AMAG/Awareness Magazine Co-Sponsors Advance Screening of Giuliani Time at Medgar Evers College

AMAG/Awareness Magazine Co-Sponsors Advance Screening of Giuliani Time at Medgar Evers College Film & Culture Series.

[ClickPress, Tue May 09 2006] On Wednesday May 10, 2006 at 8:15 pm , Medgar Evers will screen Giuliani Time-A provoking look at New York City Mayor and the controversy of his two terms in office. Sure to be the talk of the town with a panel discussion to follow with The Rev. Al Sharpton, Ibrahim Addil-Muid Ramey, and others.

Since the 1999 Fall Semester the Medgar Evers College Community has engaged in viewing and discussing important works of film that speak to or about the experiences of members of the African Diaspora. The series launched with a premiere screening of the critically acclaimed film 'LUMUMBA' by Raoul Peck. The series has included many important independent films as well as the premiere of feature films from major production companies. The Film & Culture Series has brought together many panelists, special guests, performers and hosts, Queen Afua, Roger Bonair Agard, Amir Al Islam, Harry Allen, Faye Anderson, Charles Barron, Elombe Brathe, Stephanie Black, Bonga, Roscoe Brown, Buckshot, Patricia E. Canson–Griffith, Dinco D, Boyd Graves, Katti Gray, Kool Herc, Damon Hewitt, Walidah Imarisha, Linda Jackson, Kim Jameson, Jamal Joseph, Shani Kulture, Talib Kweli, Nancy Lester, M-1, Andree-Nicola McLaughlin, Rosemari Mealy, Stanley Nelson, Tehut-Nine, Oosa-gefu, PhyaStartha, Margarita Rosario, Danny Schecther, Mwalima Shuuja, Esmeralda Simmons, Dr. Renaldo Spech, Steele, Carlyle Thompson and Steven Yip just to name a few.

AMAG's founder (James Lisbon) who has been a supporter of the series over the last 3 years say it is an extremely important series. " What Miles McAfee (producer of series) has done and continues to do at Medgar Evers is paramount in these times. Particularly the dialogue after these films. ……It is almost like sitting home among family & friends as opinion, and comments are tossed around. But most importantly, they (M.E.C. ) are about solutions…"

The film is directed by Kevin Keaton. Kevin Keating’s extensive experience as a Director of Photography spans over 25 years and covers the full range of filmmaking from features, broadcast news and television specials, to educational, industrial projects and many documentaries. Beginning in the early 1970s, his passion for political filmmaking led him to work closely with the Maysles brothers and Barbara Kopple among others. He was also a staff cinematographer for WNET’s “The 51st State” and went on to shoot parts of the Maysles’ “Gimme Shelter” and Leon Gast and Jerry Garcia’s “The Grateful Dead Movie.” He also filmed Mohammed Ali in Zaire and Manila for what would become parts of “When We Were Kings” (Leon Gast 1996), more than two decades later.

In addition to When We Were Kings, Kevin’s other Academy Award credits include Harlan County, USA (Barbara Kopple 1977), American Dream (Barbara Kopple, 1992) and the Academy Award nominated Liberators (Nina Rosenblum/ William Miles 1993). Other credits include “On Company Business”, a fourhour documentary about the CIA which aired on PBS; “No Holds Barred”, a CBS-TV special; Wyeth at Kuerner’s; and “Hells Angels Forever”, a theatrically-released documentary that he co-directed. He began K Video Productions in 1994 and has since worked on a variety of projects: from music and educational videos to feature film screenplays and, of course, documentaries. “Giuliani Time” represents Kevin’s debut as a director of a major feature documentary.

AMAG, Magazine located at www.awarenessmagazine.net is the Co-Sponsor Advance Screening of Giuliani Time

Log on to http://www.giulianitime.com or
http://www.mec.cuny.edu/filmandcultureseries/ for more information.

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