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ImageNation’s Cocktails & Sol Cinema: Black Life Matters
November 19, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
ImageNation's
Cocktails & Sol Cinema: Black Life Matters
Thursday, November 19 / 7PM ET
APOLLO FILM PRESENTS
7 pm ET - Film Screenings
8:15 pm ET - Virtual Panel
Admission: Free - RSVP for the film to access the Q&A
Apollo Digital Stage
This year has been explosive in many ways. People across the world embraced the mantra Black Lives Matter, collectively mourned senseless state-sanctioned deaths, and are marching toward change. Black Life Matters is a deeply introspective celebration of Black life, a grappling with our challenges, and a declaration of a brand new day.
This collection of eight short films will be followed by a spirited discussion on cinema, filmmaking and the future of Black film. After the screening, stay for an in-depth conversation with several of the evening’s filmmakers who are some of today's brightest and innovative artists on the scene.
Black Life Matters, 68 min compilation, International
ImageNation, an innovative Harlem-based company, partners with the Apollo to present quarterly socials featuring premier and advance screenings of Pan-African films, preceded by a reception with a live DJ/performance, followed by a talkback. The series will feature soul cinema—smart films, primarily directed by people of color, that explore the history, examine social issues, and highlight the humanity of Pan-African people in the genres of drama, science fiction, animation, comedy, documentary, experimental, and emerging media.
Post film discussion immediately the film featuring the following panelists :
Nefertite Nguvu
Thati Peele
Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi
Marshall Tyler
Christine Turner
Shawn Batey
WHERE TO WATCH:
Apollo Digital Stage
Film Information
Click each individual film title to each detailed information about the short film and the director.
Director: Morgan Cooper
Film Type: Experimental
Origin: USA
Length: 3 min
Year: 2019
Synopsis
Dedicated to George Floyd, and the countless other victims of police brutality and systematic racism in America.
Director: Nefertite Nguvu
Film Type: Dramatic Narrative
Origin: USA
Time length: 14 min
Year: 2017
Synopsis
Displayed through a series of vignettes: connected memories and dreams, the film explores the psychic terrain of two people struggling to rebuild a marriage, marred after tragedy strikes. Ruminations on trauma, memory, survival, alienation, depression and ultimately resilience are intertwined in this story about the fragility and complexity of human relationships.
Director: Thati Peele
Film Type: Dramatic Narrative
Origin: South Africa
Time length: 12 min
Year: 2015
Synopsis
Happy, a caustic South African farm worker, battles the odds to get his daughter to a prestigious piano audition on time.
Director: Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi
Film type: Documentary
Time length: 10 min
Origin: Cuba/USA
Year: 2017
Synopsis
Internationally renowned, Jennyselt is a prestigious Afro-Cuban Folklore dancer who currently dances with the group Yoruba Andabo. She seeks her successor to keep the legacy of Afro-Cuban culture, dance, and religion alive. Jennyselt takes us to the side of Havana that is rarely seen by tourists, Juanelo, where there is a community project cultivating dreams and teaching the next generation of dancers. Who will she choose to keep the legacy alive?
Dance with Your Heart Trailer
Director: Marshall Tyler
Film Type: Dramatic Narrative
Origin: USA
Time length: 16 min
Year: 2019
Synopsis
In this award-winning film follows 15-year-old Manny Benett as he learns the hard way the price of being cool. Inspired by true events.
Trailer
Director: Christine Turner
Film Type: Dramatic Narrative
Origin: USA
Time length: 9 min
Year: 2017
Synopsis
Family bonds are tested when a young man is left to care for his grandmother one morning. Stars Bethann Hardison. Produced by Harlem filmmaker, Duana Butler.
Trailer:
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3835935001?playlistId=tt6127330&ref_=tt_ov_vi
Director: Terence Nance
Film type: Experimental
Origin: USA
Time length: 2 min
Year: 2014
Synopsis
After the deaths of Eric Garner and Mike Brown at the hands of police last year, the United States came together in protest against police brutality towards the African-American community there. “I can’t breathe,” the last words uttered by Garner as he was choked to death, and “black lives matter,” became slogans, hashtags and battle cries as activists took to the streets. In this film by Terence Nance, American civil rights attorney John Burris, calls on everyone – the economic community, the business community, the social community and the faith community - to do something about it. “The lives that have been lost are important lives and they should not have been lost in vain,” he says. Do something. Produced by the Blackout Film Collective.
Director: Shawn Batey
Origin: USA
Time length: 2 min
Year: 2020
Synopsis
100 Days of Protest is a passionate summary of the uprisings that followed the death of Mr. George Floyd.
Meet the Directors
Details
- Date:
- November 19, 2020
- Time:
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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Event Categories:
- Expired Events, Film