilence/

Film screening and Filmmaker’s Talk: $10 suggested donation, $5 students

Proceed and Be Bold

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Jul 302011

Visiting Filmmaker: Director, Laura Zinger

Fri, March 30
7pm

Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. is a printing and book artist, but he wasn’t always an artist. He used to live a middle class life like many other Americans, with a family and a job as a computer programmer at an international telecommunications company. Today, he is located in Alabama, and is widely known for his controversial posters and book art. In Proceed and Be Bold!, we follow Amos through art galleries, and meet the people, in an effort to learn why he creates his charged works of art, and how people react.

Milking the Rhino

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Jul 292011

Visiting Filmmaker: Director, David E. Simpson

Fri, April 27
7pm

The Maasai tribe of Kenya and Namibia’s Himba–two of Earth’s oldest cattle cultures–are in the midst of upheaval. Emerging from a century of ‘white man conservation’ that turned their land into game reserves and fueled resentment towards wildlife, they are now vying for a piece of the wildlife-tourism pie. Charting the collision of ancient ways and Western expectations, Milking the Rhino tells intimate, hopeful and heartbreaking stories of people facing deep cultural change.

On Screen/In Person Inaugural Tour of Independent Film Makers

On Screen In Person

Jul 152011

Six new independent American films and their respective filmmakers will present their work at Riverviews, September 16, October 21, November 11, February 10, March 9, and April 27. This is part of an exciting new program by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.