>As Cindy Carroll reported on Raven earlier this morning, local film
>maker and UTC Theatre grad Brian Cagle will premier his documentary,
>NO INCIDENT, NO SERVICE: THE CHATTANOOGA SIT-INS OF 1960 at the
>Chattanooga Regional History Museum this Friday.  Some details about
>Brian  and his film follow.
>
>Brian developed a taste for innovative approaches to production and
>throughout his undergraduate career and since, has sought out
>opportunities to expand and deepen his understanding of the work of
>the some of the theatre's most innovative practitioners.  In 1995-96
>Brian was involved in a student exchange program with Masaryk
>University in Brno, Czech Republic where he studied European theatre
>practice with several of the most respected experimental companies
>in Central Europe.  During a 1998-1999 residency in New York, Brian
>earned a prestigious internship with writer/director Richard Foreman.
>
>Upon his return to the University to finish his degree in 1997, he
>directed a successful environmental staging of Eric Bogosian's
>SubUrbia. Soon after graduation he received an internship at the
>Barking Legs Theatre, an experimental and alternative performance
>venue here in Chattanooga. While there, he was awarded a young
>artists grant to write and stage what proved to be a thoughtful and
>highly theatrical work from the writings of Antonin Artaud.  He has
>subsequently staged and performed a variety of work at Barking Legs.
>Other activities include work with the experimental musicians of the
>Shaking Ray Levis, participation in the organization of the 4
>Bridges Arts Festival here in Chattanooga, and service as founder
>and curator of the Free Film Club that screens hard to find
>classics, experimental work and the work of local and regional
>filmmakers.
>
>While in New York, Brian was employed by area education districts to
>conduct special programs using creative approaches including group
>storytelling to address the needs of students in an urban school
>system.  By all accounts, his work there was highly successful.  For
>the past three years he has continued his work with young students
>in Chattanooga with grants from the federal Gear Up program using
>and teaching filmmaking at inner-city public schools.  One such
>teaching residency resulted in the production of "The Everyday
>Movie" featuring and documenting the work of a local youth group.
>
>Brian received a grant from Allied Arts of Chattanooga and the
>Chattanooga Regional History Museum to direct and produce a
>documentary film about events surrounding integration of downtown
>lunch counters in Chattanooga in the early 1960's.  His initial
>research was done at the Schomberg Institute during his NYC
>residency and continued locally over the last three years.  The
>documentary will feature collaboration with local schools using
>students in an inter-generational conversation/interview about the
>events of forty years ago.  The film will premiere in spring 2003.
>
>In 2001 Brian directed a forty-five minute film, "Aftermarket" from
>his own screenplay.  It was screened at the Downstream International
>Film Festival near Atlanta last summer.  He is currently in
>production on his screenplay, "The Debt Professionals," which like
>"Aftermarket" deals with the effects of commerce on human
>relationships.
>
>As a free-lance filmmaker Brian has documented the creation of
>mandala sand painting by Tibetan monks visiting Chattanooga during
>spring 2002.  This fall he completed photography for a documentary
>about two local female physicians with an unusual practice.  A
>finished film should be completed this spring.
>
>       Brian will enroll in the MFA film program at Northwestern
>University in fall 2003.
>
>
>
>The Chattanooga Regional History Museum
>presents
>No Incident No Service: the Chattanooga Sit-Ins of 1960
>a documentary film by
>Brian Cagle
>
>May 23: NO INCIDENT, NO SERVICE (May, 2003)  Local film maker Brian
>Cagle will screen a sneak preview of this documentary, which will
>become part of an upcoming exhibit and educational program for the
>Chattanooga Regional History Museum.  The documentary explores one
>week in February 1960 that began with a protest and escalated to a
>minor riot.  It all began on a Friday afternoon, when a small group
>of honor students from Howard High School staged an impromptu sit-in
>demonstration at a downtown lunch counter.  On Monday, some 200
>other students from Howard had joined them, along with an increasing
>number of area white students, which grew into a counter-protest.
>By Wednesday, firehoses were needed in order to quell what the
>Chattanooga Times would call "the most massive racial clash in the
>history of Chattanooga."  This short documentary film combines
>interviews of participants with some amazing archival photos of the
>events, recently unearthed from the Times-Free Press archives.
>Support local film!
>
>Chattanooga Regional History Museum
>400 Chestnut Street
>FIlm starts at 7:30pm
>Free Admission