BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//130.74.126.25//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-FROM-URL:https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-24536@southernstudies.olemiss.edu DTSTAMP:20240328T204751Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Discussion\,Documentary\,Film Screening\,Online\, South Talks\,Visiting Documentarian CONTACT:Afton Thomas\; amthoma4@olemiss.edu DESCRIPTION:
The MFA Program in Documentary Expression welcomes filmmaker Alexander Glustrom as its Visiting Documentarian for Spring 2021. Glustro m has directed\, shot\, produced\, and edited a wide variety of film proje cts ranging from commercial\, music\, and art videos that have reached hun dreds of thousands online\, to documentaries that have been featured in fi lm festivals internationally. He has shot footage that has aired on HBO\, CNN\, Fusion\, NYtimes.com\, Great Big Story and Democracy Now. He has als o created a number of fundraising videos that have raised thousands of dol lars for New Orleans youth programs. Glustrom’s first feature film was the award-winning documentary\, “Big Charity” which he directed\, shot\, prod uced and edited.
\nHis second feature documentary and the one he will screen on Monday\, April 5\, Mossville has won more than fifteen awards at festivals around the world and is currently broadcasting nationally on PBS and is scheduled to be shown to the United Nations in G eneva in Spring of 2021.
\nMossville\, Louisiana is a shadow of its former self – a community rich in natural resources and history\, founded by formerly enslaved people\, where neighbors lived in harmony\, insulated from the horrors of Jim Crow. Today\, however\, Mossville no longer rese mbles the town it once was. Surrounded by 14 petrochemical plants\, Mossv ille is the future site of apartheid-born South African-based chemical com pany Sasol’s newest plant – a $21.2 billion project and the largest in the western hemisphere.
\nThe community struggles to let go of their an cestral home – and at the center of it all is a man named Stacey Ryan. St acey is 48 years old and a lifelong resident of Mossville. In the past ten years Stacey has lost both parents to cancer and seen the neighborhood he grew up in demolished to make way for Sasol’s new multi-billion dollar pr oject. He experiences these changes from the view of his parent’s home\, a FEMA trailer smack in the middle of where the new Sasol facility is bein g built – and he refuses to leave. Having promised his dying parents to fi ght the sprawling chemical companies\, Stacey struggles to keep his word a s his power\, water\, and sewage are all cut off\, and his health continue s to decline from ongoing chemical exposure. His dilemma is a moral one\, too: he has a 5-year-old son living nearby with the child’s mother that he wants to move out of state\, yet for now\, the pull of that promise to his parents keeps him living in the middle of a construction site. As Sas ol encroaches on citizens’ property with buyout offers\, Stacey and other community members have to decide whether to exist in a chemical war zone\, or abandon land that has been in their families for generations.
\nThis event is cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and the Oxford Film Festival.
\nPlease note you will be able to scre en the film April 2–9. The public talk is at 6 p.m. CST on April 5.
\n< p>Tickets: https://watch.eventive.org/ 2021oxff/play/600984db6a3f68212412a1f6. DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210405T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210405T190000 LOCATION:Online SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:SouthTalks: “Mossville: When Great Trees Fall” URL:https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/event/southtalks-mossville-when-gre at-trees-fall/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-WP-IMAGES-URL:thumbnail\;https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/mossvi lle-240x135.jpg\;240\;135\,medium\;https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/med ia/mossville-240x135.jpg\;240\;135\,large\;https://southernstudies.olemiss .edu/media/mossville-240x135.jpg\;240\;135\,full\;https://southernstudies. olemiss.edu/media/mossville-240x135.jpg\;240\;135 X-TICKETS-URL:https://watch.eventive.org/2021oxff/play/600984db6a3f68212412 a1f6 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-25994@southernstudies.olemiss.edu DTSTAMP:20240328T204751Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Documentary\,Film Screening\,Visiting Documentari an CONTACT:Afton Thomas\; amthoma4@olemiss.edu DESCRIPTION:Visiting Documentarian Jasmín Mara López will screen her film “Silent Beauty” at Malco Theatre November 9 at 6:30 p.m.
\nJasmín Mara López is a Mexican-American f ilmmaker living between Los Angeles and New Orleans. Born in the U.S. with familial roots in México\, her childhood was affected by issues experienc ed on both sides of the U.S.- México border. This instilled in her a stron g passion for immigrant rights\, youth empowerment\, and social change. Ló pez founded Project Luz\, which taught Mexican youth to document stories f rom within their communities. Her audio documentary “Deadly Divide: Migran t Death on the Border” received the Society of Professional Journalists’ E xcellence in Journalism Award in 2015. López garnered support for her work from New Orleans Film Society\, Chicken & Egg Pictures\, Black Public Med ia\, Southern Documentary Fund\, Sundance Institute\, International Docume ntary Association\, Latino Public Broadcasting\, ITVS\, Firelight Media\, Creative Capital\, and others.
\nDirector’s S tatement:
\nIn 2019\, I was invited to speak at the Third Coast Conference for audio producers. The focus of my talk w as to share more about my journey into filmmaking while maintaining roots in radio. After sharing “Silent Beauty”\, a line of people waited to ask m e questions. Three of them were survivors of child sexual abuse. One of th em was Sophia.
\nSophia introduced herself as a survivor\, something she had never said out loud. She wanted to know more about my recovery so we kept in touch\, and I offered any advice or resour ces I could. Two years later\, I received the following message from Sophi a:
\n“I am really proud of myself. Before mee ting you\, and starting therapy and even telling my sister\, I feel like m y trauma was controlling me\, forcing me to relive my experience in secrec y and shame. At times\, I definitely still feel vulnerable\, but I feel st ronger and more in control of my trauma\, knowing that I am in charge of h ow I define it\, not how it defines me.”
\nL ike Sophia\, I was also an adult the first time I told my family that I ha d been sexually abused by my grandfather. I did so because I didn’t want a ny children to experience what I had. I learned a lot about my family and myself that year–who else was abused\, who would remain in my life\, and w ho would go. As difficult as it all was\, I stood strong and eventually de cided to make a film for other survivors.
\nI dr ew inspiration from films like Cecilia Aldarondo’s use of texture and proc ess in “Memories of a Penitent Heart”\; Rita Piffer’s poetic approach in “ Ghost Syndrome”\; Azadeh Navai’s use of light and simple potent imagery in “Remembering the Pentagons”\; and Tatiana Huezo’s ability to create beaut y out of pain in “The Tiniest Place.”
\nHealing justice has always been at the core of my work and “Silent Beauty.” My gra ndmothers have always lived in my artistic practices. They bring a gentlen ess\, a poeticism\, and a curiosity far greater than they were ever allowe d to pursue because they were women.
\nI’m proud to share our voices\, our songs\, our joys\, and the strength of women in my family in “Silent Beauty.”All the beauty that is a part of me.
\nMy grandfather filmed the majority of the archival fo otage\, depicting the perfect\, happy family life. I use that film archive to tell our truth. “Silent Beauty” is representative of a survivor’s expe rience: the reclaiming of a story.
\nI never wou ld have predicted that exactly eight years after disclosing to my family\, we would sit in a theater to watch the premiere of my first film\, our st ory.
\n— Jasmín Mara López\, Director and Produc er
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