(Virtual Screening) August 28, 2021 marks the 66th anniversary of the murder of Emmett Till. Emmett was violently silenced by white supremacists in the Mississippi Delta in 1955. To mark the occasion, we are lifting up the voices of young people today in Tallahatchie County and using the arts to help process pain and tragedy.On Saturday, August 28th, join us for a virtual screening of the 2021 Sunflower County Film Academy's film An Army Rising Up. In June 2021, 20 young people from Tallahatchie and Sunflower Counties attended a two-week filmmaking workshop to gain hands-on experience using video equipment to document and tell their own stories. The product of the workshop was the film An Army Rising Up, which documents the young people's experiences.Following the screening of the film will be a Q&A with some of the young filmmakers from this year's Film Academy.We are proud of what this year's young people accomplished, and we would love for you to join us to share in their stories.

(Sumner, MS) Following an intensive two-week summer filmmaking workshop, students of the Sunflower County Film Academy will screen their culminating film project, An Army Rising Up. The work shop was conducted from June 21 to July 2nd. Local Mississippi Delta high school students participated in learning about filmmaking and civil rights. Their final project is a reflection of their work and effort over the two week workshop. Over 90% of this film is student planned, filmed, and directed by the students with guidance from workshop instructors. Please join us in celebrating their hard work.

(Salem, OR) CCM Graphic Design Workshop. RSVP to learn Adobe tips, tricks and best practices with graphic design expert Pablo Correa. We are excited to welcome back Pablo Correa, PhD, for a graphics workshop. Join us in practicing Adobe software to learn poster design tips and tricks. In-person spots are limited.

(Virtual / West Hartford, CT)A new and original documentary film about the fearless Mississippi sharecropper-turnedhuman-rights-activist, Fannie Lou Hamer. Hamer’s prophetic mission is no less urgent and no less relevant today than it was 50 years ago.

One of the Civil Rights movement’s pre-eminent orators, Hamer used stories from her own life to call America to account for the racism that defined every aspect of her existence—from the turn-of-the-century cotton plantations of the Mississippi Delta where she was reared, to her death in an all-black hospital in 1977. Fannie Lou Hamer’s America the documentary engages Hamer’s life story—as she told it—foregrounding such themes as the injustice of growing up black and poor in the Mississippi Delta, white supremacist backlash to black voter registration, police brutality, and access to quality healthcare and affordable nutrition. The film draws connections between these core themes that compelled Hamer’s activist struggle and their clear contemporary resonances. In an era of heightened state surveillance, increasing inequality, and continuing police brutality, Hamer’s prophetic mission is no less urgent and no less relevant today than it was 50 years ago.

(Virtual, Bengaluru, India) Media Meet 2020: International Virtual Conference, CHRIST Deemed to be University, Bengaluru, India

Panel: What’s Real? Documentary Realism & Media Literacy, 3:00 P.M.

(Vancouver, WA) Filmmaker Pablo Correa presents his work on creating digital memorials for civil rights icons Emmett Till and Fannie Lou Hamer.  Come learn about the effort to create digital memorials to withstand the threat of racism and time.

(Salem, OR) Join Professor Pablo Correa for a digital storytelling workshop and learn the history of the grassroots movement and how you can start with just your phone!

(Oxford, MS) Campus wide talk with documentary Filmmaker Pablo Correa about the upcoming release of “Fannie Lou Hamer’s America” and its accompanying “Find Your Voice” educational efforts.

(Salem. OR) Join Professor Pablo Correa for a digital storytelling workshop and learn the history of the grassroots movement and how you can start with just your phone!

(Portland, OR) Dr. Maegan Parker Brooks and Dr. Pablo Correa will draw on their collective experience in the production of Fanie Lou Hamer’s America (a documentary project) to talk about how to teach the Civil Rights across the curriculum. Of particular interest to GSEC teacher-candidates will be the discussion of work the speakers did with K-12 teachers in the Mississippi Delta on integrating Fannie Lou Hamer curriculum design, and empowering young people to tell their story using multimedia.