BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-9573 SEQUENCE:9573 CREATED:20040203T182400Z DESCRIPTION:The Hip Hop Film Fest & Black August Media Forum.\n\n- A Fundraiser for The San Francisco Bayview Newspaper -\n\nThis Saturday & Sunday - Aug 17th & 18th\n\nevent runs both days from 5 p.m to approx 12 a.m midnight\n\nWhat ?: \n\nY'all should come on down to see the most popular films of The Hip Hop Film Fest like "Freestyle:The Art of Rhyme", and "Straight Outta Hunters Point". In addition to great indie films and performances from rap and spoken word artists like T-Kash of The Coup, Jymini, and Natural Blackness, the Fest also promises awareness building dialogue with local alternative media panelists. Opportunities to win raffle prizes, enjoy the vibe and suck up some some Hot BBQ & Louisiana Gumbo in the courtyard.\n\nlocation information:\n934 Brannan Street (between 8th and 9th Streets)\nSan Francisco CA\n\nSomar Event Line: 415.552.2131x401\n\ninfo@somarts.org \n\nadmission : $5 students/ $7 adult\n$20 all day benefit pass at the door\n\n\nThe indie filmmaking crew that is organizing the ongoing Hip \nHop Film Fest tour, is throwing a festive and educational event \nSaturday Aug 17th & Sunday Aug 18th at SomARTS Center in \nSan Francisco. Folks of all ages and races are invited to see \nscreenings of the most popular films in the festival as well as \nparticipate in Indie Media Forums with some of the Bay Area's \nleading alternative media writers and visual artists. \n\nIn addition to unique films, each day will feature an alternative media panel with visual \nartist, journalists, writers, and representatives from publications and media outlets to hold open ended discussion about local community issues and current events. There will \nalso be refreshments and food available with proceeds directed to helping out the venerable, yet financially troubled SF Bayview newspaper, the last remaining black owned \nnewspaper in San Francisco. \n\nAn outdoor Bar BQ will coincide in the somARTS courtyard with \nmusical performances by T- Kash of The Coup, Jymini, DJ Undercut , \nspoken word from Natural Fact, Pitch Black, and others to be announced. Raffles will be \nheld for prizes which include new CD's, Video Games, and more. \n5:00 p.m Voice of The Voiceless (US 2001 49mim) dir: Tania Cuevas-Martinez\n\nAward winning short documentary film about the movement surrounding the appeal process for Mumia Abu Jamal. Many notable hip-hop artists and\nactivists explain their support and struggle for the liberation of this\ncondemned political prisoner on Death Row. Features Michael Franti, Dead\nPrez, Mos Def, Gil Scott Heron and more.\n\n\n6:00 p.m a Bay Area Alternative Media Panel :\n\nSaturday panelists will focus on issues facing contemporary alternative\nmedia TBA. Moderator JR of Black Imperial Society/SF Bay View\n\n7:30 p.m\n\nNobody Knows My Name (2001 60 min) dir: Rachel Raimist\nGoing beyond the "bling bling" and "bootay" that is the mainstream music\nvideo mainstay, Raimist reveals the lives of real women, connected by their\nlove of the elements of Hip Hop. This intimate film draws you into the\nstories of talented women who are poets, performers, and artists of great\nethnic diversity that believe in hip hop as a way of life such as Medusa &\nDJ Symphony (the sole female member of the The World Famous Beat Junkies).\n\n9:00 p.m\n\nFreestyle : The Art of Rhyme (US, 2002 57min) dir: Kevin Fitzgerald\nAn award winning film that explosively documents the world of\nimprovisational Rap. Shot over a period of more than seven years by a\nco-operative of students, filmmakers, DJ's, b-boys, and MC's, FREESTYLE\ntakes viewers on a journey through previously unexamined dimensions of\nhip-hop. Improvised poetry challenges conventional linguistics, politics and\nculture as language is re-appropriated as a tool for empowerment. Freestyle\nis packed with rare and archival footage of some of the most amazing hip-hop\nMC's ever to bless the mic, including Supernatural, Mos Def, Last Poets,\nBiggie Smalls, Black Thought of The Roots, Freestyle Fellowship, Lord\nFinesse, Tupac Shakur, MC Juice, DJ's Cut Chemist & Numark of Jurassic-5,\nand DJ Kool Herc.\n\n\nSunday - scheduling TBA - info below is tentative but screenings will\ninclude:\n\n5:00 p.m\n\n"Breath Control: The History of The Human Beat Box" (US 2001 73min) dir:\nJoey Garfield\nBreath Control is a documentary about making music via the human beat box,\neasily one of the key elements in the development of Hip-Hop culture,\nalongside Dj-ing, Graffiti, Breakdancing, and MC-ing. Unfortunately, its\ncontribution has been largely overlooked, as has the fun, expressive, human,\nand spontaneous dimension of Hip-Hop that it represents. Breath Control: The\nHistory of the Human Beat Box uses interviews, live performances, archival\nfootage, and animation to bring to light this important and neglected\ningredient of Hip Hop's identity. Beat Box pioneers and luminaries such as\nDoug E. Fresh, Biz Markie, The Fat Boys, The Roots, and Zap Mama trace this\nart form from its basic beat to the present day.\n\n7:00 p.m\n\nEstillo Hip Hop (2002 15 min) dir: Vie Bravo\nA stunning and inspiring short preview of a work in progress documentary\nthat travels the nevert before seen world of South American Hip Hop. You\nmeet the young people communicating in the international language of Hip Hop\nin their respective countries such as Argentina, Chile', Brazil and\nelsewhere. Learn of their struggles and triumphs while they set out to\ndefine their role in this burgeoning movement.\n\n\nVoice of The Voiceless (US 2001 49min) dir: Tania Cuevas-Martinez\n\nAward winning short documentary film about the movement surrounding the\nappeal process for Mumia Abu Jamal. Many notable hip-hop artists and\nactivists explain their support and struggle for the liberation of this\ncondemned political prisoner on Death Row. Features Michael Franti, Dead\nPrez, Mos Def, Gil Scott Heron and more.\n\nThe Sunday Media Panel follows "Voice of The Voiceless" and precedes\n"Straight Outta Hunters Point".\n\n9:00 p.m\n\nStraight Outta Hunters Point (US, 2002 74min) dir: Kevin Epps\n\nDirector Kevin Epps will be present to screen the latest cut of his own film\nas well as a few shorts made by local Bayview youths. He'll engage in\naudience Q & A afterwards. Soundtrack CD's will be available.\n\nThis critically acclaimed portrait of life in San Francisco's notorious\nHunters Point Housing Projects, S.O.H.P has screened at several film fests, and is returning by popular demand to the City. In this flick, Director Kevin Epps explores conditions in the black ghetto neighborhood where he grew up and still lives. Examine a litany of urban woes from alleged gang related "Rap Wars" to economic redlining, meanwhile a vital underground hip-hop scene provides the essence of hope for the youth. A raw gripping film that depicts a neighborhood transformed from a once thriving area into a toxic dumping ground and Super Fund site. The result is a gripping insider portrait of a community in crisis persevering despite the\nodds .\nFeatures Bay Area artists like RBL Posse, Herm, Baby Finsta, Seff Tha Gaffla, and JT The Bigga Figga.\nplus shorts:\n\nMiracle Makers ( Girls 2000, Just Think 11 min. )\nA tribute to grandmothers who raise grandchildren in the Bayview Community. Twelve girls celebrate grandmothers as caregivers, role models and the person in their lives who keep things together when times are rough.\n\n\nWhere We At (girls 2000, Just Think 5 min. )\nA rarely seen female viewpoint of the killings happening in HP, As four\ngirls re-construct the altars they usually make in remembrance of their lost\nones, they express their feelings and thoughts.\n\nHunter's Point on Fire ( Youth in Action 2001) - a look at the mysterious\nfires and that burned for weeks on the Naval Base in 2000.\nmore TBA\n\nHip Hop Film Fest Tour continues this fall:\n\nDurham NC Sept 20 -22\n\nSanta Cruz Oct 12-13\n\nsee for updates and additional dates to be\nadded. Coming soon Portland OR, Houston TX, Austin TX, Chicago IL, etc.\n\n\n\n\nThe concept of Black August allows hip hop culture to be placed \nwithin the historical and political context that can inform, inspire \nand guide new generations as we confront the issues facing \nour communities, our society and our world. Black August is a \ntime of remembrance for those lost and a chance to embrace \nthe principles of unity, self-sacrifice, resistance, spiritual \nrenewal for all of those working in the ongoing struggle to free \nourselves from political oppression and break the chains that \nbind us. \nBlack August grew out of the California Prison \nsystem by the men and women of the Black/Afrikan Liberation \nMovement as a means of acknowledging and studying the \nlegacy of resistance in the Americas. They had a need to \nexpose the heroic deeds of Afrikan women and men who have \nrecognized and struggled against the injustices heaped upon \npeople of color on a daily basis in America. These include \nfallen soldiers such as Soledad Brother, George L. Jackson \nwho was killed in prison August 21, 1971 and his younger \nbrother, Jonathan Jackson who was killed in the parking lot of a \nMarin County courtroom after liberating Ruchell Magee among \nother brothers on August 7, 1970. The arrival of the first Africans \nhere for the purpose of enslavement was in August (1619). The \nfirst and only armed revolution whereby Africans freed \nthemselves from chattel slavery commenced on August 21, \n1791 in Haiti. Nat Turner's slave rebellion began on August 21, \n1831, and Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad started in \nAugust. Philadelphia Police began raiding and murdering MOVE \nmembers in their homes beginning in August 8, 1978 . \nAs Mumia Abu Jamal, whose own execution was stayed in August 1995, \nhas written "Their sacrifice, their despair, their determination and their \nblood has painted the month Black for all time." \n\nWe invite you to come on down to experience this unique \ngathering and important cultural event. \nFor Info See:\nhttp://www.SFBayview.com\nFor a history of Black August related information and timeline visit\n\n\nFor The SF Bay View\n\n\nFor Our Website:\n\n\ncontact event co-curator: Kevin Epps\nToll Free Voice Mail 866.206.9071 x9211\n\nrsvp@hiphopfilmfest.com \n\nadditional media & PR info:\nLilMike of EventMagic \n415.626.6501\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/9573.php SUMMARY:The Hip Hop Film Fest & Black August Media Forum LOCATION:location information:\n934 Brannan Street (between 8th and 9th Streets)\nSan Francisco CA\n\nSomar Event Line: 415.552.2131x401\n\ninfo@somarts.org \n\n URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/9573.php DTSTART:20020818T000000Z DTEND:20020818T060000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR