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CR8:BLK Black Women Cinema Week 2019 Schedule
Day One Oct. 21, 2019 7-9PM
Self-Care Dance Movement and Writing Workshop 7-8PM
Workshop Facilitator Binahkaye Joy is a DC-based writer and mother who finds creative ways to engage herself in her writing process through dance movement and self-care. She will facilitate a workshop including movement and writing exercises. Each participant of this workshop will receive a self-care bag and writing journal. Film screenings will follow the workshop.
Films Screening: 8-9PM with Panel Discussion
CRITICAL MISSING by Cynthia Dorsey
Critical Missing chronicles the life of thirteen-year-old Nisha before she is abducted and sold into a sex trafficking ring.
THEM by Okema T. Moore
Upon the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter fight to reprogram themselves after a long hiatus, which has forced them to acknowledge the generational curse of fractured maternal relationships in their family. Will the cycle stop here?
The New Mother by Eleva Singleton
The New Mother is a short experimental drama which explores the delicate paradigm shift between an aging mother and her adult daughter who becomes her caregiver. The film explores the stages of grief/acceptance/understanding/and new beginnings in this suspenseful psychological silent film.
Light in Dark Places by Lagueria Davis
A mother makes a shocking discovery when she’s left to pack up her daughter’s house after a tragic car accident.
Black Korea by Christine Swanson
The story is set in the late 80's in Chicago. Two children, born to a Korean mother, and African-American father are forced to live with the tangled consequences of their parents decisions, while struggling to traverse new life in the Windy City.
Self-Care Dance Movement and Writing Workshop 7-8PM
Workshop Facilitator Binahkaye Joy is a DC-based writer and mother who finds creative ways to engage herself in her writing process through dance movement and self-care. She will facilitate a workshop including movement and writing exercises. Each participant of this workshop will receive a self-care bag and writing journal. Film screenings will follow the workshop.
Films Screening: 8-9PM with Panel Discussion
CRITICAL MISSING by Cynthia Dorsey
Critical Missing chronicles the life of thirteen-year-old Nisha before she is abducted and sold into a sex trafficking ring.
THEM by Okema T. Moore
Upon the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter fight to reprogram themselves after a long hiatus, which has forced them to acknowledge the generational curse of fractured maternal relationships in their family. Will the cycle stop here?
The New Mother by Eleva Singleton
The New Mother is a short experimental drama which explores the delicate paradigm shift between an aging mother and her adult daughter who becomes her caregiver. The film explores the stages of grief/acceptance/understanding/and new beginnings in this suspenseful psychological silent film.
Light in Dark Places by Lagueria Davis
A mother makes a shocking discovery when she’s left to pack up her daughter’s house after a tragic car accident.
Black Korea by Christine Swanson
The story is set in the late 80's in Chicago. Two children, born to a Korean mother, and African-American father are forced to live with the tangled consequences of their parents decisions, while struggling to traverse new life in the Windy City.
Day Two Oct. 22, 2019 7-9PM
Documentary Films Screening: 7-9PM
With Panel Discussion & After Party Networking
Mr. Gele: The Man. The Story. The Craft by Gladys Edeh
A documentary profiling the intriguing life of Mr. Segun Gele, a Master craftsman of the African Headwrap, also known as the Gele.
Lugha Ya Mama by Mary Nyambura
Lugha ya mama is a timeless story which explores motherhood, life, and wisdom through the gaze of five women. Lugha ya mama means the language of Mothers in Kiswahili.
Birth!Place? by Tanya Upshur
A documentary using video diaries, archival material and interviews Birth! Place? Is an intimate story told through the lens of a Black mother who opts out of the more widely used maternal healthcare system in her community. The film also illustrates how affordable housing is essential to maternal health and achieving reproductive justice.
State of Independence by Erica Mann
An intimate documentary short following DJ Ghanaian-American Gabrielle Kwarteng. With the backdrop of Paris, London, and New York City, the film is a personal look into her beginnings as a music curator and how she is breaking the mold and defining her own life path through her art.
*Panel Discussion and Special Premiere of
Harriet Tubman Haiku with filmmaker Nadine M. Patterson
Documentary Films Screening: 7-9PM
With Panel Discussion & After Party Networking
Mr. Gele: The Man. The Story. The Craft by Gladys Edeh
A documentary profiling the intriguing life of Mr. Segun Gele, a Master craftsman of the African Headwrap, also known as the Gele.
Lugha Ya Mama by Mary Nyambura
Lugha ya mama is a timeless story which explores motherhood, life, and wisdom through the gaze of five women. Lugha ya mama means the language of Mothers in Kiswahili.
Birth!Place? by Tanya Upshur
A documentary using video diaries, archival material and interviews Birth! Place? Is an intimate story told through the lens of a Black mother who opts out of the more widely used maternal healthcare system in her community. The film also illustrates how affordable housing is essential to maternal health and achieving reproductive justice.
State of Independence by Erica Mann
An intimate documentary short following DJ Ghanaian-American Gabrielle Kwarteng. With the backdrop of Paris, London, and New York City, the film is a personal look into her beginnings as a music curator and how she is breaking the mold and defining her own life path through her art.
*Panel Discussion and Special Premiere of
Harriet Tubman Haiku with filmmaker Nadine M. Patterson
Day Three Oct. 23, 2019 7-9PM
Short Film Screenings: 7-9PM with Panel Discussion & Music Showcase
Seeping blue by Deja Gordon
A suicide prevention hotline worker ends up receiving help from the other end of the line
Peace by Sydney Hefflin
Charles “Chuck” Boyce sits in a hospital room suffering from hallucinations from terminal cancer. He's trying to decipher between what's real and what isn't.
I Am Not What You Think by Kia Pooler
A Montage film that dives into police brutality against young black males in America, starring two carefree black boys trying to live their unapologetic lives, but society stifles them.
Jabari Keating by Stacey Larkins
Upon making a life altering decision, Jabari Keating is a candid first person narrative film that explores his personal reflections, life experiences and trials and tribulations as an African American in present day America.
Positive + by Audrey Jai
Jay learns that love may come easy, but it doesn’t always stay that way.
Akinyi and Yvonne by Elizabeth Chatelain
Two law students, Akinyi and Yvonne, deconstruct women's roles in academia, dating fetishes, and the age old debate of tampons vs pads.
Blue Before Gray by Phallon Beckham
Set in a Baltimore City neighborhood in the early 2000’s. Tim Jones, a working class single father returns home in the wee hours of the night to his sleeping children. Stressed by the inequities of his life, he drinks to dull his pain. He later discovers that his 11-year-old daughter has witnessed his behavior and he is caught in a vulnerable state. Tim’s blinded rage prevents him from seeing the destruction his actions cause his family.
Meditations: Death, Life, After-life by Marianne Verrone
In a society structured by anti-Black death and violence, this project suggests the possibilities of Black resurrection and immortality through the lens of Black feminist metaphysics. Presented as a triad of poetics and 16mm film visuals, this piece explores Black women's fluctuations between death, life, and after-life.
Who is the man ? by Rosine KABORé
Aya and Mehdi, a young couple, are attacked one night at the corner of a street by three men. The next day, Mehdi tells his friends how he beat the attackers, when it did not really happen as he claims.
Proclamation Punctuation by Sewra G Kidane
“Proclamation Punctuation” is an enthralling fashion film centered on a fabulously fascinating woman reciting a short soliloquy paying homage to her love for using exclamation points in her missives.
Let Go by Cynthia Cherry
A husband comes home to what he thinks is another great day only to find his wife completely gone.
Generation by Pamela Woolford
An elderly narrator revisits her youth, telling the story of her sister Mable, a poor farm girl who reads classic literature to their abusive father, struggling mother, and family of seven brothers and sisters, helping to forge a new existence for them for generations to come.
Short Film Screenings: 7-9PM with Panel Discussion & Music Showcase
Seeping blue by Deja Gordon
A suicide prevention hotline worker ends up receiving help from the other end of the line
Peace by Sydney Hefflin
Charles “Chuck” Boyce sits in a hospital room suffering from hallucinations from terminal cancer. He's trying to decipher between what's real and what isn't.
I Am Not What You Think by Kia Pooler
A Montage film that dives into police brutality against young black males in America, starring two carefree black boys trying to live their unapologetic lives, but society stifles them.
Jabari Keating by Stacey Larkins
Upon making a life altering decision, Jabari Keating is a candid first person narrative film that explores his personal reflections, life experiences and trials and tribulations as an African American in present day America.
Positive + by Audrey Jai
Jay learns that love may come easy, but it doesn’t always stay that way.
Akinyi and Yvonne by Elizabeth Chatelain
Two law students, Akinyi and Yvonne, deconstruct women's roles in academia, dating fetishes, and the age old debate of tampons vs pads.
Blue Before Gray by Phallon Beckham
Set in a Baltimore City neighborhood in the early 2000’s. Tim Jones, a working class single father returns home in the wee hours of the night to his sleeping children. Stressed by the inequities of his life, he drinks to dull his pain. He later discovers that his 11-year-old daughter has witnessed his behavior and he is caught in a vulnerable state. Tim’s blinded rage prevents him from seeing the destruction his actions cause his family.
Meditations: Death, Life, After-life by Marianne Verrone
In a society structured by anti-Black death and violence, this project suggests the possibilities of Black resurrection and immortality through the lens of Black feminist metaphysics. Presented as a triad of poetics and 16mm film visuals, this piece explores Black women's fluctuations between death, life, and after-life.
Who is the man ? by Rosine KABORé
Aya and Mehdi, a young couple, are attacked one night at the corner of a street by three men. The next day, Mehdi tells his friends how he beat the attackers, when it did not really happen as he claims.
Proclamation Punctuation by Sewra G Kidane
“Proclamation Punctuation” is an enthralling fashion film centered on a fabulously fascinating woman reciting a short soliloquy paying homage to her love for using exclamation points in her missives.
Let Go by Cynthia Cherry
A husband comes home to what he thinks is another great day only to find his wife completely gone.
Generation by Pamela Woolford
An elderly narrator revisits her youth, telling the story of her sister Mable, a poor farm girl who reads classic literature to their abusive father, struggling mother, and family of seven brothers and sisters, helping to forge a new existence for them for generations to come.
Day Four Oct. 24, 2019 6-9PM
*Acting Workshop 6-7PM
New Negress Film Society Presentation 7-9PM
Giverny I (NÉGRESSE IMPÉRIALE)
Director: Ja’Tovia Gary
Synopsis: Set against the backdrop of the West's historical and contemporary artistic canon — this filmic collage shot on location in Claude Monet's garden in Giverny, France, aims to examine the precarity of Black women’s bodily integrity, the ethics of care as resistance work, and how violence pervades across hierarchical class structures.
Seventh Grade
Director: Stefani Saintonge
Synopsis: When a raunchy rumor threatens her best friend's reputation, a girl is forced to embrace adolescence.
Everybody Dies!
Director: Nuotama Bodomo
Synopsis: In this public access TV show, Ripa the Grim Reaper teaches black kids about the day they'll die.
195 Lewis, Episode 1
Director: Chanelle Aponte Pearson
Synopsis: 195 Lewis is a dramatic comedy series about a group of friends navigating the realities of being, black, queer, and polyamorous in Brooklyn, NY.
Fucked Like a Star
Synopsis: A poetic meditation on women’s work and the dreamlife of ants set to the words of Toni Morrison.
Flowers
Directors: Yvonne M. Shirley & Nikyatu Jusu
Synopsis: When Brooklyn teens Mya and Erin seek revenge on a teacher, their well calculated plans quickly spiral out of control.
An Ecstatic Experience
Director: Ja’Tovia Gary
Synopsis: A meditative invocation on transcendence as a means of restoration.
Afronauts
Director: Nuotama Bodomo
Synopsis: It's July 16, 1969: America is preparing to launch Apollo 11. Thousands of miles away, the Zambia Space Academy hopes to beat America to the moon in this film inspired by true events.
*Acting Workshop 6-7PM
New Negress Film Society Presentation 7-9PM
Giverny I (NÉGRESSE IMPÉRIALE)
Director: Ja’Tovia Gary
Synopsis: Set against the backdrop of the West's historical and contemporary artistic canon — this filmic collage shot on location in Claude Monet's garden in Giverny, France, aims to examine the precarity of Black women’s bodily integrity, the ethics of care as resistance work, and how violence pervades across hierarchical class structures.
Seventh Grade
Director: Stefani Saintonge
Synopsis: When a raunchy rumor threatens her best friend's reputation, a girl is forced to embrace adolescence.
Everybody Dies!
Director: Nuotama Bodomo
Synopsis: In this public access TV show, Ripa the Grim Reaper teaches black kids about the day they'll die.
195 Lewis, Episode 1
Director: Chanelle Aponte Pearson
Synopsis: 195 Lewis is a dramatic comedy series about a group of friends navigating the realities of being, black, queer, and polyamorous in Brooklyn, NY.
Fucked Like a Star
Synopsis: A poetic meditation on women’s work and the dreamlife of ants set to the words of Toni Morrison.
Flowers
Directors: Yvonne M. Shirley & Nikyatu Jusu
Synopsis: When Brooklyn teens Mya and Erin seek revenge on a teacher, their well calculated plans quickly spiral out of control.
An Ecstatic Experience
Director: Ja’Tovia Gary
Synopsis: A meditative invocation on transcendence as a means of restoration.
Afronauts
Director: Nuotama Bodomo
Synopsis: It's July 16, 1969: America is preparing to launch Apollo 11. Thousands of miles away, the Zambia Space Academy hopes to beat America to the moon in this film inspired by true events.
Day Five Oct 25, 2019 7-9PM
Producing Workshop & Web Series Screenings and Panel Discussion 7-9PM
Producer Workshop: will explore producing independent films and focus in particular on web series. Approximately 40 minutes, starting at 7pm.
Web Series Screenings:
The Next Right Thing by Stori Ayers, Dionna McMillian, Kenzie Ross
Best friends Claire and De’Adra embark on a journey to live their best lives. Yet each time they try to move one step closer to the women they want to be, they find themselves only able to do “The Next Right Thing” one mishap at a time.
Top 5 by Cassidy Dixon
An ambitious college freshman, at the HBCU Jemison College, encounters five groundbreaking juniors who are forces of their own but a movement when together.
Learn How To Marry Me by Rae Ashe
Women changing the dating game, one lesson at a time. Find out what some of these accomplished women are expecting from potential suitors.
Panel discussion will follow after the screenings and the winner of the Keturah Caesar Legacy Grant will be announced.
Producing Workshop & Web Series Screenings and Panel Discussion 7-9PM
Producer Workshop: will explore producing independent films and focus in particular on web series. Approximately 40 minutes, starting at 7pm.
Web Series Screenings:
The Next Right Thing by Stori Ayers, Dionna McMillian, Kenzie Ross
Best friends Claire and De’Adra embark on a journey to live their best lives. Yet each time they try to move one step closer to the women they want to be, they find themselves only able to do “The Next Right Thing” one mishap at a time.
Top 5 by Cassidy Dixon
An ambitious college freshman, at the HBCU Jemison College, encounters five groundbreaking juniors who are forces of their own but a movement when together.
Learn How To Marry Me by Rae Ashe
Women changing the dating game, one lesson at a time. Find out what some of these accomplished women are expecting from potential suitors.
Panel discussion will follow after the screenings and the winner of the Keturah Caesar Legacy Grant will be announced.
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