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News Release - The Huntington and Ghetto Film School Present 15 New Student Works in Inaugural Installation

SAN MARINO, Calif.—In an ongoing partnership with Ghetto Film School, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is serving as a training ground for student filmmakers exploring careers in the film industry. An inaugural installation of film shorts, opening Nov. 20 in the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art, shows the work of 15 students who pursued the theme of portraiture at The Huntington, a nod to the new Kehinde Wiley painting, A Portrait of a Young Gentleman, now on…

BEBA Director Rebeca Huntt and DP Sophie Stieglitz Lead NEON and Ghetto Film School Sponsored 16mm Workshop

During the lead-up to the release of Rebeca Huntt’s first feature, BEBA, a raw documentary portrait of the artist as a young Afro-Latina filmmaker on a path towards self-acceptance and discovery, the filmmaker and DP Sophie Stieglitz led a one-day workshop on 16mm production at the cinema arts organization Mono No Aware. Presented by NEON (Beba’s distributor) and Ghetto Film School, six women of color filmmakers were invited to take place and attended “an intimate discussion around personal filmmaking” led by Huntt before being…

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★★★★★

“I…AM…SOMEBODY…!”

What a shame this film did not ever receive its flowers. it’s also slow. it’s sweet and it does a lot of things most chicano cinema has lacked for an array of reasons (the criminally small reach of this film proves it). no, it is not a film about a rough and traumatized brown boy or gang ( lol), nor does it really tread in machismo culture or barrio trauma porn. Leonard is rugged and hurt, but is IMPORTANTLY humanized.…