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 filmmakers.
For more information, including descriptions of each movie, go to BlackArtsAlliance.org.
THURSDAY, MARCH 18
6 p.m. Opening Night Reception with 2010 Distinguished Filmmaker honoree Scott Sanders.
7 p.m. “Black Dynamite”
FRIDAY, MARCH 19
6 p.m. shorts program – “Crossing the Sands” (by Sean LeSure), “The Late Mr. Mokun Williams” (Kenneth Price), “Slow Day at the Sportsman’s” (Roger Brown), “Sunday Evening Haircut” (Sean LeSure), “Children for a Day” (Glenn Pack), “Father’s Day” (Brian Rolling), “Queen Victoria’s Wedding” (B.J. Rouse) and “Empty Space” (Rob Underhill)
8 p.m. feature TBA
10 p.m. Coast Family “For Reel”! Jam with the Black Arts Alliance and Coast 97.3 FM.
SATURDAY, MARCH 20
10 a.m. Filmmakers’ Power Brunch
Noon: Going to the Show (interactive workshop, free)
1 p.m. Talent-Link Workshop (workshop, fee required)
2 p.m. Documentary shorts – “Can She Be Saved?” (by 2010 Emerging Filmmaker Yasmin Shiraz), “The Challenge” (by Spike Spillberg) and
“Gone but not Forgotten”(by Nakia Hamilton)
5 p.m. Documentary shorts –
“Rescue Men: The Story of the Pea Island Surfman” (by Allan R. Smith),
“An Interview with Joseph McNeil” (by Chris Mudarri) and “Wilmington Ten: Justice Denied … Lives Interrupted” (by Francine DeCoursey)
5 p.m. “Coming Correct,” feature by Joseph L. Stovall
SUNDAY, MARCH 21
2 p.m. “The Life I Meant to Live,” feature by Leander Sales
4 p.m. “Obama in North Carolina: The Path to History,” documentary by Cash Michaels
The Twin Cities Black Film Festival (TCBFF) exists to provide an opportunity for independent filmmakers of color in which to have their works showcased before the community, as well as, serve as an avenue of discovery for industry professionals seeking new talent worldwide.
The TCBFF is seeking bold, fresh and innovative films, documentaries, comedy, shorts, animations, premieres, romance, horror, sci-fi, etc. ( made by or about people of African descent & Multicultural films that reflect the black community depicting positive and realistic images)
Submission Dates: February 2010 through July 10, 2010
Entry Fee: $25.00 acceptable payments (check, money orders)
Click here to learn more about the TCBFF
Last week, Michael Martin interviewed Jefferson Pinder for our academic journal, Black Camera (printed by Indiana University Press). Pinder is a Washington based video artist who seeks to find black identity through the most dynamic circumstances.
Click here to learn more about Jefferson Pinter
Kaleidoscope from Jeffrey Pinder on Vimeo.
Awarded a 2009 New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities: New Perspectives grant, the Black Film Center/Archive will host a symposium entitled “Cinematic Representations of Racial Conflict in ‘Real Time’”.
The March 24-25, 2010 symposium will take in depth looks at two “classic” films of black cinema: Nothing But a Man (1964) and The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973).
The symposium will address two concerns: the strategies deployed in film to signify modes of political address and mobilization in “real time,” during a period of intense racial conflict in the United States; and the utility of revisiting cinematic texts for ideological accounts of historical activity.
The films’ political project offers a distinctive (and competing) ideological stance about the means of resistance to racial oppression, which in actuality reflected the mobilizing strategies of black militants at the time of the films’ release. The two films also address labor and gender relations among African Americans, the social experience of rural life in the South, and the moral and physical decay of urban spaces, especially in the inner cities.
A tentative list of panelists include: Thomas Cripps (Professor Emeritus, Morgan State University), Mark Reid (University of Florida), Ed Guerrero (New York University), Paula Massood (Brooklyn College), Terri Francis (Yale University), Fred McElroy (IUB), and Khalil Muhammad (IUB).
In celebration of Women’s History Month Iyàlódè (e-yah-low-day) Productions kicks off its 6th annual Women of Color Arts & Film – WOCAF – Festival, with a lineup of programs from Thursday, March 25 2010, -Saturday, March 27, 2010.
The program of events will include a lecture/discussion segment, film screenings of over fifteen films by and/or about women of color, Q & A with filmmakers and a visual arts exhibition. The music component of the festival has been postponed until later on this year.
Over the years, the WOCAF Festival has presented its film and visual arts festival in collaboration with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture & History (AARL) and this year it has expanded its community outreach to include films screenings at The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & museum (JCL).
The festival is free and open to the public.
Visit the Festival at a Glance Page for a detailed schedule of events.
The Black Film Center/Archive would like to thank everyone who took part in our week-long symposium From the Postcolonial to the Global Postmodern? African and Caribbean Francophone Filmmakers and Scholars in Conversation. The event proved to be very engaging and thought-provoking, and we hope those who participated were able to learn something new, contribute to the larger conversation, and create or strengthen relationships with other scholars and filmmakers.
Again, a special thanks to Gaston Kabore, Euzhan Palcy, Jean-Marie Teno, Jo Ramaka, Francoise Pfaff, Kenneth Harrow, and Akin Adesokan.
If you missed this wonderful event, don’t miss our next symposium, Cinematic Representations of Racial Conflict in “Real Time”, March 24-25.
On Thursday March 4th:
From 6:00-7:00 pm, we will have a reception for Gaston Kaboré, Euzhan Palcy, Jo Gaï Ramaka, & Jean-Marie Teno. From 7:00-9:30 pm, there will be a screening of their short films.
If you have yet to see the Black Film Center/Archive, this would be a great opportunity. It will also be a great opportunity to meet and talk with these wonderful directors.
Submissions are welcome for the Martha’s Vineyard African-American Film Festival. The submission deadline is May 31st, 2010. The festival will take place August 11th-14th, 2010.
The festival is produced by Run and Shoot Filmworks, Inc., a New York-based film production company credited with creating outstanding visual work for several clients including HBO, Martell Cognac, Reebok, NBC Sports and Footlocker. For the past three years, Run and Shoot Filmworks has produced the MVAAFF with the primary goal of providing a positive environment where filmmakers can share their thoughts, ideas and aspirations.
For more information.
To submit a film.