Fountainhead® Tanz Theater presents the 25th Annual Black International Cinema Berlin: A COMPLEXION CHANGE – International & Intercultural Diplomacy The Magical Oasis Cinema Experience in cooperation with Commissioner for Integration, District Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Berlin Fountainhead® Tanz Theatre, Black International Cinema Berlin, The Collegium – Forum & Television Program Berlin, in association with Cultural Zephyr e.V. are… Read more »
Events
Tribeca Film Festival, April 21st – May 2nd
Get ready for the 9th annual Tribeca Film Festival! The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 in a response to the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Manhattan. Featured in the festival this year are Earth Made of Glass, a new… Read more »
Langston Hughes African American Film Festival, April 17th-25th, 2010
Spring in Seattle: Balmy and mild climate, abundant blooms on flowering trees and shrubs, and the annual Langston Hughes African American Film Festival. The LHAAFF provides provocative films from independent Black filmmakers and works about the African American experience. The festival features panel discussions, screenplay readings, matinee screenings for middle and high school youth and… Read more »
Denzel Washington and Viola Davis to Star on Broadway
Denzel Washington and Viola Davis are heading back to the stage where they will star in the Broadway revival of Fences. Washington will portray the role of Troy Maxson, a middle-aged sanitation worker and sharecropper’s son living in 1950s Pittsburgh. Davis will play his steadfast wife, Rose. The 13-week limited engagement will play the Cort… Read more »
17th Annual New York African Film Festival, April 7th to May 31st
New York City — The place to celebrate! The NYAFF kicks off their 17th annual festival today! The New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) was established in 1993 with our festival co-organizer, the Film Society of Lincoln Center. This flagship program of screenings and panel discussions was presented bi-annually until 1998 and is now an… Read more »
Maine African Film Festival, April 6-10, 2010
The Maine African Film Festival is a program of the African Cultural Foundation, a non-profit organization promoting cross-cultural literacy, communication, appreciation and understanding between people of post-colonial African culture and the non-African public. The festivities began last night, but you will be able to see films until Saturday night. The festival ends with a closing… Read more »
"France Noire/Black France" Film Festival, May 21-23, 2010
The “France Noire/Black France” Film Festival is a showcase for films that focus on the historical and contemporary experiences of people of African descent in French society. The festival seeks to bring into sharp visual relief the differing representations and lived realities of those who identify themselves and are identified as “Les Noirs de et… Read more »
Fondly Do We Hope… Fervently Do We Pray — Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
I (I meaning Leslie Houin, intern at the Black Film Center/Archive who manages this blog) saw the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s wonderful performance Fondly Do We Hope… Fervently Do We Pray in February at the Indiana University Auditorium. I would like to encourage others to see a performance of Fondly Do We Hope. … Read more »
Cinematic Representations of Racial Conflict in Real Time — March 24th and 25th
The Black Film Center/Archive will be hosting a two day symposium entitled Cinematic Representations of Racial Conflict in ‘Real Time’ which will examine two films – Nothing But a Man and The Spook Who Sat by the Door. The symposium will be held on March 24 and 25, 2010. Click here for the IU Newsroom… Read more »
2010 North Carolina Black Film Festival
If you are in the area of Wilmington, North Carolina during your Spring Break, you may want to visit the Cameron Art Museum. From March 18th-21st, the North Carolina Black Film Festival (formerly the Cine Noir Film Festival) will screen films, host Q&A meetings after screenings, and provide FREE workshops for the public and participating… Read more »