STANDBY'S EVENTS & SCREENINGS

The Standby Program partners with other media organizations a few times each year to highlight work created and preserved through the program and to provide a forum to discuss media arts making and preservation issues.

The Standby Program is thrilled to announce our participation as an official event partner in the New York City Seventh Annual Immigrant Heritage Week running from April 15 - 21, 2010. The Standby Program has joined with The Maysles' Institute and Third World News Reel to present:

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Shall We Dance? Cultural expression & the immigrant experience 
When: Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 7:30pm
Where: The Maysles Cinema, 343 Malcolm X Boulevard / Lenox Avenue (between 127th & 128th St.) 
For more info: 212 206-7858  or info@standby.org
Entry: FREE
This program features 3 women and their films that examine creative expression and the immigrant experience. In The Mist, Iranian filmmaker, Maryam Habibian, chronicles her return to Iran after 30 years to observe a new culture of art and ideas that has taken root and flourishes, side by side with fundamentalist traditions. In Two Dollar Dance, Spanish filmmaker Yolanda Pividal chronicles the experience of Latino immigrants who fill the dance clubs of Jackson Heights where they meet the "two-dollars ballerinas", women who will be their dance floor partners for two dollars a song. The Bus by Iranian born filmmaker Zahra Partovi, takes us on a international and cross cultural journey inspired by the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca told by music and spoken word
in 12 different languages.
 

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PAST SCREENINGS

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 Appalshop's 40th Anniversary Video Preservation Screening

A free screening and reception in honor of Appalshop's 40th Anniversary We will screen a collection of videos from the Appalshop archives, which were preserved through The Standby Program. On Thursday, February 18th join us at: Millennium Film Workshop  66 E. 4th Street, NYC 10003

 




  • image previewAn Evening with Su Friedrich @ Union Docs
    On 
Sunday November 15th, The Standby Program
    in conjunction with Union Docs, held a  screening showcasing 2 of Su's works created through The Standby Program.


    Looking at two very personal films, Odds of Recovery, 2005 and 
Seeing Red, 2002, this 92min program takes us on an odyssey of personal frustration, strength and fortitude, through the vehicle of film.
    View the discussion here on the Thirteen Forum.
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The Standby Program 25th Anniversary Screening & Reception  video_dumbo 2009
On Sunday, September 27th 2009,
The Standby Program in conjunction with Video_Dumbo presented a chronological sampling of some of the great work that has come through the program over the past 25+ years!