"This film should be mandatory in school curriculums everywhere." ~ Richard Roundtree
west coast premiere September 24, 2022 4:15PM In person with
WEST COAST PREMIERE PLUS THREE FESTIVALS IN SEPTEMBER!!
Lady Filmmakers Film Festival,Catalina Film Festival and Imagine This Women's Film Festival All coming this FALL Details in News and Updates below
news and updates
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. Imagine This Women's Film Festival Virtual Platform, NYC
September 23-October 2 Link for online viewing tickets:
https://itwiff.sparqfest.live/en/_events/screening_block/2022.00/leveling-lincoln.html
2. Catalina Film Festival 2022
Virtual Platform, September 30 - October 9 Schedule TBA - CA Link: https://watch.eventive.org/catalina/play/63138f20def3ad0076d3a3e1
3. WEST COAST PREMIERE!!! LADY FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL
IN PERSON Saturday SEPTEMBER 24, 2022 4:15 PM
Block #12 at the FINE ARTS THEATRE in Beverly Hills, CA.
Link for tickets to BLOCK #12 of this live event with the filmmakers: https://filmfreeway.com/LadyFilmmakersFestival/tickets?fbclid=IwAR2KGLpNihRsvzOaBC24T3labBak0eY_RGXhDcMb_EcGL9F26_A1PN7xr3g
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."
Fiscal Sponsor
FILM INDEPENDENT
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
ABOUT THE FILM
Leveling Lincoln
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.
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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SEED AND SPARK campaign came to a successful conclusion on Oct 16th, 2020!
NEWS
So proud to be a Finalist in the Fall 2020 Roy W. Dean Film Grants.
Thank you From the Heart Productions for this honor. See our listing at the following link. Keep your fingers crossed for us! https://fromtheheartproductions.com/2020-fall-grant-finalists/
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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