BLACK WOMEN CINEMA WEEK 2020
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BLACK WOMEN CINEMA WEEK 2020 (BWCW2020)
November 9-13, 2020 *Virtual Event For CR8:BLK's 2nd Annual Black Women Cinema Week (BWCW 2020) we are doing something different. In lieu of the global pandemic of COVID-19, CR8:BLK is hosting Black Women Cinema Week 2020 (BWCW2020) online! A collections of short films will be a part of BWCW2020 and a special weekly online program that will air on CR8:BLK's website and CR8:BLK's Instagram account during November 9-13, 2020 FREE to the public. We are looking forward to connecting filmmakers with online panels, discussions, and workshops.
Follow @CR8BLK on Instagram for live updates! |
Schedule and Program for BWCW2020 "DEFINITION"
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CR8:BLK’s 2nd Annual Black Women Cinema Week (BWCW 2020) is about celebrating the voices of Black women artists from around the world and have them share how they define what it means to be Black woman artist (filmmaker) and how they want to define the work they create. This is an inclusive online event to celebrate the work of Black Women filmmakers and creatives. A collection of short films will be screened on CR8:BLK’s website www.cr8blk.org for BWCW2020 on November 9-13, 2020. Note: film screening links will be on the CR8:BLK website starting November 9, 2020 at 5PM Eastern Standard Time. Special guests Nadia Marie Sasso, Crystal Boyd, Jade Jenise Dixon, Iyadede, Akua Taylor, Esi Yamoah, and more along with filmmakers from BWCW2020 nominees! Follow @CR8BLK Instagram for live updates! |
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Day One
Nov. 9 , 2020 (Eastern Standard Time)
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Winner of the Keturah Caesar Legacy Grant for BWCW2019 Sewra G. Kidane
Proclamation Punctuation A fashion film centered on a fabulously fascinating woman reciting a short soliloquy paying homage to her love for using exclamation points in her missives. |
Winner of the Meridian Solution’s North Star Award Audrey Jai
Positive + A young woman learns that even though love may come easy, it doesn’t always stay that way. |
Day Two
Nov. 10, 2020 (Eastern Standard Time)
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- 5-10PM Part One of Definition: Online Screenings of Select Films
Run Directed by LaTrice Amanda Strong
Alek, a revolutionist, and a runner is charged with running and escaping the threats that are facing Blacks in America.
Remind, Remember Directed by Eve Sanford
Remind, Remember is a multidisciplinary work that serves as an exercise in shifting the internal voice. This piece is a celebration of cultural practice, healing work and grief. Through movement, sound, and design the collaborators explore our imminent proximity to death.
Price Check on Clearance Directed by Alexandria Davis
Experimental, Music Video, Web / New Media
Genesis Directed by Phillip Page & Written by Bethany Anderson
Genesis is an animated short film about being creative and loving what you create! Inspired by the book of Genesis.
Day Three
Nov. 11, 2020(Eastern Standard Time)
- 1:30-4PM Panel Discussion: “What it Takes to Make it-the resilience of a Black women artists” featuring Nadia Marie Sasso, Crystal Boyd, and More. Panel will be broadcasted on CR8:BLK's IG TV on Instagram.
- 4PM Online Performance by Iyadede will be broadcasted on CR8:BLK's IG TV on Instagram.
Day Four
Nov. 12, 2020(Eastern Standard Time)
- 1-3PM Discussion with Filmmaker Najma Nuriddin and Jade Jenise Dixon
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- 4PM Belly of the Beast Cuba Special Online Screening
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(WORLD PREMIERE )Distance Directed by Najma Nuriddin Fati meets Pascal in Jacmel, Haiti. This serendipitous rendezvous is short-lived once Fati returns home to New Orleans. Thereafter, distance becomes their relationship where Fati longs for Pascal's presence with oceans and borders between them. Crown & Confidence Directed by Bukky Adeyokunnu (For Viewing Password: Crown) Women embrace the unexpected confidence that comes after cutting their hair. I’m Press Directed by Emmanuel Fordjour & Written/Produced by Antaneise Henderson Presly Jones, a beautiful yet insecure environmentalist goes on her first date in a very long time. With the help of her best friends, Presly gets two ear fulls of advice during the date and soon realizes the extra assistance may be more problematic than depending on herself alone. GOALS N’ SHIT IS A COMEDY OF STRUGGLES Created by Alexandria Collins and Written/Produced by Alexandria Collins, Esi Yamoah, and Claytia Gonsalves Goals N' Shit follows Bispa, a woman that's JUST hit rock bottom. She's been spit on (literally), fired and broken up with -- and has never faced this kind of rejection in her life. |
Day Five
Nov. 13, 2020(Eastern Standard Time)
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- 4PM Part Three of Definition: Online Screenings of Select Films (Film Fatales)
- 5PM Responsible Filmmaking: Special Screening of the film "Dodzi" by Seraphina Ayettey and discussion with Beauty For Freedom Founder Monica Watkins
- 7PM Discussion Film Festivals and Distribution Resources and Closing of Black Women Cinema Week
Note: Film Screening Links will be on the CR8:BLK Website November 13, 2020 at 4PM Eastern Standard Time
Kokokids of Paris Directed By Alexia Colette
The smart and witty Chaya, 8, liberates the shy and curious Lou-Ann, 6, through dancing until their dreamy adventure in Paris falls apart because of the harsh and unseen reality of their surroundings.
Illegal Rose Directed By Deborah Riley Draper
A disengaged middle-aged nurse accidentally kidnaps a 9 year-old ICE Detention Center runway on the 4th of July.
Sunrise Directed By Jade Jenise Dixon
Love and good fortune seem to elude Taylor, until quieting her mind in the presence of the sunrise guides her to an enlightened perspective.