From the Brooklyn Rail

99% - The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15 AT 7:30 PM
UNION DOCS // 322 UNION AVE. BK, NY
FREE // DONATIONS TOWARD FILM ACCEPTED

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Please join the Brooklyn Rail and UnionDocs for a collaborative (yet structured) event about the feature documentary in-progress: 99% - The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film.  The event will consist of a screening of material followed by a moderated Q&A with both NYC-based participating filmmakers and contributors across the U.S. via Skype about the opportunities and challenges in making a collaborative documentary about a current event.  It will then be opened to questions from the audience followed by an informal reception. Space is limited so please arrive promptly.

The Rail's Williams Cole will introduce and the Q&A will be moderated by Christopher Campbell, film critic for the Documentary Channel, IndieWIRE, and Movies.com, where he writes the bi-weekly Doc Talk column.

99% - The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film is a feature documentary film spearheaded by over 50 independent filmmakers, photographers, and videographers across the country. The end product will be a compelling, cinematic, resonant, and honest portrait of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Founded by NYC filmmakers Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites, the project currently counts among its collaborative many award-winning documentary producers, directors, musicians, and editors (as well as PR people and distributors) including Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley (Battle for Brooklyn, Horns and Halos), Ava DuVernay (distributor of independent black films via AFFRM, director/producer I Will Follow), Aaron Yanes as supervising editor (a frequent Barry Levinson editor, he's also edited many award-winning features and documentaries, from Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Padre Nuestro to James Toback's Cannes prize-winning Tyson), Tyler Brodie (Another Earth, Terri), Bob Ray (Total Badass), and many more.

SPACE IS LIMITED. PLEASE ARRIVE PROMPTLY.

OCCUPY THE CULTURE

Jason Flores-Williams will be in NYC this week doing occupant interventions, including a reading at Bowery Poetry Club & Cafe. Here's an excerpt from the text Jason will be reading from (originally published in Brooklyn Rail):

Now here was the vision: truth has a way of being relentless. Truth has a way of refusing to die. There will be many people who read this and see it as an overly sincere and melodramatic piece of crap, but there are those who will recognize it as one loser’s agonized attempt to get at the heart of the matter. And for those people, i.e. you and me, this game isn’t over. You can say that truth is going to use us for something, or maybe we’re braver than we think we are, or maybe that the bullshit volume of misery is going to get turned up so high that ultimately we’ll have no choice but to say fuck it and take a stand, but something is going to happen here. We will not go gently. I can see it in the eyes and on the faces: the desperate realization that five years of something beautiful is infinitely better than 30 more years of lies. We may go down, but we will go down swinging. The final act of this generation has yet to be staged.

The reading is from 3 to 4 pm this Sunday the 16th of October, and will also feature Ted Hamm, editor of Brooklyn Rail, and the Occupennial's Paul McLean.

"Jason Flores-Williams is a literary force of a nature...A train wreck of genius." San Francisco Chronicle.

"Jason Flores-Williams is the king of American protest literature." The Yellow Rake.