Front
SYNOPSIS
PROFILED is a 53 minute documentary about racial profiling and police brutality.
PROFILED knits the stories of mothers of black and Latin youth murdered by the NYPD into a powerful indictment of racial profiling and police brutality, and places them within a historical context of the roots of racism in the U.S.
Ranging from the routine harassment of minority students in an affluent Brooklyn neighborhood to the killings and protests in Staten Island and Ferguson, Missouri, Profiled bears witness to the racist violence that remains an everyday reality for black and Latin people in this country and gives us a window on one of the burning issues of our time
We experience the grief families suffer in the face of such tragedies, the struggles women confront raising children in segregated neighborhoods that present few options for the young, and their anger at a justice system that often seems pitted against them.
The women organize vigils and rallies to keep the memory of their loved ones alive and seek indictments of the officers responsible for the deaths. As their demands for justice are ignored we see them transition from grieving parents to activists who join the growing grass roots movement against police brutality and racial profiling that, since the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown is now spreading across the country.
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A new Study Guide has been developed as a tool to help educators and community groups use the film to stimulate discussion about the critical issues of race and racism in the U.S. This is an invaluable resource for classrooms and organizations seeking to encourage dialogue and spark change. Preview the guide now and receive a complete version when you purchase a copy of the film.
News
NEWS
PROFILED, has been selected as the Honorable Mention the Short Documentary Category of the 2018 Newark Black Film Festival Paul Robeson Awards competition. The Newark Black Film Festival established the awards in honor of Paul Robeson, anti-racist revolutionary, scholar, performer and athlete, who inspired generations of activists world-wide. Organized by the Newark Museum, the Festival, now in its 43rd year, has provided a progressive public forum for hundreds of emerging writers, directors, producers, performers, and film patrons who enjoy black cinema.
The Award Ceremony and Screenings will take place on Wednesday, August 8, 2018 4:30 pm Awards Ceremony at the Newark Museum, 49 Washington Street, Newark NJ 7:30 pm Film Screenings and Q&A at CityPlex 12, 360–394 Springfield Avenue, Newark NJ
PROFILED, now in its second year of distribution, continues to be picked up by colleges and educational institutions and has been included by its distributor Women Make Movies in their 2018 catalogue.
wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c942.shtml
PROFILED is now available on 
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PROFILED will be screened at the Brazilian International Labor Film Festival in São Paulo on May 23rd. The organizers of the festival have produced a Portuguese subtitled version of PROFILED and have invited community organizations to the screening so that the film reaches beyond the academic/film audience to working class communities whose language is Portuguese and who are most affected by the issues of race and racism. Please share this event with Brazilian contacts.
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When the Black Law Students Association showed PROFILED at Touro Law last November students were empowered by the film, which inspired a progressively healing conversation on campus.
At their annual Gala on March 29th the Black Law Students Association is presenting me with an award for the work I did on PROFILED.
PERFILADO PROFILED now available with Spanish subtitles. Contact Women Make Movies for sales and rentals.
PROFILED featured in WMM’s recently released 2018 catalogue. http://bit.ly/WMM2017Cat
TWO ESSENTIAL FILMS EXPLORING RACE AND RACISM IN THE UNITED STATES
To encourage dialogue around these critical issues, we’re extending a special Buy One Get One Free offer for PROFILED and SOUTHERN RITES
PROFILED
A film by Kathleen Foster
NEW STUDY GUIDE NOW AVAILABLE!
An urgent and powerful indictment of racial profiling and police brutality, PROFILED tells the stories of mothers of Black and Latino youth murdered by the NYPD and places them within a historical context of the roots of racism in the U.S. Ranging from the routine harassment of minority students in an affluent Brooklyn neighborhood to the killings and protests in Staten Island and Ferguson, PROFILED bears witness to the racist violence that remains an everyday reality for many in this country.
A new Study Guide has been developed as a tool to help educators and community groups use the film to stimulate discussion about the critical issues of race and racism in the U.S. This is an invaluable resource for classrooms and organizations seeking to encourage dialogue and spark change.
Preview the guide now and receive a complete version when you purchase a copy of the film.
“Vibrant, empathetic, and intelligently realized work.” – Michael Royce, Executive Director, New York Foundation for the Arts
Order the DVD | Watch the Trailer
SOUTHERN RITES
A film by Gillian Laub
SOUTHERN RITES is an eye-opening look at the systemic prejudices and ingrained biases that have divided a county in Georgia along racial lines for generations. In 2009, The New York Times Magazine published filmmaker Gillian Laub’s controversial images of Montgomery County High School’s racially segregated proms. A media furor ensued, and the town was forced to integrate the proms the following year. When Laub returned to document the changes, she stumbled upon two stories: the case surrounding the murder of an unarmed Black man by a white town patriarch, and a historic campaign by a police chief to become the county’s first African-American sheriff. Through her hauntingly intimate portrait, Laub reveals the horror and humanity of these complex, intertwined narratives and ultimately asks whether a new generation can build a different future from the racist foundations of its past.
“Riveting. Digs deep to expose the roots that have made segregated proms and other affronts possible. A portrait of the inequities that lead to disaster on the streets of cities like Baltimore and Ferguson.” – The New York Times
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SPECIAL OFFER:
Buy one of the titles above at full price and get the other for free. Use promo code PROFILE18. Offer expires 2/28/18.
About WMM: For more than 40 years, Women Make Movies (WMM) has helped elevate diverse women directors and producers and improved equity in the film industry. The largest distributor of films by and about women in the world, WMM also supports hundreds of independent filmmakers each year with our highly successful Production Assistance Program.
Sales and Rentals
SALES AND RENTALS
PROFILED is being distributed by Women Make Movies
Catalogue page: wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c942.shtml
For sales and rentals, contact WMM by phone or email:
212.925.0606 x 360 orders@wmm.com
PERFILADO PROFILED now available with Spanish subtitles.
Screenings
SCREENINGS
At PROFILED’s many screenings in colleges, community centers, museums, and film festivals around the country, audiences have been inspired by the strength and courage of the families and friends of victims. Screenings have generated thought-provoking post-screening discussions about the roots and consequences of racial discrimination within U.S. society and within the law enforcement system, and they have motivated multiracial audiences to find ways to work for change.
To make the film easily accessible, Women Make Movies has put together a one page new website for the film where people will be able to request a screening, artwork for publicity material, synopsis of the film, speakers for a post-screening discussion.
To book a screening in your area, go to Women Make Movies
To host a theatrical screening contact: TUGG or profiledthedocumentary@gmail.com
2018 Newark Black Film Festival
Paul Robeson Award
Newark Museum,
49 Washington Street,
Newark NJ
Wednesday August 8th, 2018
2018 Brazilian International Labour Film Festival
Espaço Cultural Casa do Lago
University of Campinas – UNICAMP
Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
University of Campinas – UNICAMP
Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Thursday May 24th, 2018
Black Lives Matter At School Week
Chicago Teachers Union Center
1901 W. Carroll Ave.
Chicago, IL 60612
Monday February 5th, 2018
Touro Law School
Black Law Students Association
225 Eastview Drive
Central Islip, New York 11722
November 6, 2017
ALBA Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
“Impugning Impunity”
Downtown Community Television Center
87 Lafayette St.
New York, NY 10013
September 23, 2017
Alliance of Families for Justice
Trinity Episcopal Church
Saugerties, NY
September 6, 2017
Newark Antiviolence Coalition
Centennial Hall
The Newark Public Library
5 Washington Street, Newark, NJ
August 26, 2017
American Psychological Association’s Film Festival
750 First St. NE, Washington, DC
August 6, 2017
Black History Studies Film Festival
Upstairs at the Ritzy
Ritzy Picturehouse, Brixton Oval,
Coldharbour Lane, London, SW2 1JG
Saturday 6th May 2017, 12p.m.
Brooklyn Prospect Charter School
3002 Fort Hamilton Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11218
Fri. Mar. 17, 2017
9:00 am
College of Staten Island
Presented by the Department of Sociology & Anthropology
2800 Victory Blvd.
Performing Arts Center, 1P, Room 119
Staten Island, NY 10314
Weds. Mar. 8, 2017
6:30 pm
Purdue University Northwest Social Justice Club
Hammond Campus
Room with a View, Student Union Library Building
2200 169th Street
Hammond, IN 46323-2094
Thurs. Feb. 16, 2017
6:00 pm
Rutgers Law School
Baker Trial Room, 1st Floor
123 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102
Monday, Feb. 27, 2017
6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Essex County College
Smith Hall
303 University Ave.
Newark, NJ 07102-1719
Monday, Feb. 27, 2017
Continually screening,
10:00AM to 7:05 pm
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Harlem
521 W. 126 St.,
New York, NY 10027
Fri. Jan.13, 2017
Double Bill POINT OF ATTACK and PROFILED
The Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies SUNY/Empire State College
325 Hudson Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10013
January 19, 2017
Kingsborough Community College
City University of New York
2001 Oriental Boulevard, M-391
Brooklyn, NY 11235
November 28th 3PM – 5PM
Ramapo College, NJ
Cinematheque and Special Programs
& Fall 2016 Schomburg Series Present:
The Homeland Generation –
Legacies of 9/11 Fifteen Years Later
Co-Sponsored by Law &
Society Program. SCOTUS, and Platinum Fund
November 10th & 15th
UIS School of Public Health, Chicago
November 16th
Amnesty International Reel
Awareness Film Festival, Toronto
Nov 17-19th
Black History Studies Film
Festival, London, UK
November 12th
The Unitarian Society of Ridgewood
November 4th, 7pm
Park Slope United Methodist
Church, Brooklyn
October 21st, 2016, 7pm
410 6th Avenue, at
8th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Hostos College
October 20th
The Association
for the Study of African American Life & History
ASALH FILM
FESTIVAL 2016
October 8th, 2016
https://asalh100.org
The Brooklyn
Museum
October 1 2016
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/
“If You See Something, Say Something.”
Wednesday September
28. 6:30 PM
Verso Books
20 Jay
Street, 10th Floor, Suite 1010
Brooklyn, NY – Map
Worcester State University
Thursday Sept 22nd
1pm
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester Ma.
Thursday September 22. 7pm
Roxbury Community College, Boston
Sept. 21st 1pm and 7pm
Building 3 Room
424
The Rosendale Theatre
408 Main Street,
Rosendale, NY 12472
August 24th, 2016
www.rosendaletheatre.org
SUNY at Stony Brook LI
How Class Works 2016
Conference
June 10th, 2016
http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/workingclass/hcw2016.html
Park Slope Collegiate
Sponsored by the Len Ragozin
Foundation
June 3rd, 2016
http://www.parkslopecollegiate.org/#!Profiled-Screening-and-Discussion….
Left Forum
Sponsored by the Theater of the Oppressed
Laboratory
May 20-22nd, 2016
http://www.leftforum.org
Cinema Village
Sponsored by Workers Unite Film
Festival 2016
May 7th, 2016
http://www.workersunitefilmfestival.org/
Daniel Arts Center, Simon’s Rock at Bard College
Sponsored by Berkshire Human Rights Speaker Series 2016 – BLACK LIVES MATTER
March 6th, 2016
https://www.facebook.com/BerkshireHumanRightsSpeakerSeries/
8th Floor Gallery Rubin Museum
January 27th, 2016
the8thfloor.org
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History & Culture,
Maryland
MLK Birthday Celebration
Jan 16th, 2016
http://www.lewismuseum.org/event/2015/mlk-celebration-2016
Work-in-progress screenings
Maryland Institute College of Art,
Baltimore
“Women’s-Voices-Racial-Profiling-and-Police-Brutality
November 10th 2015
https://www.mica.edu/
Communication Arts Cinematheque
Ramapo College, NJ
April 16th 2015
http://www.ramapo.edu
Stills From PROFILED
Reviews
REVIEWS
“Unlike the dozens of films out there documenting the most recent wave of racist state violence, Kathleen Foster’s “Profiled” is neither tragedy nor spectacle. It is inspirational. The mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, teachers, students, artists, neighbors, and organizers who tell their stories share a single message: mourn and organize, unite and fight. This stops today.”
Robin D.G. Kelley, PhD, Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, University of California at Los Angeles
“Our student body was extremely empowered by PROFILED. The film inspired such a progressively healing conversation on our campus.”
Jazmine Kendrick, President, Black Law Students Association, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, LI
“The film is a powerful presentation of the pain and disappointment felt by families that have been touched by police violence . . .and is another link in a chain that might be used to pull us from the abyss of inhumanity (represented by police violence) that we’ve been grappling with for soooo long.”
Dr. Delores Jones-Brown, Professor, Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration,
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.
“My favorite aspect of the film is that it centers the narrative around the families of those who have been murdered by police. It’s the perspective that gets lost within all the media tirades.”
Joel Diaz, Education Associate, Schomburg Center
“Set in current day, following the deaths of Shantel Davis, Eric Garner, and numerous individuals dying in interactions with police, this thought-provoking film shows the continued stark disparities in our racial justice system, particularly against African Americans and Latinos. The documentary shows that the issue is not a new one; rather it aims to keep our attention trained on it so that we may create solutions.”
Helen Yuen,
Director of Marketing
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, Baltimore
“Profiled is a powerful documentary and a crucial contribution to the discussion of race and racism in America – both in terms of its economic and ideological impact. There are two features that I find most compelling in this documentary. First, it gives a voice to the family, friends, and community members of the Young men and women who have been killed by the police. Second, it provides interviews and evidence of the roots and importance of racism in American history from the beginning as a specific strategy of power elites to keep the American working-class divided by race to weaken their ability to improve the lives of themselves and their children.”
Pat Keeton
Professor of Communication Arts
Ramapo College of New Jersey
“Excellent! A very real film showing statistics and accurate data of how our families were brutalized then, during our ancestors’ time and now! This has to stop! We are more than hashtags and body bags!”
Tawanda Jones, community activist, Baltimore. Sister of Tyrone West who died in police custody 2013.
Jones has been recognized by the local branch of the NAACP and Johns Hopkins University for her dedication to social justice.
“Kathleen Foster’s superb documentary is part anthropology, part history and completely on message for here and NOW. The film’s topic is extraordinarily relevant as racial profiling has certainly become the center of explosive controversy in media and society. A must see !
Berkshire Human Rights Speaker Series 2016 – BLACK LIVES MATTER — PROFILED, screened for International Women’s Day 2016.
Ricky Bernstein -Series coordinator.
“We showed a portion of the film to a group of about 60 young adults as part of a speaker series we run in the school library. After the forum, I had several students come up to me asking when they could see the whole film as they were so intrigued by the clip they had viewed. This is the sign of a good film, when the audience is left wanting more.”
Kara Staunton-Shron, Librarian,
Monument Mountain Regional High School, MA
TEAM
Adam Goebler, Production Assistant
Aviva Skye Tilson, Production Assistant
Don Mount, Camera
Dominique Spooner, Production Assistant
Fivel Rothenberg, Camera
Harold Batista, Sound
Jesus Villalba, Camera, Editing Assistant
Julia Brown, Production Assistant
Kelly Spivey, Editing Associate
Kjerstin Rossi, Camera
Marcelle Bonaparte, Camera
Messiah Rhodes, Camera, Editing Assistant
Samantha Riddell, Camera, Editing Assistant.
Shanika Powell, Camera
Other Films
PAST FILMS BY KATHLEEN FOSTER
10 YEARS ON, AFGHANISTAN & PAKISTAN, 2011 35 minutes
After more than a decade of war, deadly drone and military attacks spread the conflict across the Afghan border into Pakistan. Afghans struggle to change a world increasingly dominated by violence and corruption. Pakistani workers and peasants fight back against worsening economic times with militant strikes and protests. In the film, Afghan and Pakistani women comment on the continuing struggle of women resulting from this War on Terror. They discuss the implications of U.S. plans to make a deal with the Taliban, and give insight into U.S. involvement in the region. Activists call for building an international grassroots movement, their demands for economic and social justice echoing the demands of protesters in the Occupy Wall Street movements.
"The film is really very good. The footage is stunning. What is clear as rain in the film is that it is the people who should matter, and that it is the people who do matter given that they are the ones who are acting politically, bravely."
DR. VIJAY PRASHAD, Director, International Studies, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Author, Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today
AFGHAN WOMEN: A HISTORY OF STRUGGLE, 2007, 69 minutes
This timely documentary dramatizes the tale of a remarkable group of women and how their courage and commitment to change their lives and country has passed from one generation to the next. Their disturbing and amazing stories reflect the recent history of Afghanistan during a quarter-century of cataclysm: from proxy war to civil war, from a Soviet-backed regime to the oppressive rule of the Taliban, and to U.S. military intervention and the current sway of regional warlords in a climate of general instability.
The authors of American War Cinema and Media Since Vietnam (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) cited Afghan Women: A History of Struggle as one of only three films that "challenge the dominant ideologies found in contemporary mainstream American war films."
Drawing a line from the Cold War to the "War on Terror," Foster challenges viewers to examine how Afghan women have continually born the duel costs of American imperial ambitions on the one side, and the barbarity of feudal war lords on the other.
PRERANA REDDY, Director of Public Events, Queens Museum of Art.
Highly Recommended. Educational Media Reviews Online
POINT OF ATTACK, 2004, 46 minutes (also available in Spanish)
Trump's attacks on Muslims and immigrants today are rooted in the Patriot Act and legislation passed after 9/11. This led to the racial profiling, large-scale roundups, detentions, and mass deportations of Arab, Muslim, and South Asian men and the first Muslim registry! Point of Attack is about that time, and the resistance that was mounted by immigration lawyers, students and community activists. Although the "point of attack" of these laws are Muslims, then and now, the broader undermining of basic freedoms for all of us is explored.
This film is as timely now as it was then!
"This important film is a damning indictment of how the government over-reacted after 9/11, singling out and targeting people who had nothing to do with terrorism. It should have the widest possible distribution and viewing by the American public."
ABDEEN JABARA, Civil Rights Attorney, Past President American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
"This hard-hitting indictment of racial and ethnic profiling in the U.S. paints a shocking picture of the erosion of personal freedom in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The film’s message is both important and frightening."
—BOOKLIST
American Library Association’s Notable film List of 2005
NICARAGUA: RECLAIMING THE REVOLUTION, 2001, 49 minutes (also available in Spanish)
Twenty years after the Sandinista revolution, a group of social activists from a Brooklyn, New York church, visit their sister-church in Managua. As they travel around the country, a stark portrait of current conditions in Nicaragua emerges. Their hosts talk about how and why the revolution failed and of their continuing struggle to fulfill their dreams of a just society. Barriers of language, national borders, race and religion are overcome as global friendships are cemented and a renewed commitment to fight for social change is made.
Distributed by Latin American Video Archives.
Nicaragua: Reclaiming the Revolution "has captured complexities of the political evolution of the FSLN that have eluded some academic writers. Stills and video are used deftly to show the tumultuous history of Nicaragua in the 1980's."
MATILDE ZIMMERMANN, author of Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution
(Duke University Press 2000)
"Clearly articulating the devastating effect of the global economy on local communities, this powerful film demonstrates the value of cross-cultural relationships and shows one community's desire to make a difference beyond charity towards change."
REV. DAVID DYSON, pastor Lafayette Ave. Presbyterian Church, People of Faith Network.
LESSONS FROM CLASS STRUGGLE, 1998, 46 minutes (also available in Spanish)
The film follows the yearlong battle waged by parents, students and teachers to stop budget cuts to New York City's already devastated public schools.
Distributed by Third World Newsreel.
"A powerful film that forces all the basic issues about racial justice. Students and teachers speak with eloquence and urgency about realities they know first hand. No euphemisms. No evasions. No clichés. It has the ring of truth."
JONATHON KOZOL, educator, author of Savage Inequalities, Death At An Early Age.
"Kathleen Foster has produced and directed a video that focuses on a REAL issue of public import…that the belief in justice and equality and resistance to their absence did not die with the movements of the 1960's."
NANCY BUNCH, Dean Empire State College, SUNY
COAL WARS: THE BATTLE IN RUM CREEK, 1992, 28 minutes
Filmed in an isolated hollow of West Virginia, this documentary shows the violent clash between miners and the two giant coal companies that dominate their lives during a 1989-1990 strike. Wives of the striking miners and a Black retired miner tell the story.
Distributed by Filmakers Library.
"Kathleen Foster blends echoes of the 1921 Blair Mountain strike with a contemporary sense of the declining strength of national unions." D. LEDBETTER, Village Voice.
MOMA, What's Happening series 1993. In the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City
For purchasing information please contact, kathleen.foster@gmail.com
Past Films By Kathleen Foster
PAST FILMS BY KATHLEEN FOSTER
10 YEARS ON, AFGHANISTAN & PAKISTAN, 2011 35 minutes
After more than a decade of war, deadly drone and military attacks spread the conflict across the Afghan border into Pakistan. Afghans struggle to change a world increasingly dominated by violence and corruption. Pakistani workers and peasants fight back against worsening economic times with militant strikes and protests. In the film, Afghan and Pakistani women comment on the continuing struggle of women resulting from this War on Terror. They discuss the implications of U.S. plans to make a deal with the Taliban, and give insight into U.S. involvement in the region. Activists call for building an international grassroots movement, their demands for economic and social justice echoing the demands of protesters in the Occupy Wall Street movements.
"The film is really very good. The footage is stunning. What is clear as rain in the film is that it is the people who should matter, and that it is the people who do matter given that they are the ones who are acting politically, bravely."
DR. VIJAY PRASHAD, Director, International Studies, Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Author, Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today
AFGHAN WOMEN: A HISTORY OF STRUGGLE, 2007, 69 minutes
This timely documentary dramatizes the tale of a remarkable group of women and how their courage and commitment to change their lives and country has passed from one generation to the next. Their disturbing and amazing stories reflect the recent history of Afghanistan during a quarter-century of cataclysm: from proxy war to civil war, from a Soviet-backed regime to the oppressive rule of the Taliban, and to U.S. military intervention and the current sway of regional warlords in a climate of general instability.
The authors of American War Cinema and Media Since Vietnam (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) cited Afghan Women: A History of Struggle as one of only three films that "challenge the dominant ideologies found in contemporary mainstream American war films."
Drawing a line from the Cold War to the "War on Terror," Foster challenges viewers to examine how Afghan women have continually born the duel costs of American imperial ambitions on the one side, and the barbarity of feudal war lords on the other.
PRERANA REDDY, Director of Public Events, Queens Museum of Art.
Highly Recommended. Educational Media Reviews Online
POINT OF ATTACK, 2004, 46 minutes (also available in Spanish)
Trump's attacks on Muslims and immigrants today are rooted in the Patriot Act and legislation passed after 9/11. This led to the racial profiling, large-scale roundups, detentions, and mass deportations of Arab, Muslim, and South Asian men and the first Muslim registry! Point of Attack is about that time, and the resistance that was mounted by immigration lawyers, students and community activists. Although the "point of attack" of these laws are Muslims, then and now, the broader undermining of basic freedoms for all of us is explored.
This film is as timely now as it was then!
"This important film is a damning indictment of how the government over-reacted after 9/11, singling out and targeting people who had nothing to do with terrorism. It should have the widest possible distribution and viewing by the American public."
ABDEEN JABARA, Civil Rights Attorney, Past President American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
"This hard-hitting indictment of racial and ethnic profiling in the U.S. paints a shocking picture of the erosion of personal freedom in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The film’s message is both important and frightening."
—BOOKLIST
American Library Association’s Notable film List of 2005
NICARAGUA: RECLAIMING THE REVOLUTION, 2001, 49 minutes (also available in Spanish)
Twenty years after the Sandinista revolution, a group of social activists from a Brooklyn, New York church, visit their sister-church in Managua. As they travel around the country, a stark portrait of current conditions in Nicaragua emerges. Their hosts talk about how and why the revolution failed and of their continuing struggle to fulfill their dreams of a just society. Barriers of language, national borders, race and religion are overcome as global friendships are cemented and a renewed commitment to fight for social change is made.
Distributed by Latin American Video Archives.
Nicaragua: Reclaiming the Revolution "has captured complexities of the political evolution of the FSLN that have eluded some academic writers. Stills and video are used deftly to show the tumultuous history of Nicaragua in the 1980's."
MATILDE ZIMMERMANN, author of Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution
(Duke University Press 2000)
"Clearly articulating the devastating effect of the global economy on local communities, this powerful film demonstrates the value of cross-cultural relationships and shows one community's desire to make a difference beyond charity towards change."
REV. DAVID DYSON, pastor Lafayette Ave. Presbyterian Church, People of Faith Network.
LESSONS FROM CLASS STRUGGLE, 1998, 46 minutes (also available in Spanish)
The film follows the yearlong battle waged by parents, students and teachers to stop budget cuts to New York City's already devastated public schools.
Distributed by Third World Newsreel.
"A powerful film that forces all the basic issues about racial justice. Students and teachers speak with eloquence and urgency about realities they know first hand. No euphemisms. No evasions. No clichés. It has the ring of truth."
JONATHON KOZOL, educator, author of Savage Inequalities, Death At An Early Age.
"Kathleen Foster has produced and directed a video that focuses on a REAL issue of public import…that the belief in justice and equality and resistance to their absence did not die with the movements of the 1960's."
NANCY BUNCH, Dean Empire State College, SUNY
COAL WARS: THE BATTLE IN RUM CREEK, 1992, 28 minutes
Filmed in an isolated hollow of West Virginia, this documentary shows the violent clash between miners and the two giant coal companies that dominate their lives during a 1989-1990 strike. Wives of the striking miners and a Black retired miner tell the story.
Distributed by Filmakers Library.
"Kathleen Foster blends echoes of the 1921 Blair Mountain strike with a contemporary sense of the declining strength of national unions." D. LEDBETTER, Village Voice.
MOMA, What's Happening series 1993. In the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City
For purchasing information please contact, kathleen.foster@gmail.com
CONTACT
profiledthedocumentary@gmail.com
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