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The Center for the Mixed Voice Signs On as Sponsor of Mixed Remixed Festival
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We are very excited to announce that The Center for the Mixed Voice has signed on as a sponsor of the Mixed Remixed Festival 2015!The Center for the Mixed Voice is an emerging nonprofit organization committed to serving the multiracial community. Located in the heart of the Charles Village neighborhood of Baltimore, the center will provide on-site resources for mixed individuals, families, and their advocates, including a browsing/lending library, workshops, community forums, creative and expressive arts projects, and referrals to “mixed-competent” licensed therapeutic services. Learn more about the organization here: www.mixedvoice.org
Presenter Spotlight 2015: Writer Anoosh Jorjorian
Sound Off!: Parents of Multiracial Kids Talk about Books, the Media & the Race Talk
June 13, 2015 3:00pm-3:50pm
Anoosh Jorjorian writes on the politics of parenting. Her work has been published at Salon, Time.com, the Huffington Post, and Black Girl Dangerous, and she blogs at www.aranamama.com. Follow her on Twitter @aranamama.
Presenter Spotlight 2015: Writer Liz Dwyer
Sound Off!: Parents of Multiracial Kids Talk about Books, the Media & the Race Talk
June 13, 2015 3:00pm-3:50pm
Liz Dwyer is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor, and mom. She has written about race, parenting, and social justice for several national websites and print publications and on her own blog, Los Angelista. Dwyer is also a breast cancer survivor and believes in fangirling about Depeche Mode.
“I’m Black. I’m White. I’m Both. I’m Neither.”
This is a really great essay by Celeste Headlee about her multiracial family.
“MESSAGE TO THE READER: This blog post contains strong language.
I’m black.
My grandfather is William Grant Still, the “Dean of African-American composers.” His skin was the color of maple syrup. Mine is the color of café au lait. My grandfather suffered countless indignities and injustices because of his color. I remember them still, almost viscerally. They still feel personal to me.
When he was going to Oberlin College to accept an honorary degree, he drove from Los Angeles with his family. He couldn’t stay at the white hotels because he was black; he couldn’t say at the black hotels because his wife was white. So he drove 2,300 miles without stopping. In photos of the event, he’s stooping; he looks exhausted. I’ve heard that story dozens of times, and yet, my cheeks feel hot thinking about it even now. It still makes me angry.
My grandparents had to get married in Tijuana because their marriage was illegal in the US. That’s personal. He had to build a six-foot fence around his home to protect my mother and her brother from violence. It was the 1940s and people were dragging mixed-race families out of their beds, beating them, sometimes setting their homes on fire. I look at my mother sometimes and think about how lucky I am.
I have the same amount of black ancestry as Sally Hemings, slave to Thomas Jefferson and mother to six of his children. (Side note: three of those children lived their adult lives as white. They passed.)”
Read the rest of the essay here.
Presenter Spotlight 2015: Filmmaker Talon Gonzales
Program: Short Film Mestizo
TALON GONZALES
Short Film Program
June 13, 2015 10am-10:50am with Filmmaker Q&A
Talon Gonzalez is an independent non-fiction film director from Big Sur, California. Before beginning his studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, he attended FAMU International Film School in Prague, Czech Republic (in 2012).
His student films typically explore ethnic and cultural identity. He was awarded Best Editing at the 2014 United Nations Associate Film Festival for his short film, Mestizo. His film examines the the infamous “What Are You?” question and the issues that are part of this ambiguity. Talon is also a creative media director for the tech start-up, Student IDeals.
Contact Information:
talongonzo@gmail.com
Mestizo Trailer from Talon Gonzalez on Vimeo.
Presenter Spotlight 2015: Filmmaker Wade Allain-Marcus
Feature Film: French Dirty
June 13, 2015, Tateuchi Democracy Forum, 3pm-5pm
The distant past, the recent past and the present collide in French Dirty a meditation on love, loss and growing up as a millennial.
WADE ALLAIN-MARCUS graduated with a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in Theater. Immediately following graduation Wade booked roles in Friends With Money, Take Me Home Tonight, Waist Deep, and co-starred with Ethan Hawke in Antoine Fuqua’s Brooklyn’s Finest.
He has also had guest appearances on tv shows such as Gossip Girl and Burn Notice. Additionally, he has been invited to be a part of the Sundance Theater Lab in a play that opened at New York’s Fringe Festival. From 2009-2011, he studied under the great acting instructor, William Esper, at the William Esper Studio.
After moving to Los Angeles three years ago, he began his journey as a writer/director, starring in over 10 feature films and plays, and having directed a series of short films including You’re Fucking Nothing, Open House, and Una Y Otra, Y Otra Vez.
In August 2014 he was invited into the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors Program where he worked with a series of current showrunners, Sony Executives, and highly established television directors like How I Met Your Mother’s, Pam Fryman.
On the heels of finishing his first feature, French Dirty, that he starred in, co-wrote, and co-directed, he is doing the same for his second feature which is currently ramping into pre-production. Presently untitled, it explores similar themes and is described as a modern take on “the 7 year itch.”
Mixed Remixed is so ecstatic to have such a goal-oriented creative mind on this year’s line up!
FUN FACT: He’s also the older brother of Jesse Allain-Marcus!
Presenter Spotlight 2015: Filmmaker Jesse Allain-Marcus
Feature Film: French Dirty
June 13, 2015, Tateuchi Democracy Forum, 3pm-5pm
The distant past, the recent past and the present collide in French Dirty a meditation on love, loss and growing up as a millennial.
Since the age of 10, JESSE ALLAIN-MARCUS has been making movies and has since had them screened at many film festivals including the Los Angeles Film Festival.
His film, French Dirty, has officially been selected for our Mixed Remixed 2015 lineup and we are so thrilled to have such a humble, hard-working and truly dedicated visionary as part of our offering. It explores the tumultuous experiences of its main character as “a meditation on love, loss and growing up as a millennial.”
In addition to being a graduate of Oakwood School, the Cal Arts Summer School for the Arts, he’s worked as an editor, cinematographer and commercial director, and currently attends Wesleyan University.
Presenter Spotlight 2015: Santana Dempsey
Santana Dempsey
Transracial Adoption: Parents and Adoptees Talk
June 13, 2015 4:00pm-4:50pm
Santana is a very passionate actress and advocate for adoption and was part of the prestigious ABC Talent Showcase where she performed with the likes of Wade Allain-Marcus in “One Night Stand.”
As an ambassador for the non profit Mixed Roots Foundation, she helps bring awareness to countless touched in various ways by adoption. Earlier this year (March), Santana joined up with LupusLA by running in the Asics Big 5k to raise money for a cure. At the moment, she is working on an interdisciplinary art project called Somewhere In Between (working title) that celebrates identity and diversity by learning and accepting everything that makes you, YOU.
Presenter Spotlight 2015: Writer Amy S. Choi
Amy S. Choi
Sound Off!: Parents of Multiracial Kids Talk About Books, the Media, and the Race Talk
June 13, 2015, 3pm-3:50pm
Amy is the co-founder and editorial director of The Mash-Up Americans, a media and consulting company that aims to change how the world understands mixed-race, mixed-identity, mixed-faith, mixed-everything modern America. Amy is a first-generation Korean-American married to a first-generation Colombian-Mexican-American, and mom to a feisty Korombexican-American: in other words, The Future of America.
She has worked for more than a decade as a journalist and editor in New York. Her work has appeared in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Women’s Wear Daily, Inc., TED, The Philadelphia City Paper, Time Out New York, Salon, and The Wall Street Journal, to name a few.
She specializes in getting people to tell stories they never expected to share. Amy sits on the board of Ugly Duckling Presse, an independent publisher in Brooklyn that focuses on poetry. She earned degrees in journalism and poetry writing at Northwestern University.
Stay tuned with Amy: @awesomechoi and find her in Brooklyn.
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