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Vanessa Domico, Founder/President
of Outcast Films has just signed on to co-produce, UNITED
IN ANGER, the first feature-length documentary to explore
the historic and on-going contribution of the AIDS Coalition
to Unleash Power in New York (ACT UP NY.) Domico joins
Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman who have been working on the film
since 2001.
In addition to her passion and dedication for LGBT activism and
documentary film, Domico brings over 30 years of business experience
including various executive positions within May Company, Women
Make Movies (WMM), and with the Pittsburgh International Lesbian
and Gay Film Festival (PIGFF.) After graduating magna cum laude
from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in Film Studies
and after taking her MFA in photography from Cornell University,
Domico moved to New York where she was hired as the Deputy Director
of WMM, an arts organization which facilitates the production, promotion,
and distribution of independent films by and about women. As an
authority on distribution and LGBT films, Domico has represented
Outcast Films, the PILGFF and WMM at many festivals, panels, conferences
and other events. Domico is a member of IFP, NYWIFT, Out in Film
and Television and has also served as a member of the Board of Directors
of NewFest, New York’s LGBT film festival.
In 2004, Domico founded Outcast Films, a film distribution company
dedicated to the fair and equal representation of media made by
or about the diverse Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender community.
Outcast Films outreaches to thousands of teachers, community leaders,
activists, policy makers and breakers, institutions, and individuals.
In this interest, Outcast Films fosters critical discussions around
social justice issues, as well as providing the public with a resource
of cutting edge films and videos created by and impacting the LGBT
community.
About the film:
UNITED IN ANGER is the first feature-length documentary
to explore the historic and on-going contribution of the AIDS Coalition
to Unleash Power, New York (ACT UP-NY). This vanguard AIDS activist
organization used innovative direct action strategies to successfully
transform the AIDS crisis in the United States. UNITED IN
ANGER will not only document the heroism and tenacity of
ordinary people, but also, by investigating the essential techniques
through which ACT UP created change, it is intended to inspire others
to use direct action as a means to social transformation
UNITED IN ANGER is rooted in two crucial bodies
of work: The ACT UP Oral History Project (www.actuporalhistory.org)
in which Hubbard and Schulman have been interviewing surviving members
of ACT UP, New York and the AIDS Activist Video Collection of the
New York Public Library. In his role as long-time filmmaker, curator
and preservationist, Hubbard spent years gathering and preserving
hundreds of hours of AIDS film and video. Under the auspices of
the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, he created the Royal
S. Marks AIDS Activist Video Collection of the New York Public Library.
Much of this work had been abandoned or did not have the knowledge
or resources to preserve the work and with Hubbard’s work,
this collection is now preserved at the NY Public Library and is
available, for free, to the general public, who can now easily view
the work at the main library at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street.
About Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman:
Jim Hubbard has been making films since 1974. Among his 19 films
are Elegy in the Streets (1989), Two Marches (1991), The Dance (1992)
and Memento Mori (1995). His films have been shown at the Berlin
Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the San Francisco Jewish
Film Festival, the New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tokyo,
London, Torino and many other Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals. His
film Memento Mori won the Ursula for Best Short Film at the Hamburg
Lesbian & Gay Film Festival in 1995. He co-founded and is president
of MIX - the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival.
Under the auspices of the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS,
he created the Royal S. Marks AIDS Activist Video Collection at
the New York Public Library. He curated the series Fever in the
Archive: AIDS Activist Videotapes from the Royal S. Marks Collection
for the Guggenheim Museum in New York. He lives with Nelson Gonzalez,
his lover of 21 years, in New York.
Sarah Schulman was born in New York City in 1958 and is the author
of nine novels including: The Mere Future (forthcoming in 2009),
The Child (Carroll & Graff, 2007), Shimmer (Avon, 1998), Rat
Bohemia (Dutton, 1995), Empathy (Dutton, 1992), People in Trouble
(Dutton, 1990), After Delores (Dutton, 1988), Girls, Visions, and
Everything (Seal, 1986), The Sophie Horowitz Story (Naiad, 1984).
As a journalist, Schulman’s work has appeared in The New York
Times Book Review, The New York Times Arts and Leisures, The Village
Voice, The Nation, New York Newsday, Mother Jones, INTERVIEW, The
Guardian of London, Harvard Lesbian and Gay Review, New York Press,
and many others. Schulman’s many awards include: Fullbright
in Judaic Studies, Revson Fellowship for the Future of New York
City at Columbia University, Stonewall Award for Contributions Improving
the Lives of Lesbians and Gays in the United States, three NY Foundation
for the Arts Fellowships (Fiction and Playwrighting), finalist for
the Prix de Rome in Fiction, Berilla Kerr Prize in Playwrighting,
two American Library Association Book Awards (Fiction and Non-fiction),
Ferro-Grumley Award in Lesbian Fiction, and a Guggenheim in Playwriting.
For additional information about the Oral History Project
please visit www.actuporalhistory.org
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