Jesse Drew, cinema and digital media professor and former Newsreel “communard,” will host a special screening that celebrates media activist pioneers on July 28 in Oakland.

The event, “Time for Reel Change: Newsreel Covers the Bay Area!,” is presented by Pro Arts Gallery & COMMONS and CounterFlicks microcinema as a collaborative screening.

On the fiftieth anniversary of the People’s Park uprising, and in commemoration of the unfortunate recent passing of filmmaker Roz Payne, we team up for a night of politically radical Bay Area films! Notable for “Off The Pig,” the first film about the Black Panthers in Oakland, the Newsreel Collective were a group of media guerrillas who made 16mm films about the issues of the day that were ignored by the mass media: grassroots activism, protests, and social injustice in general. Come early for some fired-up 16mm Civil Rights films!!

For complete information and tickets, please visit the Pro Arts Gallery website.