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Faubourg Tremé Documentary Wins Two Awards
and is Going to Africa!

San Francisco, CA - We are happy to announce that Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans won the prestigious Golden Gate Award for Best Bay Area Documentary at the 51st San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF).

We also received word that we won the top award from the Society for Visual Anthropology, American Anthropological Association's 2008 Film, Video and Interactive Media Festival. The festival and award ceremony will be in San Francisco in November. We are honored to be recognized by the SFIFF and SFA/AAA.

In addition, Faubourg Tremé is about to be shown around the world. Upcoming screenings (see details below) will have people lining up to see the documentary at the San Francisco Black Film Festival, The Carver Cultural Community Center in San Antonio, Texas, the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, the National Worker's Co-Op Conference in NOLA, and at the Real Life Pan-African Film Festival in Accra, Ghana-Africa!

Other news to announce include the new page on www.tremedoc.com where people can post comments, reminisce, reconnect, share ideas and help to continue the inspirational legacy of Tremé. And if you haven't seen the trailer, check it out - or better yet, order the DVD (Father's Day is June 15th)! Hope to see you in your town soon.

Lucie, Dawn and Lolis

"... timely and essential...charming yet hard-hitting..."
The Village Voice

Upcoming Screenings

Real Life Pan-African Documentary Film Festival FREE and Open to the Community Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 6:15pm Gama Executive Theater 12th Road Kanda-Accra, Opposite the French Embassy, Accra-Ghana San Francisco Black Film Festival Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 4:30pm African American Arts & Cultural Complex 762 Fulton Street San Francisco, CA 94102 Tickets available at www.brownpapertickets.com Director, Dawn Logsdon and Producer, Lucie Faulknor in attendance Carver Community Cultural Center FREE Community Screening Celebrating Juneteenth! Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 12 Noon 226 N. Hackberry, San Antonio, TX 78202 Prudence Curry Society Evening Screening and Reception Thursday, June 19 at 7:00pm 226 N. Hackberry, San Antonio, TX Tickets available online at the box office or call (210) 207-2234. Director/Editor, Dawn Logsdon & Writer/Co-director, Lolis Eric Elie in attendance at both screenings and reception. 3rd National Conference of Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Workplaces Thursday, June 19, at 8pm Loyola University's Twomey Center for Peace Through Justice, New Orleans You must register with the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives to attend or call to volunteer (415) 379-9201 The 20th Anniversary National Black Arts Festival Thursday, July 17 at 6:30pm Woodruff Arts Center, Rich Auditorium, Atlanta, GA 1280 Peachtree Stree General Admission $8; Tix available at www.nbaf.org Please forward this info on to your friends and family who live in these areas.

YOU CAN HELP! If you would like to make a secure, tax deductible donation to help us with our outreach efforts to schools, community centers, churches, festivals and conferences, please click here or make a check out to our 501(c)3 fiscal agent: Video Veracity, 8117 Oak Street, New Orleans, LA 70118 (please put " Tremé" in the memo line). Your generousity is greatly appreciated.

ABOUT THE FILM Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans is a riveting tale of hope, heartbreak and resiliency set in New Orleans' most fascinating neighborhood. It is both celebratory and elegiac in tone. Faubourg Tremé is arguably the oldest black neighborhood in America, the birthplace of the Civil Rights movement in the South and the home of jazz. Here black and white, free and enslaved, rich and poor co-habitated, collaborated, and clashed to create much what defines New Orleans culture today. While the Tremé district was damaged when the levees broke, this is not another Katrina documentary. Every frame is a tribute to what African American communities have contributed even under the most hostile of conditions. It is a film of such effortless intimacy, subtle glances and authentic details that only two native New Orleanians could have made it.

Faubourg Tremé is a co-production of Serendipity Films, LLC, Independent Television Services (ITVS), WYES-TV-12 New Orleans, and Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB), in association with the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC). Major funding for this program was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, State of Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, The Ford Foundation, Southern Humanities Media Fund, Open Society Institute, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities & many other kind people and organizations who care.

leica european publishers award for photography 2008

(As I am currently preparing to post some of my information/research about black photographers and publishing [I'm not ignoring you, Intisar & ABG, I'm just still working on it], this one seems particularly significant)

The Leica European Publishers Award for Photography is a major
initiative to encourage the publication of contemporary photography.

Open to photographers world-wide, the competition is a unique
collaboration between seven European Publishers – Actes Sud (France),
Apeiron (Greece), Dewi Lewis Publishing (Great Britain), Edition Braus
(Germany), Lunwerg Editores (Spain), Mets & Schilt (The Netherlands)
and Peliti Associati (Italy).

The competition requires the submission of a substantial, completed
and unpublished photographic book project. The winning project is then
published in book form simultaneously by each of the publishers in
their own country resulting in perhaps the most extensive cultural
collaboration currently existing in Europe.

Visit http://www.dewilewispublishing.com/EUROAWARD/EUROAWARD  for full
details 

even if you didn't go to Yale

Dear Artists & Friends of the WHJFA,

Applications for the 2007 William H. Johnson Prize are now available online at www.whjohnsongrant.org. The deadline for applications has been extended. It is now November 30, 2007 and the winner will be announced in late December.

The William H. Johnson Foundation for the Arts was established in 2001 with the objective of providing support and encouragement for early career African American artists. Inspired by the life and work of William H. Johnson, an African American artist who worked during the 1920s through 1940s, the Foundation established the $25,000 William H. Johnson Prize, an honor given annually to an early career African American artist. Past winners include Laylah Ali, Nadine Robinson, Kori Newkirk, Dave McKenzie and Edgar Arceneaux.

Please forward this email to any eligible artists as well as curators and writers who might forward it to other artists. We hope to have another large and talented pool of applicants. In addition to the $25,000 Prize winner, as many as two $1000 Finalist Prizes will also be awarded. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you for your support of the William H. Johnson Foundation for the Arts.

Yours sincerely,

Steve Turner

The William H. Johnson Foundation for the Arts
6022 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90036

(323) 931-3744
(323) 931-3751 fax
www.whjohnsongrant.org