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Baltimore's award-winning documentary filmmaker, public historian, and Baltimore City Hall curator Joe Tropea returns to share how personal connection guides his project choices, why he embraces “ums” and raw moments in the edit, and what it takes to build strong creative partnerships — from abandoned true-crime concepts to a new mayoral portrait gallery.Following personal connection: why priests breaking into draft boards, censored movie trailers, punk archives, and barbershop stories all felt like natural fitsEmbracing imperfections: the case for keeping “ums,” pauses, and rough cuts to give stories authenticity and respect the voices involvedKnowing when to pivot: lessons from shelving a State Department project and a true-crime doc that no longer aligned with his ethicsKeys to collaboration: how attraction, creative tension, and shared values shape meaningful partnerships with co-directors and researchersCurating City Hall: what it's like to activate a 150-year-old space through public tours, historical exhibits, and a new mayoral portrait galleryRapid-fire reflections: favorite Vietnam War movie, a one-word definition of curation, and the low-key joys of exploring City Hall's archives

About the guestJoe Tropea has served as MCHC's Curator of Films and Photographs since 2012. He creates exhibitions and exhibition videos, writes for the organization's underbelly blog, which he co-founded in 2012, and manages the Imaging Services department and MCHC's digital projects. He started at MCHC in 2005, worked part time in the Special Collections department, and earned an MA in Public History from UMBC. In 2015 he co-founded the Preserve the Baltimore Uprising Archive, a digital repository that seeks to preserve and make accessible materials related to the killing of Freddie Gray and related subsequent events in Baltimore City. Joe is the co-director of the award-winning 2013 documentary Hit & Stay and the director of 2018's Sickies Making Films. He is also a collective member/owner of Beyond Video, a Baltimore based not-for-profit video store.The Truth In This ArtThe Truth In This Art is a podcast interview series supporting vibrancy and development of Baltimore & beyond's arts and culture.Mentioned in this episodeJoe's IMdBTo find more amazing stories from the artist and entrepreneurial scenes in & around Baltimore, check out my episode directory.Stay in TouchNewsletter sign-upSupport my podcastShareable link to episode★ Support this podcast ★

Content warning: On this episode of TKS, we will be discussing a very heavy topic, birth trauma. This topic can be triggering for some. We know birth and trauma are very personal experiences, but we hope our guest can help us understand more about this topic. Please listen with an open heart, but also take the space you may need. When we think of a traumatic birth, the worst case scenarios often come to mind: a stillborn child or maternal demise. However it emcompasses so much more because trauma is subjective. Underlying themes of birth trauma include a lack of caring from a lack of communication, and birthing parents feeling stripped of their dignity. A birth is said to be traumatic when the individual (parent or other witness) believes the birthing person's or her baby's life was in danger, or that a serious threat to the birthing person's or baby's physical or emotional integrity existed. 25-34% of women report their birth as traumatic (source: Prevention and Treatment of Traumatic Childbirth organization). We are excited to have our guest Ann Tropea, join us for this conversation today! A little more about her:   Ann is a certified birth doula and has supported births in Jerusalem, Vietnam, and the D.C. Metro area. She is also a practicing attorney and a writer, and has experience working through birth trauma with clients in her role as a doula, and as an attorney representing clients in medical malpractices actions. Ann holds a law degree from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, and graduated magna cum laude in mass media communication studies from New York University. Ann currently lives in Baltimore with her husband Joe Tropea, two children Julian and Lucy, and dog Geof.   Resources: Ann's website: https://www.mommytreedoula.com/ Ann IG: https://www.instagram.com/mommytreedoula/ Ann FB: https://www.facebook.com/mommytreedoula/ Ann email: info@mommytreedoula.com Birth Monopoly Evidence Based Birth Prevention and Treatment of Traumatic Childbirth  https://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/Informed-Choice/informed-consent-in-childbirth-making-rights-into-reality.html

Sixteen-millimeter movies are practically relics -- especially compared to the immediacy of Youtube or smartphone videos. But the look and sound of real celluloid stirs an unmistakable nostalgia. The Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Maryland Historical Society will give audiences entry to that nostalgic feeling later this month with “Maryland On Film” ... featuring scenes of Baltimore from the 1920s to the 1990s. We get a preview from Tom Warner, librarian in the ‘Best & Next Department’ of the Enoch Pratt Library/State Library Resource Center and from Joe Tropea, Curator of Films and Photographs at the Maryland Historical Society.

A fascinating exhibition of portrait photographs selected from the archives of the Maryland Historical Society was recently assembled in a show called “Reflections: A Brief History of Looking at Ourselves.”The exhibition, which opened June 19th and runs through July 1, 2020, highlights themes of identity and place, and showcases portrait work from unsung and in some cases unidentified photographers -- as with the photograph featured to the left -- that are represented in the Historical Society's photo and prints collections. The photographs on exhibit encompass nearly the entire 180-year history of photography, from 1840s daguerreotypes to present-day digital photographs and “selfies.”Joining Tom to describe how the exhibition came together and to share some of the stories behind the photographs are Joe Tropea, the film and photographs curator at the Maryland Historical Society, and Elena Volkova, assistant professor of Art ---- Visual Communication Design at Stevenson University. She’s also co-host (with Joseph Giordano) of the photojournalism podcast, Ten Frames per Second.

Are you interested in screenwriting? Do you want tips and tricks on how to break into the screenwriting industry? Have you considered marketing strategies to become a successful screenwriter? Then join us for an exciting networking event and panel discussion with Q&A featuring local professors and screenwriters. Don’t forget to bring a pen and paper for notes, as well as business cards for networking!Panelists include:Joe Tropea, Curator of Films & Photographs and Digital Projects Coordinator at the Maryland Historical Society; former journalist, videographer, and editor for Baltimore¹s City Paper; co-creator of the documentaries Hit & Stay (2013) and Sickies Making Films (2018);Dina Fiasconaro, creator of the feature documentary Moms and Meds (2015), available on Amazon; co-founder of the Baltimore Chapter of Film Fatales; recipient of the “Generation Next” screenwriting grant; currently teaches Film & Moving Image at Stevenson University;David Warfield, feature credits include writer/director of Rows (2015), writer/co-producer Linewatch and Kill Me Again; member, WGAW; an American Film Institute fellow; currently an Associate Professor of screenwriting, film, and media arts at Morgan State University;Jimmy George, co-writer and co-producer of WNUF Halloween Special (2013); co-writing and co-producing What Happens Next Will Scare You; awarded “Best Screenplay” at the 2013 Killer Film Fest;

Are you interested in screenwriting? Do you want tips and tricks on how to break into the screenwriting industry? Have you considered marketing strategies to become a successful screenwriter? Then join us for an exciting networking event and panel discussion with Q&A featuring local professors and screenwriters. Don’t forget to bring a pen and paper for notes, as well as business cards for networking!Panelists include:Joe Tropea, Curator of Films & Photographs and Digital Projects Coordinator at the Maryland Historical Society; former journalist, videographer, and editor for Baltimore¹s City Paper; co-creator of the documentaries Hit & Stay (2013) and Sickies Making Films (2018);Dina Fiasconaro, creator of the feature documentary Moms and Meds (2015), available on Amazon; co-founder of the Baltimore Chapter of Film Fatales; recipient of the “Generation Next” screenwriting grant; currently teaches Film & Moving Image at Stevenson University;David Warfield, feature credits include writer/director of Rows (2015), writer/co-producer Linewatch and Kill Me Again; member, WGAW; an American Film Institute fellow; currently an Associate Professor of screenwriting, film, and media arts at Morgan State University;Jimmy George, co-writer and co-producer of WNUF Halloween Special (2013); co-writing and co-producing What Happens Next Will Scare You; awarded “Best Screenplay” at the 2013 Killer Film Fest;Recorded On: Saturday, November 17, 2018

Interview with Willa Bickham and Brendan Walsh who supported the Catonsville Nine and Joe Tropea, curator of MDHS Activism and Art: The Catonsville Nine 50 Years Later.

It's Midday at the Movies.The 20th annual Maryland Film Festival kicks off tonight at the SNF Parkway Theater here in Baltimore. More than 120 local and international filmmakers from around the world will gather at the newly restored theater on Charles Street to screen their latest work, and to discuss the many facets of their art in panel discussions and workshops. Between Wednesday May 2 and Sunday, May 6, audiences will be treated to a buffet of over 40 narrative films and documentaries, plus 10 series of short films. Today, a preview of the Maryland Film Festival, with its director and founder, Jed Dietz.Tom also talks with a group of film artists with past and present links to the festival, including Baltimore director Matt Porterfield, and actor Jim Belushi, the co-star of Porterfield's new film, Sollers Point, which is premiering at this year's festival. Filmmaker and Maryland Historical Society curator Joe Tropea joins us to discuss his new documentary about the history of film censorship in America, Sickies Making Films. And joining us by phone today from Los Angeles is filmmaker Erik Ljung. His powerful documentary film, The Blood Is at the Doorstep, about a police killing of an unarmed black man in Milwaukee four years ago, has won kudos since its world premiere at the 2017 South-by-Southwest Festival in Austin, and its screening last year at the Maryland Film Festival, and it returns to follow the festival the Parkway theater next week.

Please check back later this week for the full Hit and Stay story and film review. In the meantime, however, please enjoy the full audio interview with Joe Tropea, one of the directors of the film. Also, don't sleep on purchasing your tickets for the two showings of this documentary at this upcoming weekend's Maryland Film Festival. There will be two screenings: Thursday, May 9, 7:30pm at the Charles Theater & Saturday, May 11, 1:30pm at MICA's Brown Center. 

9/5/10 SUNDAY HOUR TWO (9-9:30 PM Eastern) Marjorie Jones (cont’d) AND 9:30-10:00 – Joe Tropea and Skizz Cyzyk “Hit and Stay” a feature-length documentary (in-production) about the Catonsville Nine and the antiwar movement www.hitandstay.com