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AND AGAIN I DREAM Premieres at Cleveland International Film Festival on Friday! |
Also in Cleveland, Senator Nina Turner in Conversation with Cat |
Join us for a conversation with director Catherine Gund and Senator Nina Turner that will cover how movies portray inequality, injustice, and human rights issues, including race, and socioeconomic status, along with audience obligations, and film’s capacity to promote real-world change, including the filmmaker’s role and responsibility. Moderated by Queen Meccasia Zabriskie, Director of the Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom. |
Cleveland Film Festival April 10th, 7-8:15pm Conversation Center at the Idea Center (WIST) |
Check Out Press About the Fest Here |
NEW YORK Museum of Modern Art April 21st-27th |
NEW YORK CUNY Graduate Center April 14th, 4:30-6:45pm Followed by Q&A with Catherine Gund |
Atlanta Film Festival Tara Theatre - George Auditorium May 2nd, 12:45pm Followed by Q&A with Co-Director Mariah Norman |
PAINT Shows at Yale University |
Catherine joins Dean of the School of Arts Kymberly Pinder inProf. Thomas Allen Harris's class"Archive Aesthetics and Community Storytelling" |
Prof. Thomas Allen Harris, Catherine Gund, & Kymberly Pinder (Dean of the School of Art) |
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Jacqueline Woodson:Featured in PBS She Was First |
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Soledad O'Brien talks to Jacqueline Woodson - our beautiful writer of Meanwhile and former Aubin board member - about how she has changed the world starting with middle grade readers and the love she has for her hometown of Brooklyn. Jacqueline has profoundly influenced young adult and children's literature. With over forty books and numerous prestigious awards, she stands as a literary icon. This episode celebrates home, community, and the transformative power of storytelling. |
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Beverly Price:Great Press on Current Exhibition |
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Beverly Price - who shared her photography practice with us in MEANWHILE - talks to Aesthetica about the work of the brilliant Gordon Parks, as well as the inspirations behind her exhibit at the Center for Art and Advocacy, A Language We Share: Beverly Price and Gordon Park. |
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Read more about Price and Gordon's work in this Colossal feature.
In their words, "photography operates on a continuum." |
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Lola Lafia:New Film SPARKS at SXSW |
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Lola Lafia - who worked at Aubin before taking a leap into producing - has a new feature film, Sparks, which had its World Premiere at South by Southwest Film Festival!
A Nevada reservoir rumored to be a time portal keeps life interesting for the Crop, aimless teenage best friends in Sparks-until Cleo arrives determined to reach 1960s Paris.
Read the New York Times's feature on the creators behind this new Gen-Z film. |
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Susan Shah:Prison Policy Initiative |
Susan Shah - who partnered with us on the Impact campaign for PAINT ME A ROAD OUT OF HERE - is circulating this powerful infographic from the Prison Policy Initiative which emphasizes the financial background of mass incarceration. |
Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter:Isa Segalovich Takes a Deep Dive into Mary's Revolutionary Art |
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On her Instagram @interstellar_isabellar, Segalovich provides the backstory behind Mary's most recent show at the Print Center in Philadelphia, "Epilogues of the Black Madonna".
She details the horrifying work of Thomas Eakins, a renowned Philadelphia historical figure, who Mary discovered had taken pornographic photos of little Black girls. Through Mary's art, she exposes Eakins and protects the children by entering the heinous photos and covering them. |
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Finished reading Hiromi Kawakami's People From My Neighborhood for Women's History Month. This novel consists of interlinking short stories, told from the perspective of the main character who lives in a small (or maybe huge?) town in somewhat rural Japan.
Kawakami uses the power of folktale and surrealism to paint a captivating picture of community in the eyes of the influenceable individual. |
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Currently reading Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Morris.
A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work. |
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Check out Julie Mehretu's show "Our Days, Like a Shadow (a non-abiding hauntology)," which opens on April 14th at the Marian Goodman Gallery.
Referencing “our days, like a shadow” from Chronicles 29:15, and the Buddhist concept of “non-abidance,” the show’s title augurs life as a series of fleeting and transitory experiences, and existence as a passing shadow in search of enlightenment when walking in darkness. Mehretu explores these metaphors in conceptual and temporal terms, channeling abstraction as a vehicle of liberatory imagination, in her recent TRANSpaintings, 2024-26, and a new cycle of Black Paintings, 2025-26. |
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Frame by Frame: 30 Years of Magicwhat you can expect |
2026 is an exciting year for Aubin as we celebrate our 30th Anniversary!
Our 30th Anniversary programming includes screenings, convenings, celebrations, and more! We are celebrating our work across our FIVE PILLARS: Studio (documentary filmmaking to transform narratives); Impact (justice-oriented campaigns to amplify urgent issues); Workshop (fiscal sponsorship, project incubation, and community events); Lab (mentorship and training); and Rewind (uncovering and activating our past work and shared history).
Over the course of this year, we are working to inspire, learn, and scale Aubin Pictures’s model for storytelling for social change in its next 30 years.
Help us launch our Aubin 30 campaign by watching this wonderful sizzle reel of the amazing work that the Aubin team has been able to accomplish since 1996! |
Aubin 30 Sizzle Reel with clips from more than 20 of our films! |
“This is, indeed, poetry.” - The New York Times
“A gorgeous, quietly energetic, and moving meditation..” - The New Yorker |
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Watch the MEANWHILE Trailer |
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