Nailah Jefferson’s powerful documentary Vanishing Pearls examines the effects of the oil and gas industry on a small African American oyster fishing community in Louisiana’s gulf coast. After a world premiere at this year’s Slamdance Film Festival, and theatrical openings in New York and Los Angeles, Vanishing Pearls will screen at the Indiana University Cinema… Read more »
New films
Third Annual Gary International Black Film Festival, October 18-20
This evening kicks off the Third Annual Gary International Black Film Festival (GIBFF) held at the Bergland Auditorium at Indiana University Northwest in Gary, Indiana. The mission of the GIBFF, as stated on their website is “To build community and culture through the experience of film.” The GIBFF website further stated: Our goal is to… Read more »
Fall Preview: BFC/A and IU Cinema Showcase Ava DuVernay + AFFRM
This September, the BFC/A will kick off our fall 2013 program with a seven-film series at the IU Cinema and other venues, featuring the work of Ava DuVernay and her pioneering theatrical distribution partnership AFFRM (African American Film Festival Releasing Movement). Named as one of Indiewire’s inaugural group of 40 Influencers, DuVernay is scheduled to… 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 »
March 4: THE HOUSE I LIVE IN with guest speaker David Kuhn
Grand Jury Prize winner of Sundance Film Festival 2012, The House I Live In will screen on March 4 at 7:00 pm in Jordan Hall 124. Co-sponsored by the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American institutions, the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, the Black Film Center/Archive, the Department of Criminal Justice,… Read more »
‘The Ugandan’ to Premiere in Boston
The Ugandan – a new film from director Patrick Sekyaya – will make its US premiere on Thursday, December 6th, at the Embassy Theater in Boston. The film chronicles several intertwined and complicated relationships that result from Idi Amin’s 1972 expulsion of Asians from Uganda. From the film’s synopsis: The Ugandan is a feature film… Read more »
2013 Sundance Film Festival Announcements
“Each year at this time we look forward with great anticipation and excitement to the discovery of new voices at the Sundance Film Festival…” announced Executive Director of the Sundance Institute, Keri Putnam, and 2013 is no different. With 12,146 entries, an increase of 429 films submissions from 2012, the Sundance programming team spent endless… Read more »
'The Boda Boda Thieves' Collects More Accolades and Funding
The Boda Boda Thieves, a film project by producers James Tayler and Wanjiku Sarah Muhoho with director Donald Mugisha, has turned heads at the Berlin International Film Festival’s Talent Campus. The film project, which will go into production in the coming months, won the Highlight Pitch Award at the festival’s Talent Project Market. Additionally, the… Read more »
6th Native Film Series at the IU Cinema
The BFC/A is cosponsoring the 6th Native Film Series at the IU Cinema this semester. The series kicked off last week with Andrew Okpeaha MacLean’s first feature On the Ice. As a surprise treat after the film, MacLean answered questions from the audience via videoconference. This Sunday, January 15, Melissa Bisagni of the Smithsonian’s National… Read more »
January 10 – LA PALABRA EN EL BOSQUE – Salvadoran Film @ IU Cinema
IU History Department professor Jeffrey Gould will present the documentary La Palabra en el Bosque (The Word in the Woods) at the IU Cinema on Tuesday, January 10 at 7 pm. Free screening followed by Q&A and reception.