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
TODAY!
Do you have a great idea for a podcast series, radio program, or audio documentary? Take Designing Your Audio Storytelling Project Workshop, starting this Thursday!
This three-week workshop with award-winning audio producer Alex Lewis will help you wrangle those concepts into cohesive and executable production plans. This course will give you strategies for focusing your story ideas, cover how to create production calendars and workflows, and, ultimately, demonstrate how to design a project that strikes at the heart of your inspiration.
Register: https://scribe.org/events/designing-your-audio-storytelling-project-workshop
Join us Dec 8 at 7:00 in celebrating a true force in the Philly arts community: Germaine Ingram.
Storyville: Dedicated to showcasing contemporary films and media works produced by Philadelphia-based independent media artists.
This edition of Storyville is curated by local cultural producer Germaine Ingram, showing Cover Your Stage and Plenty of Good Women Dancers (2004, 53 min.) produced with Debora Kodish and Barry Dornfeld.
Germaine Ingram is a Philadelphia PA-based jazz percussive dancer, choreographer, songwriter, vocal/dance improviser, oral historian, and cultural strategist and archivist. She creates evening-length pieces that explore themes related to history, collective memory and social justice, and designs arts/culture projects that explore and illuminate community cultural history.
Register: https://scribe.org/events/storyville-germaine-ingram
This #GivingTuesday 🎥✨ support the future of community media! 🤝💻Donate to Scribe today and join us in fostering creativity, platforming our communities, and driving progressive change through the art of video and audio.
https://scribe.org/events/scribe-annual-appeal
Do you have a great idea for a podcast series, radio program, or audio documentary? Take Designing Your Audio Storytelling Project Workshop, starting this Thursday!
This three-week workshop with award-winning audio producer Alex Lewis will help you wrangle those concepts into cohesive and executable production plans. This course will give you strategies for focusing your story ideas, cover how to create production calendars and workflows, and, ultimately, demonstrate how to design a project that strikes at the heart of your inspiration.
Register: https://scribe.org/events/designing-your-audio-storytelling-project-workshop
Starting tonight! Take Intro to Premiere Pro - here at Scribe!
This accelerated workshop teaches participants essential skills needed to edit any video in Premiere Pro, whether it’s a three-minute trailer or an hour-long documentary. Participants learn how to skillfully navigate Premiere’s workflow to make use of its powerful editing tools from importing, managing and editing media to creating sequences, applying transitions and effects, to encoding and exporting their completed projects.
Register: https://scribe.org/events/intro-premiere
Due next week! Nov 15!
Interested in developing the skills to plan, produce and edit new documentary media works? Then apply for Scribe’s Film Scholars program, a series of courses 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, and discounted rates on workshops.
The cohort is limited to up to 12 participants. This is a competitive program that has the goal of building diversity within Philadelphia’s media production industry. For the 2023-24 cohort, we will be conducting this program in-person in our center at 3908 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
The cost of the program is $500, payable in two installments. Scribe is offering up to 5 scholarships for the program for eligible applicants who meet certain income guidelines.
Learn more and apply https://scribe.org/film-scholars-program
Announcing Recipients of Round 12 Independence Public Media Fund!
Learn more about the recipients and their projects here: https://scribe.org/funds-recipients
The Philadelphia Independent Media Fund awards grants to Philadelphia area independent media makers with digital video and audio projects in three areas:
Planning - for projects in the planning/pre-production stage - awards of up to $2,000
Next Level - for projects that require a professional consultant to bring to the next level of production - awards of up to $500
Finishing - for projects in the postproduction stage with an anticipated completion date of twelve months from the grant award date - awards of up to $3,500
The next deadline is January 29, 2024. Learn more: https://scribe.org/philadelphia-independent-media-fund
The Philadelphia Independent Media Fund, a program of Scribe Video Center, is made possible with support from the Wyncote Foundation and the Independence Public Media Foundation.
We're proud to be a 2023 Bartol Foundation Organization Grantee! With this funding, we will continue supporting equitable access to creative art-making experiences in deep, relevant, and joyful ways!
Upcoming Workshop!
Paper Cuts: Learning How to Measure Twice and Cut Once
2 Sessions — Wednesday, August 9 and 16, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Cost: $60, $45 for Scribe members, free for Precious Places participants
Register: https://scribe.org/events/paper-cuts-learning-how-measure-twice-and-cut-once-4
What’s a filmmaker to do when they have a lot of footage but not a lot of time (or money) to edit? Paper edits. Paper edits allow you to visualize and “read” your work before you invest time with an editing program. With a good logging technique and a thorough or even annotated transcription, paper edits can save you time and money. Participants are recommended to have existing footage they can work from. Intended for first-time filmmakers.
Instructor: Valerie Keller
Upcoming workshop! A special learning session in partnership with BlackStar Film Festival:
Editing the Documentary with Wally Fall
Monday August 7, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Cost: $10, free for Scribe members
Register: https://scribe.org/events/editing-documentary-wally-fall
In this Special Learning Session, accomplished filmmaker, Wally Fall, will guide participants through his path as a filmmaker with a special focus on editing his film, Dancing the Stumble–premiering at BlackStar Film Festival August 7th.
Wally Fall is a filmmaker of Senegalese and Martinican descent who grew up in Martinique. After taking evening classes on video filmmaking and editing in London he gained much of his early experience in Europe, the Caribbean and Africa before working on his own projects. In 2016, along with fellow filmmakers, he co-founded Cinemawon, a film collective dedicated to creating new spaces to screen films mostly overlooked from the Caribbean, Africa and other Afro-diasporic spaces.
