Charlotte youth program debuts documentary ‘Behind the Ink’ – WSOC TV

“Behind the Ink” is a first-of-its-kind movie put collectively by Charlotte college students and creatives with the mission of exploring untold narratives of those that are inked. The documentary will debut Saturday, Sept. 25, in Charlotte.

The documentary was produced and shot in Charlotte by Creating Exposure Through The Arts.

Creating Publicity By The Arts is a nonprofit designed to coach and mentor youth by creating alternatives within the arts.

“Behind the Ink” was born out of a student-led photograph exhibit launched over a decade in the past.

The documentary explores tattoos, and the interviews talk about why some select to make use of their our bodies as canvases.

These profiled embody Anthony Morrow, a Charlotte Latin College alumnus and former NBA star. A tattoo fanatic, he shares his information of the artwork kind and private tales of his tattoo journey in the course of the 32-minute documentary.

“The influence of getting college students work on a documentary and have their work showcased in galleries and the documentary is an excessive accomplishment,” mentioned Mark Pendergrass, CEA founder and government director of “Behind the Ink.” “It’s impactful for the scholars, instructors and in addition the individuals who most likely didn’t suppose after they acquired a tattoo it could be showcased in a documentary.”

Individuals of all ages, races and socioeconomic backgrounds reveal tales, concepts, pleasure and ache behind their ink.

“Behind the Ink” will get up shut and private with people whose physique artwork ranges from playful motifs to deep memorials for misplaced family members — all with distinct functions and meanings.

As well as, over 30 photographs will probably be showcased in a wall mural on the Charlotte Uptown.

“It’s wonderful to understand that one thing we’ve been doing for 10 years simply as a curriculum, taking footage, studying images, interviewing folks has grow to be a dwelling documentary and big exhibit on a public constructing,” Pendergrass mentioned.

Accompanying the discharge of the docuseries is the “Behind the Ink” espresso desk e-book.

Topics from the documentary and different notable faces — akin to Dutchess Lattimore, tattoo artist and proprietor of Fairly-N-Ink — will probably be featured on the pages of the version with up-close, detailed photographs of their canvases.

The e-book, additionally shot and conceptualized totally by CEA instructors and college students, comprises dozens of photographs of various topics together with expressive descriptions of their physique artwork in their very own phrases.

“In a time the place artwork isn’t showcased in faculties, it’s essential to indicate one other side of it…one thing that’s actually personable like sharing folks’s tales,” Pendergrass mentioned. “It’s a various group: ethnicity, race, age. We’re sharing tales of people that don’t seem like one another however have that one factor in frequent.”

“Behind the Ink” merchandise and the espresso desk e-book debuted in spring and may be bought on www.creatingexposure.com. Proceeds will go to CEA to construct on nearly 20 years of instructing college students images, mentorship and empowerment by way of the humanities.

The documentary was lately chosen to be featured within the CineOdyssey Movie Competition, which showcases various, modern movies and cutting-edge works by filmmakers of colour from the African, Caribbean, Latino, Asian, and Native American diasporas, in addition to the U.S.

The documentary will present at Victoria Yards, an outside venue positioned at 408 North Tryon Avenue in uptown, on Saturday from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Doorways open at 6:30 p.m. and the movie begins at 8 p.m. Masks are required.

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