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EXHIBITION » The Territory Season 29 » The Territory Season 28
| SWAMP is committed to the film and video art of this region, the artists producing independent images, and to the cultivation of an engaged audience. SWAMP encourages the development of audiences who seek out artistic voices that reflect, celebrate, and examine the cultural, social and political diversity of their localities.
Where: KLRU - Austin THE TERRITORY is the longest running public television showcase of independent film/video in the country. The half-hour 13-part Texas PBS series showcases new directions in film, video, and digital media. ~Check out our new website for THE TERRITORY! www.theterritory.tv ~Become a "fan" of THE TERRITORY on Facebook. THE TERRITORY is produced by SWAMP, the Austin Museum of Art and Houston PBS, in cooperation with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. For more information on current and past seasons or how to submit your short film or video for broadcast consideration, explore the links to the left.
» SPECIAL SCREENINGS CREATIVE METHODS IN FILM Four prominent African American media artists will screen a selection of their work and discuss their creative choices throughout the filmmaking process. Sam Pollard, a longtime Spike Lee associate, is now editing the definitive Barack Obama documentary for HBO. Judy Richardson will premiere The Orangeburg Massacre later in July at the upcoming NAACP annual conference. Carroll Parrott Blue is preparing a Third Ward Community Story website. John Simmons, ASC is the Director of Photography for the Jonas Brothers TV series. Schedule:
Mr. Pollard began this journey in 1972 as an apprentice in a WNET-sponsored film-training workshop. Under the tutelage of a number of veterans in independent filmmaking, he spent the remainder of the 1970s polishing his editing skills on everything from celebrity profiles to Dateline: Israel, a film series about the history of Jerusalem. His feature experience as an editor started in the mid- 1970s with films like Just Crazy About Horses, Body and Soul, Private Resort and Style Wars. In between films, throughout the 1980s, he edited for the highly acclaimed children's programs NBC's Vegetable Soup and The Children's Television Workshop's 3-2-1-Contact for which he received two Emmys. In the early 1990s, there was Fires In The Mirror, a performance art film directed by George Wolfe, starring Anna Deveare Smith. In 1993, he produced for The American Experience a documentary called, Goin' Back to T-Town, about life in a black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma during legal segregation. From time to time, he serves on advisory committees for the National Endowment for the Humanities; National Endowment for the Arts; or the Independent Television Service (ITVS).
Blue is an award-winning filmmaker, author and interactive multimedia producer. Her interactive multimedia works include Third Ward StoryMapping Project, The Third Ward Online Tour Website, The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing Book’s DVD-ROM/Website, and The Dubai-Orlando Project. Her Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television programs include NOVA’s Mystery of the Senses: Vision, Smithsonian World’s Nigerian Arts-Kindred Spirits, Conversations with Roy DeCarava and Varnette’s World: A Story of a Young Artist. As an author Blue blends text, stills, graphics and moving image in traditional and new media formats. Her interactive multimedia project, The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing, is a combination book, DVD-ROM, and website. In 2004, the American Library Association selected Dawn as one of the 30 best American Association of University Press publications. Dawn’s DVD-ROM won the 2004 Sundance Online Film Festival Jury Award. ABOUT JOHN SIMMONS Simmons is a graduate of Fisk University with a degree in Fine Arts. He also has an degree in cinematography from USC. He teaches cinematography and has been a faculty member of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television since 1992.
Simmons is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) and The Directors Guild of America (DGA). His extensive resume includes feature films, commercials, music videos, television shows and documentaries. His first feature film was “Once Upon A Time When We Were Colored,” directed by Tim Reid. John’s current project is the new Jonas Brothers show for The Disney Channel. (Photo credit: Alex Pitt)
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Judy Richardson began her film work with the Academy Award-nominated, 14-hour PBS series, Eyes on the Prize. As a Senior Producer with Northern Light Productions she produces African American historical documentaries for TV and museums. Recent productions include the 2-hour History Channel film, Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters and the National Park Service’s Little Rock Nine Visitor Center. She was a staff worker with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) for three years in the early 1960’s in Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama; was a founder in 1968 of the country’s largest African American bookstore; and Director of Information for the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice. She lectures and conducts teacher workshops on the Civil Rights Movement. She and five other female SNCC activists have edited Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC forthcoming on University of Illinois Press. (Photo Credit: Don West).jpg)
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ABOUT CARROLL PARROTT BLUE
