This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Carvin will ask us to join him as he examines legal and moral influences on race. He will explain how previously intentional acts still influence current society and social structure

Filmmaker Carvin Eison is the owner and creative director of ImageWordSound, llc, an independent media production company; the general manager of Rochester Community Television and an associate professor in the department of communication at The College at Brockport, SUNY. For more than 30 years Eison has produce, directed and written feature-length documentary films, series television and commercials for a wide array of corporate and not-for-profit clients, including the Dupont, Eastman Kodak and Garth Fagan Dance.

Eison has received wide ranging recognition for his work including two New York Emmy nominations; The Chancellors Award for Creative and Scholarly Achievement; a national PBS broadcast for his documentary “July ’64: Roots of Urban Unrest;” a 25th anniversary Classic Gold Telly; Best Documentary at the 2011 Texas Black Film Festival and several other honors and awards. Mr. Eison’s work in collaboration with Garth Fagan is part of the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.

His documentary “Shadows of the Lynching Tree” was broadcast twice on German Public TV and screened at The BaKa Forum in Basel, Switzerland and Goethe-Institute in Accra, Ghana and Capital Normal University, Beijing, China. Other screenings include the Contemporary Museum of Art in Warsaw, Poland and The Dryden Theater at George Eastman House. Eison is currently producing a new documentary entitled “July ’14.” The film is scheduled for delivery early 2015.

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