Schedule

Session 1:  Keynote address by Greg Coyes

Session 2a:  

• Moccasins, media and mobilization: Indigenous stewardship of media in ancestral, colonial and decolonial communications. Kyle Napier (University of Alberta)
• Nhak Poti - The Story of the Star Girl: An international co-production, a short film project telling the story of how agriculture came to the Kayapó, an Indigenous culture in the Brazilian Amazon. Paul Chilsen (Middle Tennessee State University)

Session 2b:  

• Campus Reboot: A crowd-sourced, interactive and collaborative web-based living document of the historical times of college during the Covid19 pandemic and its aftermath. Susan Cardillo (University of Hartford)
• Breaking Bread: A virtual reality documentary exploring the multifaceted stories of refugee communities who have recently arrived in Cleveland. Cigdem Slankard (Cleveland State University)

Session 3a: 

• Combatting the Empathy Gap: The Significance of Arts and Media in Developing Empathy, Rani Crowe (Ball State University)
• I Hope I Thank You Enough: An investigation into the raw and vulnerable practice of looking to flawed colonial structures of history for answers. As well as the legacy colonization plays in passed down cultural or familial knowledge. Rachel De Cuba (Clemson University)

Session 3b: 

• Notes on Virginia: A performative presentation interrogating Thomas Jefferson through the voice of Sarah Hemmings demanding reparative justice for the crimes of domination and submission. Onwubiko Agozino (Virginia Tech)
• Dramatizing Virginia Dares: Readings of the early scripts of the Virginia Dares project; a recounting of the challenges encountered, and a discussion of future plans. Charles Dye and Karl Precoda (Virginia Tech)

Session 4a: 

• Decolonizing Depictions of Displacement: A behind-the-scenes look at the making of La Venezuela de mi Corazón (The Venezuela from my Heart), a co-created, interactive documentary that will capture the stories of Venezuelan immigrants and asylum seekers who have recently arrived in the Rocky Mountain West. Authors: Jaime Jacobsen and Hannah Tran (Colorado State University) and Valentina Nino (Montana State University / Venezuela)
• Jerusalem, We Are Here. A participatory interactive documentary which digitally brings Palestinians back into the neighborhoods from which they were expelled during the 1948 war. Dorit Naaman (Queen’s University, Canada), Mona Halaby (Berkley, CA, researcher and writer) and Marina Parisinou (San Francisco, CA, associate producer).

Session 4b: 

• The Dead & The Living: A short documentary film that explores the archeological unveiling of a small funerary urn that was uncovered in the village of Gurupá, Brazil. Paul Chilsen (Middle Tennessee State University)
• Reparative Justice: A documentary on the demand for reparations by people of African descent in connection with the crimes of Trans Atlantic Slavery.  Onwubiko Agozino (Virginia Tech)

Session 5a: 

• Remembering Beyond / Kukumbuka Mbele: An experimental documentary emerging from a senior thesis project titled "Solar Possibilities: Electric Pastoralism and the Role of Experimentation in Encouraging Innovation From Tanzania." Turner Adornetto (Ohio State)
• Dwelling Growth: A meditation on the intertwined nature of growth of family and home. Rachel de Cuba (Clemson University) 
• Footloose in Lockdown: Conceived as a social artistic experiment, in which invited artists, indigenists, therapists, black dancers, "brincantes populares", teachers, researchers and their babies in quarantine dance their dance, whatever it may be. The soundtrack - provocation - is a composition inspired by the popular "Cavalo Marinho." The proposal is to move the feet and heal the soul. Leticia Braga. Brasil

Session 5b: 

• ReConstruct: Five Confederates and a Tennis Player: An interactive VR project. Confederate statues share a street with tennis great Arthur Ashe, on Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue -- and are finally coming down, as the country struggles to come to grips with its racist origins. Chuck Cummings
• Spokespeople: In Los Angeles, a collective of cycling communities fight for protected bike lanes and road safety; determined to bring a new era of mobility justice to the city.
  Ryan Mekenian, M.F.A. Candidate, U.S.C. School of Cinematic Arts.

Session 6: 

• Going Forward Discussion: