Join us at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memo rial Library for The 33rd Annual Black Film Festival! We present a selecti on of great Black Films and short documentaries before each film\, to cele brate and showcase Black art and life in America.
\nWe will be scree ning films each Tuesday in March showcasing different aspects of the Black experience! \;Movies will be shown in the Auditorium. \;
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Tuesday\, Mar. 1- Judas and the Black Messiah &\; Documentary: The Murder of Fred H
ampton
Rated R Runtime 2h 6m (2021)
\nFBI informant William O&rsquo\;Neal (LaKeith Stanfield) infiltrat es the Illinois Black Panther Party and is tasked with keeping tabs on the ir charismatic leader\, Chairman Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya). A career t hief\, O&rsquo\;Neal revels in the danger of manipulating both his comrade s and his handler\, Special Agent Roy Mitchell (Jesse Plemons). Hampton&rs quo\;s political prowess grows just as he&rsquo\;s falling in love with fe llow revolutionary Deborah Johnson (Dominique Fishback). Meanwhile\, a bat tle wages for O&rsquo\;Neal&rsquo\;s soul. Will he align with the forces o f good? Or subdue Hampton and The Panthers by any means\, as FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (Martin Sheen) commands?
\n\nRated R Runt ime 1h 8m (1971)
\nA 1971 American \;documentary film \;abou t the short life and death of \;Fred Hampton\, a young African-America n civil rights activist in Chicago and leader of the \;Illinois \; Black Panther Party. During the film's production\, Hampton was fatally sh ot on December 4\, 1969 in a pre-dawn raid at his apartment by the \;C hicago Police Department. The raid was revealed to have been organized in cooperation with the \;FBI.
\n\nTuesday\, Mar. 8< /strong>- Candyman (2021) &\; Documentary: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayar d Rustin
\nCandyman (2021)
\nRated R Ru ntime 2h 15m
\nAnthony McCoy is a visual artist who moves into a lux urious condo in Cabrini-Green with Brianna\, his partner and a gallery dir ector. Just as Anthony feels like his career is stagnating\, he meets Will iam\, an old resident of Cabrini-Green\, who tells him of the terrifying t ale of Candyman. Desperate to cling on to his relevance in the art world\, Anthony decides to utilize the grisly details of this tragedy to inspire his works\, unknowingly setting into motion another deadly cycle of violen ce.
\n\nBroth er Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
\nRuntime 1h 23m
\nDocumentary on Bayard Rustin\, best-remembered as the organizer of the 196 3 March on Washington.
\n\nTuesday\, Mar. 15 - Last Black Man in San Francisco &\; Documentary: The Strange Demise of Jim Crow& nbsp\;
\n\nLast Black Man in San Francisco
\nRated R Runtime 2h 1m
\nA black man who lives with his best friend and works in an elderly care facility dreams of living in the grand Victor ian house his grandfather built in the Fillmore District. Now a white\, af fluent area\, he is totally priced out of the neighborhood\, but it doesn' t stop him from dreaming in this drama about place\, identity and race.
\n\nThe Strange Demise of Jim Crow
\nRuntime 56m
\nThe film reveals how m any Southern cities were desegregated in a quieter\, almost stealthy fashi on with behind-the-scenes negotiations\, secret deals and controversial ne ws blackouts.
\n\nTuesday\, Mar. 22 \;- Soul &\; Documentaries: Last Breeze of Summer \;
\n\nRated R Runtime 1h 40m
\nGard ner is an average guy teaching music in middle school whose real dream is to be a jazz musician. When he finally earns the chance to perform onstage \, he has an accident that leaves him in a near-death state. As his soul i s scheduled to proceed to the afterlife\, he discovers that his body is st ill not dead. He escapes to a before-life place where he tries to negotiat e a deal so he could return to Earth&mdash\;before it's too late.
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This is a coming of age story about a young black girl. L izzy Davis\, a school Principal\, reminisces about her adolescence in Ranf ord\, Texas in 1957. As a result of the Supreme Court desegregation order\ , Ranford is about to integrate their schools. Her mother does not want he r to participate because of the protests and violence which erupted in Lit tle Rock\, Arkansas . Lizzy is smart\, ambitious\, bright\, outgoing and w ants to make a difference. Her first day in class shoves her into the host ilities of those not yet ready to integrate. Although difficult\, Lizzy de cides to return to the angry world which can fulfill her ambitions -- a wo rld where she must stand on her own.
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