The Black Arts Alliance will present the North Carolina Black Film Festival, formerly Cine Noir, March 24-27, 2011 in Wilmington, NC. In its 10th year, the four day juried and invitational festival of independent motion pictures by African-American filmmakers will showcase features, shorts, animation, and documentary films. For more information: 910-431-9934
Events
The Healing Passage: Voices From the Water
Documentary Channel (DOC) will launch a new initiative in 2011 by showcasing the works of Black documentary filmmakers on the last Tuesday of every month in primetime. DOC is beginning the “Black Documentary Cinema” programming strand in collaboration with the New York-based The Black Documentary Collective (BDC) and the Los Angeles-based Black Association of Documentary… Read more »
From Slavery to Freedom: February 18, 2011
A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde
Date: February 12, 2011 Time: 11am Location: Washington, D.C. Price: Free A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde Ada Gay Griffin & Michelle Parkerson Producer: Third World Newsreel US I 1995 I 60 minutes I English A portrait of Audre Lorde, the eloquent, award-winning black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher, and activist,… Read more »
An Evening with Spike Lee: February 26
Save the date: Saturday, February 26, 7 p.m. Award-winning film director Spike Lee, among the best-known filmmakers today, will appear at IU Auditorium on Saturday, Feb. 26, as the signature event of ArtsWeek 2011. Lee’s talk will tie into the theme of ArtsWeek 2011, which is ArtsTeach…. Read more »
Museum of the Moving Image: A Black History Moment in Hong Kong Action Films
Above, Final Weapon. Right, Stephan Berwick. Screening & Live Event A Black History Moment in Hong Kong Action Films: Screening and Discussion With Martial Arts Pioneers Stephan Berwick and Mike Woods Part of Fist and Sword Sunday, February 6, 3:00 p.m. Stephan Berwick, a mainland-China trained martial artist, is one of America’s foremost practitioners of… Read more »
Artist & Influence Spring 2011
David Fludd, Visual Artist February 6 at 2PM Javaka Steptoe, Author-Illustrator February 13 at 2PM Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc. 491 Broadway, 7th Floor New York, NY 10012 Admission: FREE (no admission after 2:30PM) Artist & Influence is an annual journal published by the Hatch-Billops Collection in New York. Among other materials, Hatch-Billops houses an archival collection… Read more »
Reelout 12– Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project
Reelout 12 Queer Film & Video Festival January 27 – February 5, 2011 Kingston, Ontario, Canada Tuesday, February 1st, 7pm at the Etherington Auditorium Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project dir : Charles B. Brack 2008/ USA / 58 min Sakia Gunn was a vibrant, talented 15 year-old African-American lesbian when she was stabbed… Read more »
North African Film Festival 2011
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Helsinki African Film Festival
Helsinki African Film Festival 2011 is inviting young and emerging African filmmakers to submit short films of up to 30 minutes for the festival’s short film competition. To enter the competition, you must not have completed a feature-length film previously. The films entered in the competition must have been completed in 2007 or after. The… Read more »