The New Jersey State Bar Association featured clips from RACE at its Mid-Year Meeting in New Orleans, November 4-8, 2015 during the panel titled: “RACE-Politics, Race and the Electoral Process”. Panelists included Professor Lawrence Powell (Tulane University), Dr. Silas Lee (Dr. Silas Lee & Associates), Katherine Cecil (CecilFilm Productions), Tracie Washington Esq (The Louisiana Justice Institute), and Donita Judge, Esq. (The Advancement Project).
RACE will be screening at the 2011 Bermuda International Film Festival (BIFF) in competition. The festival takes place in Hamilton, Bermuda March 18-24, 2011. Please visit the BIFF website for more information on the festival, and to download the schedule.
The YWCA‘s Dialogue on Race (DOR) Task Force of Greater Baton Rouge is hosting a screening of RACE as part of its 2010 Community Dialogue at the LSU Cox Communications / Bo Campbell Auditorium. The DOR is a unique opportunity for women and men of diverse cultures to speak frankly and safely about racial issues while learning from each other about the repercussions of prejudice and institutional racism.
RACE entered the US festival circuit this Summer, and CecilFilm Productions is thrilled to announce that The New Orleans Film Festival (NOFF) has selected RACE as part of its 2010 lineup (October 14-21), and that Director / Producer Katherine Cecil is a finalist in competition for the Louisiana Filmmaker Award!
On August 13, RACE screened at the Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven at the 2010 Martha’s Vineyard African-American Film Festival (MVAAFF), and took home the HBO sponsored Best Documentary Award. RACE screened to a packed audience and was followed by very positive feedback and a Q & A with the film’s director. Thank you to festival founders Stephanie Tavares-Rance and Floyd Rance and for an important and really wonderful festival. BlackNews.com
RACE was a finalist for the Saatchi & Saatchi sponsored “Nothing is Impossible” Producer’s Award at the MVAAFF, and Saatchi & Saatchi kindly invited all finalists to screen at their location in New York. The screening took place at Saatchi & Saatchi on Hudson Street to a packed crowd of the agency’s executives and employees, and followed by a Q & A session with director Katherine Cecil, interviewed by Executive Vice President and Deputy Director of Broadcast Production, Sheldon Levy.
Earlier in August, RACE premiered at The Roxbury International Film Festival (RIFF) in Boston, was well received at The Wentworth Technology Institute, garnering attention from The Boston Globe. Thank you to RIFF Producer Lisa Simmons, Programmer Terri Brown, and to Publicist Colette Greenstein for choosing RACE as part of its 2010 festival lineup.
The New Orleans “Sneak Preview” of RACE took place February 23 at the Lawless Memorial Chapel, and was generously hosted by Dr. Gary Clark and the Dillard University Political Science Department. Thanks to the impressive volunteer efforts of Dillard students and to advance coverage of the event by local media stations WBOK, WWL-TV, and WLAE-TV, over 600 people filled the venue, which was followed by a panel discussion and lively Q & A. Tribune Review
