Will you be in Brooklyn from February 16-20? If not, maybe you should.
The ActNow Foundation, along with BAMcinématek and NYC Council Member Letitia James, present the five-day New Voices in Black Cinema Festival.
The festival features films that are certain to challenge blacks’ notion of identity, relationships, world-views, self-definitions, and self-presentations, along with Q&As with filmmakers at select screenings.
[sws_blockquote_endquote align=”” cite=”” quotestyle=”style03″]Offering filmmakers the opportunity to present their stories in New Voices in Black Cinema and in our home borough allows us to engage movie lovers from all walks of life with the diversity, inspiration, beauty, and complexity of films of the African diaspora. -Aaron Ingram[/sws_blockquote_endquote]
See the full schedule below:
Visit the ActNow website to view more trailers of films, read film summaries, buy tickets, and to learn more about the festival.
Everybody on Sundance. I’d like to see one of these films instead to be honest. Its like RED TAILS! All these black people are saying we got to support it cause George Lucas put up his money. But I bet the films at this featival had not a tenth of what he had and it came from the black community. White folks not giving these young folks no money. Why we not committing to supporting them the same way?
I hear you Dee! Tell’em.
I am not supporting Red Tails for sh*t! George Lucas, & Quentin Tarantino seem to be wetting black folk’s appetite with their ‘black movies’ and all they are doing it for is for the $$$. George Lucas isn’t putting up his money just like that for black folk? He wants to make his money too! When we could be supporting black filmmakers!
Exactly. Black people need to support black filmmakers and not just anybody trying to make money off of black people.
Black folks have a lot of stories to tell. So what if we don’t have enough money to tell the RED TAILS story today? Then what? Like Black folk won’t exist no more? I mean, every time some white man brings some money to make something they say is a black movie, we follow like sheep, why? Just cos he’s George Lucas?
There are so many pressing Black stories to tell right now. And the up and comping directors are doing it but black folk won’t support it. Stories like incarceration, poverty, drugs etc. RED TAILS is a luxury joint, we would like it but right now there are more important things.