Videodiaries

35mm on 12th St-, originally uploaded by eugenemartin.

Here we are working on a 35mm film shoot with some of the Beirut Boys from 12th St.

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By Eugene Martin

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Here are links to articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer and The City Paper about Bloodlines ahead of Saturday’s World Premiere screening.

Here is a great article about the World Premiere of Bloodlines.  Click here.

The documentary will premiere to the Philadelphia Film Festival at International House, 37th and Chestnut Sts., on Saturday April 5th at 7pm and at The Prince Theater on Sat April 12th at 2:30pm. Filmed over the entire school year of 2005-2006, and into 2007, the documentary chronlices the lives of Dennis Midiri and Ebony Graves. Dennis and Ebony each filmed video diaries for the 2005-06 school year, and helped select scenes that are included in the film. Purchase tickets here!

Eugene Martin has created a Photo Book called Street Works a collection of 200 color photographs taken in Philadelphia from 2005-2007. Most of the pictures were taken in North Philadelphia.  Some of the images in this book include portraits of the teens who are involved in creating video diaries.

This color monograph was created by Martin with software from Blurb, a new internet publishing service that allows you to create professional quality books in any quantity, directly over the internet.  You can order the book on soft cover or hard cover directly from Blurb.com.

Derek Toler and El Sawyer are now editing thier half our television documentary, The Beirut Boys.

I have created a quicktime file of Derek Toler, age 18, performing an original spoken word poem on his corner at 12th and Huntington Sts. in North Philadelphia.

Derek Toler Spoken Word Diary - click here to play the video clip

Here is a video by Sophie Martin that shows the Spoken Word class at the teen after school program at The Village.