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Wednesday,
October 18 at 7pm
Scribe
Video Center presents
Focus
On Youth Media
Bullets
in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story
dir. Terrence Fisher
and Daniel Howard, USA, 2004, video, 22 mins, color
Produced
by Downtown Community Television + presented in collaboration
with Mothers in Charge
 Terrence
Fisher, 20, has lived all his life in the Louis Armstrong Housing
Project in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn . Eight of his friends
have been shot and killed in the streets around his home. Through
Downtown Community TV's program Pro-TV, he and Daniel Howard
were working on a documentary about gun violence when Terrence
saw his best friend, Timothy Stansbury, shot and killed by a
police officer. Despite his shock and grief, Terrence sought
refuge at DCTV and channeled his emotions through the lens of
his camera. Bed-Stuy residents were outraged by the killing
of an innocent teen by a police officer. Tensions flared in
the neighborhood but instead of retaliation or riots, Terrence,
his friends and Timothy's mother organized protests so that
their story would spread to the world outside of Bed-Stuy and
help reduce gun violence. The film has been screened around
the country and received the 2005 Sundance Special Jury Award
for Short Filmmaking.
Terrence
Fisher's work with DCTV includes winning an Honorable Mention
Student Emmy (2005) and an Honorable Mention in the Freshest
Youth Awards Show at the Hip Hop Odyssey International FilmFestival
(2004) for his film, Hip-Hop and Violence. Terrence also works
as a DJ and produces music for underground hip-hop labels.
with
How
Can We Make A Change
USA, 2006, video, 14 mins, color
Produced
by Scribe, Mothers in Charge and The Arts and Spirituality Center
Mothers
in Charge is a community advocacy and support organization comprised
of impassioned mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and sisters who
have lost loved ones to violence and are channeling their emotions
into an effort to stop the violence. Their video is about their
Master Peace Project, which mobilizes teens and youth to look
at the impact of violence in our communities and present alternatives
to violence through theater and the arts.
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