PARTNER EVENT: San Francisco Black Film Festival
06-18-2010 to 06-18-2010
Location:
1330 Fillmore Street
San Francisco, CA CA
The San
Francisco Black Film Festival Presents: Films for Juneteenth. A collaborative
effort of the San Francisco Juneteenth Committee, Inc. and SFBFF12 will be a
supplemental, programmatic component to this year’s Juneteenth Celebration.
On Friday June 18th, SFBFF12 will host a day
of film screening at JHC’s Screening Room, in the Historic Fillmore
District:
Friday June 18, 2010
JHC's
Media & Education Center
1330 Fillmore
11:00am
Johnny’s
Leaving
Director:
Kali Baker-Johnson
Short |
USA | 8 minutes
'Johnny's Leaving'
follows titular star Johnny and baby brother Kevin who suffer from
violently
abusive parents. Moments before running away, Johnny is torn between
caring for
his younger brother, and following his dream to become a professional
superhero.
Abidjan
Director:
Alexander Etseystse
Short |
Cote d Ivoire | 30 minutes
A young soccer player is
taken
somewhere he never imagines.
DWB
Director:
Reed Jones
Short |
Canada | 6 minutes
Assumptions of control and
questions of
race on a dark city street, 'DWB' dramatizes the true story of racial
profiling
which occurred to writer/director Reed 'iZrEAL'
Jones. Crafting his personal experiences into a theatrical,
stripped-down look,
Jones presents an example of the conflict that can erupt when two white
officers pull over two black citizens.
Poetri-n-Motion
Director:
Deon Hayman
Short
| USA |
26 minutes
Where Comedy and
Poetry meet over a cup of coffee.
Fresh
Peas
Director:
Rebekah Meredith
Documentary
| USA | 4 minutes
FRESH PEAS is a short
documentary about
a struggling black California farmer who finds support for his produce
in an
unlikely place.
The
Rhythm, The Rebel
Director:
Gemal Woods
Music
Video| USA | 5 minutes
Every line's a line of HOPE
in the
music video.
2:00pm
Karma
Director:
Roger Slagle
Short |
USA | 16 minutes
Do unto others as they do
unto you...
or the KARMA's going to be all over you...
Flags,
Feathers, and Lies
Director:
Pablo Palacios
Documentary | USA | 80 minutes
Behind the luxurious
extravaganza of
the famous Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana, on the desolate back
streets,
devastated by Katrina, survives one of the most ancestral and hidden
celebrations of the African-American population: The Mardi Gras Indian.
4:00pm
Behold
The Swelling Scene
Director:
April Baskin
Shorts |
USA | 27 minutes
Hollywood
has stereotyped, typecast
and darn right blacklisted light-skinned Black males as players...not
all of us
are that way!
The
Good Fight: James Farmer Remembers the Civil Rights
Director:
Jessica Schoenbaechler
Documentary
| USA | 65 minutes
A relentless leader, a
dynamic speaker,
and a forceful organizer, James Farmer was one of the first civil rights
activists to use nonviolent direct action to fight for dignity and
justice.
6:00pm
Finding
Jacob
Director:
Brett Stumpp
Shorts |
USA | 23 minutes
Deeply affected by what was
taken from
him years ago, Jacob Brown's potential was never fully realized.
Now content with this meager existence, Jacob
is
challenged by a life he thought was beyond his reach.
The Wayman
Tisdale Story
Feature
| USA |
60 minutes
“You can never give
up because quitting is not an option. No matter how dark it is or how
weak you
get, until you take that last breath, you must fight.” -
Wayman Tisdale
(1964-2009).
7:55pm
Positive
Director:
Jamal Caesar
Short |
USA | 8 minutes
In search of his younger
brother, Tony
discovers something far more damaging than he ever could have
expected...
Suicide Dolls
Director:
Keith Shaw
World premiere | USA | 91 minutes
Two
lonely girls decide to chronicle their last 24
hours
before they commit suicide.
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For more information please contact:
JHC at info@jazzheritagecenter.org
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