VENUE: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Langston Hughes Auditorium DATE & TIME: May 26, 2016, 6:30 p.m. ABOUT THE FILM: Sembene! tells the story of the self-taught novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembène, who fought–against enormous odds–a 50-year...
VENUE: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Langston Hughes Auditorium DATE & TIME: April 6, 2016, 6:30 p.m. ABOUT THE FILM: Back in 1989, the 16mm version of James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket received stellar reviews and awards. Honored at...
VENUE: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Langston Hughes Auditorium DATE & TIME: April 5, 2016, 6:30 p.m. ABOUT THE FILM: Jackie Robinson, a two-part, four-hour film directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon, tells the story of an...
VENUE: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Langston Hughes Auditorium DATE & TIME: Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 6:30 p.m. ABOUT THE FILM: This film chronicles the life of Rahsaan Roland Kirk, a one of a kind musician, personality, satirist and...
VENUE: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Langston Hughes Auditorium DATE & TIME: Wednesday, March 23, 2016, 2 p.m. ABOUT THE FILM: Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band is a documentary about a brilliant outlier, a woman who dared to live...
By: African Voices Magazine Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series will present a screening of ALTHEA, a documentary on Althea Gibson, the first African-American tennis player to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the 1950s. In honor of...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act AFI Silver's 2016 New African Films Festival kicks off later this month, running from March 11-18, at the historic AFI Silver Theatre, in Silver Spring, Maryland, showcasing the year’s best in African filmmaking. This year’s...
A little-known chapter of film history, the “race film” - funded, written, produced, directed, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color – flourished from the 1920s into the 1940s. Previously circulated only in poor-quality 16mm prints, these newly restored...
UPDATE: Winners marked in red Lauded by critics for its style, simplicity and genuine warmth, the Screen Actors Guild Awards® presented by SAG-AFTRA, which made its debut in 1995, has become one of the industry’s most prized honors. The only televised awards shows to...
Be Apart of the Action! Saturday, November 7, 2015 AMC Empire 25 Theaters 42nd street NYC Festival & Expo Passes Sale! *Celebrity Autographs must be purchased separately at their booth! *Note Entry to the UASE and participation in the Film Festival and Action Expo...
Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series is hosting the film PRIDE & GENDER: A FILM CONVERSATION On Thursday, JUNE 4, 2015 (6pm - 8pm) @ Kumble Theater / LIU Brooklyn Flatbush Ave. between DeKalb Ave. & Willoughby St. Brooklyn, NY Reel...
Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series is hosting the film Losing Ground Directed by Kathleen Collins, 86 min., USA On Saturday, March 28th at 5pm @ ImageNation's RAW SPACE 2031 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd. (121st & 122nd) New York, NY...