Color Congress National Convening 2023
About the 2023 National Convening
In September 2023, over 100 representatives from member organizations convened in a closed-door gathering to deepen relationships and strategize collective interventions to strengthen the documentary field. Color Congress believes in the power of documentary filmmaking to activate viewers, reframe narratives, mobilize resources, heal and connect communities; so we organized this National Convening to mobilize towards a more powerful and interconnected POC documentary ecosystem.
Highlights
Culture is Power
Keynote speaker, Favianna Rodriguez (The Center for Cultural Power) Favianna Rodriguez is an award-winning artist, cultural strategist, and President of The Center for Cultural Power, a Color Congress member organization igniting change at the intersection of art, culture, and social justice. She reminded the Color Congress members that storytelling creates the vision and cultural condition for justice movements to succeed.
A New Distribution Future from the Ground Up
Distribution is a hot topic in the independent documentary sector- and amongst our member conversations. Award-winning producer and educator, Karin Chien (dGenerate Films and Distribution Advocates) spoke about the potential of a new distribution future through our collective advocacy.
Karim Ahmad
Keynote speaker, Founder of Restoring the Future
“World-building uses future architecture to design more radically aspirational ways for our systems to work, not for the purpose of storytelling but actually for the purpose of organizing and direct action to literally build those new ways into being.”
Dr. Kameelah Mu’min Oseguera
Keynote speaker, Documentary Accountability Working Group
