Congratulations to the winners of One Chicago, One Nation!Many thanks to our online community and judges for voting ad making their selections to the 2010 One Chicago, One Nation Online Film Contest. Take a look to see if your favorite were the winners. And you can still view These winning films will be shown on Link TV and used to spark community dialogues in Chicago as part of the One Chicago, One Nation initiative. |
Grand Prize Winner — $25,000"1700% Project: Mistaken For Muslim" In this video, narratives collide with music, poetry and politics to create a complex and layered experience. A poet, dancer, angel, prisoner converge with community to speak, deflect, and intervene against racial profiling and hate crimes. This convergence exemplifies a spirit of defiance and resistance from communities of people who refuse to end in violence. This spoken word video is a collaboration between artist Anida Yoeu Ali and filmmaker Masahiro Sugano with over 100 diverse volunteers, participants and community members in the Chicagoland area. It is part of an ongoing project that engages art as a form of intervention against the racial profiling of Muslims in a post 9/11 era. The larger project titled “The 1700% Project” uses a multi-faceted artistic approach to educate the wider public about the diversity within the Muslim community. The number 1700% refers to the exponential percentage increase of hate crimes against Arabs, Muslims and those perceived to be Arab or Muslim since the events of September 11, 2001. The text is created from 100 lines of filed hate crime reports. The poem is an unapologetic response to injustices directed against the Muslim community that reflects both the absurdity and dangers of racially-motivated fears. For more info visit: http://1700percentproject.wordpress.com/ |
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Comedy Category Winner — $5,000"Reparation Holidays" "Reparation Holidays" imagines a world in which a select group of minorities would be allowed certain freedoms one day a year. Their common bonds, struggles, and playful imaginations provide a funny and inspiring tale of community awareness and involvement. |
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Documentary Category Winner — $5,000"Eyes Manouche" It seems that they say so little, and yet so much... I’ve always wanted to hear the story behind Eyes Manouche. There is still a yearning for more after the movie is over… The cinematography is great – love the black and white and how it reveals the depth of their faces. Their vulnerability shows beautifully through their stories. I love that the movie shows that there is more to these guys than just music, but at the same time, that music can be the single thing that unites all their (and our) differences. Each one of them has their own story, and yet they all speak with the same voice, it’s almost like one person that’s changing the appearance. I like that it’s in Serbo-Croatian and English – it adds character to the movie, and the transition from one language to the other was so smooth and natural, at least for me. Each sentence moves the movie forward. It is a wonderful story of the reunion of former Yugoslavians as well as a story of the unique Yugo-American union :-)... |
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Drama Category Winner — $5,000"The Mission" A group of Chicago residents are interviewed about receiving mysterious tapes in the mail. |
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Mobile Digital Media Category Winner — $5,000"Our Story" How can citizens help? This is the questions that are youth added to the immigration debate and this video begins to answer that question. Youth on the southwest side of Chicago work together to adopt and share stories across race, gender, and status. |
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Music video/spoken word/animation Category Winner — $5,000"1700% Project: Mistaken For Muslim" In this video, narratives collide with music, poetry and politics to create a complex and layered experience. A poet, dancer, angel, prisoner converge with community to speak, deflect, and intervene against racial profiling and hate crimes. This convergence exemplifies a spirit of defiance and resistance from communities of people who refuse to end in violence. This spoken word video is a collaboration between artist Anida Yoeu Ali and filmmaker Masahiro Sugano with over 100 diverse volunteers, participants and community members in the Chicagoland area. It is part of an ongoing project that engages art as a form of intervention against the racial profiling of Muslims in a post 9/11 era. The larger project titled “The 1700% Project” uses a multi-faceted artistic approach to educate the wider public about the diversity within the Muslim community. The number 1700% refers to the exponential percentage increase of hate crimes against Arabs, Muslims and those perceived to be Arab or Muslim since the events of September 11, 2001. The text is created from 100 lines of filed hate crime reports. The poem is an unapologetic response to injustices directed against the Muslim community that reflects both the absurdity and dangers of racially-motivated fears. For more info visit: http://1700percentproject.wordpress.com/ |
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Under 60 Seconds Category Winner — $5,000"GrowingPower.org" Growing Power is a national nonprofit organization and land trust supporting people from diverse backgrounds, and the environments in which they live, by helping to provide equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe and affordable food for people in all communities. |
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