Synopsis: Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, this astonishingly powerful documentary is at once horrifying and exhilarating. Directed and produced by Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, Trouble the Water takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen.
Synopsis: In the controversial, original and provocative documentary Disappearing Voices – The Decline of Black Radio, director U-Savior Washington takes an unprecedented look at the rise and fall of an art form unique to America – Black radio.
The film is written and narrated by radio personality and historian Bob Law (Night Talk) and offers viewers a well-rounded discourse that looks at the impact of Black jocks not only on radio but on the very fabric of American life.
Replete with rare interviews with prominent figures in American society like Melvin Van Peebles, Rev. Al Sharpton, Gary Byrd, Chuck D of Public Enemy, Buddy Scott, Kae Thompson, Bobby Jay, Vy Higgensen, Stanford “The CutMan” Moore and Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets and with air checks by famous jocks like Frankie “The Love Man” Crocker, Enoch “The Dixie Drifter” Gregory, Jocko Henderson, Hal Jackson and Eddie O’Jay, Disappearing Voices does more than examine the factors that contributed to Black radio’s demise. It is an expose, a history lesson, a memoir and a source for solutions.
Date: Thursday, August 21, 2008
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: 451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets)
More info: Click here
Synopsis: A heady time of change and chains the 1960s was defined by a common effort to fight against injustice. And Chicago filmmaker Mike Gray was there using his camera to document the politics of the streets. AMERICAN REVOLUTION 2 is a rare cinematic treasure that captures the social upheaval that followed the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. From the riots that followed two disparate groups the Black Panthers and the Young Patriots (a group of poor Southern whites living in Chicago) emerge to unite against prejudice and injustice in their city. Gray s gritty no-frills style is spontaneous and purposeful suggesting a you-are-there quality that captures the excitement of the era. Shot verite style with no script hand-held camera direct sound and natural lighting the look is rough raw and real much like the city it depicted.
Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: 451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets)
More info: Click here
Doc Watchers Inc., a member-supported documentary film screening series in Harlem continues its film series Beyond Mugabe: A Celebration of African Leadership tonight.
Location: Shrine Bar and Restaurant, 2271 Adam Clayton Powell jr. Blvd. (7th Avenue) bet. 133rd & 134th Streets
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Synopsis: Faced with a drought that endangers the continuity of their people, Masai elders are convinced that they have been cursed by the Red God — the God of Vengeance. Following the death of the war chief, a group of adolescents must now cross over to adulthood, forced to quickly form a new generation of inexperienced but brave warriors. The young men must bring back the mane of a legendary lion, which appears at every critical period of Masai history to appease the wrath of the Red God and bring back the rains. The survival of their culture depends on this quest.
Here’s the trailer to Spike Lee’s upcoming WWII film Miracle at St. Anna. The film is about four black soldiers who are trapped behind enemy lines in Tuscany, Italy. It stars Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller, Matteo Sciabordi, John Leguizamo, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Valenti Cervi and Piefrancesco Favino. The film is set to be released September 26th.
To learn more about the movie, visit the official website by clicking here.
Inside the brick home on the corner sits a brave man. He once stalked Nazis across Italian hillsides, crunching through foot-high snow.
After his wife died, Joseph Stephenson moved in with his daughter here in Cheverly. He’s in the living room, his tall body covering the navy blue recliner. Sunlight bounces off the hardwood floors. Three of his grandchildren are in another room, and their voices swoop around and over him like birds.
“Say what?”
The grandchildren have just called out to him about bolting for the local swimming pool.
“Okay, be careful,” he yells out.
The old soldier is talking about the Germans and the bullets that came ricocheting down from the hills during the savage winter of 1944.
“The Italians were glad to see us,” he says. “They were glad to see anybody pushing at the Germans.”
Stephenson, 89, was a member of the highly praised, all-black 92nd Infantry Division. He was wounded that winter by a trip mine, and the explosion ripped into his thigh. He managed to come home, though, on his own two feet and carrying a Bronze Star. “For valor,” he explains.
Synopsis: This feature documentary discloses the ties between the Hip Hop Music community and America’s social and political policy in the last 30 years. This film illuminates rap’s birth during the aftermath of the Black Power Movement, and Hip Hop’s progression from block party music to having its lyrics debated in the halls of Congress. Letter to the President features Snoop Dogg, Jay Z, Ludacris, 50 Cent, Quincy Jones, Will i Am, Maxine Waters, TI, Russell Simmons, David Banner, Chingy, Colin Powell, Common, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and many others.
Synopsis: Chisholm ‘72 - Unbought & Unbossed is a feature length documentary about Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm and her campaign to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in 1972. Like her, it is fabulous, fierce, and fundamentally “right on.”
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