Brown Planet Productions

06/05/2024

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Boxes have been in cold storage.

04/11/2024

It is amazing to see the list every year of Guggenheim fellows. I had the honor to receive this amazing fellowship in 2016 and have since directed three short films. My career has expanded beyond my imagination, and there is still room to grow as always. When you have a moment, check out the latest list, and if you know someone on it, give them lots of love—it's a real achievement. .

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2021 FELLOWS. To learn more about each individual, you can find the Fellows’ full biographies below.

06/22/2023

Jun 23 – Sep 9, 2023
DISARM

Opening exhibitions tomorrow, Friday, June 23
Weinberg/Newton Gallery
688 N Milwaukee Ave, First Floor
Chicago, IL 60642

All, please join me tomorrow for the opening exhibition of DISARM Weinberg/Newton Gallery
Firebird Community Arts, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Jennifer Nagle Myers, Carlos Javier Ortiz, Jefferson Pinder
DISARM Everyday Violence, Every Day is presented in partnership with Firebird Community Arts and Gun Violence Prevention PAC (G-PAC)
http://www.weinbergnewtongallery.com/exhibitions-37.../

12/18/2019

As the year wraps up I'm looking back at 2019. I’m sharing one of the most exciting collaborations I head with my friend Elyse Blennerhassett . She asked me to collaborate in making this short introduction film for born in statelessness. The radio Podcast is amazing. Please download the podcast and listen to it when you have a moment. Lots of peace and love to our dear brother Imran. A wonderful job by Elyse Blennerhassett, thanks my dear friends. 

Produced by Elyse Blennerhassett
Edited by Elyse Blennerhassett and Michael Green
Filmed by Carlos Javier Ortiz

Imran, a Rohingya minority in Myanmar, was born into statelessness.

12/12/2019

‪A Thousand Midnights is now on Brown Planet Productions YouTube Channel please watch the film , subscribe and please share. https://youtu.be/PZt-1X4ndQk via ‬ enjoy

2015 marks the centennial of the beginning of the Great Migration in which six million African Americans relocated from the rural South to the cities of the ...

05/01/2019

Please join us on THURSDAY, MAY 02, 2019 6:00PM
at the MoCP for a panel discussion exploring the segregated history of Chicago neighborhoods, in conjunction with the current exhibition Chicago Stories. Recent works by Carlos Javier Ortiz and David Schalliol. The discussion will be moderated by Kristin Taylor, MoCP curator of academic programs and collections. Panelists include Natalie Moore, WBEZ South Side reporter and artist Tonika Tonika Lewis Johnson

http://www.mocp.org/events/event?id=1579455

04/03/2019

Join us this Sunday, April 7th to hear Carlos Javier Ortiz and University of San Diego Sociology Professor Cid Martinez discuss their unique collaboration — synthesizing academia, art, and filmmaking to look at the Ferguson Effect in Sacramento.

The program is free but space is limited so RSVP now and arrive early: https://bit.ly/2uGxk4P

02/26/2019

All, Tina is giving a talk tonight in Oakland. Starts at 5:30. Samuel Merritt University.

Please join the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Samuel Merritt University for an evening with Dr. Tina Sacks. Dr. Sacks is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley's School of Social Welfare. Her fields of interest include racial inequities in health, social determinants of health, poverty and ine...

02/11/2019

Join Carlos Javier Ortiz and Ed Kashi, on how to tap into your ability to create visual narratives, learn about advocacy work, how to collaborate with creative partners, writing & editing skills, grant writing, funding, research and more.

The workshop would be a non-shooting experience with intensive discussions on topics ranging from Carlos and Ed’s artistic practice to business models.

10/25/2017

All, if your going to Paris, for Paris photo check out BLACK CHICAGO. I'll be part of this group exhibition at Les Douches Gallery. The seven photographers presented in this exhibition, Wayne Miller, Ray K. Metzker, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Marvin E. Newman, Vivian Maier, Tom Arndt and Carlos Javier Ortiz.
Cover a period of photography that goes from 1940 to the present day. They have neither the same course nor the same look. Each gives us a different picture of this African-American community coming to Chicago from the South, hoping for more freedom and more dignified work. These photos are a staggering and highly artistic testimony of Chicago Black life for more than half a century.
http://www.lesdoucheslagalerie.com/…/prese…/66/black-chicago

Installée depuis 2006 dans d'anciennes douches publiques près du Canal Saint-Martin à Paris, Les Douches la Galerie, sous la direction artistique de Françoise Morin, met en valeur la photographie contemporaine et historique autour de ce que l'on appelle communément...

10/06/2017

Such a joy to speak with Louis Reitzes about the importance of home and a sense of community (in response to gentrification and development in Atlanta) for our documentary installation, I'm Here", commissioned for Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc. and screening at Picturing Justice 2017: Opening Reception --- with Carlos Javier Ortiz Tina Sacks Elyse Blennerhassett

Thursday on "City Lights with Lois Reitzes": 1:08: Lois Reitzes speaks with Mary Stanley, the owner of the Mary Stanley Studio and curator of “Picturing Ju