Julie Mallozzi explores cultural intersections and social change through award-winning documentary films. Her latest nonfiction feature, Circle Up, will screen in the GlobeDocs Film Festival on Saturday, October 14, 2017, 12 PM, at Brattle Theatre. We asked Julie about the film's origins, what engages her as an artist and teacher, and what’s next in her intriguing career as … [Read more...]
Linda Sou: Preserving and Growing Culture in Lowell
Linda Sopheap Sou is featured in the latest episode of the Mass Cultural Council's podcast Creative Minds Out Loud. A former executive director of Lowell's Angkor Dance Troupe, she began training with the traditional Cambodian performing arts group at age three (being, as it happens, the daughter of its founder). Check out Creative Minds Out Loud, featuring conversations … [Read more...]
World Premiere of Tracy Heather Strain’s Lorraine Hansberry Documentary
At Mass Cultural Council, we are privileged to encounter a range of exhilarating creative projects. One of the more memorable in the past 10 years is The Lorraine Hansberry Documentary Project by Tracy Heather Strain and Randall MacLowry (Film & Video Fellows '07). The project explores the life of playwright/activist Lorraine Hansberry, best known for her 1959 play A Raisin … [Read more...]
New Animation by Aya and Jason Brown
The above animated video was created by recent Mass Cultural Council Film & Video Fellows Aya and Jason Brown, otherwise known as Opertura Animation, in collaboration with Argentinian composer Juana Molina. It's called The Jane Bone Adventures. Needless to say, it's exciting to see Massachusetts artists working on such innovative projects. Find out what other past … [Read more...]
Fellows Notes – Apr 17
In April, a shower of news from past and present Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship awardees. LEFT ON PEARL Preview/Trailer from Susan Rivo on Vimeo. Natalie Alper, Anne Neely, Jo Ann Rothschild, and Maxine Yalovitz-Blankenship are part of the group exhibition Expanding Abstraction: New England Women Painters from 1950 to Now at the deCordova Museum … [Read more...]