Black Film: Nontheatrical Black Film: Nontheatrical is a three-part series hosted by the BFC/A and the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive featuring archivists, museum specialists, and preservationists working specifically with nontheatrical black film collections. The series begins this week with a visit from Candace Ming, Archivist and Project Manager at the University of Chicago’s South… Read more »

What’s new at the BFCA?! It has been quite some time and lots of happenings, but one thing is for certain… We’ve missed you! We truly hope that this email finds you well and look forward to reconnecting with each of you! To start, we would like to virtually introduce you to our new interim… Read more »

Bridgett M. Davis to Visit: 25th Anniversary Screening of Naked Acts The Black Film Center & Archive is honored to welcome back multi-talented writer, novelist, teacher, and filmmaker Bridgett M. Davis on Thurs., Feb. 23. Ms. Davis is Professor of Journalism and the Writing Professions at Baruch College, CUNY, where she instructs classes in creative… Read more »

Race Swap film series at IU Cinema Unearthing early roots of Jordan Peele’s political horror film Get Out (2017), Race Swap presents three cult films which similarly explore and exploit racial ideology. Combination science fiction, horror, and exploitation comedy films, they play on the supposedly irreducible fact of racial groups and the disgust/desire to get… Read more »

Alice B. Russell Micheaux Memorial Campaign Alice B. Russell Micheaux was a pioneering film actress and film producer, as well as the widow of Oscar Micheaux, renowned African American filmmaker, and both were active during the silent era through the 1940s. Yet unfortunately, Alice spent her final years as a ward of the state suffering… Read more »

Dee Rees’s Eventual Salvation On Friday, November 10, the Black Film Center/Archive and the IU Libraries’ Liberian Collections present a rare screening of Dee Rees’s first documentary feature, Eventual Salvation (2008). This free screening will take place at 3pm in The Media School’s Franklin Hall Screening Room (304C). Founded in 1847 as a home for former… Read more »