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RACISM IS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE

Join Ava DuVernay, Eraka P. Bath, Darnell Hunt, and Rashid Johnson for the second conversation in the online series RACISM IS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE.

When news of a novel coronavirus arrived in the United States in early January, xenophobia was not far behind. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, reports of racist attacks against Asian Americans increased. As the number of confirmed cases exploded in America, racial disparities in health outcomes became starker. The hardest hit are often Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities—many of whom are essential workers. Before and throughout the pandemic, Black and Brown people across the nation have continued to be murdered at harrowing and unacceptable rates by the police. Join For FreedomsGYOPOLACMA, and Stop DiscriminAsian (SDA) for a conversation about the pandemic’s impact on the movement for racial justice, and the country’s long standing health, economic, and racial inequities.

The trauma of racial violence reaches further than any single individual, especially when the news cycle about Black deaths is unavoidable. Panelists will discuss the way violent images of Black suffering have been mediated, circulated, and weaponized; the reinvention of one’s relationship to those images; the utilization of those images without re-traumatization; and the power of art to address anxiety and other harms of racism.*

The panel will be introduced by Christine Y. Kim and moderated by Naima J. Keith.

See link below for details.

RACISM IS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE*

Tuesday, July 21.

4 pm on the West Coast; 7 pm East Coast.

From top: Ava DuVernay, photograph by Koury Angelo; Eraka P. Bath; Darnell Hunt; Rashid Johnson, photograph by Kendall Mills, courtesy and © the artist and Hauser & Wirth; Christine Y. Kim (right) and Julie Mehretu in 2016 in Los Angeles, photograph by Rachel Murray; Naima J. Keith. Images courtesy and © the subjects and the photographers.

JULIE DASH AND AVA DUVERNAY IN CONVERSATION

See Julie Dash’s groundbreaking film DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST, and stay for a post-screening conversation with Dash and Ava DuVernay.

This is an Array event, an arts collective founded in 2010 by DuVernay, “dedicated to the amplification of films by people of color and women filmmakers.”*

 

DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST and JULIE DASH AND AVA DUVERNAY IN CONVERSATION, Thursday, November 16, at 8 pm.

THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL, 933 South Broadway, downtown Los Angeles.

thebroad.org/programs/array-broad-daughters-dust

*thebroad.org/programs/series/array-at-the-broad

Daughters of the Dust.

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LAURA POITRAS AND AVA DUVERNAY

“If you’re not fighting every day for what you believe in, and another day disappears, you are losing.” — Julian Assange, in RISK

Laura Poitras began filming RISK—her very up-to-date look at Assange’s activities thusfar—before she shot Citizenfour.* Shortly after the 2013 events documented in the Edward Snowden documentary transpired, Poitras and Assange had a falling out. As it happened, once U.S. intelligence agencies became aware of Snowden’s location in Asia, Wikileaks editor and advisor Sarah Harrison was instrumental in securing the NSA leaker’s safe passage from Hong Kong to Moscow. Assange apparently felt that Poitras should—naturally—disseminate her Snowden material via Wikileaks. Poitras disagreed.:

“I tell him I can’t be his source. I don’t tell him that I don’t trust him.” — Laura Poitras, on Assange, in RISK

Three years later, in the run-up to the 2016 election, Assange agreed to let Poitras set up cameras inside his residence at the embassy of Ecuador in London, and she continued to film her documentary.

On Saturday night, May 6, in Hollywood, Selma director Ava Duvernay will participate in a Q & A with Poitras following the 7:30 pm screening of RISK. On Sunday, Poitras will be joined in a second Q & A by Alex Winter.

 

RISK is now in cinemas.

ARCLIGHT HOLLYWOOD, 6360 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood

LAEMMLE MONICA FILM CENTER, 1332 2nd Street, Santa Monica

Poitras–Duvernay Q & A, Saturday, May 6, at 7:30 pm. ARCLIGHT HOLLYWOOD

Poitras–Winter Q & A, Sunday, May 7, after the 4:15 pm show. ARCLIGHT HOLLYWOOD

 

arclightcinemas.com/en/news/risk-qa?promo=spotlightM2

laemmle.com/films/42188

*CITIZENFOUR, Poitras’ documentary about Edward Snowden, was released in late 2014 and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary the following spring. RISK, released in May 2017, includes footage from congressional-hearing testimony by FBI director James Comey shot less than two months earlier.

Risk (2017), directed by Laura Poitras Image credit: Showtime

Risk (2017), directed by Laura Poitras
Image credit: Showtime