Urban Exposure Film Project Showcasing Women’s Films Monday
In honor of Women’s History Month, Urban Exposure Independent Film Project and Azubuike Arts is screening eight short films written and
Filming “Feathers” in 2017 at Moline‘s Riverside Cemetery.
directed by the summer program’s young women. The festival will be streamed for free on Facebook on Monday, March 22, at 6 p.m.
Each screening will be followed by a conversation between the first-time filmmakers, host Gaye Shannon Burnett (president of Azubuike African American Council for the Arts), and a special guest independent filmmaker. An online interactive Q&A will follow the short films with the Facebook Live audience.
“This is first time we’ve done women’s only; I was trying to think of what we could do for
A poster for the first Urban Exposure “Young Women in Film” mini-fest.
Women’s History Month,” Burnett, the council president, who runs the six-year-old Urban Exposure with her filmmaker son, Jon Burnett, said Sunday. “We have films made by young women in our program. We have eight — I didn’t realize that, that’s enough for a whole program.”
Urban Exposure (which kicks off each July 1), is a free 10-week summer program for young people (typically ages 16-22) highlighting filmmaking fundamentals, including writing, directing, and editing. Under the supervision of experienced filmmakers, students work with one another to realize their creative visions and produce their own films from start to finish. By the end of the program, each participant writes, films, edits, and presents their films to the community at a premiere event usually held at the Figge Art Museum.
