25-03-2025
Filmmakers with local ties to lead women's workshop
Video: Coverage of the 2024 Dayton Black Women's Film Festival.
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – The Dayton Metro Library is hosting a workshop for Black women filmmakers later this year.
According to a press release, the library will host the workshop on Friday, May 16, from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Bassani Theater at the main branch.
Spots are expected to fill quickly according to the library. Registration opens on April 1 and can be accessed through the library's website.
The workshop is a collaboration between the Dayton Metro Library and the Dayton Black Women's Film Festival.
Filmmakers Kaliah Ware, a filmmaker based in Cincinnati, and Selena Burks-Rentschler, a Wright State University Motion Pictures graduate, will lead the workshop's activities.
Ware worked alongside Wright State University to establish a film school at Zwilabonzie High School in Durban, South Africa. She worked as the set production assistant for 'The Big Ugly'.
Burks-Rentschler's documentary Saving Jackie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Highlights of her other work includes 'Redlining: Mapping Inequality in Dayton and Springfield' and supporting work for the J.D. Vance film Hillbilly Elegy.
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All activities will be divided into three categories (directing, acting and writing), and registrants will engage in each discipline. Attendents will learn about each art forum and get feedback from Ware and Burks-Rentschler.
Visit the library's website or call their 'Ask Me Line,' at 937-463-2665 with any questions.
If you need accessibility services like a sign language interpreter, assistive device or language translation, please call the Library's Ask Me Line or fill out this forum ahead of the event.
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