FALL 2014 Festivals and Screenings AAWIC Film Festival THIS FRIDAY.. WHEN: November 21, 7:45PM WHERE: MIST Harlem 46 W 116th St, New York, NY 100 FALL 2014 Festivals and Screenings AAWIC Film Festival THIS FRIDAY.. WHEN: November 21, 7:45PM WHERE: MIST Harlem 46 W 116th St, New York, NY 10026 Hate Crimes in the Heartland will be screening this Friday in Harlem at the African American Women in Cinema (AAWIC) Film Festival. This is event provides a platform and showcase for aligning experienced and novice filmmakers. The goal is to expand, explore and create business opportunities for minority female filmmakers throughout the entertainment industry. AAWIC Film Festival showcase features, documentaries, shorts, foreign, and animation from women filmmakers who are of the African, Latino, Asian or Native American Diaspora. For more information about the screening and the the festival, go to www.aawic.org San Diego Black Film Festival COMING SOON... WHEN: January 29 - February 1, 2015 WHERE: Reading Cinemas The San Diego Black Film Festival was established in 2002 to preserve and promote African American & African Diaspora Cinema. The event hosts over 100 films each year: Comedy, Drama, Documentaries, Animation, GLBT, Horror, Religious, Foreign/African Diaspora, Shorts, Feature Films and music videos. The festival is not only one of the largest, but first Black film festival of the year providing debuts that inspire programming for later festivals. Hate Crimes in the Heartland has already been selected for the festival so go to www.sdbff.com for dates and details. THESE WERE GREAT... Ohio Independent Film Festival WHEN: Sunday, November 9 WHERE: Atlas Cinemas Lakeshore Cleveland based Independent Pictures is dedicated to building a strong independent film community in Northeast Ohio by bringing artists, industry experts and audience members together through exhibition, education and networking events. They have sponsored the annual Ohio Independent Film Festival since 1993. Originally called the Off-Hollywood Flick Fest, the event gained followers by offering audiences truly independent films they wouldn't ordinarily see in major theaters. Hate Crimes in the Heartand screened to a fabulous house and we really enjoyed this event. For more information about the screening and the the festival, go to www.ohiofilms.com Reel Sisters Film Festival WHEN: October 25, 2014 WHERE: Spike Lee Screening Room, Long Island University Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival and Lecture Series, founded by African Voices magazine and Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, is the first Brooklyn-based festival devoted to supporting films produced, directed and written by women of color. Since 1997, the festival has been enriching the city with over 500 films by women of African, Caribbean, Latino, Asian, Indian and Native American descent. Reel Sisters attracts more than 800 film lovers from across the nation and globe including California, Chicago, Florida to as far away as Britain. The festival screens 25 films each year. Reel Sisters also provides scholarships to emerging women filmmakers and offers other resources for women filmmakers. It was an honor and a pleasure to be a part of his event. For more information about the organization, go to www.reelsisters2.wordpress.com WHAT'S UP NEXT? Lioness Media Arts will kick off the new year with a special new partnership and screening series coming to your town in 2015. The racial injustice raging in Ferguson, MO and across the country implores us all to join the dialogue. Look out for our very special announcement and invitation to be a part of the change that America needs. ABOUT US Heartland, an award winning documentary film by Emmy Award winner Rachel Lyon explores our national epidemic of hate crimes through the lens of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Here two crimes, over 90 years apart, are impacting media, race, crime and punishment in communities today. The film begins in Tulsa, where two white men drove through the African-American neighborhood of Greenwood, targeting blacks at random, killing three and leaving two in critical condition in 2012. The film follows the murders, social media uproar, manhunt, capture and prosecution of two suspects who faced the death penalty. Like no other documentary exploring this topic, Hate Crimes in the Heartland reveals how racial animosity haunts American culture by exploring the most violent race riot in our history, the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. Set in the same Tulsa neighborhood, the thorny lessons of the past are still surging into present-day unrest. Co-producer Pi Isis Ankhra and associate producers Reggie Turner and Bavand Karim join Rachel Lyon on the Project. Partners include the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harvard Law School, New Jersey City University, Northern Kentucky University, DePaul University, Northeast Church of Christ of Oklahoma City and the John Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice.. CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW TRAILER CLICK IMAGE TO SHOP NOW