Event Info
Join filmmakers Hana Elias, Meghan Mcdonough, and Sidney Fussell for a screening of their 2024/2025 BRIClab Film + TV projects and discussion of their work in the BRIC House Ballroom.
BRIClab is a multi-disciplinary residency program created to advance opportunities for visual artists, performers, and media makers. The residency aims to build a stronger and more diverse artistic community in Brooklyn. The BRIClab Film + TV residency track incubates innovative and ambitious documentary filmmakers working on short form, episodic, or feature length non-fiction films.
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About the Filmmakers
BRIClab Film: If These Stones Could Talk
For over two decades, Maha and Nassib have made it their lifetime project to build a home in Nassib’s Palestinian town. Their winding paths of rupture and displacement from Palestine are captured in their own words and personal footage, as they tend to these mementos in the soil. Years later, their daughter and filmmaker Hana, picks up the camera where they left off and documents their process of return. Using methods passed down to Nassib from generations, the Elias family rebuilds stone terraces, tends to olive trees and harvests Zaatar in their garden, as they continue to search for a sense of belonging. “If These Stones Could Talk” is a deeply personal film where we uncover the nuanced social relationships that tie the family to the land.
BRIClab Film: Connecting the Dykes
On the 50th anniversary of Lesbian Connection, the longest-running lesbian publication in the U.S, this documentary uncovers how queer women found each other before the internet, celebrating the lesbian print pioneers who tirelessly typed a new world into being and shaped American history through ink and paper.
BRIClab Film: HALLELUJAH ANYWAY
Raised in Philly’s baptist church, Nathan Townsend was diagnosed with AIDS at the height of the epidemic, selling his life insurance to pay for his own funeral; then, a miracle — he didn’t die. Thanks to the invention of life-saving medications, Nathan is 70 today and a man of profound faith, using his second chance at life to combine sex-positive activism with old school spirituality.
Thank You to Our Supporters
Support for BRIC’s programming is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Con Edison, The Eisner Foundation, The Howard Gilman Foundation, The William Talbott Hillman Foundation, The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, M&T Charitable Foundation, New York Community Trust, Pinkerton Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Scherman Foundation, The Shubert Organization, TD Bank, Tiger Baron Foundation, and numerous individuals.
Public support for BRIC is provided, in part by, the New York State Council for the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with support from the New York City Council.