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Administrative MessageMarch 7, 2008Contact: Scott Rappaport (831) 459-2496; srapp@ucsc.edu Re: Women of Color Film Festival set for March 14-15 at UCSC
More than 25 filmmakers from the United States and abroad will converge at UCSC's Kresge College Town Hall on March 14-15 for the 14th annual Women of Color Film Festival. In addition to over 20 film and video screenings, the event will feature live performance, multimedia artwork, and discussions moderated by representatives from several Bay Area community organizations. This year's theme is "Bodies in Flight: Transit + Migration." "Historically, this festival has always spoken to the current political situation," noted co-organizer Monica Enriquez, a graduate student in UCSC's Digital Arts and New Media program. "And we think the state of immigration law today is something really important to respond to." "Since September 11, this issue has come to the forefront, and these films make connections between things like immigration rights and imprisonment, or immigration and sexuality," she added. "These are films that are rarely seen in the mainstream." The festival kicks off on Friday night at 6:30 p.m. with opening remarks by history of consciousness professor Angela Davis, a longtime supporter of the event. Six films will be screened, followed by a performance from S.I.N. Verguenza!—a UCSC student organization dedicated to the promotion of immigrant rights. Friday's program culminates with a reception from 9:30 p.m. to midnight at the Hide Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz, headlined by Las Krudas, a three-women spoken word/hip hop collective from Cuba. Saturday's screenings begin at 10 a.m., and the festival concludes with a special Spoken Word program from 6 to 8 p.m. featuring performances by Filipino-American writer and performer Aimee Suzara, and IGO--a spoken-word troupe from the Bay Area. All of the films range from three to 30 minutes in length. "We have some films that were shown at the 2008 Sundance Festival," noted festival co-organizer Cindy Bello, a graduate student in UCSC's History of Consciousness Department. "A lot of the films are made by activists. We wanted to feature artists who don't have easy access to the mainstream media, and to expose students and the community to films that are not easily available." "Another exciting part of the festival is that we're bringing in two filmmakers from Mexico--from a collective called Women and Underground Culture," Enriquez added. "These are women who grew up in gangs in Mexico City and taught themselves how to make films that deal with the social and political issues of marginalized people--poor women in Mexico and women in the streets." The festival is presented by the Women of Color Research Cluster, a UCSC-based graduate student group committed to bridging the worlds of art, academia and activism. It is sponsored by UCSC's Institute for Advanced Feminist Research, as well as more than 30 different campus departments and organizations. ____________________________ Admission to the festival is free and the public is invited. A full schedule of events can be found at: web site. For more information, call (831) 331-7038.
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