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Leveling Lincoln

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YoFi Film Fest Best Documentary 2022!!

Proud to announce we won BEST DOCUMENTARY at the Yonkers YoFi Film Festival in December. So many incredible filmmakers. We were honored to be among them.

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NETA DISTRIBUTION AND MORE...UNDERWRITER CAMPAIGN

 Have you ever heard the PBS credit before the program, "Made possible by support from.......(Fill in name) and viewers like you?"  WELL, THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO HAVE THAT CREDIT FOR LEVELING LINCOLN!  YES, we have been accepted into the Programming Program of  NETA, The National Educational Telecommunications Association 

https://www.netaonline.org/education/educational-programming. NETA has a network of over 350 local public TV stations they pitch media to, and we are now in their fold. This means we can seek out underwriters - perhaps YOU - who want their family name or institution in a "Made possible" credit.  NETA requires us to cut our film down to 58 minutes, which means re-editing and re-mixing the sound, and minimizing all the credits.  But Underwriters will appear at the top of every program, so consider a large gift. Contact us at levelinglincoln@gmail.com to discuss a $3500 donation (or more) towards the creation of the NETA TV Broadcast 58 minute version of Leveling Lincoln and so we can get it out FREE to Local Stations and the PBS Learning App.  Many educators use the PBS learning APP for free resources, especially during the pandemic.  I know, I am a kindergarten teacher in LAUSD and we all rely on PBS for media. THIS IS A HUGE DEAL and we are very excited. Help us make this PBS version of Leveling Lincoln today.  Direct donation link: https://my.filmindependent.org/LevelingLincoln


IN OTHER NEWS, we have had three public screenings in New Rochelle and changed the film every time based on the feedback.  We are very proud of our NEW August 2022 full feature cut and will be presenting it at three more festivals in September.


1. TWO NEW GRANTS FOR LEVELING LINCOLN! 

To.Get.Her Finishing Fund 2022 - Thank you The Chimaera Project for this honor!


Kaplan-Loring Foundation Finishing Grant 2022. 




THIS WOULD NOT BE HAPPENING WITH OUR SUPPORTERS. THANKS TO ALL OF YOU! 

With Gratitude,  Arden


Richard Roundtree

"This film should be mandatory in school curriculums everywhere."

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December 2022 Interview with Arden Teresa Lewis updating  IDA about the progress of Leveling Lincoln  since shooting began in 2017.

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EMPIRE REPORT - ARTICLE

News article interview with Paul W. Zuber about Leveling Lincoln

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BECOME AN UNDERWRITER. HAVE YOUR NAME OR ORGANIZATION SUPPORTING LEVELING LINCOLN FOR PUBLIC TELEVISION Email levelinglincoln@gmail.com for Underwriter donations. Regular Donations go to Leveling Lincoln via our fiscal sponsor Film Independent

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ABOUT THE FILM

Leveling Lincoln

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To level the playing field, they leveled the school


Kids across America are still suffering the effects of harmful "separate but equal" education, despite the court ordered efforts  to integrate. 


  • in 2019 The NY Times reported that "a (recent) plan to desegregate schools in a liberal Maryland suburb founded on values of tolerance has met with stiff resistance." 
  • A recent study by Stanford University's Center for Education Policy Analysis found that "the desegregation efforts of the late 1960s and early 1970s did not last; public schools today remain highly segregated both by race and class" and that "racial segregation appears to be harmful because it concentrates minority students in high-poverty schools, which are, on average, less effective than lower-poverty schools".


To see our way to the future we need only look at the past --


Leveling Lincoln explores the history behind the landmark 1961 desegregation case of Taylor vs. Board of Education of New Rochelle, NY where an entire elementary school had to be torn down to achieve a level playing field in education. The case, the first of its kind in the North (seven years after Brown vs. The Board of Education), was praised on the floor of the United States Senate as an example of successful integration by peaceful protest, discourse, and jurisprudence. In its wake New Rochelle leveled the school. A new school was never built and the vacuum created in the Lincoln Avenue community remains today. 


In contrast to the Ruby Bridges or the Linda Brown stories in the South, the New Rochelle case had hundreds of children bussed to schools without calling out the National Guard. All because of a  group of dedicated parents who took action. They knew their children were being given an inferior education in a city that prided itself on its diverse school population. And they did something about it. Intended and unintended consequences spill out in every interview.  They reflect upon their own children and grandchildren as they worry for their future. 


It's also a story of how a community came together at the grassroots level to reject the accepted de facto segregation of their town (due to red-lining) and recognize how its history of privilege made them blind to systemic inequality.


It's a story of historical national importance that attracted the attention of figures like Thurgood Marshall, Constance Baker Motley, the NAACP  and CBS' Mike Wallace.


Ultimately, we analyze the problems and solutions that the New Rochelle School District dealt with and glean what lessons can be learned and applied to today's equally challenging educational issues.

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Directed and Produced by Arden Teresa Lewis of AT LEWIS Films LLC. Produced in association with Tinks Lovelace of BAG O' BONES Collective and Kimberly Woods of DAYBREAK INDEPENDENT. 

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TWO NEW GRANTS FOR LEVELING LINCOLN! 

To.Get.Her Finishing Fund 2022 - Thank you The Chimaera Project for this honor!


Kaplan-Loring Foundation Finishing Grant 2022. 


Finalist in the Fall 2020 Roy W. Dean Film Grants.

See our listing at the following link. https://fromtheheartproductions.com/2020-fall-grant-finalists/


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NEWS

SEED AND SPARK campaign came to a successful conclusion on Oct 16th, 2020!

THANK YOU

Thank you to all our incredible donors so far!

List of Donors: 

2018 Go Fund Me Drive  in order of receipt! 

Liane Paap

Kim Palumbo

Sharon Berman

Eva Teirstein Young

Calvin Whitfield

Casey Williams

MLE

Neal Boornazian

Heather Argenio

Rachel Kabasakalian McKay

Steve & Anne Oto

Pat Rind

Ellen Woolf Feichtner

Annette Williams

Gil Garcia

Carin Greenberg

Deanne Mencher

Veanne Cox

Anonymous

Janet Domenitz

Leslie Caveny

Soni Wright

June Jaffee

Cathy Chiappa

Jeff Jones

Craig and Karen Lewis

Louise Robynn Vaughn

Phillip McKinley

Claudia Dreifus-Pesce

Garry Kluger

Karen Ragan-George

Heidi Siesfeld

Amy Simon

Toni Pepe

Jocelyn Kenner

Lynne Barasch

Debra Adler

John Etra

John Mount

Gloria Lovece

Linda Rand (RIP)

Eileen Fitzgerald

James L. Fisher

Barbara Loewentheil Murray

Shae Popovich

Cathy and John Cygan (RIP)

Alice Rogoff

Yadira Ramos-Herbert

Amy Moselhi

David Peters

Lorraine Danza

Betsy Krebs

Bonnie Dukes

Sheila Brown

Maray Ayres

Michelle Higgs

Kelly Lester

Nina White

Penny Angelotti

Jennifer Ball

William Mullen

Paul Francis

Cathy Lind Hayes

Spike Dolomite Ward

Anne  and Bill Leyden

Sheryl Eldredge


SEED AND SPARK

We raised $22, 385.83 in October 2020!

We also added so many supporters. Forever grateful for the support of our growing community helping to save this story for history. 


Community Supporters 

Lincoln Park Conservancy

Jim Beaver

Mark Wilding

Tim and Elizabeth Lewis

Karen and Craig Lewis (RIP)

Leonard Lewis

Anonymous

Paul Zuber

Joy Levy

Russell J Handelman

Paul Francis


Team supporters


Betty Iwerks

Patrice Washington

Arlene Fabio

David Loud and Pedro Porro

Ann Lewis

Kern Lewis

Yadira Ramos-Herbert

Rita Shor

Laura Rosenthal

Gordon A. Letter

Tombo - Tom. - Allard

Anthony  W. Battelle

Helene Levy

Jean Himmelstein

Laura Olson

Joanne Fernandez

Nina White

Liane Paap

Kathleen A. Woods

Louise Vaughn

Valerie Kapilow

The Kenner Family 

Lisa Lee "The Echo Parker"

Candace Pinn

Michelle & Michael Chiklis

Lisa Maccarley

Barbara Davis

Bonnie MacBird

D E Goodenough

Dennis & Maureen Franks

Robert H Palmer

Mary Ternoey

Phillip McKinley

Bob Boden

Raymond M. Grant III

Sally Hallada

Linda Pace Alexander

Nick Musleh

Jim DeSimone

Rebecca Rabitoy

The Kluger Family

Valerie Gardner

Hirout Dagnew

Patricia Brooker

Sheila Camacho

Wendie and Bud Kroll

Wendy Ross

Ellen Woolf Feichtner

John and Marchand Erickson

Renée Vaca

Diane Remin

Sandra S. Wright

David Dean

Lulu Leszczynski and Lex Passaris

Mark Lester

Lisa Nance Ventura

Clara Longstreth

Kevin J. Colligan

Joe Alona & Harrison

Andrea Appell

Rita

Rachel Freedman

Eva Teirstein Young

Gustavo A. Barbosa

Jim Negri

Bill Barnert

David Marlin

Cheryl Bonacci

Alan Schack

Jeff Rack

Jodie Cooper

Team Taylor

Doug Haverty

Barbara & Lloyd Schwartz

Karen Ragan-George

Kimberly Garsed

Mark Lewis

John Mount

Jennifer Mount

Wendy Bridges

Judy Race

Rachel Kabasakalian-McKay

Lisa Sachs Baum

Elizabeth Mogan Rossbore

Janice Goreman Weiss

Darryl Chris Wood

Angela Green

Sharon Davis

Keira Wesley

Andrea Edson

Suzanne M. Collins

Alison Regan

Niki Lambro

Mara Wells and Mimi Kmet

Jean Glaude

Michael Liu

Sharon Goalder

Elizabeth V. Getter

Richard DeLigter

Lorraine Fox

Paul Parsekian

Jim Dewey

Rita Cofield

Michael Koetting

Robin Friedman

Leah Sills

Leesa A Freed

Ted Meyer

Susan Y Yuhas

Elizabeth Virani

Mimi Kmet & Mara Wells

Leonie Kramer

Sally Meadows

Cindie Leonard

Carol Gallo

Pam Mayerfeld and Richard Hallsted

Beth Lewellen

Emelie Smith Calbick

Sue Boyle

Megan Hensley

Pat Rind

Matthew Brezina

Jill Jones

Anne and Bill Leyden

Glenn Rosenblum

Scott and Mark Neisser

Wendy Berger Ross

Meredith Rossborough

D Parker

Anne Gorfinkel

George Tovar

Kim Palumbo

Linda A Strong

Chris DiGiovanni

Heather Keller

Rachelle Conger

Tomothy A. Loranger

Diana L. Jenkins

Bonnie Dukes

Carl Behrend

Amy Stromberg

Andrea Savada

Wendi Washington

Chris Zirbel

Michelle Higgs

Cynthia Hood

Alisa Terell Starbird

Christina Park

Leslie M. McSparran

Gwyn Schneck

Patricia Bethune

Seri De Young

Colleen Anderson

Paul Gunning

Corinne Shor

Amy Jan Simon

Harrison Engle

Joan Bergman

Lauralee Farrar

Shannon Lovgren

Makiko Takenaka

Adrienne Jones

Paul Millet

Paul J. Read

Sarah Jonas

James R. York and Tisha York

Alison Regan

America Young

June Schreiner

Amanda Garcia

Zander


Jean Himmelstein

Timothy C Idoni

Kathryn Atterberry

H Dowling-Jones

Roger W. Krakow Jr.

Daniel Pomerantz

Eileen Fitzgerald

Donna M. Jackson








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