Lights, Camera, Aubin! A Gala Non-Gala

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White text on a maroon background reading, "Lights, Camera, Aubin! A Gala Non-Gala. Party like it's 1996. Illuminating thirty years of change through justice-driven documentary filmmaking."

Monday, November 2nd | 7PM | Performance Space New York

Dress to party inspired by 1996!

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Join us to commemorate Aubin turning 30!

We started three decades ago with a short activist video response to early manifestations of the extreme policies we’re seeing today. We called the piece When Democracy Works. Our values and mission are even more important now.

The celebration will bring us all together, artists and activists, collaborators and champions, to mark this anniversary as more than a retrospective, more like a rededication. Aubin is not merely nostalgic. We are fueled. The films we finished most recently, The Return, And Again I Dream, Paint Me a Road Out of Here, and Meanwhile, are as urgent as When Democracy Works. Our kids, our hearts, our desire to live another day and get another chance to know and feel and listen and learn, all that keeps giving us reasons to keep going, so we do.

We keep going.

Come celebrate the last 30 years and all of the years to come!

Aubin Luminaries

Aubin Luminaries: 30+ for 30 Years!

For our anniversary, we are celebrating over 30 extraordinary human beings who each embody something essential about Aubin’s purpose, mission, process, and stubborn reason for persisting. Filmmakers who pointed their camera at truth. Activists who brought people to a screening and turned that gathering into a movement. Curators who said yes when others said wait. Funders whose beliefs helped make an idea a reality. Journalists who told our story to the world. Participant collaborators who trusted us with their vulnerability, their power, their quiet knowing. And Interns who became colleagues who became family.

With around one person for each year, these people's presence in our story is foundational. They are the soil, the air, the water, and the fire. 

Join us in celebrating each one.

Honoring... Abbey Williams, Angela Davis and Gina Dent, Añes Ollivier-Yamin, Ava DuVernay, Bárbara Arredondo-Ayala, Darren Walker, Elle Moxley, Ellery Washington, Emerson Mahoney, Fred Ward, Garrett Bradley, Grace Krsul-Sullivan, Jacqueline Woodson, Jenni Olson, Julie Mehretu, Kevin Lopez, Laura Flanders, Leah Faria, Legacy Russell, Lisa Cortés, Mel Chin, Melissa Barton, Melony and Adam Lewis, Mike Maggiore, Molly Gochman, Norris Henderson, Rajendra Roy, Ron Athey, Ru Hockley, Sadie Hope-Gund and Safiyah Riddle, Samora Pinderhughes, Sanjna Selva, Sherrilyn Ifill, Teresita Fernández, Xaviera Simmons, and Yennie Lee.

Click the image to read more about each honoree.

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Abbey Williams
Angela Davis
Añes Ollivier-Yamin
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Ava DuVernay
Bárbara Arredondo-Ayala
Darren Walker
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Elle Moxley
Ellery Washington
Emerson Mahoney
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Fred Ward
Garrett Bradley
Gina Dent
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Grace Krsul-Sullivan
Jacqueline Woodson
Jenni Olson
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Julie Mehretu © Josefina Santos
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Julie Mehretu
Kevin Lopez
Laura Flanders
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Leah Faria
Legacy Russell
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Mel Chin
Melissa Barton
Melony and Adam Lewis
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An older Black man with a graying mustache, wearing a dark blue vest over a white button up.
Mike Maggiore
Molly Gochman
Norris Henderson
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Rajendra Roy
Ron Athey
Ru Hockley
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A young man with dark hair and beard in a black T-shirts and pants, sitting on the floor. A microphone sits in the foreground.
Sadie Hope-Gund
Safiyah Riddle
Samora Pinderhughes
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A smiling Black woman with long, Black locs, with her hand again her face, wearing a black, pinstripe suit and a white button up.
A latin woman with her dark hair in a bun, wearing a black turtleneck and large, black and gold earrings.
Sanjna Selva
Sherrilyn Ifill
Teresita Fernández
A Black woman wearing thick, gold, hoop earrings, red lipstick, and a black turtleneck.
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Xaviera Simmons
Yennie Lee