Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Episode 1

SCREENING DETAILS
January 13, 2012
1:00pm Pacific Time
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moderator

Steve Goldbloom is the Marketing & Communications Manager for ITVS in San Francisco. www.beyondthebox.org

panelists

Nonso Christian Ugbode is a writer, producer and web/media conceptualist. He works as the director of digital media for the National Black Programming Consortium in Harlem, NY where he oversees content and style for NBPC's Blackpublicmedia.Org website. He also manages in-house production of content and e-advocacy for NBPC. As a producer and filmmaker his recent works include Colored Frames a film about black painters directed by Lerone Wilson, currently in distribution and screening at festivals. He received his BFA in Film & Television Production at New York University.http://blackpublicmedia.org/

ITVS & NBPC Present: Have You Heard from Johannesburg

Welcome!

Welcome to one of the first social screenings on behalf of Independent Lens! This week, ITVS and NBPC are delighted to make available episode one of the five-part mini series Have You Heard from Johannesburg. The documentary, by filmmaker Connie Filed, premiered Thursday, January 12 on Independent Lens and will air throughout the month. Log on through Facebook and feel free to ask questions throughout the film!

Video Description

Just as the United Nations adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, South Africa heads in the opposite direction, instituting a system of racist and oppressive laws against non-whites, and imprisoning opposition leaders including Nelson Mandela.

Duration: 55min 25sec

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