Award-winning feature exploring domestic abuse through the chance encounter of two First Nations women from different worlds. Discussion with clips by filmmaker//writer/actor ELLE-MÁIJÁ TAILFEATHERS with ANDREW OKPEAHA MACLEAN (NYU FILM & TV). Moderated by ELIZABETH ELLIS (NYU History).
NOVEMBER 5 | L.A. REBELLION SHORTS
Selection of short films from the L.A. Rebellion film movement (1967-1989), followed by a discussion by JOSSLYN LUCKETT (Cinema Studies) and MICHELE PRETTYMAN (Fordham), scholar of African American cinema, visual and popular culture. Moderator: JON-SESRIE GOFF (The Flaherty).
OCTOBER 9 | TWO TRAINS RUNNIN’ (80 mins, 2017, Dir: Sam Pollard)
Screening of Two Trains Runnin’, about the search for two forgotten blues singers set in Mississippi during the height of the civil rights movement. Post-screening discussiion with director SAM POLLARD (NYU FILM & TV), producer BEN HEDIN, and anthropologist MAUREEN MAHON (NYU Music Department).
September 11 | ANIMATING THE TORTURE LETTERS: The Scars of Being Policed While Black
Screening and discussion of The Torture Letters (12:50 mins, New York Times, Op-Docs) with Director LAURENCE RALPH (Princeton University; Director, Center on Transnational Policing), author of The Torture Letters: Reckoning With Police Violence (University of Chicago Press, 2020). In conversation with Joan Morgan (Program Director, NYU Institute of African American Affairs & Center for Black Visual Culture) and David Dent (Journalism, Social & Cultural Analysis).