“I thought about following the activists – brave and admirable men and women…But I was more curious about the people who, in effect, wanted to kill me.” – Roger Ross Williams, Director/Producer, GOD LOVES UGANDA On Sunday, September 7th, at 3:00 PM, the Indiana University Cinema will present a free screening of GOD LOVES UGANDA,… Read more »
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Visiting Filmmaker Tunde Kelani Presents MAAMi Tonight!
At 7pm this evening at the IU Cinema, Director Tunde Kelani will present his 2011 feature film MAAMi. The screening is free and the film will be followed by a Q&A session with the filmmaker. During his visit to Indiana University, Kelani will also participate the workshop program, “Digital Paradox: Piracy, Ownership, and the Constraints… Read more »
Monday, March 18: Audre Lorde documentary and guests at IU Cinema
On Monday, March 18, the Black Film Center/Archive welcomes guests Drs. Marion Kraft and Dagmar Schultz to present and discuss the 2012 documentary, AUDRE LORDE: THE BERLIN YEARS 1984 to 1992. At 3:00 PM, Afro-German scholar and Lorde translator Dr. Marion Kraft will present a Jorgensen Lecture at IU Cinema to discuss her role in… Read more »
Baseball in the Time of Cholera + Sun City Picture House at IU Cinema Tonight
Tonight at IU Cinema, visiting filmmakers Bryn Mooser and David Darg will be present to introduce and discuss their 2011 film Baseball in the Time of Cholera along with Darg’s earlier film, Sun City Picture House. The free event begins at 7PM. The two will return to the Cinema tomorrow at 3PM as part of… Read more »
Sarah Fabio Exhibit
If you hear the word poet or poetry and as I do, imagine a pile of written words, placed at odd angles on a page, stanzas lacking punctuation, countless metaphors, its delivery silent to the ear, you have yet to be acquainted with the works of Sarah Fabio. Take a moment to listen to one… Read more »
“Two Tickets for Jihad, Please”: A Conversation with Parvez Sharma
Parvez Sharma is a filmmaker who made A Jihad for Love, a critically acclaimed documentary about Islam, told from the faith’s “most unlikely storytellers” – Muslims from the GLBTQ community. The film won Outstanding Documentary at the 2009 GLAAD Media Awards, and Best Documentary at both the Toronto Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and the… Read more »
Madeline Anderson & I Am Somebody
I really didn’t let gender and race issues bother me. I knew I would have trouble with both. I was determined to do what I was going to do at any cost. I kept plugging away. Whatever I had to do, I did it. –Madeline Anderson, from Reel Black Talk In 1969, Madeline Anderson was… Read more »
'Shirley Clarke’s Cool World' at the IU Cinema
Shirley Clarke’s Cool World, a series celebrating the filmmaking of Shirley Clarke, will screen three of the prodigious filmmaker’s features and host a lecture by Milestone Film’s Dennis Doros on Clarke’s contributions to independent cinema. The Connection (1962) will screen on Thursday, November 1st at 7:00pm, with Ornette: Made in America and Robert Frost: A… Read more »