Global Education Center is excited to be a Screening Partner of the 2020-2021 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers, a film series that brings the best of new independent film to communities across the South. The Circuit takes the audience away from their televisions, computers, tablets and phones to connect them with independent filmmakers – live! Southern Circuit transforms watching film from a solitary experience into a communal one. Global Education Center has chosen a diverse array of films that will provide audiences with the opportunity to meet filmmakers and learn about the art of film making; and encourage community engagement using film as a conduit for discussions about social and community issues.
THIS SEASON OF DOCUMENTARY FILMS IS MADE POSSIBLE BY SOUTH ARTS, a regional affiliate of National Endowment for the Arts.
SPECIAL VIRTUAL FILM SCREENING ON SEPTEMBER 15 @ 6:00 pm - Coded Bias will be the first film in our season, screened virtually with a virtual Q & A with film director Shalini Kantayya. It will also be available online on September 20 at 4 pm.
THIS SEASON OF DOCUMENTARY FILMS IS MADE POSSIBLE BY SOUTH ARTS, a regional affiliate of National Endowment for the Arts.
SPECIAL VIRTUAL FILM SCREENING ON SEPTEMBER 15 @ 6:00 pm - Coded Bias will be the first film in our season, screened virtually with a virtual Q & A with film director Shalini Kantayya. It will also be available online on September 20 at 4 pm.
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Hurdle
October 10, 2020 4:30 pm Director: Michael Rowley Hurdle reveals a riveting story emerging from Palestinian youth living under Israeli military occupation. The new generation responds to a world of walls, checkpoints and arrests in an unexpected and inspiring way. Hurdle’s protagonists, Sami and Mohammad, begin teaching the creative practices of parkour (the sport of moving rapidly through an urban environment while negotiating obstacles by running, jumping, and climbing) and photography, respectively, to the youth of their communities as a means to overcome the personal and political obstacles that often feel inescapable. Fandango at the Wall
November 7, 2020 4:30 pm Director: Varda Bar-Kar Fandango at the Wall delves into the lives and music of the masters of a three-hundred-year-old Mexican folk musical tradition—called son jarocho—who join New York City maestro Arturo O’Farrill and his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra for the historical music festival “Fandango Fronterizo.” This festival takes place simultaneously on both sides of the United States-Mexico border transforming the wall from an object that divides into one that unites. Cane Fire
February 13, 2021 4:30 pm Director: Anthony Banua-Simon The Hawaiian island of Kauai is seen as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyper-exploitation of workers, and destructive environmental extraction that have shaped life on the island for the last 250 years. Cane Fire critically examines the island’s history—and the various strategies by which Hollywood has represented it—through four generations of director Anthony Banua-Simon’s family, who first immigrated to Kauai from the Philippines to work on the sugar plantations. Warrior Women
March 6, 2021 4:30 pm Directors: Christina D. King & Elizabeth A. Castle Warrior Women is the story of Madonna Thunder Hawk, one such AIM leader who shaped a kindred group of activists' children - including her daughter Marcy - into the "We Will Remember" Survival School as a Native alternative to government-run education. Together, Madonna and Marcy fought for Native rights in an environment that made them more comrades than mother-daughter. Today, with Marcy now a mother herself, both are still at the forefront of Native issues, fighting against the environmental devastation of the Dakota Access Pipeline and for Indigenous cultural values. |
Socks on Fire
April 17, 2021
4:30 pm
Director: Bo McGuire
A poet composes a cinematic love letter to his grandmother as his homophobic aunt and drag queen uncle wage war over her estate in Hokes Bluff, Alabama. Socks on Fire is a lyrical testament to Southern women couched in the battle for my grandmother’s throne. I returned home from New York City to find that my Aunt Sharon, my favorite childhood relative, had locked her gay, drag-queen brother, my Uncle John, out of the family home. As a queer Southerner, who can be both equally protective and skeptical of the South, Aunt Sharon stoked a fire within me to document the place and the people I call home. Through a series of stylized reenactments spun in with family VHS footage, Socks on Fire documents the fluidity of identity, personality, and performance in my hometown among my Mama’s people.
April 17, 2021
4:30 pm
Director: Bo McGuire
A poet composes a cinematic love letter to his grandmother as his homophobic aunt and drag queen uncle wage war over her estate in Hokes Bluff, Alabama. Socks on Fire is a lyrical testament to Southern women couched in the battle for my grandmother’s throne. I returned home from New York City to find that my Aunt Sharon, my favorite childhood relative, had locked her gay, drag-queen brother, my Uncle John, out of the family home. As a queer Southerner, who can be both equally protective and skeptical of the South, Aunt Sharon stoked a fire within me to document the place and the people I call home. Through a series of stylized reenactments spun in with family VHS footage, Socks on Fire documents the fluidity of identity, personality, and performance in my hometown among my Mama’s people.
This program is made possible with support from South Arts, an affiliate of National Endowment for the Arts, as well as Tennessee Arts Commission, Metro Arts: Nashville Office of Arts and Culture, and HCA Healthcare/TriStar Health.
LocationGlobal Education Center
4822 Charlotte Ave. Nashville, TN 37209 Most events will be held at Global Education Center. Street parking is available as well as across the street at Richland Park. We are also on the #10 bus line, with a stop directly in front of our main building and #50 bus, with a stop two blocks away. For any help with transportation or parking, please email info@globaleducationcenter.org for more information. |
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This program is made possible with support from South Arts, an affiliate of the National Endowment of the Arts, in partnership with Metro Nashville Arts Commission, Tennessee Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts.
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