Invisible Universe Fundraiser at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Please join M. Asli Dukan/The Invisible Universe Foundation and POC Doc Film 
Development, Inc. to support the completion of the new documentary film

Invisible Universe: a history of blackness in speculative fiction

Friday, September 14, 2007
6:30 to 8:30pm
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox Avenue at 135th Street)
New York, New York 10037

Cocktails * Hors d'oeuvres * Sneak preview of the film with director M. Asli Dukan and 
special guests.

Universe: a history of blackness in speculative fiction explores the relationship between 
the Black body and popular fantasy, horror and science fiction literature and film and the 
alternative perspectives produced by creators of color. This documentary features 
interviews with major writers, scholars, artists and filmmakers and explores comics, 
television, film and literature by deconstructing stereotyped images of Black people in the 
genres. The Invisible Universe documentary ultimately reveals how Black creators have 
been consciously creating their own universe.

Invisible Universe needs your help! In order to continue this important work, we will need 
to secure considerable financial support. Your contribution of any size will help make this 
groundbreaking documentary a reality. Since 2003, the filmmakers have been traveling to 
conduct interviews nationwide and have been incurring mounting expenses for travel, 
equipment and supplies to finish this project, most of it coming out of the filmmakers' 
pockets. We have already accumulated hours of footage and believe with your help, we can 
bring this feature length documentary to life!

HONORARY COMMITTEE

Linda Addison
Author, Space & Time

Steven Barnes
Author, Lion's Blood & Zulu Heart

Angel L. Brown
Founder, Our Stories Productions

Allison Caviness
Founder, Lesida Film Center

Pete Chatmon
Ceo, Double 7 Film Productions

Sandi Dubowski
Director, Trembling Before G-d

Frances Gateward
Professor of Cinema Studies
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

William & Louise Greaves
William Greaves Productions

Eileen Gunn
Board member, Clarion West Writers Workshop
Editor & Publisher, The Infinite Matrix (infinitematrix.net)

Dr. Charles Johnson
Professor, University of Washington

Imagenation Film & Music Festival
Moikgantsi Kgama, Founder & Executive Director
Greg Gates, Executive Producer

Edna Lima
ABADA-Capoeira

Zola Mumford
Curator, Langston Hughes African American Film Festival

Sheree R. Thomas
Editor, The Dark Matter anthologies

Cecil Washington
Writer, Cecilwashington.com

Yumy Odom
Founder, 1st World Komix, Inc. ECBACC

William H. Foster III
Professor, Historian, Looking For a Face Like Mine

HOST COMMITTEE

Shenelle Easton-Foster

Rachel Kadushin
BestFriendsProductions.com

If you can not attend the fundraiser and would still like to donate via credit card, please 
visit the Invisible Universe Foundation webpage at our fiscal sponsor's website at Invisible 
Universe donation page at https://www.fracturedatlas.org/donate/596

Invisible Universe is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service 
organization. Contributions in behalf of Invisible Universe may be made payable to 
Fractured Atlas. The value of admittance is $50.00. Any contribution above that amount is 
tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

For more information and to purchase tickets, contact Shay Sellars at Poc Doc Film 
Development, Inc. at (917) 776-5022 or by e-mail at [email protected].

Check out our website at http://www.invisibleuniversedoc.com

Check out our blog and trailer at http://www.invisibleuniverse.blogspot.com



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