The news is out and stoked that we can start to announce these titles. Check here for an ongoing 🧵of the Indigenous-made works hitting the 2024 Sundance Film Festival as they're announced:

as promised here is the Palestine Film Index list that I, Jayce Salloum & a few others have been working on. currently has 300 films from or about Palestine & the Palestinian struggle for liberation. read slide for more details (alt txt below). rb.gy/9k6nwx

I keep thinking about how if Trump were president right now, government support for the destruction of Gaza would be the same, but Dems would be campaigning on the idea that things would be different if they were in power. And many would believe them.

Update: 150 got killed. Breaking, breaking, breaking: Around 4AM, more than 70 people got killed and more 500 got wounded after Israeli tanks opened fire at them while getting aid from the arriving aid trucks on the Rashid Road in Gaza city. Thousands of starving people slept

#OrnetteColeman was born in Fort Worth, Texas #OTD March 9, 1930. After his run of seminal albums on Atlantic, Ornette re-emerged on Blue Note in 1966 and began writing an intriguing new chapter of his legendary career. Stream our spotlight playlist: bluenote.lnk.to/OrnetteColeman…

Indigenous filmmakers! Ready to tell your story through film? Apply now for the Graton Fellowship for Artists from California-Based Tribes to be considered for grants, yearlong support, and more. Deadline: October 14, 2024. Apply here: sndnc.org/4gAlAqh

A great conversation yesterday with COMPENSATION director Zeinabu irene Davis! The film screens again tonight New York Film Festival

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: REPARATIVE FUTURES 🌱 Deadline: Nov 15 Multitude Films and BGDM are seeking proposals for REPARATIVE FUTURES, a series of documentary shorts offering transformative visions for reparations. Check out the criteria at bit.ly/ReparativeFutu…

In today's edition of "Sh*t That Makes No Sense," Michigan Republicans are accusing Kamala Harris, who's married to a Jewish man, of not caring about antisemitism. motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Congress underfunds tribal colleges by $250 million per year. The outcome is crimped budgets and crumbling buildings in what the U.S. Civil Rights Commission once called the “most poorly funded institutions of higher education in the country.” propublica.org/article/tribal…

Announcing the fellows for The Doris Duke Foundation, Islamic Scholarship Fund & Sundance Institute Building Bridges Fellowship. Aimed at expanding Muslim storytelling in the US, the fellowship provides resources, mentorship & support to filmmakers. Read: sndnc.org/3YoQeMf

Footage of Phoenix police punching, Tasering deaf Black man sparks probe Outrage over the body camera footage comes on the heels of a Justice Department report that found Phoenix police use excessive force and racially discriminate. washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10…

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Deborah Stratman Hearing Is Touch At A Distance membership.uniondocs.org/programs/debor…

Show this book to Settlers & they act like vampires at the sight of garlic

At elite colleges like Columbia, many students are showing up unprepared to read full books. It’s not that they don’t want to, Rose Horowitch writes. Middle and high schools have stopped teaching them how: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

W.E.B. Du Bois’s Last Message Du Bois left us so much to learn from and build upon.

VISIT TO BERNADETTE MAYER'S CHILDHOOD HOME: “Reminds me of the Cornell film 'Centuries of June' ... It is totally flowing in the style of Bernadette.” Tender Buttons Press A short by Lynne Sachs #NowStreaming in OVID's poetry collection courtesy Lynne Sachs ovid.tv/poetry/videos/…

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be