BraveMaker Film Fest 2022: Celebrate Black Stories (3 short films)

825 Middlefield Road,Redwood City CA 94063

09 July, 2022

Description

yBlack Love Manifesto (20 mins): A Suite in 5 movements uses photography, video, poetry and music to illuminate and celebrate the beauty and power of Blackness. It is a poetic mosaic of Black history, Black resilience, resistance and revolution, Black excellence, Black Joy and Black Love. It’s a medicinal balm for a weary and wounded people during these horrifying times. It is a battery for perseverance, remembering and hope. With the ongoing campaign of police terror and the violence of white supremacy, Black Love Manifesto is poetic mediation on the indelible spirit of African Americans that pulled a mighty people through centuries of trauma. It is a celebration of melanin magic, antiquity and the life force of love… the kryptonite. Black Love Manifesto honors our past, salutes our current journey and envisions freedom. Directed by https://www.instagram.com/lizajessiepeterson/ Generation Impact: The Coder (7 mins) Jay Jay Patton was only 13 when she designed and built Photo Patch, a mobile app to help kids send photos and letters to parents who are incarcerated. The app was inspired by Jay Jay’s own experience; her dad was in prison for five years and it was difficult to communicate with him as much as she wanted. Jay Jay and her dad then founded Unlock Academy, a school that teaches coding and provides mentoring to enable young people of color to have careers in STEM fields. This is a true story of drive, hope and ingenuity. Directed by Samantha Knowles. https://garage.hp.com/us/en/generation-impact.html Generation Impact is a new docu series that features teenage entrepreneurs using technology to break barriers and better their communities. THE CODER is the first film in the series. Bree Wayy: Promise, Witness, Remembrance (32 mins) is a film by award-winning director Dawn Porter that looks at how the art world responded to the death of Breonna Taylor by using art not only as a form of protest, but as a space to heal. Directed by Dawn Porter. ------------------- No recording of photographing the film. Take photos of the panel discussion. Tag @BraveMakerOrg with #BraveMaker @BraveMakerOrg with #BraveMaker FILM FEST FILMS ARE NOT RATED BY THE AMPA. Viewer discretion is advised. **** By entering these premises you give permission for BraveMaker Media to videotape, audiotape, photograph, record, edit or otherwise reproduce your voice, image or likeness, and to use it in various formats and for the purposes commissioned by BraveMaker Media for promotions and media distribution. Media methods may include, but are not limited to the television (broadcast, cable, and satellite), the Internet (including webcasts and podcasts), print publications, film fests, or any other medium now existing or later created. BraveMaker Media retains the right not to use the footage for other than archival purposes. Attending this event on these premises you assign and convey to BraveMaker all right, title and interest that you may have in and to any recording made under this consent. By entrance in this venue you give total release of rights irrevocably so that BraveMaker Media may, without limitation, exercise all ownership rights including copyrights relating to the recording(s) on behalf of BraveMaker.