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“Fania: A lot of people think that restorative justice can only address interpersonal harm—and it’s very successful in that. But the truth and reconciliation model is one that’s supposed to address mass harm—to heal the wounds of structural violence. We’ve seen that at work in about 40 different nations; the most well-known is, of course, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

In South Africa, the commission invited victims of apartheid to testify, and, for the first time ever, they told their stories publicly. It was on all the radio stations, in all the newspapers, it was all over the television, so people would come home and tune in and learn things about apartheid that they had never known before. There was an intense national discussion going on, and people who were harmed felt vindicated in some way.

That kind of thing can happen here, also, through a truth and reconciliation process. In addition to that sort of hearing commission structure, there could be circles happening on the local levels—circles between, say, persons who were victims of violence and the persons who caused them harm.

Angela: How does one imagine accountability for someone representing the state who has committed unspeakable acts of violence? If we simply rely on the old form of sending them to prison or the death penalty, I think we end up reproducing the very process that we’re trying to challenge.

So maybe can we talk about restorative justice more broadly? Many of the campaigns initially called for the prosecution of the police officer, and it seems to me that we can learn from restorative justice and think about alternatives.

Sarah: Fania, you told me when we talked last year that your work on restorative justice actually came about after you went through a personal transition period in the mid-1990s, when you decided to shift gears.

Fania: I reached a point where I felt out of balance from all of the anger, the fighting, from a kind of hypermasculine way of being that I had to adopt to be a successful trial lawyer. And also from around 30 years of the hyperaggressive stance that I was compelled to take as an activist—from being against this and against that, and fighting this and fighting that.

Intuitively, I realized that I needed an infusion of more feminine and spiritual and creative and healing energies to come back into balance.”

(H/T Sherise Bright)

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Last week, I took a big step in telling the world I am making another film. I have been working on this film for more than a year in small experimental chunks. I've finally gained the motivation, confidence, and a team to move forward. Let me introduce my new film ELEPHANT.

In a week this film has received a number of e-mails and texts about the subject of self-care in a time of violence – there's a need to talk about the assault on our bodies and lives direct and indirect. There's a need to claim our fears. A need to move beyond our fears. A need to look collectively at the elephant in the room in discourse.

ELEPHANT A woman witnesses a murder and suffers from a mental breakdown rendering her incapable of leaving her apartment. A film examining self-care as radical action to process violence, trauma, and grief in your own time. By @Mariaajudice #BreatheElephant

We are autonomous filmmakers leading with transparency and engagement to have a discussion on mental health and violence in America. My collaborators and I are shooting every week/weekend. We've captured about 35% of the film on our own. Now we're trying to raise production funds to pay and feed our tiny badass crew.

We're open to all ideas and insights and introductions. As always thank you for being here right now doing this work alongside of me! Power in storytelling by the people. With the highest vibrations. M.xo

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#NeptuneFrost reach its goal of $150K with 7 days left in the campaign. Let’s keep extending this energy! 

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Join @SaulWilliams for a live poetry reading at 3pm (pst) 6 pm EDT on Kickstarter Live. 

Learn more: https://kck.st/2Jkhfa5  #SummerofPoetry

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Everything your bedtime stories have been missing. 

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Remember a long forgotten rebellion… Support Fahavalo, Madagascar 1947 by Marie-Clémence Andriamonta-Paes. thndr.me/CM0CZk http://thndr.me/CM0CZk

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Crowdfunding for this #studentfilm is almost over! Check out #knowmovie on #Seed&Spark to see their awesome rewards http://thndr.me/CXq6Jd

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There is a better way! Click, sign, pledge and let's draft Bernie to a new people's party! #PartyWithBernie. http://thndr.me/BFK36R

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By Indie Means Necessary: directors Matthew Cherry (9 Rides) and Anisia Uzeyman (Dreamstates) discuss the pros and cons of shooting their narrative features with an iPhone or two. Veteran filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson (Eason) joins in to discuss filmmaking as an art.

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All the Women Directed Movies TIFF Announced in Their Third Wave of Films

To see the women directed films announced in their first and second waves check HERE.  

Midnight Madness 1/10 “Raw (Grave),” Julia Ducournau, France/Belgium, International Premiere Documentaries 6/27 “An Insignificant Man,” Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla, India, World Premiere “Beauties of the Night,” María José Cuevas, Mexico, Canadian Premiere “The Cinema Travellers,” Shirley Abraham and Amit Madheshiya, India, North American Premiere “Forever Pure,” Maya Zinshtein, Israel/United Kingdom/Ireland/Norway, International Premiere “Girl Unbound,” Erin Heidenreich, Pakistan/Canada/Hong Kong/South Korea, World Premiere “Karl Marx City,” Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker, USA/Germany, World Premiere Vanguard 4/12 “The Bad Batch,” Ana Lily Amirpour, USA, North American Premiere “Blind Sun,” Joyce A. Nashawati, France/Greece, North American Premiere “Buster’s Mal Heart,” Sarah Adina Smith, USA, World Premiere “Prevenge,” Alice Lowe, United Kingdom, North American TIFF Cinematheque 2/10 “Daughters of the Dust,” Julie Dash, USA “One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (L’une chante, l’autre pas),” Agnès Varda, France

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Amtrak trains

Amtrak stations

Large graduation ceremonies

LA Underground Metro System

Downtown Los Angeles in the morning

Strip Malls with no chain stores

Your family home after many years of absence

The day after a significant death anywhere, world

A local post office

Small airports

Places where reality is a bit altered:

• any target • churches in texas • abandoned 7/11’s • your bedroom at 5 am • hospitals at midnight • warehouses that smell like dust • lighthouses with lights that don’t work anymore • empty parking lots • ponds and lakes in suburban neighborhoods • rooftops in the early morning • inside a dark cabinet

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World Premiere on June 3rd. http://bit.ly/24Bj2Az

Newly released <<<< ‪#‎DREAMSTATES‬ >>>> Official Trailer. Written and directed by Anisia Uzeyman starring Saul Williams.

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James Baldwin Speaks! 100 Years Since Emancipation              

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Losing Ground Writer(s): Kathleen Collins Year: 1982 A comedy-drama about a Black American female philosophy professor and her insensitive, philandering, and flamboyant artist husband who are having a marital crisis. When the wife goes off on an almost unbelievable journey to find “ecstasy”, her husband is forced to see her in a different light. - (IMDB) Written by Leslye Allen (L. J. Allen-2)

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#KathleenCollins #amreading #womenmakemovies #readwomen2015 #readmorescriptsbywomen #writtenbywomen #scriptsbywomen #scripts #screenplays #scriptchat #womeninfilm #celebratewomen #losing ground

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Thelma and Louise Writer(s): Callie Khouri Year: 1991 An Arkansas waitress and a housewife shoot a rapist and take off in a ‘66 Thunderbird. -IMDB

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