REELpoetry/HoustonTX 2024 is an international poetry film Festival. This week long event showcases 100+ screenings under 6 minutes from 20 different countries. Connect with international curators and presenters in real time online, and in-person on the weekend; watch world premieres from Houston creatives; experience ASL poetry and performances; join use for two fabulous after parties.
April 1, 2024
12:00-1:00 - The Video Jukebox - Presented By: Ian Gibbins
A collection of videos from current and past Festival curators, presenters and judges.
1:00-2:00 - Juried Screenings (1 of 4) Selected from Open Submissions
2:00-3:00 - Reelcafe - Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director
Audience, poets, filmmakers, curators and presenters are invited to meet together in real time.
Break
7:00-8:00 - The Video Jukebox – Presented By: Ian Gibbins
A collection of videos from current and past Festival curators, presenters and judges.
8:00-9:00 - Juried Screenings (1 of 4) Selected from Open Submissions
9:00-10:00 - Reelcafe – Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director
Audience, poets, filmmakers, curators and presenters are invited to meet together in real time.
April 2, 2024
12:00-1:00 - Frame to Frames: Your Eyes Follow - Presented By: Sarah Tremlett
Five filmmakers talk about how one art form can inspire and revision another.
1:00-2:00    Juried Screenings (2 of 4) Selected from Open Submissions
2:00-3:00  -  REELcafe - Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director
Audience, poets, filmmakers, curators and presenters are invited to meet together in real time.
Break
7:00-8:00  -  Frame to Frames: Your Eyes Follow - Presented By: Sarah Tremlett
Five filmmakers talk about how one art form can inspire and revision another.
8:00-9:00    Juried Screenings (2 of 4) Selected from Open Submissions
9:00-10:00 - REELcafe - Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director
Audience, poets, filmmakers, curators and presenters are invited to meet together in real time
April 3, 2024
12:00-1:00 - Moving Poems in the City - Presented By: Fiona Tinwei Lam, Alger Ji-Liang
These twelve poetry videos created for the Vancouver Poet Laureate’s City Poems Project are based on place-based poems about historical and cultural sites in Vancouver, CA.
1:00-2:00 - Juried Screenings (3 of 4) Selected from Open Submissions
2:00-3:00 - REELcafe - Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director
Audience, poets, filmmakers, curators and presenters are invited to meet together in real time.
Break
7:00-8:00 - Moving Poems in the City - Presented By: Fiona Tinwei Lam, Alger Ji-Liang
These twelve poetry videos created for the Vancouver Poet Laureate’s City Poems Project are based on place-based poems about historical and cultural sites in Vancouver, CA.
8:00-9:00 - uried Screenings (3 of 4) Selected from Open Submissions
9:00-10:00 - REELcafe – Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director
Audience, poets, filmmakers, curators and presenters are invited to meet together in real time.
April 4, 2024
12:00-1:00 - ASL Video - Presented By: Douglas Ridloff
1:00-2:00 - Juried Screenings (4 of 4) Selected from Open Submissions
2:00-3:00 - REELcafe - Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director
Audience, poets, filmmakers, curators and presenters are invited to meet together in real time.
Break
7:00-8:00 - ASL Video – Presented By: Douglas Ridloff
8:00-9:00 - Juried Screenings (4 of 4) Selected from Open Submissions
9:00-10:00 - REELcafe – Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director
Audience, poets, filmmakers, curators and presenters are invited to meet together in real time.
April 5, 2024
12:00-5:00 - Juried Screenings - Audience Voting
1:00-2:00 - ASL Poetry - Panel Discussion
2:00-3:00 - REELcafe - Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director
Discussion about ASL poetry
Break
6:30-7:30 - Juried Screenings – Announce Winners
7:00-8:00 - ASL Poetry – Panel Discussion
8:00-9:00 - REELcafe - Host: Fran Sanders, Festival Director
Discussion about ASL poetry
April 6, 2024
1:00-1:30 - Doors
1:30-2:00 - Open Mic
2:00-3:00 - Geopoeticon with Odveig Klyve & Bjørn Gulbrandsen (Norway)
Short poetry films crossing borders of language, politics and geography, including the film
“Does your hand shake, Vladimir?” where voices from all over the world are heard.
3:00-4:00 - I Didn’t Die That Day with Helen Dewbery (England)
Fragmented memories from London’s underworld of prostitution; told in 3 voices and 12 poems plus discussion.
Break
4:30-5:30 - ASL Performance by Douglas Ridloff + Deaf Slam
5:30-6:00 - Best of Fest (International) - Screening, Winning and Honorable mentions of poetry films and videos.
6:00 - After Party - Everyone invited.
April 7, 2024
1:00-1:30 - Doors
1:30-2:00 - Open Mic - Sign up sheet
2:00-3:00 - Changing the World One Poem at a Time (Texas edition) with Pamela Falkenberg & Jack Cochran
Five poems from five renowned Texas activist poets — J. Estanislao Lopez, Naomi Shihab Nye, Robin Davidson, Aris Kian Brown, and Lupe Mendez — are transformed into video poetry plus live readings and Q&A with the poets, filmmakers, and audience.
3:15-4:00 - Best Of ZEBRA  - Presented By: Thomas Zandegiacomo Del Bel (Germany)
A selection of the best films based on poems by Natallia Arsiennieva, Simon Barraclough, Ariane von Grafenried, Tania Haberland or Cia Rinne from the 2020-2023 ZEBRA festival editions.
Break
4:30-5:30 - Location/Houston (Houston TX)
A collaboration between Houston Poets and Houston Filmmakers commissioned by Public Poetry.
5:30-5:50 - Sufi Poetry in American Sign Language and Dance - Performed By: Sabina England
An ASL performance focused on the elements of nature, water, air, fire and earth. Based on Sufi Poets and her own work.
5:50-6:10 - ASL Poems  - Performed By: Heba Toulan
Showcasing a selection of poetry from diverse ASL poets.
6:10-6:30 - Festival Winners - Best 4 Videos selected by judges and audience
6:30 - After Party - Everyone invited.

NOTE: All times are given as CST, Central Standard Time (GMT -6)
All film screenings are accessible to the Deaf and hard-of-hearing, using ASL interpreters, or embedded text or captioning.
All American Sign Language (ASL) programs are captioned, voiced or interpreted in English

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Date: April 1-5, 2024
Location: Online

Date: April 6,7, 2024
Location:
Daley Sports Club, 922 Holman St Suite A
Houston, TX 77002
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