🎥✨ Grateful for Stories, Grateful for You!
Scribe Video Center has been a creative hub for 42 years, empowering storytellers from all walks of life via tools, trainings, and inspiration. Whether you’ve attended a workshop, joined a screening, supported a program, or donated in the past, you’ve been a part of this journey.
This giving season, help us continue making an impact and fueling opportunities for media-making, learning, and connection. Together, we can make 2025 another incredible year for storytelling.
Watch the video, feel the gratitude, and donate today at scribe.org/annual-appeal.
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TOMORROW (11/13) is the last day to apply for Scribe’s Film Scholars program!!
This program is designed to guide emerging documentary filmmakers from conceptualization through completion of their projects.
Participation in the program provides you with professional instruction, a cohort of peers for support, motivation and inspiration, the support of Scribe Video Center, the discounted rate on the workshops listed above as well as a discount on suggested supplementary workshops.
Link to apply: https://scribe.org/film-scholars-program
Scribe Video Center is excited to be sharing 3 nights with the work of Cameroonian film director and filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno. Teno will join us each night by Zoom from Cameroon. Please join us in celebrating the work of "one of Africa's most prolific filmmakers"!
Clip: Afrique, Je Te Plumerai 88 mins (1993): Teno uses Cameroon, the only African country colonized by three European powers (German, French, and British), for a carefully researched case study of the continuing damage done to traditional African societies by alien colonial and neo-colonial cultures.
This film will begin our retrospective, screening February 7 at 6:00. Don't miss it!
Register: https://scribe.org/events/body-work-jean-marie-t%C3%A9no
An absolute LEGEND of African Cinema is the focus of our next Body of Work 📽️ We are so excited to be presented a retrospective of Jean-Marie Teno.: February 7, 8 and 9.
Teno will join us each night by Zoom from Cameroon.
Jean-Marie Teno is known as Africa’s preeminent documentary filmmaker. Born in 1954 in Bandjoun, Cameroon, Teno began making films in 1984, and since then has been producing and directing documentaries deeply probing the colonial and post-colonial history of Africa. Teno synthesizes issues of race, cultural identity, African history, and contemporary politics through a unique and personal lens.
Learn more about the programs at scribe.org
This Friday! Don't miss - Storyville: With Hope (Work in Progress Screening)
“With Hope '' is a documentary film centering the experiences of BIPOC and LGBTQ+ people who reconnect to the natural world through the act of birding, and by doing so discover a profound sense of belonging, joy and hope. Featured in the film are members of a growing community of birders in the Philadelphia area, including: In Color Birding Club, Philly Queer Birders, and Feminist Bird Club Philly.
Matte Hewitt is a community-engaged documentary filmmaker, artist, environmentalist, and avid birder. Collectivism and the interconnectedness of humans and ecological systems drives their investigation. Their research interests include ornithology, queer ecology, ecofeminism, natural history, racial discourse, land use, and conservation psychology. Matte was a 2021-22 Scribe Film Scholar and a recipient of the 2022 Independent Creative Production Grant from the Penn Sachs Program for Arts Innovation.
Register: https://scribe.org/events/storyville-hope-work-progress-screening
Happy New Year from Scribe Video Center!
We hope you are enjoying this holiday season ✨🎇
Check out some snaps from our annual Winter Solstice Party and closing celebration for our Gary Smalls Gallery Project exhibit, Places of Power. We are so grateful to be in community with you!
We can't wait to share what is in store for the new year at Scribe. See you in 2024!📽️🎞️
Dear Scribe Family,
As I write this, my first thought is, wow, what an incredible year 2023 has been for Scribe! Forty years and counting, that's pretty impressive, to say the least. I get chills thinking about all the dope filmmakers that come through that Scribe door--the creative artists, DHPY teens exploring and embodying their production skills, past panel discussions, hybrid screenings, Scribe's fabulous curators and staff, the community outreach, and all who gather to check out what's going on at Sribe and WPEB!
It's all because of you and your support, so thank you so much for your donation this year!
Peace and Gratitude,
Cedra Walton
Development Associate @ Scribe
