MONDAY, APRIL 11
6:30pm PRE-FESTIVAL KICK-OFF EVENT – Screening: CIVIL INDIGENT
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
LOCATION: Tulane University: Stone Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center
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7pm OPENING NIGHT FILM Screening and Panel Discussion: FAULT LINES: IN DEEP WATER: A WAY OF LIFE IN PERIL and HOT COFFEE
Q and A With Director Susan Saladoff and discussion with MONIQUE HARDEN, Co-Director & Attorney, Advocates for Environmental Human Rights
LOCATION: New Orleans Museum of Art
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SPECIAL EVENT
Location: Tulane University
7pm HUNGER BANQUET – Highlighting National Hunger and Homelessness Week, Patois joins forces with The Community Action Council of Tulane Students (CACTUS) in presenting an enlightening feast for the mind and the stomach.
SPECIAL EVENT
Location: Blue Nile
9pm OPENING NIGHT PARTY: – Patois joins forces with The New Orleans Video Access Center (NOVAC) in hosting a night of food and drink. Free admission. Performance by Kora Konnection Trio feat. Morkeba Kouyate and Thierno Dioubate
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LOCATION: Warren Easton Senior High School
7pm Screening and Panel Discussion: IN THE LAND OF THE FREE
Q & A with Director Vadim Jean and Panel Discussion with Robert King And Innocence Project Director Emily Maw
SPECIAL EVENT
LOCATION: Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
6pm ART OPENING – Historic Dryades Photo Exhibit in the OCH gallery
“The Keepers of the Forest” – A group show of historic photographs of properties and residents of Central City
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7pm Screening – 40 followed by a Q & A with Actor NTARE GUMA MBAHO MWINE, star of 40 and supporting cast member in TREME
9pm Screening and Panel Discussion: BETTER THIS WORLD followed by a discussion with BRADLEY CROWDER, subject of the film and writer/community organizer JORDAN FLAHERTY
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LOCATION: Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
12noon Screening – ALL FOR THE NATION preceded by PEOPLE AND POWER’S EGYPT: SEEDS OF CHANGE
2pm Screening – Dream Hampton’s BLACK AUGUST preceded by MORE THAN A ROOF
4pm Screening – KINGDOM OF WOMEN preceded by FAULT LINES: HAITI: SIX MONTHS ON and trailer of ROAD MAP TO APARTHEID
6pm Screening – KINSHASA SYMPHONY
8pm Screening – PHIL OCHS: THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE
Followed by Music Event- Protest in song featuring folk duo, The Tom Paines
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LOCATION: Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
12noon Screening – COINTEL PRO 101 preceded by COMMITMENT
- followed by Q & A with Writer/Producer Neil Ranu
2pm Screening – THE COLORS OF THE MOUNTAIN
4pm Screening – CAFETERIA MAN presented with THE COW WHO WANTED TO BE A HAMBURGER
Q & A with Director Richard Chisolm
LOCATION: New Orleans Museum of Art
Pre-reception at 6:00pm and post screening
7pm – Screening – CLOSING FILM – KEEPER OF THE FLAME Q & A with Director Brian Nelson and performance by Guardians of the Flame Mardi Gras Indians
9pm – Screening – SONS OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Q & A with Director Tim Wolff and subjects of the film
New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)
1 Collins Diboll Circle
Warren Easton Senior High School
3019 Canal Street
Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd