NYLGBT Center Women’s Film Series presents An Evening with Filmmaker/Artist tiona.m. 2/29/2012

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The NY LGBT Center Women’s Film Series presents An Evening with Filmmaker and Artist Tiona McClodden
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 
Program 7PM

Join filmmaker and artist Tiona McClodden as she discusses her work as a fillmmaker, director, artist and activist in the LGBT community with Aishah Shahidah Simmons. Tiona will show excerpts of some of her most well known works and of new works not yet seen.

More About Tiona McClodden:
Tiona McClodden aka tiona.m. is a Black lesbian filmmaker/artist. Her last film, black./womyn.: conversations with lesbians of African descent, provides a platform for Black lesbians to speak for themselves and to confront the hyper-sexualized image of the Black lesbian. black./womyn. was awarded the Audience Award for Best Documentary by the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (now QFest) in 2008. Tiona continues to develop and create films on progressive topics with the hope of directing a narrative feature-length project in the near future. She is currently in production with her next feature length documentary The Untitled Black Lesbian Elder Project,a short narrative film Bumming Cigarettes, and an experimental short series called Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic, which is an magical realism themed meditation on the Black American experience. www.tionam.com

More About Aishah Shahidah Simmons:
Aishah Shahidah Simmons is an AfroLez®femcentric cultural worker based in Philadelphia, PA. An incest and rape survivor, she is the producer, writer, and director of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning feature documentary NO! The Rape Documentary, which unveils the reality of rape, other forms of sexual violence and healing in African-American communities. NO! also explores how rape is used as a weapon of homophobia. She is presently in post-production on Liberation from Within about the first 10-day Vipassana Meditation course, as taught by S.N. Goenka, held in India in December 2009, for people of African heritage worldwide. Her writings on cinematic activism, gender-based violence, and queer identity from an AfroLez®femcentric perspective, and the impact of the intersections of race, gender, and sexual orientation on the lives of Black women are featured in several anthologies and journals. Aishah facilitates workshops, teaches classes, and lectures extensively throughout North America and internationally.

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