Real Fictions: Telling the Truth through a "Lie"

Submitted by newchildren on Tue, 04/21/2009 - 10:52pm
Short Description: 

This workshop will discuss how fiction can humanize social justice issues by exploring real life challenges through creative and experimental personal storytelling. We will screen two youth produced films inspired by issues affecting their personal lives and community. Afterwards the filmmakers will discuss their process and how the use of fiction can inspire youth to speak about issues affecting them on their own terms. To encourage youth-filmmaking and bring awareness to the necessity of creating and dispersing these images, the audience will write down an image or issue that they have never seen presented in mainstream media or on the big screen and put it into a hat. Then, the audience will break into groups and each group member will draw an idea from the hat. Each group will then vote on an issue to present as a film idea to the larger group.For more information got to: http://www.newchildren-newyork.com/main_newchildren.htm

Presenters
Presenter One Name: 
Bryan Lopez
Presenter One Info: 

Bryan Lopez is the director of "G-Boys." "G-Boys" premiered at the 2009 Havana Film Festival; it is Bryan's fourth film. Next year he’s attending Evergreen State College in Washington State.

Presenter Two Name: 
Joshua Carrero
Presenter Two Info: 

Josh Carrero is the director of "The Sad Churro Family." This film was co-directed with Jeremy Lopez & Mike Vasquez. Josh and Jeremy are freshmen; Mike is a junior. This is the second film for these filmmakers. The film premiered at the 2009 Havana Film Festival.

Presenter Three Name: 
Gisela Sanders Alcántara
Presenter Three Info: 

Gisela is a producer and editor at the noncommercial cable station CUNY TV, Channel 75 in New York. She is working on a documentary project teaching Bushwick youth media literacy and filmmaking. Her award-winning documentary thesis Yo Soy Alcántara has been shown at various festivals and museums around the world.

Presenter Four Name: 
Lauren Mucciolo
Presenter Four Info: 

Lauren is a Producer for CUNY TV and is working on a documentary project teaching youth media literacy and filmmaking. She has run professional development seminars and designed new media-enhanced curriculum for teachers at the American Social History Project. She holds an MA from CUNY’s Graduate Center in Film Studies.

Presenting organization: 
New Children New York