During the 2020-2021 academic year the Equity and Campus Diversity Office, Communication Department, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center have once again partnered for the sixth annual Beyond Boundaries: Dare to Be Diverse Screening and Discussion Series.
This six-part film series is organized around categories of diversity including, but not limited to, race, gender, class, sexual orientation, and abilities, with an emphasis on intersectionality.
The goal of the series is to provide a multicultural experience, while creating an opportunity for open dialogue among students, faculty, staff, and members of the Buffalo community.
Held in the beautiful Burchfield Penney Art Center, these topics, venue, and information are a calling card you won’t care to miss. All films start at 7:00 p.m.
Click here for our Facebook page with more details about upcoming events: https://www.facebook.com/BSC.EquityandDiversity/
Directed by Ashley O'Shay
There will be a panel discussion via ZOOM after the screening.
Beyond Boundaries screenings are free and open to the public.
Please RSVP here: https://forms.gle/3PPYHrSpLK2VfrJ27
After two police killings, Black millennial organizers challenge a Chicago administration complicit in state violence against its Black residents. Told through the lens of Janaé and Bella, two fierce abolitionist leaders, Unapologetic is a deep look into the Movement for Black Lives, from the police murder of Rekia Boyd to the election of mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Watch the trailer here: https://www.unapologeticfilm.com/about
Directed by: James Lebrecht & Nicole Newnham
There will be a post-film discussion via ZOOM.
Beyond Boundaries screenings are free and open to the public.
Please RSVP here: https://forms.gle/cd1Py7KWyJamS1Mq8
In the early 1970s, teenagers with disabilities faced a future shaped by isolation, discrimination and institutionalization. Camp Jened, a ramshackle camp “for the handicapped” (a term no longer used) in the Catskills, exploded those confines. Jened was their freewheeling Utopia, a place with summertime sports, smoking and make-out sessions awaiting everyone, and campers experienced liberation and full inclusion as human beings. Their bonds endured as many migrated West to Berkeley, California — a hotbed of activism where friends from Camp Jened realized that disruption, civil disobedience, and political participation could change the future for millions.
Crip Camp is the story of one group of people and captures one moment in time. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of other equally important stories from the Disability Rights Movement that have not yet received adequate attention. We are committed to using the film’s platform to amplify additional narratives in the disability rights and disability justice communities – with a particular emphasis on stories surrounding people of color and other intersectionally marginalized communities. We stand by the creed of nothing about us, without us. For too long, too many were excluded, and it is time to broaden the number of voices and share the mic.
Watch the trailor here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRrIs22plz0
Directed by: Cristina Ibarra & Alex Rivera
Please join us for the discussion afterwards via ZOOM
Please RSVP Here: https://forms.gle/cY9gxLynXGhZqMiS9
A rag-tag group of undocumented youth - Dreamers - deliberately get detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy, for-profit detention center.
Watch the trailor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvSuyItYudk
