SPIA Media Productions (Firm)
Publisher
SPIA Media Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Working the Boat: Masters of the Craftis a six-part webisode hat captures the golden years of Local 1329 of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA). Local 1329 was founded in Providence,.Rhode Island in 1933 by Manuel Q. Ledo, a Cape Verdean community leader. Featured in the webisode are museum-quality photographic portraits of the interviewees taken by Liane Brandon, award winning independent filmmaker and photographer.
3) Hi, Neighbor
Publisher
SPIA Media Productions
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Thisexperimental short film is about a little girl who lost her home to urban renewal, and asks her wealthy neighbor, "why?”The film is aprequel to Andrade-Watkins’ documentary trilogy about the Cape Verdean community in FoxPoint. "Hi, Neighbor"had its world premiere at the 2011 Cape Verdean International Film Festival and was awarded Jury Selection (first prize), in the 2012 Black Maria Film Festival.
Publisher
SPIA Media Productions
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
This a re-discovered and restored documentary shot in 1975 in Cape Verde at the time of independence by pioneering video artist Anthony D. Ramos. This was some of the earliest video work by Ramos, who received a 1975 grant from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities for travel to Cape Verde and a sony color 1/2" reel to reel video camera Ramos, a Cape Verdean American, traveled to the islands of Sao Tiago, Fogo and Sao Vicente, and was the only...
Publisher
SPIA Media Productions
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
This documentary reportage chronicles the first state visit to the United States in 1983 by Aristides Pereira, Cape Verde’s first president after independence. Highlights include an overview of the Cape Verdean communities in the Fox Point section of Providence and Pawtucket, Rhode Island and President Pereira’s visit to New Bedford, MA and visit to the schooner ERNESTINA, beloved queen of the Cape Verdean packet trade.
Publisher
SPIA Media Productions
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This short documentary was created from rare archival footage of almost seventy hours of ½"reel-to-reel video shot by pioneering performance and media artist Anthony D. Ramos. He was the only American camera present to record the historic first two days of independence in Cape Verde after 500 years of colonial rule.
Publisher
SPIA Media Productions
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
This performance was recorded in June, 2001 at the Cape Verdean Progressive Club, East Providence, Rhode Island with "Flash" Tavares, Sr., Vickie Vieira and musicians who collectively represent the defining sounds of 20th century Cape Verdean American music. The soundtrack is a masterpiece of classical Cape Verdean American music.
Publisher
SPIA Media Productions
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
This feature documentary tells the untold tragedy and scandal of what happened to a vibrant community of immigrants from the Cape Verde Islands in the Fox Point section of Providence Rhode Island who were forcibly displaced by urban renewal to make way for coffee shops, antique stores and elegantly restored houses. It is the first in a trilogy of documentaries about Cape Verdean community in the Fox Point section of Providence, Rhode Island.