I am giddy to announce my first ever public screening, two shorts, at Anthology Film Archives!

BLACK DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIVE:
SCREENING OF MEMBERS FILMS
curator/host: Julia O’Farrow
SILENT CHOICES
(Running time 60 minutes)
FAITH PENNICK
Producer/Director

Wednesday February 20th, 2008 at 7 PM (Admission: $5)
At ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES 32 SECOND AVE
(F TRAIN TO 2ND AVE OR 6 TO BLEEKER)
New York, NY 10008-8631
Phone: (212) 505-5181

Silent Choices is a documentary about abortion and its impact on the lives of African American women. From African Americans’ cautious involvement with Margaret Sanger during the early birth control movement to black nationalists and civil rights activists who staunchly opposed abortion (or stayed silent on the issue), Silent Choices examines the juxtaposition of race and reproductive politics. Three black women also share their stories of the abortions they had.
Winner of the Best Documentary Award at the 2007 Roxbury Film Festival, Silent Choices is being distributed as an educational video by New Day Films.
Preceded by two short films by Robin Laverne Wilson

NEWARK ART SUPPLY - TRT 3:29
Newark finally opens its first art supply store, after going 10 years without paints and paper to feed its burgeoning artist community. This short doc highlights the jubilation of opening day, January 2007, and the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ resources they aim to provide this renaissance city.

HEARTBREAK PART 2 - TRT 4:24

Conceptually, part one of a break-up is the initial shock and denial; part three is the aftermath, the recovery as life goes on. This intensely personal and passionate experimental essay documents my struggle with part two - the core of the confusion and despair that comes with emotional devastation, and my effort to find strength, dignity and wisdom in the healing process.

For the one admission price of $5 you can attend the entire evening of screenings (including the 6PM Program and the 9PM program)

6PM
NEWFILMMAKERS DOCUMENTARY SERIES presents two films about the vanishing urban stores.

Arnold Chun’s ELI’S LIQUOR STORE (2007) 18 minutes, is set in Los Angeles’ Korea town, Circa 1999. Tells the story of Elijah Gooden, a 43-year-old African American from Atlanta, GA. He graduated from Georgia Tech University and worked in corporate Amercia before moving his family to Los Angeles to start his business. He and his family experience culture shock and adversity as they struggle to build their livelihood in an area dominated by Asian American business owners.

Virginie-Alvine Perette’s TWILIGHT BECOMES NIGHT (36 minutes) explores the widespread closing of neighborhood stores in New York City and the significant impact this transition has on us all.

9PM
Ramon Rivera Moret’s ON CALLOWAY STREET (91 minutes)
A documentary that shows the lives of tenants in what may be the most diverse apartment building in the most diverse country in the world.

This documentary reveals the poetic experience of people moving to Queens from many different countries. It shows how the soul never really leaves one place entirely, never truly transmigrates and forever remains spread across space and time.