Film from the Latino Diaspora And Ronald Kevin Lewis Visits Sonic Watermelons
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Original Episode Title:
From Consumer to Producer: The Providence Latin American Film Festival Visits Sonic Watermelons*
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Original Episode Date:
August 23, 2016
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Name of Guest:
Jose Ramirez and Ron Crosson
Providence Latin American Film Festival
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Original Episode Summary:
The world is a big place with big ideas and lots and lots of music. That is the tagline of Sonic Watermelons, but remove the word music and replace it with movies, and we might be talking about the Providence Latin American Film Festival (PLAFF), coming up in September. Today on Sonic Watermelons, we talk more about PLAFF with Programming Coordinator and Treasurer Ron Crosson and Sonic Watermelons' own Jose Ramirez, who is serving in his first year as Co-Director of the festival.
What does the process look like to move from attending and consuming the culture and media at a film festival to curating, selecting and arranging the pieces of a festival? What is the process used to select a film and how do you get a team onto the same page? And what is the purpose of PLAFF and future direction of the organization and event? We'll talk about this and more TODAY on Sonic Watermelons, Tuesday, August 23, 2016.
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Contact Info for Guest(s):
www.plaff.org
www.facebook.com/Latin.American.Film.Festival
www.facebook.com/events/211904795893636/
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More Info About the Guest, Topics and/or Podcast:
Micro-filmmaking and discussions about Latinos in Hollywood: it’s that time of year again, friends - Providence Latin American Film Festival time. This year’s events run September 28 thru October 2nd, and in addition to the capital city, screenings are also happening at Bryant University in Smithfield and the Warwick Public Library (in city of said name).
PLAFF is in its 24th year and #sonicwatermelons team member, Jose Ramirez, has evolved from a guy who used to watch the films to being a co-director (alongside Saul Ramos). Ron Crosson, on the other hand, has been involved since 2000 and during times in which attendees and participants included. Danny Glover, Anthony Quinn, and Antonio Banderas.
Learn about how film festival producers, like those part of PLAFF, and Latino filmmakers worldwide have interacted with Cuba and have dealt with questions of geography, identity and location, and hear about what’s coming up at this year’s festival in “Film from the Latino Diaspora and Ronald Kevin Lewis Visits Sonic Watermelons” the podcast.
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Audio from the podcast also comes from the Sonic Watermelons archives:
The Tuesday September 20, 2016 live episode of Sonic Watermelons: “Breathe and Climb to the Top: Ronald Kevin Lewis Visits Sonic Watermelons.” #terencecrutcher #keithlamont
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Film from the Latino Diaspora And Ronald Kevin Lewis Visits Sonic Watermelons
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Original Episode Title:
From Consumer to Producer: The Providence Latin American Film Festival Visits Sonic Watermelons*
***
Original Episode Date:
August 23, 2016
***
Name of Guest:
Jose Ramirez and Ron Crosson
Providence Latin American Film Festival
***
Original Episode Summary:
The world is a big place with big ideas and lots and lots of music. That is the tagline of Sonic Watermelons, but remove the word music and replace it with movies, and we might be talking about the Providence Latin American Film Festival (PLAFF), coming up in September. Today on Sonic Watermelons, we talk more about PLAFF with Programming Coordinator and Treasurer Ron Crosson and Sonic Watermelons' own Jose Ramirez, who is serving in his first year as Co-Director of the festival.
What does the process look like to move from attending and consuming the culture and media at a film festival to curating, selecting and arranging the pieces of a festival? What is the process used to select a film and how do you get a team onto the same page? And what is the purpose of PLAFF and future direction of the organization and event? We'll talk about this and more TODAY on Sonic Watermelons, Tuesday, August 23, 2016.
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Contact Info for Guest(s):
www.plaff.org
www.facebook.com/Latin.American.Film.Festival
www.facebook.com/events/211904795893636/
***
More Info About the Guest, Topics and/or Podcast:
Micro-filmmaking and discussions about Latinos in Hollywood: it’s that time of year again, friends - Providence Latin American Film Festival time. This year’s events run September 28 thru October 2nd, and in addition to the capital city, screenings are also happening at Bryant University in Smithfield and the Warwick Public Library (in city of said name).
PLAFF is in its 24th year and #sonicwatermelons team member, Jose Ramirez, has evolved from a guy who used to watch the films to being a co-director (alongside Saul Ramos). Ron Crosson, on the other hand, has been involved since 2000 and during times in which attendees and participants included. Danny Glover, Anthony Quinn, and Antonio Banderas.
Learn about how film festival producers, like those part of PLAFF, and Latino filmmakers worldwide have interacted with Cuba and have dealt with questions of geography, identity and location, and hear about what’s coming up at this year’s festival in “Film from the Latino Diaspora and Ronald Kevin Lewis Visits Sonic Watermelons” the podcast.
***
Audio from the podcast also comes from the Sonic Watermelons archives:
The Tuesday September 20, 2016 live episode of Sonic Watermelons: “Breathe and Climb to the Top: Ronald Kevin Lewis Visits Sonic Watermelons.” #terencecrutcher #keithlamont
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Sonic Watermelons Contact Info:
www.bsrlive.com
www.venussings.com
Facebook: @sonicwatermelons
Twitter: @WatermelonRadio
Soundcloud: @sonicwatermelons
iTunes: “sonic watermelons”
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Reza Clifton
Deejay Kellan
Jessica LaBrie
Phil Eil Visits Sonic Watermelons, April 12, 2016
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Original Episode Title:
We have freedom to access information but do we really? Phil Eil tells us a story or two about the FOIA.
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Original Episode Date:
April 12, 2016
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Name of Guest(s):
Philip Eil, former/final editor of the Providence Phoenix, adjunct lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), freelance journalist
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Original Episode Summary:
On today's show we speak with Phil Eil, a local journalist and the former - and final - editor of the Providence Phoenix, who has a passion for the truth. One area his passion has taken him is around the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). We have learned that this journey has had valleys and peaks. There are road blocks on the path to getting the truth and apparently our Goverment is a giant one. [Below is] an excerpt from a Vice.com article about his FOIA battle with the feds; the link to the full article will be posted below also.
"If you took President Obama at his word, this was supposed to be a golden age for investigative journalism in America. On his first day in office, the Commander-in-Chief penned a memo encouraging executive agencies to adopt a "presumption in favor of disclosure" when processing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The White House later rolled out the details of an "unprecedented level of openness" it was determined to bring to Washington. In 2013, Obama famously said he's running the "most transparent administration in history. It hasn't quite worked out that way."
Learn more about Phil Eil's work, his experiences with using FOIA, and his thoughts on all things RI TODAY on Sonic Watermelons.
http://www.vice.com/read/how-the-feds-blocked-me-from-covering-a-pill-mill-trial
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Contact Info for Guest(s):
Twitter: @phileil
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Phillip.edward.eil
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More Info About the Guest, Topics and/or Podcast:
Phil Eil, the former/final editor of the Providence Phoenix and adjunct lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design, is currently a self employed journalist with pieces appearing in Salon.com, Vice.com, and The Atlantic. He is also a litigant in a lawsuit against the Federal Government. He spoke in detail about FOIA - the Freedom of Information Act - and what precipitated his court cases during the show, as well as spoke to us about a recent experience he had interviewing another journalist, Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman. Learn more in this podcast episode of Sonic Watermelons, and by reading up on the following sites:
https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-sues-drug-enforcement-agency-public-records-local-journalist-requested-3-years-ago
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=27700
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2016/05/10/1-evidence-in-pill-mill-case-held-under-lock-and-key.html
http://forward.com/culture/339517/how-a-rabbis-granddaughter-became-the-host-of-democracy-now/#ixzz47QiOSA41
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Audio from the podcast also comes from the Reza Rites / Sonic Watermelons Archive:
The Reza Wreckage 10 in 10 - episode 1 was part of a short-run multimedia podcast series produced by Sonic Watermelons’ Reza Corinne Clifton. In the attached, mini-podcast, Clifton talks to poet Kate Rushin about her artist in residency stay at the Providence-based arts organization, AS220, and about her work and perspective as a feminist woman of color and writer. To see the entire podcast, and to learn more, visit https://youtu.be/F623Yexnr8g; Follow Kate Rushin at www.katerushin.com or @ kate.rushin on Facebook. Visit VenusSings.com and www.AmbitiousBlackFeminist.com to check out Reza's work.
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Sonic Watermelons Contact Info:
www.bsrlive.com
venussings.wordpress.com/about-sonic-watermelons-on-bsr/
Facebook: @sonicwatermelons
Twitter: @WatermelonRadio
Soundcloud: @sonicwatermelons
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Reza Clifton
Deejay Kellan
Jessica LaBrie
Kabir Lambo
Jose Ramirez
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Film from the Latino Diaspora And Ronald Kevin Lewis Visits Sonic Watermelons
***
Original Episode Title:
From Consumer to Producer: The Providence Latin American Film Festival Visits Sonic Watermelons*
***
Original Episode Date:
August 23, 2016
***
Name of Guest:
Jose Ramirez and Ron Crosson
Providence Latin American Film Festival
***
Original Episode Summary:
The world is a big place with big ideas and lots and lots of music. That is the tagline of Sonic Watermelons, but remove the word music and replace it with movies, and we might be talking about the Providence Latin American Film Festival (PLAFF), coming up in September. Today on Sonic Watermelons, we talk more about PLAFF with Programming Coordinator and Treasurer Ron Crosson and Sonic Watermelons' own Jose Ramirez, who is serving in his first year as Co-Director of the festival.
What does the process look like to move from attending and consuming the culture and media at a film festival to curating, selecting and arranging the pieces of a festival? What is the process used to select a film and how do you get a team onto the same page? And what is the purpose of PLAFF and future direction of the organization and event? We'll talk about this and more TODAY on Sonic Watermelons, Tuesday, August 23, 2016.
***
Contact Info for Guest(s):
www.plaff.org
www.facebook.com/Latin.American.Film.Festival
www.facebook.com/events/211904795893636/
***
More Info About the Guest, Topics and/or Podcast:
Micro-filmmaking and discussions about Latinos in Hollywood: it’s that time of year again, friends - Providence Latin American Film Festival time. This year’s events run September 28 thru October 2nd, and in addition to the capital city, screenings are also happening at Bryant University in Smithfield and the Warwick Public Library (in city of said name).
PLAFF is in its 24th year and #sonicwatermelons team member, Jose Ramirez, has evolved from a guy who used to watch the films to being a co-director (alongside Saul Ramos). Ron Crosson, on the other hand, has been involved since 2000 and during times in which attendees and participants included. Danny Glover, Anthony Quinn, and Antonio Banderas.
Learn about how film festival producers, like those part of PLAFF, and Latino filmmakers worldwide have interacted with Cuba and have dealt with questions of geography, identity and location, and hear about what’s coming up at this year’s festival in “Film from the Latino Diaspora and Ronald Kevin Lewis Visits Sonic Watermelons” the podcast.
***
Audio from the podcast also comes from the Sonic Watermelons archives:
The Tuesday September 20, 2016 live episode of Sonic Watermelons: “Breathe and Climb to the Top: Ronald Kevin Lewis Visits Sonic Watermelons.” #terencecrutcher #keithlamont
****
Sonic Watermelons Contact Info:
www.bsrlive.com
www.venussings.com
Facebook: @sonicwatermelons
Twitter: @WatermelonRadio
Soundcloud: @sonicwatermelons
iTunes: “sonic watermelons”
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Sonic Staff & Volunteers
Reza Clifton
Deejay Kellan
Jessica LaBrie
