Theatre
African Diaspora Film Festival
In collaboration with ArtMattan Productions
Date: Friday, December 01, 2006
Time: 12:00PM - 10:00PM
Location: Riverside Theatre
12:00 p.m.
Nightjohn
USA, 1996, 103min, drama, English, Charles Burnett, dir.
Twelve-year-old Sarny is an ophan being raised by the resourceful Delie. Their lives are changed when John, a new slave, arrives to work the fields of the owner. He has returned from the north where he was a free man in order to teach his people how to read. "You get some words for yourself and you be free," he tells Sarny. She is an industrious little girl who practices her letters in the dirt and secretly reads the papers of the slave owner's wife. And by learning numbers, Sarny grasps the economics of slavery. A deeply moving film about black self-empowerment.
Part of School Program. This film is recommended for 6th grade and up.
Gen Adm. $8.
2:30 p.m.
Brooklyn Stories Program
NY PREMIERE
One More Try
USA, 2006, 25min, comedy, English, Patrick Ulysse, dir.
After years of disappointment, Adrienne, finally finds Mr. Right in JC. Although destiny brings them together, Kathy (JC’s fiancée) seems to send in their way, or so they think!
The Meeting
USA, 2005, 20min, drama, English, Jeremiah Jahi, dir.
Rodney, a loving family man goes to meet his father for the first time with the hopes of building a relationship and gets entangled in a drama of loss, anger and sexual orientation.
Bushwick Homecomings
NY PREMIERE
USA, 2006, 38min, doc, English, Stefanie Joshua, dir.
A documentary film which searches for answers to questions about a New York City neighborhood in the midst of rapid change. Bushwick, Brooklyn, synonymous with violence and having had one of the highest poverty rates in all of NYC, is now being developed for housing and is seen as an “up and coming” area.
Bushwick Homecomings is a documentary that touches on themes of gentrification, poverty and hope for the future.
Gen Adm. $8
Reel Talk: Q & A with filmmakers
5:00 p.m.
Afro-Cuba: Yesterday & Today
Introductory Music program by Afro-Uruguayan percussionist Fernando Nunez and friends
Followed by
NY PREMIERE
Where is Sara Gomez
Cuba/Switzerland, 2005, 76min, Spanish with English subtitles, documentary, Alessandra Muller, dir.
Where is Sara Gomez? is a rich, multilayered documentary about Afro-Cuban director Sarah Gomez who studied literature, piano, and Afro-Cuban ethnography before becoming the first female Cuban filmmaker. A woman of great intelligence, independence and generosity, she was a revolutionary filmmaker with intersecting concerns about the Afro-Cuban community and the value of its cultural traditions, women's issues, and the treatment of the marginalized sectors of society. Through interviews with her children and husband Germinal Hernandez we get closer to a filmmaker who invented new landscapes and brought together opposite worlds while at the same time we get exposed to contemporary Cuban society.
Shown with
The Last Rumba of Papa Montero
Martinique/Cuba, 1992, 52min, docu-drama, Spanish with English subtitles, Octavio Cortazar, dir.
A docu-drama about 1930’s Cuba and the life of Papa Montero, a famous Rumbero.
Reel Talk: Afro-Cuba, Yesterday & Today Gen Adm. $15
8:30 p.m.
NY PREMIERE
Sorry Ain’t Enough
USA, 2005, 121min, drama, English, Emily Blake, dir.
Set in present day New York City, Sorry Ain’t Enough is a powerful and thought provoking drama about three lawyers, Marcellus Clarke, Diata Jefferson and Vance Dickson, who share close personal ties, and are thrust into the forefront of a legal precedent setting. Through circumstance, revelation and diligent examination, these lawyers and their research team find themselves trying the case in favor of slavery reparations. Their efforts respond to the need for people of African ancestry placed at social, psychological and economic disadvantage as a result of the infamous Trans-Atlantic slave trade and its perpetual institutional oppression, to be repaired as many others have been for similar historical wrongs. This legal team takes apart the legacy of enslavement and any social ramifications, leaving no stone unturned and dismissing no opinion in favor or against reparations in their analysis.
Shown with
Slave Reparations: The Final Passage
USA, 2004, 28 min., documentary, English, John Eisler, dir.
It's a matter of mis-education and lack of understanding in both the black and white communities that hurts the current slave reparations movement. That's the message of this new documentary, which provides an historical background on the current controversial movement and answers the most often voiced arguments against the payment of reparations to African Americans through interviews with some of the movement’s most prominent proponents, including Prof. Manning Marable, Dr. Alvin Poussaint, Rev. Herbert Daughtry, Richard E. Barber, and others.
Reel Talk: Reparations: A Worthwhile Quest?
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