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Short Film Award and Spring 2022 Racial Literacy Series

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Congratulations to CALA instructor Leonard Cortana on receiving the Best Short film award for Marielle’s Legacy Will Not Die, at the 2022 FEMI film festival (Guadeloupe).

Join Leonard Cortana this spring for his Racial Literacy and Anti-Racism Practices Series which starts on April 13, 2022
 
Eligible NYU employees may register with 100% tuition remission.
For details and forms go to Tuition Remission at NYU Home.
 
Spring 2022 Schedule:
 
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Cortana’s short is about the Afro-Brazilian Councilwoman and activist, Marielle Franco, who was assassinated with her driver in March 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As a city council member, Franco represented her favela constituents by fighting against gender violence, police violence, and for reproductive and LGBTQ rights. Cortana’s short film documents activists and artists’ use of the annual Carnival to call for justice for Marielle Franco.

Leonard Cortana’s “Marielle’s Legacy Will Not Die” Wins Award – Meet the Filmmaker on December 9

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Marielle Franco, International Women’s Day, March 2017
 
Congratulations to Leonard Cortana on receiving an award for his short film, Marielle’s Legacy Will Not Die, at the Gary Black Film Festival in the “Powerful Women: Lifelong Legacies” category. Cortana’s short is about the Afro-Brazilian Councilwoman and activist, Marielle Franco, who was assassinated, with her driver, in March 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The murders remain unsolved. As a city council member, Franco represented her favela constituents by fighting against gender violence, police violence, and for reproductive and LGBTQ rights. Cortana’s short film documents activists and artists use of the annual Carnival to call for justice for Marielle Franco. Cortana asks, how does the city become a site of resistance and memorialization for Marielle Franco’s legacy during the crucial timing of the first anniversary of her murder?
 
On Wednesday, December 9 at 6 PM you are invited to NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies special online film program titled 1000 Days That Have Shaken Brazil – Marielle Franco, Cinema and Memory. This event features a conversation with filmmakers Ethel Oliveira, Julia Mariano, and Leonard Cortana based on their films Sementes: Mulheres Pretas no Poder (2020) and Marielle’s Legacy Will Not Die (2019).

To RSVP click https://bit.ly/3omxMz6

Films will be available for a week from Dec 4 to Dec 11 to those who register. This event will be held in English and Portuguese with live interpretation available.

Marielle’s Legacy Will Not Die Team: L to R, Pilar Rodriguez, Éthel Oliveira, Leonard Cortana

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Join CALA this coming Spring for our Racial Literacy and Anti-Racism Practices Series with Leonard Cortana

 

You can find a link to all of the above spring 2021 courses at the end of Leonard Cortana’s faculty biography here: Spring 2021 Courses