Tag: Film
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The Seeds Our Ancestors Planted online film screening
Join the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine for the virtual premiere of The Seeds Our Ancestors Planted, a short film that follows Arizona high-school student Kai Begay as he learns about a plant-based diet and joins a growing food renaissance across Navajo Nation.
A panel discussion will follow featuring filmmakers, producers, and local food champions who were featured in and created the film.
Register HERE for YouTube information.
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AfroMundo Film Series: Faith in Blackness
Faith in Blackness: An Exploration of AfroLatine Spirituality is a short documentary highlighting the spiritual experiences of AfroLatines of different faith traditions. How does Blackness play a role in their spirituality and vice-versa?
Centering the individual lived experiences of AfroLatines and their engagement to their Blackness, their faith, theologies, and spiritual traditions. Panel Discussion to immediately follow.
More info and trailer HERE. Register HERE. UpLift Chronicles article on the film series HERE.
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AfroMundo Social Justice Series: Liz Olivia Fernandez
Join AfroMundo at NHCC’s Wells Fargo Theater for a FREE screening of segments of two short documentaries featuring Cuban journalist and activist Liz Olivia Fernandez. Fernandez will be present, and will give a talk before the community discussion.
Register HERE. UpLift Chronicles article on the film series HERE.
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CANCELLED AfroMundo Social Justice Series: American Revolutionary
CANCELLED: Replaced by https://nmblc.org/events/afromundo-social-justice-series-fernandez/
Join AfroMundo at NHCC’s Wells Fargo Theater for a FREE screening of American Revolutionary, a film about the evolution of 98-year-old Chinese American activist Grace Lee Boggs. 7:00 pm film screening, with panel and community discussion immediately following.
“What does it mean to be an American revolutionary today? Grace Lee Boggs is a 98-year-old Chinese American woman in Detroit whose vision of revolution will surprise you. A writer, activist, and philosopher rooted for more than 70 years in the African American movement, she has devoted her life to an evolving revolution that encompasses the contradictions of America’s past and its potentially radical future. The documentary film, American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, plunges us into Boggs’s lifetime of vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century; from labor to civil rights, to Black Power, feminism, the Asian American and environmental justice movements and beyond. Boggs’s constantly evolving strategy—her willingness to re-evaluate and change tactics in relation to the world shifting around her—drives the story forward..”
More info and trailer HERE. Register HERE. UpLift Chronicles article on the film series HERE.
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AfroMundo Social Justice Series: Lead Me Home
Join AfroMundo at NHCC’s Wells Fargo Theater for a FREE screening of Lead Me Home, a documentary about homelessness in America. 7:00 pm film screening, with panel and community discussion immediately following.
“More than 500,000 people experience homelessness every night in America. Lead Me Home is a documentary short that tells a few of these real-life stories giving the audience a rare, in-depth look at the scale, scope, and diversity of what it means to be unsheltered today while calling into question uninformed attitudes and outmoded policies.”
More info and trailer HERE. Register HERE. UpLift Chronicles article on the film series HERE.
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The League, Negro League film documentary
Directed by Sam Pollard, Questlove, and Tariq Trotter! The League yells the tale of the Negro League in the first half of the twentieth century.
Showings August 12 through 14 (Saturday to Monday) at 3:30 and 8:00! $7:00 matinee, $10.00 evening shows. Don’t miss it!
“Directed by Sam Pollard (MLK/FBI), executive produced by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (Oscar-winning SUMMER OF SOUL), Tariq Trotter (DESCENDANT), and produced by RadicalMedia, THE LEAGUE celebrates the dynamic journey of Negro League baseball’s triumphs and challenges through the first half of the twentieth century. The story is told through previously unearthed archival footage and interviews with legendary players like Satchel Paige and Buck O’Neil – whose early careers paved the way for the Jackie Robinson era – as well as Hall of Famers Willie Mays and Hank Aaron who started out in the Negro Leagues. From entrepreneurial titans Cumberland Posey and Gus Greenlee, whose intense rivalry fueled the rise of two of the best baseball teams ever to play the game, to Effa Manley, the activist owner of the Newark Eagles and the only woman ever admitted to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, THE LEAGUE explores Black baseball as an economic and social pillar of Black communities and a stage for some of the greatest athletes to ever play the game, while also examining the unintended consequences of integration.” -Guild website
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The League, Negro League film documentary
Directed by Sam Pollard, Questlove, and Tariq Trotter! The League yells the tale of the Negro League in the first half of the twentieth century.
Showings August 12 through 14 (Saturday to Monday) at 3:30 and 8:00! $7:00 matinee, $10.00 evening shows. Don’t miss it!
“Directed by Sam Pollard (MLK/FBI), executive produced by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (Oscar-winning SUMMER OF SOUL), Tariq Trotter (DESCENDANT), and produced by RadicalMedia, THE LEAGUE celebrates the dynamic journey of Negro League baseball’s triumphs and challenges through the first half of the twentieth century. The story is told through previously unearthed archival footage and interviews with legendary players like Satchel Paige and Buck O’Neil – whose early careers paved the way for the Jackie Robinson era – as well as Hall of Famers Willie Mays and Hank Aaron who started out in the Negro Leagues. From entrepreneurial titans Cumberland Posey and Gus Greenlee, whose intense rivalry fueled the rise of two of the best baseball teams ever to play the game, to Effa Manley, the activist owner of the Newark Eagles and the only woman ever admitted to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, THE LEAGUE explores Black baseball as an economic and social pillar of Black communities and a stage for some of the greatest athletes to ever play the game, while also examining the unintended consequences of integration.” -Guild website
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AfroMundo Social Justice Series: Maestra
Join AfroMundo at NHCC’s Wells Fargo Theater for a FREE screening of MAESTRA, a 33-minute film about the incredible Cuban Literacy Campaign, narrated by Alice Walker. 7:00 pm Film Screening, Panel Discussion to immediately follow.
“In 1961, over 250,000 Cubans joined their country’s National Literacy Campaign and taught more than 707,000 other Cubans to read and write. Almost half of these volunteer teachers were under eighteen years old, and more than half were women. Narrated by Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker, MAESTRA (Spanish for teacher) explores the experiences of nine of the women who, as young girls, helped eradicate Cuban illiteracy within one year. Interweaving interviews, archival footage, and campaign photos, this lively documentary includes one of the first Cubans of her generation to call herself a feminist and one of the first openly proud members of Cuba’s LGBTQI community. With wit and spirit, all recall negotiating for autonomy and independence in a culture still bound by patriarchal structures. MAESTRA highlights the will and courage that made the monumental endeavor possible and the pivotal role of women’s and youth empowerment in building a new society.”
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AfroMundo Social Justice Series: Sister Doula
Join AfroMundo at NHCC’s Wells Fargo Theater for a FREE screening of Sister Doula, a film about the Black maternal health and infant mortality crisis. Panel Discussion to immediately follow screening.
“Black babies die at 5 times the rate of white babies. SISTER DOULA is the story of Hakima Payne, a nurse in Kansas City who tackles this crisis head-on, fighting to save Black babies by offering alternatives to the US healthcare system that surveils, criminalizes, and harms Black families. Mama Hakima is equal parts unapologetic truth-teller and wise-compassionate mentor. This is the story of the birth doulas she has mentored, who advocate for Black birthing people and work toward a future where all people will have equal access to thrive in pregnancy, birth, and beyond.”
Register HERE
