Stop by the Black Film Center/Archive this weekend for two exciting screenings. On Friday, October, 14 at 2:00 pm, we’re wrapping up our Hispanic Heritage Month program with the 2005 documentary on Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez, Where is Sara Gómez. Watch an extract of it HERE. On Sunday,… Read more »
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Mamá Chocó: new Afro-Colombian documentary
This weekend on June 26, the BFI in London will be showing Mamá Chocó, a Colombian documentary that centers on Paulina, a mother of 26, who flees the war-torn, historically-black region of Chocó in search of a new home in Cali. The film screened in New York in May and is headed to festivals in… Read more »
Anthology Film Archives Presents United We Stand: South African Cinema during Apartheid
UNITED WE STAND: SOUTH AFRICAN CINEMA DURING APARTHEID April 7 – April 18 “Presented for the first time in the United States, this thoughtfully curated program by South Africa-based Trevor Taylor, US-based Seagull Films and UK-based Contemporary Films, offers an important, authentic, and in-depth look at South Africa under Apartheid. Deeply moving, and not to… Read more »
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 »