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SUMMARY:Section C – The Black Church – 5:30-7 pm EST
DESCRIPTION:Clairesa Clay\, founder of Blerd City Con\, will host a Q & A with Stacey L. Holman \nThe Black Church: This Our Story\, This Is Our Song \nSeries Producer & Director: Stacey L. Holman \nDocumentary\, 60 min. \nThe Black Church\, a four hour PBS special\, chronicles the rich history of an institution at the heart of the African-American experience. Hosted by Henry Louis Gates\, Jr the series traces the origins of the Black church and explores the massive role it has played in history. Featuring interviews with Oprah Winfrey\, John Legend\, noted faith leaders and more\, the program is a reverent look at how the church has for generations used its power to uplift the spirit and bring about social change. The project also doesn’t shy away from the serious critiques many believe need to be addressed if the church is to remain relevant to a younger generation.
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/section-c-the-black-church-530-7-pm-est/
LOCATION:Kumble Theater\, One University Plaza\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reel Sisters 25th Anniversary Retrospective Weekend - Oct. 22-23, 2022
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SUMMARY:Section B – Red Pill – 3-5 pm EST
DESCRIPTION:*Red Pill \nProducers: Katie Rosin\, Tonya Pinkins and Paul Hsu \nDirector/Writer: Tonya Pinkins \n90 min.\, narrative \nHalloween weekend of the 2020 election\, six old friends ride into red country armed with humor and naiveté. When the meet an immovable force their plans are thwarted and their fight to win the election becomes a fight for their lives. Six progressives\, one deadly weekend. \n*Mature content and language.
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/section-b-3-5-pm-red-pill/
LOCATION:Kumble Theater\, One University Plaza\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reel Sisters 25th Anniversary Retrospective Weekend - Oct. 22-23, 2022
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ORGANIZER;CN="Reel Sisters of the Diaspora":MAILTO:reelsisters@yahoo.com
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SUMMARY:Section A – 2-3 pm EST
DESCRIPTION:Boxes \nDirector: Tyler Eaton Writer: Aisha Alfa \nnarrative\, 3 min. \nA comedy short about a multi-racial woman who refuses to choose just one box for her ethnicity. \n  \nAfro \nDirector/Writer: Jenn Shaw Producers: Jenn Shaw and YJ Meira \nnarrative\, 11 min. \nAfter multiple encounters with her bully and a little academic inspiration\, an African-American teen girl finally stands up for herself against classmates that question her cultural identity. \n \nNappy \nProducer/Director/Writer: Lydia Ann Douglas \ndocumentary\, 28 min. \nNappy is a documentary film that tells the story of 14 black women and girls who decided to stop straightening their hair and “go natural.”
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/section-a-2-3-pm-est/
LOCATION:Kumble Theater\, One University Plaza\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reel Sisters 25th Anniversary Retrospective Weekend - Oct. 22-23, 2022
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ORGANIZER;CN="Reel Sisters of the Diaspora":MAILTO:reelsisters@yahoo.com
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SUMMARY:Section D – The Sun Rises In The East – 6:05-7:40 pm EST
DESCRIPTION:Mary \nWriter: Michelle Renee Jackson Director: Michelle Renee Jackson \nProducer: Mark Herzog\,  Canyon Prince \n15 min.\, Narrative \nWhile speaking the actual words transcribed from Mary Armstrong’s 1930s U.S. Federal Writer’s Project interview about her experience with slavery as an African-American enslaved woman who loved to dance\, a modern-day and taciturn Custodian trails a Ballet Mistress and her company dancers’ rehearsals until his true identity is revealed. \n  \nThe Sun Rises in The East \nDirector: Tayo Giwa Writers: Tayo Giwa and Cynthia Gordy Giwa \nProducers: Tayo Giwa and Cynthia Gordy Giwa \nDocumentary\, 58 min. \nThe Sun Rises in The East chronicles the birth\, rise and legacy of The East\, a pan-African cultural organization founded in 1969 by teens and young adults in Bedford-Stuyvesant\, Brooklyn. Led by educator and activist Jitu Weusi\, The East embodied Black self-determination\, building more than a dozen institutions\, including its own African-centered school\, food co-op\, newsmagazine\, publisher\, record label\, restaurant\, clothing shop and bookstore. The organization hosted world-famous jazz musicians and poets at its highly sought-after performance venue\, and it served as an epicenter for political contemporaries such as the Black Panther Party\, the Young Lords and the Congress of Afrikan People\, as well as comrades across Africa and the Caribbean.
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/section-d-the-sun-rises-in-the-east-605-740-pm-est/
LOCATION:St. Joseph’s University\, 245 Clinton Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11772\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reel Sisters 25th Anniversary Retrospective Weekend - Oct. 22-23, 2022
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ORGANIZER;CN="Reel Sisters of the Diaspora":MAILTO:reelsisters@yahoo.com
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SUMMARY:Section C – 4:35-6pm EST
DESCRIPTION:Maternity \nDirector/Writer: Maria Warith Wade \nProducer:  Maria Warith Wade\, Rebecca Malaret\, Kendra Mitchell\, Kim Coleman\, CSA \n15 min.\, narrative \nWhen a second-time mother gets an unexpected complication postpartum\, she must fight to save her life in the fractured American health care system. \n  \nTarget: St. Louis Vol. 1 \nWriter: Damien D. Smith    Director: Damien. D. Smith \nProducers: Emma Jackson\, Damien D. Smith Sinclair Skinner\, Sarah Barnes\, Reesha Archibald \n59 min.\, documentary \nTARGET ST. LOUIS Vol. 1 tells the story of how the United State Military conducted secret chemical testing on citizens of St. Louis’s Northside. Told through the eyes of the survivors who bravely share their experiences of being unwitting test subjects. Long before the current scandal of lead poisoning of the water supply of Flint\, Michigan\, the United States Army conducted secret experiments on unknowing residents of northern St. Louis using toxic chemicals. The predominantly African American residents of northern St. Louis are the focus of this film.
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/section-c-435-6pm/
LOCATION:St. Joseph’s University\, 245 Clinton Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11772\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reel Sisters 25th Anniversary Retrospective Weekend - Oct. 22-23, 2022
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SUMMARY:Section B – Lecture Series – 3-4:30 pm EST
DESCRIPTION:Fashion Film: A Rising Genre \nPresenter: Sewra Kidane (Retrospective) \nSewra G Kidane joins Reel Sisters to host an intimate talk and presentation about the burgeoning Fashion Film genre. Usually shared with her Film + Fashion class she teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn\, NY\, Ms. Kidane will show a collection of her favorite fashion films while breaking down one of her own fashion films\, explaining along the way the structural makings of a fashion film. Guests of Ms. Kidane will also screen two of her fashion films “Proclamation Punctuation”; winner of Reel Sisters 2017 Best Experimental Short and “As Above.”
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/section-b-lecture-series-3-430-pm/
LOCATION:St. Joseph’s University\, 245 Clinton Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11772\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reel Sisters 25th Anniversary Retrospective Weekend - Oct. 22-23, 2022
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ORGANIZER;CN="Reel Sisters of the Diaspora":MAILTO:reelsisters@yahoo.com
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SUMMARY:Section A – 1-2:50 pm EST
DESCRIPTION:Rest Stop \nProducers: Jalena Keane-Lee and Brit Fryer Director/Writer: Crystal Kayiza \nOn a bus ride from New York to Oklahoma\, Meyi\, a young Ugandan American girl\, realizes her place in the world through her Mother’s ambitious efforts to reunite their family. \nVelma’s Journey: Life and Legacy of Velma Banks \nProducer/Director: Adjua Mantebea \nWriters: Adjua Mantebea and Velma Banks \n65 min.\, documentary \nThis documentary explores the work of Columbia University Professor of Social Work\, Velma Banks: Educator\, Visionary and Social Work Pioneer. With social work as a calling\, Prof. Banks has devoted her life to helping people evolve successfully into a society that deprives them of these values\, combining social work and culture.
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/section-a-1-250-pm-est/
LOCATION:St. Joseph’s University\, 245 Clinton Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11772\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reel Sisters 25th Anniversary Retrospective Weekend - Oct. 22-23, 2022
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