Poetry and Filmmaking: Addressing Issues of Today through Memory and Metaphor - A Gunshot's Cry Grasping At Stars & In Water -
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Thu, Apr 16 7:00 P.M. NH World (11.3)

As young Americans grapple with complex social issues, many turn to poetry to grasp the world around them. Nyla Melvin's A GUNSHOT'S CRY weaves spoken word with found footage to evoke visceral perspectives on gun fatalities. Lilian Lugo (GRASPING AT STARS) explores the contours of memory through visual metaphor and Marley Kaiser (IN WATER) brings his camera underwater to process coming of age.

Duration: 26 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 305

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Thu, Apr 16	7:00 P.M.	Poetry and Filmmaking: Addressing Issues of Today through Memory and Metaphor - A Gunshot's Cry Grasping At Stars & In Water NH World (11.3)
Fri, Apr 17	2:00 A.M.	Poetry and Filmmaking: Addressing Issues of Today through Memory and Metaphor - A Gunshot's Cry Grasping At Stars & In Water NH World (11.3)
Fri, Apr 17	10:00 A.M.	Poetry and Filmmaking: Addressing Issues of Today through Memory and Metaphor - A Gunshot's Cry Grasping At Stars & In Water NH World (11.3)

About Our Time:

OUR TIME is a series produced by youth in partnership with professional documentary filmmakers.

Films in the series feature character-driven stories that address social issues ranging from racial inequity to identity politics and everything in-between - all through the eyes of young people.

Working hand-in-hand with award-winning, nationally recognized filmmakers and television producers, these young students produce high-caliber, emotionally driven, first-person narratives that derive from their own lived experiences.

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