Reel Sisters Tea & Cinema Spotlights filmmaker Dehanza Rogers!
On Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 6:30 pm, join Reel Sisters Tea & Cinema Series for an exciting online chat with filmmaker Dehanza Rogers, the director of the new ALL ARTS documentary The First Twenty: Social. Dehanza focuses her lens on capturing creators, artists and activists who have used social media to galvanize communities around healing and change. Stream the film online at the ALL ARTS website and join us August 23 at 6:30 pm for an online chat!
To RSVP for our ONLINE CHAT: The First Twenty: Social.
Synopsis
Filmmaker Dehanza Rogers investigates the dual role social media has played as a source of pain and joy in a new documentary film for the ALL ARTS original series The First Twenty. Featuring conversations with creators, artists and advocates catapulted to fame on TikTok, Youtube, Twitter and Instagram including Aliah Sheffield (@nikkialiah), Cameron Spears (@queercameron), photographer Ivan McClellan (@eightsecs), Isa Segalovich (@interstellar_isabellar) Assistant Professor Ashleigh Wade (@scholarleigh1) and Our Family Plays Games Mik and Starla Fitch (@our_plays), the film explores how social media brings Black artists and activists together and has the potential to create and celebrate community and promote healing.
Filmmaker
Dehanza Rogers
Filmmaker, The First Twenty: Social
Dehanza Rogers is an award-winning Panamanian American filmmaker. Her films and research explore Black girlhood and the African Diaspora, as well as participatory and social media tools of activism and cultural identity. Her films have screened at over 100 festivals around the world, as well on PBS and cable. Her latest project, #BlackGirlhood, explores the criminalization of Black girls in schools and was partially funded by Eastern State Penitentiary’s “Criminal Justice Today” grant. Rogers is an Assistant Professor in the Film and Media department at Emory University and previously taught at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she was a 2019 Cornell Society for the Humanities Fellow.
Reel Sisters Tea & Cinema Series is supported, in part, by the West Harlem Development Corp., National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council, Council members Laurie Cumbo, Farah Louis and Bill Perkins! Harlem World Magazine is the media sponsor for Reel Sisters Tea & Cinema Harlem Series! Please look out for our full events calendar coming soon!