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Third World Newsreel (TWN) is proud to present eight new documentaries at the Museum of Modern Art's annual showcase of nonfiction film and video. Please join us on Saturday, February 14 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City for the following programs:

Program 1: Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project
Directed by Charles B. Brack. A plea for the rights of African American lesbians, the film follows the tragic story of Sakia Gunn, a fifteen-year-old hate crime victim who was murdered in Newark, NJ, after she rejected her killer's advances. Although her attacker received a seventeen-year sentence, there was little media coverage of the trial.
Organized by J. T. Takagi and William Sloan.
55 min.
Saturday, February 14, 2009, 6:00 p.m., Theater 1, T1(Discussion with Brack and Dorothy Thigpen, Executive Director, Third World Newsreel)
Monday, February 16, 2009, 6:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2

Program 2: New Work from New Filmmakers
This selection of films made in the U.S. between 2007 and 2008 includes Lottie Porch and Vanara Taing's Beyond the Music, about the Inspirational Choir of New York's Riverside Church; Hanna Rose Shell and Vanessa Bertozzi's Secondhand (Pepe), about the flow of used clothing from America to Haiti; Jennifer Fasulo and Manauvaskar Kublall's PRIMETIME: Fighting Back Against Foreclosure, an explanation of the complexities of subprime mortgages; Corinne Manabat's Excuse My Gangsta Ways, a visually poetic documentary of Chinese American former girl gang member; Mansee Kong's Here to Stay, about an elderly Chinatown neighbor and fellow tenants organizing against gentrification; Sarah Frank's In Bed with a Mosquito, about one of the members of the antiwar protest group the Granny Brigade; and Trinidad Rodriguez's Our Lady Queen of Harlem, in which parishioners protest the closing of their church in Spanish Harlem. Many of these works were produced in Third World Newsreel workshops for young filmmakers of color.
Organized by J. T. Takagi and William Sloan.
93 min.
Saturday, February 14, 2009, 8:00 p..m., Theater 1, T1 (Discussion with Dorothy Thigpen, Executive Director, Third World Newsreel, and the filmmakers)
Monday, February 16, 2009, 8:00 p.m., Theater 2, T2

Location Name:  Museum of Modern Art

Address: 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019-5497

Contact:  www.moma.org