Free and open to the public (until supplies last). Following the screening of MLK/FBI, join us for a conversation between director Sam Pollard, New Orleans artist and activist Shana M. griffin, and New Orleans cultural advocate Renard Bridgewater, a member of the Eyes on Surveillance coalition. Presented in partnership with the PATOIS New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival.
Sam Pollard (Director)
Sam Pollard is an Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated director and producer. His films for HBO, PBS, and the Discovery Channel include the documentaries Four Little Girls, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Slavery by Another Name, Sammy Davis, Jr.: I Gotta Be Me, ACORN and the Firestorm, Why We Hate, and Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children. Pollard also directed two episodes of the groundbreaking series Eyes on the Prize II. Since 1994 Pollard has served on the faculty of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and lives in New York City.
Shana M. griffin
Shana M. griffin is a feminist activist, independent researcher, applied sociologist, artist, and geographer. Shana is the Interim Executive Director of Antenna, a multidisciplinary visual and literary arts organization; founder of PUNCTUATE, a recently established feminist research, art, and activist initiative; a member of the PATOIS Collective; and creator of DISPLACED, a multimedia feminist and public history project that chronicles the institutionalization of spatial residential segregation through the violence of racial slavery and displacement in New Orleans.
Renard Bridgewater
Renard Bridgewater is a New Orleans based musician (performing under the moniker Slangston Hughes), organizer and cultural advocate who works as the Community Engagement Coordinator for the Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans (MaCCNO). Within this role, Renard organizes with and on the behalf of musicians, culture bearers, and street performers to pursue equitable policies that directly benefit and protect the indigenous cultural practices and daily activities of our city's cultural ambassadors.
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Free and open to the public (until supplies last). Following the screening of MLK/FBI, join us for a conversation between director Sam Pollard, New Orleans artist and activist Shana M. griffin, and New Orleans cultural advocate Renard Bridgewater, a member of the Eyes on Surveillance coalition. Presented in partnership with the PATOIS New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival.
Sam Pollard (Director)
Sam Pollard is an Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated director and producer. His films for HBO, PBS, and the Discovery Channel include the documentaries Four Little Girls, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Slavery by Another Name, Sammy Davis, Jr.: I Gotta Be Me, ACORN and the Firestorm, Why We Hate, and Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children. Pollard also directed two episodes of the groundbreaking series Eyes on the Prize II. Since 1994 Pollard has served on the faculty of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and lives in New York City.
Shana M. griffin
Shana M. griffin is a feminist activist, independent researcher, applied sociologist, artist, and geographer. Shana is the Interim Executive Director of Antenna, a multidisciplinary visual and literary arts organization; founder of PUNCTUATE, a recently established feminist research, art, and activist initiative; a member of the PATOIS Collective; and creator of DISPLACED, a multimedia feminist and public history project that chronicles the institutionalization of spatial residential segregation through the violence of racial slavery and displacement in New Orleans.
Renard Bridgewater
Renard Bridgewater is a New Orleans based musician (performing under the moniker Slangston Hughes), organizer and cultural advocate who works as the Community Engagement Coordinator for the Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans (MaCCNO). Within this role, Renard organizes with and on the behalf of musicians, culture bearers, and street performers to pursue equitable policies that directly benefit and protect the indigenous cultural practices and daily activities of our city's cultural ambassadors.
EOS Instagram - @eos_nola
EOS Twitter - @eos_nola
EOS Facebook - @keepaneyeonsurveillance