BECKYS THROUGH HISTORY is Awarded A Creative Engagement Grant

From the award-winning co-creative team of Eevin Hartsough and Kevin R. Free (The Fantasticks), MYCARL PRODUCTIONS, in association with the award-winning KAMPFIRE FILMS, comes BECKYS THROUGH HISTORY a series of short, highly satirical videos examining the often problematic relationship between white women and people of color throughout history.

The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, has awarded BECKYS THROUGH HISTORY a Creative Engagement grant to ensure the secondary mission of fostering conversation through public screenings with discussions.

BECKYS THROUGH HISTORY is an artistic response to the 53% of white women who cast ballots to elect Donald J. Trump in the November 2016 election and the majority of white women who voted for Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate special election of 2017. It is an attempt to bring the discourse around white feminism vs. intersectional feminism and related issues into normal, day-to-day discussions and awareness.

Some examples of such "BECKYS" in the comic videos include:

• A fictional primer on how to be a white women ie: she must be weak, in need of protection, a paragon of virtue and gentility, but always aligned with the white man

• A British woman in India tutoring a young indian boy, taking on the role of his mother even as his actual mother stands by, bound to relative silence by the prevailing power structure

• A moody southern belle inadvertently causing men of color she happens to pass on the street to be lynched

• A housewife dressing down her black cleaning lady for not finding the time to participate in the women's movement

MyCarl and Kampfire created the project to foster challenging conversations about race - whiteness, specifically - and to dismantle the concept of white womanhood in hopes of building a bridge to the future of intersectional understanding. The intention of the videos is for them to both stand on their own and function as a catalyst for conversations at screenings which will be followed by moderated discussions with panels of women and people of color.d marketing for film, television and theater for almost 20 years. After working on films such as American Psycho and Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Kampfire Marketing was instrumental in the launch of the Broadway musical Brooklyn and the National Tour of Mother Load. Kampfire has been integral in multidimensional campaigns for New York Innovative Theatre Award Recipients, GLAAD Award winners, back-to-back NYMF Best of Fest winners, and Drama Desk nominees. In 2014, Kampfire launched Stage17.tv, a digital entertainment destination for episodic fiction and reality programming for the world's largest stage-the Internet. Kampfire produced the award-winning feature film Closure, the short film Speed Grieving, the Webseries Gemma & The Bear, the talk show Chic Chat, and the Reality Series We Are The Jones. www.kampfirefilmspr.com