Once upon a time, I tried to get something I called Pre-literate Productions/Savannah Cinema going with a Masai friend I had worked with in Kenya. But at the time editing the on a laptop was still considered unreliable, and I’m incompetent at anything requiring community mobilization, or navigating the vagaries of the not-for-profit world. The project went no where.

My friend Carlos is a having a little more luck (not surprising, since he actually knows what he’s doing.) If you’re in New York, and looking for some tasty fun this Friday, why not head over to the Cineminga Fund-raiser on Delancy. Good food, good drink, good cause!

In Tierradentro, Colombia, the Nasa people are starting to use digital video to tell their stories. Please join us for a presentation of Cineminga’s pilot project: Dreams of Mountains

Over the last year, Carlos Gomez has been working with a small group of people in the Huila reservation teaching them video techniques and writing a story. The images you will be seeing on the night area selection of the material we shot and edited during the course of the workshop, and will offer a rare window into a breathtaking landscape and wise, resilient people.

Chop Shop will serve delicious Colombian-inspired food.

Wine and beer will be provided by The Bubble Lounge.

We hope to inspire your financial support, so please bring your checkbook! Funds will go towards finishing the story and enabling this community to purchase their own basic media equipment.

Friday, June 20th 8:00PM
50 Delancey St, Apt 4
Contact Carlos at cgomez@mc.net

 For more information please visit: http://cineminga.org

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