The Digital Moving Image Salon Student Documentary Film Showcase Premieres Three Documentaries April 28

The Spelman College Digital Moving Image Salon will present its 13th Annual DMIS Student Documentary Film Showcase on April 28, 2016, at 7 p.m. The showcase will premiere three documentaries produced by Spelman students. In addition to the film screenings, the showcase will award Spelman College alumna, Alexa Harris C’2007, a communications consultant, for her pioneering accomplishments in the field of African-American independent cinema with the Celebration of Excellence Award.

The Digital Moving Image Salon (DMIS) is a premier component of Spelman College’s comparative women’s studies program. Launched in 2004 by Dr. Ayoka Chenzira, the cutting-edge program supplies students interested in documentary film making and digital media productions with a learning space, training ground, and production studio. The DMIS showcase is known for producing films that are concentrated on timely topics that effect women of the African Diaspora. This year’s documentaries explore HBCU beauty pageants, Afrofuturism and the journey of women living in neighborhoods beset by poverty.

The 2016 films and producers are: “Chasing Perfection” by Melanie Boykin, C’2018, and Paloma Adams, C’2017; “Black to the Future” by Briana Montalvo, C’2015, Lexus Phillips, C’2017, and Reid Moss, C’2016; and “Womanhood,” by Jasmin-Brengé Harris, C’2019, Bria Toussaint, C’2016, and Alexandra Marshall, C’2016.

Free and open to the public, the showcase will be held at the Midtown Arts Cinema (GPS address: 931 Monroe Drive NE Atlanta, GA 30308). Watch the trailer for the 2016 DIMS Showcase here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GzJ8he1NLo. For more information, visit DMIS.