Saturday June 4, 12 – 5pm Columbia College Film Row Cinema 1104 S. Wabash, 8th fl. Chicago IL Free and open to public Trikone-Chicago presents its annual arts festival: KalaKranti. This year we feature short films by and about queer South Asians. This selection of fiction, experimental, and documentary films covers issues of migration, race,… Read more »
Events
Indianapolis Museum of Art: Mr. Dial Has Something to Say
The fascinating documentary Mr. Dial Has Something to Say is currently showing at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibit Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial. The film screens in a continuous loop in the IMA’s Davis Lab until the exhibit closes on September 18, 2011. See trailers here, and here.
Filmmaker in Focus: Euzhan Palcy May 18–30, 2011
The Museum of Modern Art will feature the films of Euzhan Palcy during the month of May. Palcy (b. Martinique, 1958), who in 1989 became the first black woman director to have her work produced by a major Hollywood studio (with MGM’s A Dry White Season), explores themes of race, gender, and politics from a… Read more »
Freedom Riders: May 16th on PBS
Freedom Riders (2011), directed by Stanley Nelson, will be screened on PBS tonight. Check your local listings for times. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8CAKAXR-AM]
African Film Series @ Monroe County Public Library: Forgiveness
AFRICAN FILM SERIES Monroe County Public Library Auditorium FORGIVENESS Thursday, April 28, 2011 6:30pm-8:30pm FORGIVENESS (South Africa; 2005) Ian Gabriel [118 mins] English and Afrikaans Human Rights and Youth Jury Awards, Locarno Film Festival; Best Cinematography, Durban Film Festival Tertius Coetzee, a former policeman who tortured and murdered ANC activist Daniel Grootboom, has confessed and been… Read more »
New Federal Theatre Honors Sidney Poitier, Imhotep Gary Byrd, Ntozake Shange & Many Other Cultural Leaders: May 22, 2011
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes Features Classic Film Posters
Classic film posters featuring Lupita Tovar and Dolores del Rio are showcased at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, a center of Mexican American culture and arts seen adjacent to historic Olvera Street downtown Los Angeles Wednesday, April 13, 2011. With an exhibit that includes interactive materials, crosses, letters, paintings, a small canon and other… Read more »
Anthology Film Archives Presents United We Stand: South African Cinema during Apartheid
UNITED WE STAND: SOUTH AFRICAN CINEMA DURING APARTHEID April 7 – April 18 “Presented for the first time in the United States, this thoughtfully curated program by South Africa-based Trevor Taylor, US-based Seagull Films and UK-based Contemporary Films, offers an important, authentic, and in-depth look at South Africa under Apartheid. Deeply moving, and not to… Read more »
Helsinki African Film Festival: May 12-15 2011
Welcome to the 2nd Helsinki African Film Festival Following the success of the first HAFF, we are delighted to welcome you to yet another program of entertaining and thought-provoking films from Africa! This year’s festival theme is Women’s Voices and Visions, focusing on African women as directors, producers or leading actors. The program is diverse… Read more »
The Day Diplomacy Died with Bernie Dwyer: April 12 @ BFC/A
The Day Diplomacy Died Come see the film and meet the filmmaker. This new documentary by Bernie Dwyer and Roberto Ruiz Rebo exposes the story behind the lock up of 75 “independent” journalists, trade unionists, and librarians in Cuba in 2003 through the eyes of four ex-Cuban state agents working undercover. The mainstream media never… Read more »