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in seeing our movie? If you are an educational institution, please see our distributor, ThirdWorldNewsreel (twn.org). If you are an individual who wants to buy the DVD, go to Vanessa's Etsy shop. If you want to get in touch with the filmmakers, email vanbertozzi(a)gmail.com & shell(a)fas.harvard.edu. Below we present a chronologically organized collection of news related to Secondhand (Pepe) with screenings, press, etc: |
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November 10, 2008 — Listen to Hanna on
New
Hampshire Public Radio's Word of Mouth. Download
mp3. |
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November 2008 — Southern Appalachian International
Film Festival requested to show our movie in November! Look for it
if you're in Johnson City, Tennessee. |
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September 26, 2008 — Secondhand (Pepe)
featured on the cover of "Arts
& Letters Daily" put out by the Chronicle of Higher Education. |
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September 2008 — Secondhand (Pepe) was
invited to show at the Non
Violence International Film Festival in Ontario, Canada. |
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August 20, 2008 — Hanna will be screening the
movie and presenting on a panel with Guerra
de la Paz among others at ELSEWHERE
artist collaborative in Greensboro, NC. |
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July 2008 — InHabitat,
a wonderful website dedicated to sustainability, posted about Secondhand
(Pepe). Piece by Alexandra Kain. |
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July 2008 — Popular blog Jezebel blogged about
Secondhand (Pepe) in a post called The
Circle of Lint. Vanessa then promptly killed the commenting by
posting about the DVD being for sale on the Etsy
shop. |
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July 2008 — Reason,
a magazine many libertarians read, printed an article about Secondhand
(Pepe) and interpreted the "free market" implications of
pepe. "The Afterlife of American Clothes" by Joanne McNeil
is in the Aug/Sept 2008 issue. |
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May 12 2008 — Interview
on Tomorrow Museum site |
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March 31 2008 — Screening at
SCMS conference in Philadelphia |
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February 12 2008 —Pepe (Secondhand) the 6min version
screens on Current TV, television! |
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January 31 2008 — TankFilm/New Docs @ 8PM $7 The Tank 279 Church St, New York, NY Part of a program of short docs. |
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December 17 2007 — Pepe (Secondhand), the 6 minute / all Haitian version of the movie was accepted into Slamdance Film Festival via Current TV. Our movie screens at Slamdance, Park City, Utah on January 25, 2008. |
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December 9 2007 —Secondhand (Pepe) free screening
at Dollar-a-Pound. 8pm on Sunday December 9, doors open at 7:30pm, Free event. Refreshments The Garment District Inc., 200 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, 02139 It was so much fun to sit on the pile of clothes and watch the movie! Special thanks to Liz Donavan, Caleb, Andrew, and Megan for helping us out! Click here to see the photos from the event. |
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November 2007 —Secondhand (Pepe) DVDs for sale on Etsy.com |
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August 2007 —Awarded "Best score (2nd place)" Rhode Island International Film & Video Festival. |
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May 2007 —Awarded "Best short documentary (student)" at the 41st Brooklyn Arts Council International Film & Video Festival. |
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February 2007 —Private screening in Hawaii at the SMART (Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles) 75th annual meeting, organized by 4th generation ragman Bill Schapiro. |
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January 2007 —Wilson Quarterly "Secondhand Kennedy," reviews our photo essay published in Transition Magazine. |
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December 2006—Fine cut of Secondhand (Pepe) screens at Sound Experimental in Laredo, TX. |
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September 2006—"Textile Skin," a photo essay from our trip to Haiti published in Transition Magazine. |
August 2006—Finish our rough cut just in time for Fischbeck to move to LA and for Bertozzi to finish her work at MIT and move to Brooklyn.
May 2006—Travel to Haiti, where we stay in the Barrymore suite at the Oloffson with journalist Trenton Daniel who acts as their fixer. The filmmakers introduce him to friend and fellow Haiti enthusiaste Cairn Verhulst. Shell & Bertozzi film in Port-au-Prince, Kencroff, and Miragoane.
January 2006—Shoots in Miami at Schapiro's factory among other places.
December 2005—Shoots with 4th generation ragmen Bill Schapiro in Baltimore and the Stubins in Brooklyn.
September 2005—Secondhand (Pepe) gets funding from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.
August 2005—Travel to Baltimore to shoot with Bill Schapiro.
December 2004—Travel to Montreal to film the garment industry and do archival research.
August 2004—Shell & Bertozzi volunteer at the Haitian Coalition in Somerville, MA.
June 2004—Shell & Bertozzi continue their work at the Harvard Film Study Center.
May 2004—Bertozzi moves to Cambridge, MA. We shoot with Liz Donovan and Bruce Cohen of the Garment District and Dollar-a-Pound, Bobby Garnet of Bobby from Boston, Lenny Goldstein of Keezer's, among many others.
August 2003—Shell & Bertozzi shoot at the Garment District & Dollar-a-Pound in Cambridge, MA. There they meet some Haitian customers who buy in bulk. On a tip, the filmmakers go to the East Boston Shipyard, where they find a gigantic ship being loaded with used cars—moving cargo—packed with used clothing and other used goods. Welcome to Pepeworld—though we didn't even know the name of it at that time.