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SUMMARY:MFAH Virtual Films: Native Son
DESCRIPTION:Richard Wright’s widely praised 1940 novel exposed the injustices of Black urban life. Bigger Thomas\,in prison for murder and sentenced to death\, reflects back on the circumstances that led to his incarceration. This new restoration of the 1951 screen adaptation\, in the film-noir genre\, stars author Richard Wright as Bigger Thomas\, and is being released in its original length for the first time. This new restoration of the 1951 film version is preceded by a special filmed introduction by film historians Eddie Muller (Film Noir Foundation) and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart\, courtesy of Turner Classic Movies.
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/mfah-virtual-films-native-son/
LOCATION:The Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, 1001 Bissonnet\, Houston\, 77005-1803
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Ghosts of Sugar Land
DESCRIPTION:Free Admission \n• A panel discussion follows the screening \nGhosts of Sugar Land examines the radicalization of a young American Muslim. Through interviews with his friends\, the documentary tells the story of “Mark\,” who converted to Islam before college and became radicalized shortly thereafter. A number of years ago\, through Facebook posts\, “Mark” stated that he crossed over from Turkey to the “Islamic State.” His friends from Sugar Land\, Texas—all masked to protect their identities—hypothesize about what may have happened that led their friend to join ISIS. Ghosts of Sugar Land won the Nonfiction Jury Award for Short Film at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. \n• “A personal drama with a geopolitical scope” —New Yorker  \n• “Ghosts of Sugar Land tells an essential story of betrayal and Islamic identity” —Vanity Fair \nAbout the Director\nBassam Tariq is an independent filmmaker and producer born in Karachi\, Pakistan. Tariq co-directed and produced the Sundance-funded documentary These Birds Walk with Omar Mullick and was named in Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2012. Tariq’s works aim to uncover the diversity of Muslim life and experience. In addition to making films\, he blogs and writes; co-founded a halal butcher shop; and is a TED fellow. Tariq lives in New York City with his wife and son.
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/ghosts-of-sugar-land/
LOCATION:The Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, 1001 Bissonnet\, Houston\, 77005-1803
CATEGORIES:Film,Foreign & Military Policy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191219T140000
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SUMMARY:Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
DESCRIPTION:This remarkable documentary chronicles the late 20th century into the 21st\, as experienced by a woman who might be the original news junkie. Marion Stokes (1929–2012) became known as a passionate activist\, articulately espousing her leftist views on local television in Philadelphia. \nRecorder pulls you into her secret life\, revealing that she spent decades obsessively recording TV programs around the clock. From the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis to the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre\, Stokes captured revolutions\, wars\, triumphs\, catastrophes\, bloopers\, talk shows\, and commercials on 70\,000 VHS tapes. A second marriage brought wealth\, but she ultimately became a recluse who saw her life’s work to be protecting the truth by archiving everything on TV. \nTickets can be purchased at https://www.mfah.org/calendar/recorder-the-marion-stokes-project \n“Fascinating\, weird\, and often quite moving.” —IndieWire \n“Intriguing from first minute to last…. Relating this stranger-than-fiction tale with the narrative twists and turns of a well-paced thriller\, Recorder will make news junkies feel a lot better about themselves.” —Hollywood Reporter \n“A pensive\, complicated romantic tragedy.” —Nonfics \n“More than just a portrait of a woman’s complicated relationships and obsessions … Recorder quietly seeds damning observations about the ways media narratives are formed\, and how the shapers of these narratives distort the truth and our worldview.” —Flixist \n• “The Incredible Story of Marion Stokes” —Fast Company \n• Find out more about Marion Stokes and her archive. \n• Read an article about the film in Talkhouse\, written by director Matt Wolf. \n• Read The New York Times review of the film.
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/recorder-the-marion-stokes-project/
LOCATION:The Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, 1001 Bissonnet\, Houston\, 77005-1803
CATEGORIES:Film,Social
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SUMMARY:Reason (Vivek)
DESCRIPTION:Presented by director Anand Patwardhan in conjunction with his exhibition Ways of Struggle at the Glassell School of Art.  \nAdmission is free. \nIn this monumental documentary\, veteran Indian filmmaker Anand Patwardhan explores how India’s political climate has moved dramatically away from the nonviolent teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. Organized in chapters that move from the past to the present\, Reason unflinchingly chronicles the rise of right-wing extremism and recent instances of violence\, yet concludes with a message of cautious optimism. The screening includes a 15-minute intermission. \nAbout the Filmmaker\nAnand Patwardhan was born in Bombay in 1950. His passionate\, detailed chronicling of injustices in India has made him known as the filmmaking conscience of his nation. Reason received the award for best feature-length documentary at the 2018 Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival.
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/reason-vivek/
LOCATION:The Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, 1001 Bissonnet\, Houston\, 77005-1803
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180912T180000
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SUMMARY:HARC People & Nature Speaker Series: Innovative Resilience Financing
DESCRIPTION:“Will we be Ready for the Next Harvey? Innovative Funding Strategies and Opportunities for Community Resilience” \nOn Wednesday\, September 12\, HARC will continue its People & Nature Speaker Series hosting an evening conversation with six national thought leaders on the topic of innovative resilience financing and the role that the public and private sectors can play to develop new community partnerships and diversified resilience funding mechanisms in Greater Houston. \nMore people are moving to the Houston-Galveston region every year while a decade of hurricanes\, floods and historic drought underscores the risks to the region’s future prosperity. Implementing strategies and projects to make Houston economically attractive\, while increasing resilience requires local investment. Public funds from federal\, state and local government source play an important role in rebuilding communities and infrastructure. However\, they are limited in their ability to support innovative resilience strategies to create a more livable\, nature-based and equitable Houston. \nHARC will host an evening “fishbowl dialogue” event with experts in resilience financing\, infrastructure and global and climate change: \n\nShannon Cunniff – Director of Coastal Resilience\, EDF\nJose Peralta – Director\, AON Risk Solutions\nJamie Rubin – CEO\, Meridiam North America\nPeter Schultz\, PhD – Vice President\, ICF\nStacy Swann – CEO and Founding Partner\, Climate Finance Advisors\nShalini Vajjhala\, PhD – Founder & CEO\, re:focus partners\n\nThe event\, to be held at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston\, Brown Auditorium\, will begin at 6:00 pm. Guests are invited to continue the conversation at the post-event reception. The reception\, featuring light appetizers\, beer\, and wine\, will conclude at 8:30. \nPlease contact Events@HARCresearch.org for information on group reservations or for any additional questions you may have.
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/harc-people-nature-speaker-series-innovative-resilience-financing/
LOCATION:The Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, 1001 Bissonnet\, Houston\, 77005-1803
CATEGORIES:Environmental & Environmental Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180128T170000
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SUMMARY:The 25th Houston Iranian Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:This year marks the 25th anniversary of this festival\, established by The Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston and Rice Cinema. Screenings will take place at both venues and at The Asia Society Texas Center. Following last year’s screening of Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman\, which went on to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film\, this year’s selections include Breath\, Iran’s 2017 Oscar submission. It is one of several narratives by and about young Iranian women\, and\, like Tehran Taboo\, features the innovative use of animation. 24 Frames\, the mesmerizing\, experimental last film by the internationally celebrated Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) will be shown at both the Museum and Rice Cinema. \nThe film scholar\, Dr. Hamid Naficy\, Professor of Radio-Television-Film and the Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University\, gives a lecture at Rice Cinema on January 31. Dr. Naficy was on the Rice faculty when this festival was founded \nFestival ticket prices apply! General admission is $10. MFAH members\, seniors (65+)\, and students with ID receive $2 discount. \nhttps://www.mfah.org/calendar/series/houston-iranian-film-festival \nGenerous funding provided by the ILEX Foundation.
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/25th-houston-iranian-film-festival/
LOCATION:The Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, 1001 Bissonnet\, Houston\, 77005-1803
CATEGORIES:Video Showing
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SUMMARY:The Other Side of Hope (Toivon tuolla puolen)
DESCRIPTION:This wry\, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki—whose films the MFAH has premiered for more than three decades—speaks to the current refugee situation. Khaled (Sherwan Haji)\, a displaced Syrian\, lands in Helsinki as a stowaway. Meanwhile\, middle-aged salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves behind his wife and job and improbably buys a seafood restaurant. Despite being denied asylum\, Khaled remains in Finland\, and the paths of the two men cross fortuitously. \nA bittersweet tale of human kindness\, The Other Side of Hope is as deadpan as the best of the director’s work\, with a deep well of empathy for its down-but-not-out characters—many of them played by members of Kaurismäki’s ever-reliable stock company. \nhttps://www.mfah.org/calendar/the-other-side-of-hope for tickets!
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/the-other-side-of-hope/
LOCATION:The Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, 1001 Bissonnet\, Houston\, 77005-1803
CATEGORIES:Video Showing
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SUMMARY:Faces\, Places
DESCRIPTION:On the Oscar short list for this year’s Best Documentary Feature! \nAgnès Varda\, who turned 89 in May 2017 and received an honorary Academy Award the following November\, is one of the leading figures of the French New Wave. She codirects this enchanting documentary/road movie with acclaimed 33-year-old French photographer and muralist JR. Kindred spirits\, Varda and JR share a lifelong passion for images and how they are created\, displayed\, and shared. In Faces Places\, they travel together around the villages of France in JR’s photo truck—meeting locals\, learning their stories\, and producing epic-size portraits. The photos are prominently displayed on houses\, barns\, storefronts\, and trains\, revealing the humanity in their subjects and themselves. Faces Places records the heartwarming encounters as well as the unlikely\, tender friendships created along the way. \n“Magnificently moving\, funny\, and altogether wonderful! Agnès Varda and JR are a screen duo for the ages!” —indiewire.com \nhttps://www.mfah.org/calendar/faces-places-visages-villages for tickets!
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/faces-places/
LOCATION:The Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, 1001 Bissonnet\, Houston\, 77005-1803
CATEGORIES:Video Showing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171217T170000
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SUMMARY:Sacred
DESCRIPTION:Rescheduled from the weekend of Hurricane Harvey. \n“Directed by Academy Award–winner Thomas Lennon and shot around the world by 40 filmmaking teams\, Sacred immerses the viewer in an exploration of spirituality across cultures and religions. This nomadic film explores faith as primary human experience and shows how people turn to ritual and prayer to navigate the milestones and crises of life. \n“Lennon commissioned or sourced footage from top independent filmmakers from more than 25 countries and a wide range of religious traditions\, each team contributing a single scene. The film\, sweeping in its global reach and yet intensely intimate\, unifies these scenes into a single work\, told without narration\, without experts and\, for long stretches\, without words at all.” —Ashland Independent Film Festival \n• Winner of Special Jury Prize for Documentary Feature at the River Run Film Festival\n“For its beautiful portrayal of spirituality in its myriad forms\, the wonder inherent in our unique ambition to strive for the transcendent\, and how our traditions and disparate practices each reflect the multiplicity of paths taken on a shared journey of faith\, the Jury gives a special mention to Sacred.” \n• Read an inspiring review of the film. \n• Watch an interview with Academy Award–winning filmmaker Thomas Lennon.
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/sacred/2017-12-17/
LOCATION:The Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, 1001 Bissonnet\, Houston\, 77005-1803
CATEGORIES:Video Showing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171208T210000
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SUMMARY:Ai Weiwei's THE HUMAN FLOW
DESCRIPTION:Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine\, climate change\, and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow\, an epic documentary by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei\, gives a powerful visual expression to the massive human migration. Captured over the course of one year in 23 countries\, the film witnesses its subjects and their desperate search for safety\, shelter\, and justice. A visceral work of cinema that begs the question: Will our global society emerge from fear\, isolation\, and self-interest and choose a path of openness\, freedom\, and respect for humanity? \nhttps://www.mfah.org/calendar/human-flow to purchase tickets for Dec 8-10th & 15th \nIndieWire interviews Ai Weiwei. \nInterview with Ai Weiwei at the Venice Film Festival.
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/ai-weiweis-human-flow/
LOCATION:The Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, 1001 Bissonnet\, Houston\, 77005-1803
CATEGORIES:Human Rights & Criminal Justice,Video Showing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160909T190000
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SUMMARY:Film: Sonita
DESCRIPTION:Sonita \n\n\n\n\n\nWinning two awards at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival\, Sonita tells the inspiring story of Sonita Alizadeh\, an 18-year-old Afghan refugee in Iran\, who thinks of Michael Jackson and Rihanna as her spiritual parents and dreams of becoming a big-name rapper. Currently her only fans are the other teenage girls in a Tehran shelter\, but her family has a very different future planned for Sonita: as a bride worth $9\,000. Iranian director Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami poignantly shifts from observer to participant altering expectations\, as Sonita’s story unfolds. An unforgettable coming-of-age tale that positions a free-spirited young woman at odds with the restrictions of a traditional society.
URL:https://hpjc.org/event/film-sonita/2016-09-09/
LOCATION:The Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, 1001 Bissonnet\, Houston\, 77005-1803
CATEGORIES:Human Rights & Criminal Justice,Peace Education for Children & Families,Social
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