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:20240329T115022Z 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 Al exander Glustrom as its Visiting Documentarian for Spring 2021. Glustrom h as directed\, shot\, produced\, and edited a wide variety of film projects ranging from commercial\, music\, and art videos that have reached hundre ds of thousands online\, to documentaries that have been featured in film festivals internationally. He has shot footage that has aired on HBO\, CNN \, Fusion\, NYtimes.com\, Great Big Story and Democracy Now. He has also c reated a number of fundraising videos that have raised thousands of dollar s for New Orleans youth programs. Glustrom’s first feature film was the aw ard-winning documentary\, “Big Charity” which he directed\, shot\, produce d and edited.\nHis second feature documentary and the one he will screen o n Monday\, April 5\, Mossville has won more than fifteen awards at festiva ls around the world and is currently broadcasting nationally on PBS and is scheduled to be shown to the United Nations in Geneva 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\, w here neighbors lived in harmony\, insulated from the horrors of Jim Crow. Today\, however\, Mossville no longer resembles the town it once was. Su rrounded by 14 petrochemical plants\, Mossville is the future site of apar theid-born South African-based chemical company Sasol’s newest plant – a $ 21.2 billion project and the largest in the western hemisphere.\nThe commu nity struggles to let go of their ancestral home – and at the center of it all is a man named Stacey Ryan. Stacey is 48 years old and a lifelong re sident 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 project. He experiences these changes f rom the view of his parent’s home\, a FEMA trailer smack in the middle of where the new Sasol facility is being built – and he refuses to leave. Hav ing promised his dying parents to fight the sprawling chemical companies\, Stacey struggles to keep his word as his power\, water\, and sewage are a ll cut off\, and his health continues to decline from ongoing chemical exp osure. 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 fo r now\, the pull of that promise to his parents keeps him living in the mi ddle of a construction site. As Sasol encroaches on citizens’ property wi th buyout offers\, Stacey and other community members have to decide wheth er to exist in a chemical war zone\, or abandon land that has been in thei r families for generations.\nThis event is cosponsored by the Center for t he Study of Southern Culture and the Oxford Film Festival.\nPlease note yo u will be able to screen the film April 2–9. The public talk is at 6 p.m. CST on April 5.\nTickets: https://watch.eventive.org/2021oxff/play/600984d b6a3f68212412a1f6. 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-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nThe MFA Progr am in Documentary Expression welcomes filmmaker Alexander Glustrom as its Visiting Documentarian for Spring 2021. Glustrom has directed\, shot\, pro duced\, and edited a wide variety of film projects ranging from commercial \, music\, and art videos that have reached hundreds of thousands online\, to documentaries that have been featured in film festivals internationall y. He has shot footage that has aired on HBO\, CNN\, Fusion\, NYtimes.com\ , Great Big Story and Democracy Now. He has also created a number of fundr aising videos that have raised thousands of dollars for New Orleans youth programs. Glustrom’s first feature film was the award-winning documentary\ , “Big Charity” which he directed\, shot\, produced 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 s cheduled to be shown to the United Nations in Geneva in Spring of 2021.
\nMossville\, Louisiana is a shadow of its former self – a community r ich in natural resources and history\, founded by formerly enslaved people \, where neighbors lived in harmony\, insulated from the horrors of Jim Cr ow. Today\, however\, Mossville no longer resembles the town it once was. Surrounded by 14 petrochemical plants\, Mossville is the future site of apartheid-born South African-based chemical company Sasol’s newest plant – a $21.2 billion project and the largest in the western hemisphere.
\n< p>The community struggles to let go of their ancestral home – and at the c enter of it all is a man named Stacey Ryan. Stacey 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 m ake way for Sasol’s new multi-billion dollar project. He experiences thes e changes from the view of his parent’s home\, a FEMA trailer smack in the middle of where the new Sasol facility is being built – and he refuses to leave. Having promised his dying parents to fight the sprawling chemical companies\, Stacey struggles to keep his word as his power\, water\, and s ewage are all cut off\, and his health continues to decline from ongoing c hemical 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 sta te\, yet for now\, the pull of that promise to his parents keeps him livin g in the middle of a construction site. As Sasol encroaches on citizens’ property with buyout offers\, Stacey and other community members have to d ecide whether to exist in a chemical war zone\, or abandon land that has b een in their families for generations.\nThis event is cosponsored b y the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and the Oxford Film Festiva l.
\nPlease note you will be able to screen the film April 2–9. The public talk is at 6 p.m. CST on April 5.
\nTickets: https://watch.eventive.org/2021oxff/play/600984db6a3f6 8212412a1f6.
X-TICKETS-URL:https://watch.eventive.org/2021oxff/play/600984db6a3f68212412 a1f6 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-25994@southernstudies.olemiss.edu DTSTAMP:20240329T115022Z 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 filmmaker living between Los Angeles and New Orlean s. Born in the U.S. with familial roots in México\, her childhood was affe cted by issues experienced on both sides of the U.S.- México border. This instilled in her a strong passion for immigrant rights\, youth empowerment \, and social change. López founded Project Luz\, which taught Mexican you th to document stories from within their communities. Her audio documentar y “Deadly Divide: Migrant Death on the Border” received the Society of Pro fessional Journalists’ Excellence in Journalism Award in 2015. López garne red support for her work from New Orleans Film Society\, Chicken & Egg Pic tures\, Black Public Media\, Southern Documentary Fund\, Sundance Institut e\, International Documentary Association\, Latino Public Broadcasting\, I TVS\, Firelight Media\, Creative Capital\, and others.\nDirector’s Stateme nt:\nIn 2019\, I was invited to speak at the Third Coast Conference for au dio producers. The focus of my talk was to share more about my journey int o filmmaking while maintaining roots in radio. After sharing “Silent Beaut y”\, a line of people waited to ask me questions. Three of them were survi vors of child sexual abuse. One of them was Sophia.\nSophia introduced her self 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 resources I could. Two years later\, I received the following message from Sophia:\n“I am really proud of myself. Before meeting you\, and start ing therapy and even telling my sister\, I feel like my trauma was control ling me\, forcing me to relive my experience in secrecy and shame. At time s\, I definitely still feel vulnerable\, but I feel stronger and more in c ontrol of my trauma\, knowing that I am in charge of how I define it\, not how it defines me.”\nLike Sophia\, I was also an adult the first time I t old my family that I had been sexually abused by my grandfather. I did so because I didn’t want any children to experience what I had. I learned a l ot about my family and myself that year–who else was abused\, who would re main in my life\, and who would go. As difficult as it all was\, I stood s trong and eventually decided to make a film for other survivors.\nI drew i nspiration from films like Cecilia Aldarondo’s use of texture and process in “Memories of a Penitent Heart”\; Rita Piffer’s poetic approach in “Ghos t Syndrome”\; Azadeh Navai’s use of light and simple potent imagery in “Re membering the Pentagons”\; and Tatiana Huezo’s ability to create beauty ou t of pain in “The Tiniest Place.”\nHealing justice has always been at the core of my work and “Silent Beauty.” My grandmothers have always lived in my artistic practices. They bring a gentleness\, a poeticism\, and a curio sity far greater than they were ever allowed to pursue because they were w omen.\nI’m proud to share our voices\, our songs\, our joys\, and the stre ngth of women in my family in “Silent Beauty.”All the beauty that is a par t of me.\nMy grandfather filmed the majority of the archival footage\, dep icting the perfect\, happy family life. I use that film archive to tell ou r truth. “Silent Beauty” is representative of a survivor’s experience: the reclaiming of a story.\nI never would have predicted that exactly eight y ears after disclosing to my family\, we would sit in a theater to watch th e premiere of my first film\, our story.\n— Jasmín Mara López\, Director a nd Producer DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221109T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221109T200000 LOCATION:Malco Theatre Cinema Grill\, Oxford @ 206 Commonwealth Blvd.\, Oxf ord MS 38655 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Visiting Documentarian: Jasmín Mara López URL:https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/event/visiting-documentarian-jasmin -mara-lopez/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nVisiting Documentarian Jasmín Mara López will screen her film “Sile nt Beauty” at Malco Theatre November 9 at 6:30 p.m.
\nJasmín Mara López is a Mexican-American filmmaker living between Los Angeles and New Orleans. Born in the U.S. with familial roots in México\, her childhood was affected by issues experienced on both sides of the U.S .- México border. This instilled in her a strong passion for immigrant rig hts\, youth empowerment\, and social change. López founded Project Luz\, w hich taught Mexican youth to document stories from within their communitie s. Her audio documentary “Deadly Divide: Migrant Death on the Border” rece ived the Society of Professional Journalists’ Excellence in Journalism Awa rd in 2015. López garnered support for her work from New Orleans Film Soci ety\, Chicken & Egg Pictures\, Black Public Media\, Southern Documentary F und\, Sundance Institute\, International Documentary Association\, Latino Public Broadcasting\, ITVS\, Firelight Media\, Creative Capital\, and othe rs.
\nDirector’s Statement:
\nIn 2019\, I was invited to speak at the Third Coast Confere nce for audio producers. The focus of my talk was to share more about my j ourney into filmmaking while maintaining roots in radio. After sharing “Si lent Beauty”\, a line of people waited to ask me questions. Three of them were survivors of child sexual abuse. One of them was Sophia.
\nSophia introduced herself as a survivor\, something she ha d never said out loud. She wanted to know more about my recovery so we kep t in touch\, and I offered any advice or resources I could. Two years late r\, I received the following message from Sophia:
\n“I am really proud of myself. Before meeting you\, and starting the rapy and even telling my sister\, I feel like my trauma was controlling me \, forcing me to relive my experience in secrecy and shame. At times\, I d efinitely still feel vulnerable\, but I feel stronger and more in control of my trauma\, knowing that I am in charge of how I define it\, not how it defines me.”
\nLike Sophia\, I was also an adult the first time I told my family that I had been sexually abused by m y grandfather. I did so because I didn’t want any children to experience w hat I had. I learned a lot about my family and myself that year–who else w as abused\, who would remain in my life\, and who would go. As difficult a s it all was\, I stood strong and eventually decided to make a film for ot her survivors.
\nI drew inspiration from films l ike Cecilia Aldarondo’s use of texture and process in “Memories of a Penit ent Heart”\; Rita Piffer’s poetic approach in “Ghost Syndrome”\; Azadeh Na vai’s use of light and simple potent imagery in “Remembering the Pentagons ”\; and Tatiana Huezo’s ability to create beauty out of pain in “The Tinie st Place.”
\nHealing justice has always been at the core of my work and “Silent Beauty.” My grandmothers have always lived in my artistic practices. They bring a gentleness\, a poeticism\, and a c uriosity far greater than they were ever allowed to pursue because they we re women.
\nI’m proud to share our voices\, our songs\, our joys\, and the strength of women in my family in “Silent Beaut y.”All the beauty that is a part of me.
\nMy gra ndfather filmed the majority of the archival footage\, depicting the perfe ct\, happy family life. I use that film archive to tell our truth. “Silent Beauty” is representative of a survivor’s experience: the reclaiming of a story.
\nI never would have predicted that exac tly eight years after disclosing to my family\, we would sit in a theater to watch the premiere of my first film\, our story.
\n— Jasmín Mara López\, Director and Producer
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