Global Education Center is excited to be a Screening Partner of the 2022-2023 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 and other Southern Circuit partners have 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 SOUTHERN CIRCUIT DOCUMENTARY FILMS IS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FISK UNIVERSITY AND IS MADE POSSIBLE BY SOUTH ARTS, a regional affiliate of National Endowment for the Arts. A list of the films is below - stay tuned for more details on each screening!
Our screenings are free, but we do gratefully accept donations which help keep our amazing Global programs coming!!! You can DONATE HERE
We also have an Indigenous film series as part of our Indigenous Voices project. These can be found on this page as well.
THIS SEASON OF SOUTHERN CIRCUIT DOCUMENTARY FILMS IS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FISK UNIVERSITY AND IS MADE POSSIBLE BY SOUTH ARTS, a regional affiliate of National Endowment for the Arts. A list of the films is below - stay tuned for more details on each screening!
Our screenings are free, but we do gratefully accept donations which help keep our amazing Global programs coming!!! You can DONATE HERE
We also have an Indigenous film series as part of our Indigenous Voices project. These can be found on this page as well.
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Women of the White Buffalo - Part of Indigenous Voices
1:00 pm screening on May 21 at Global Education Center Join Global Education Center for a screening of the film Women of the White Buffalo followed by a virtual post-film discussion with film director Deborah Anderson and two women from the film, SunRose IronShell and Delacina Chief Eagle. Click image to the left for film trailer. Short film synopsis: An ancient, Native, matriarchal society has been upended by centuries of genocide and colonialism. This has resulted in culturally sabotaged and isolated communities that are in a constant struggle to save what remains of their sacred identity. The Lakota women living on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian Reservations in South Dakota, are rising up against the forces that continue to suppress them. By preserving and protecting their ancestral values and wisdom, they provide a source of hope to their people. REFUGE
September 9, 2022 - 7:30 pm - In-person screening with post-film dialogue with Erin Bernhardt Directors: Erin Bernhardt and Din Blankenship Watch film trailer here. REFUGE is a story about fear and love in the American South. A leader in a white nationalist hate group finds healing from the people he once hated - a Muslim heart doctor and his town of refugees. REFUGE is set in the most diverse square mile in America - Clarkston, Georgia - and follows a Syrian Kurd, a former Klansman, and a town of refugees who seek belonging in a country that blames them for its problems. Swimming against the current of an increasingly polarized and isolated America, each must decide whether they will risk knowing and being known by those who oppose them. Ultimately, REFUGE uncovers what is possible when we leave the security of our tribes and what is at stake for our country if we don’t. REFUGE illustrates the false promises of hate and reveals where real and lasting refuge is found. Where there is love, there is refuge. STAY PRAYED UP - Please register here if attending community meal @ 6:00 pm prior to film!
October 7, 2022 - 7:00 pm - In-person screening with post-film dialogue at Howard Congregational Church, 2802 Buchanan Street with Producer and Film Protagonist Phil Cook A revered “Mother” to many in her community, Lena Mae Perry, 82, has lifted countless spirits with her booming voice as part of The Branchettes, a renowned North Carolina gospel trio. The Branchettes have recorded several studio albums and performed as far aways as Ireland over their 45 year history, but have never recorded a full live album. STAY PRAYED UP offers a heartwarming portrait of Perry as she prepares for a special live recorded performance, which turns out to be the last with her long-time piano player Wilbur Tharpe. An unlikely friendship with Phil Cook, a bandleader and producer half her age, and the surprising aspects of her ministry offer poignant meditations on faith far beyond the church door. OUTTA THE MUCK
November 4, 2022 - 7:30 pm - In-person screening Directors: Ira McKinley and Bhawin Suchak. Family, football and history come to life in an intimate portrait of the Dean family, longtime residents of the historic town of Pahokee, Florida. We take a journey back home, with filmmaker Ira McKinley, to the land of sugarcane, as he reconnects with his niece Bridget and nephew Alvin and explores their shared family history that spans seven generations. Told through stories that transcend space and time, Outta The Muck presents a community, and a family, that resists despair with love, remaining fiercely self-determined, while forging its own unique narrative of Black achievement. |
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HOME FROM SCHOOL
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 7:30 pm - In-person screening Director/Producers: Geoff O'Gara; Sophie Barksdale; Jordan Dresser (Northern Arapaho) Jordan Dresser will be our guest. A feature documentary that follows a delegation of Northern Arapaho tribal members traveling from Wyoming to Pennsylvania to retrieve remains of three children who died at Carlisle Indian Industrial school in the 1880s. The film dives into the complicated history of the off-reservation Indian boarding schools in the troubled years after the Indian Wars of the 19th century, when tribes were moved onto resource-starved reservations and children were taken away from the families, with the express aim to "kill the Indian in him, and save the man." Documenting the journey to retrieve the children provides a heart-wrenching lesson in how historic traumas haunt the present...and how they can be healed. |
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MAMA BEARS - This screening is filled to capacity!!!
March 10, 2023 - 7:30 pm - In-person screening; post-film dialogue with Liz Dyer; after party featuring short concert by singer/songwriter Jennifer Knapp Director: Daresha Kyi; Founder of Mama Bears Organization: Liz Dyer MAMA BEARS is an intimate, thought-provoking exploration of the journeys taken by two mothers from conservative, evangelical Christian backgrounds. whose profound love for their LGBTQ children has turned them into fierce advocates for the entire queer community. They are willing to risk losing friends, family, and faith communities to keep their offspring safe—even if it challenges their belief systems and rips their worlds apart. They are joined in their advocacy by a young African American lesbian whose struggle for self-acceptance perfectly exemplifies why the mama bears are so vitally important. HAZING
April 9, 2023 - 4:00 pm - In-person screening (date to be changed - stay tuned) Director: Byron Hurt Filmmaker Byron Hurt takes viewers with him on a journey to explore the culture of hazing. Byron talks to family members of deceased young people, as well as survivors, to reveal the underbelly of groups that haze. HAZING will take a fascinating look at identity, belonging, groupthink, control, power and dominance, bystander intervention, race and gender, and violence. |
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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