I've probably posted about this before, but filmmakers Annabel Park (121 Coalition, an organization to help pass HR 121, the "comfort women" resolution) and Eric Byler (director of Charlotte Sometimes, Americanese) have been working on 9500 Liberty, a documentary about the immigration debate in Virginia. It's been an ongoing YouTube project so far, but hopefully there can be some sort of cinematic feature or whatnot.

They have a new trailer! It's pretty shocking. You really need to just watch it.

Third World Newsreel (TWN), "an alternative media arts organization that fosters the creation, appreciation and dissemination of independent film and video by and about people of color and social justice issues", is hosting a program at the Museum of Modern Art on Feb 14 & 16 called "New Work from New Filmmakers". Amongst those filmmakers is friend Corinne Manabat, whose short film Excuse My Gangsta Ways details the life of Davina Wan, a woman experiencing a difficult transition from a life of gangs to a life of "normalcy".

We had the pleasure of watching EMGW at a summer screening at Sulu Series, and Corinne made that awesome elections short "The Reminder" that we posted in the late Fall. Tickets are $10 adult and $6 student, but you can exchange a museum admission ticket for a film ticket, if you hassle the Lobby Information Desk (Target Free Fridays excluded).

Check out this documentary premiering Nov. 10th at the Queens Film Festival. Tea & Justice is about Asian American women in the NYPD, breaking stereotypes and changing the field of law enforcement in this city. Looks fantastic.