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8th Annual Black Film Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 23, 2012



8th Annual Black Film
Festival – Nov. 7, 8, 9 & 10



CONTACT: Brenda Simmons
(631) 283-5072/873-7362 or info@aamee.org

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ATTACHED PHOTO: “Central Park Five” a documentary by Sarah and Ken
Burns will be featured at the 8th Annual Black Film Festival.



The African American Museum
of the East End presents the 8th Annual
Black Film Festival taking place over 4 days on November 7th,
8th, 9th & 10th.  Please note the
different locations for each event.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7th - OPENING NIGHT SCREENING

LOCATION:  Southampton
Cultural Center,
25 Pond Lane,
Southampton


TIME: 6:30 pm - 9 pm

FEE:  Free admission



DESCRIPTION:  The African American Museum of the East End presents the 8th Annual
BLACK FILM FESTIVAL with a screening of “Central Park Five” a documentary
by Sarah and Ken Burns. A panel discussion will include Yusef Salaam, one of
the Central Park Five; Dr. Anael Alston, former NYS Principal of the Year and
award winning educator; Rev. Kirk Lyons, Sr., founder and Senior Servant Leader
of BROTHERS KEEPERS; Kyle Braunskill, director of Safe Harbor
(Prison) Mentoring; Audrey Gaines, licensed clinical social worker.



FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8th – SPOKEN WORD/LIVE JAZZ

LOCATION:  Southampton
Cultural Center,
25 Pond Lane,
Southampton


TIME:  7 pm - 9 pm

FEE:  $20 per person



DESCRIPTION:  African American Museum
of the East End presents the 8th Annual
BLACK FILM FESTIVAL presents Charles Certain of Certain Moves who
will rocks the house with jazz, rock, funk and R&B with everything in
between - all with a smooth jazz twist. Guest jazz performer Sheree Elder along
with guest poets will perform at the Southampton
Cultural Center
between 7 and 9 pm. Admission is $20 per person and help fund the annual Black
Film Festival.



SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9th – ALL DAY FILM FESTIVAL

LOCATION:  Stony Brook Southampton Campus, Duke Lecture Hall, 239 Montauk Hwy, Southampton

TIME:   Films begin at 11 am and end at 6pm, see schedule below

FEE:  Free admission



DESCRIPTION:  The African American Museum of the East End
presents the 8th Annual BLACK FILM FESTIVAL with five
feature films: BEAT THE DRUM, about an orphan in Africa whose journey
confronts him with urban life; BEAST OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, a six year
old in the Bayou learns the ways of the world; TUG O WAR, a short film
by KareemaBee, the 2013 scholarship recipient at Stony Brook Southampton; ROOTS
a segment from author Alex Haley's 1976 novel; and I AM SLAVE, a 12
year old girl sold into slavery.



SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10th – FINALE - 8TH ANNUAL BLACK FILM



LOCATION:  Southampton
Center, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton


TIME:  2:00 pm

FEE:  Free Admission



DESCRIPTION:
 The American Museum of the East End
presents the 8th Annual BLACK FILM FESTIVAL with two
films. WORLD PREMIERE! Academy award-winning producer/director Nigel Nobel presents Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall, a documentary that breaks through the walls of one of
America’s
oldest maximum security prisons to tell the story of the final months in the
life of a terminally ill prisoner. Voices of Sarafina! (1988) is a
documentary film made with members of the young South African cast and based on
the 1987 Lincoln Center Theater/Broadway musical “Sarafina!”



More about the films shown on Saturday, November 9th



11:00 am to 1:00 pm



Beat the Drum (2003)



Young Musa is orphaned after a mysterious illness strikes his village in KwaZulu-Natal. To help
his grandmother, Musa sets out for Johannesburg
with his father's last gift, a tribal drum, in search of work and his uncle.
The journey confronts him with the stark realities of urban life, but his
indomitable spirit never wavers; he returns with a truth and understanding his
elders have failed to grasp. Director David Hickson; writer David McBrayer.



1:15 to 2:50 pm



Beast of the Southern Wild (2012)



Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps
that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs,
six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love. Director Benh
Zeitlin; Producer Josh Penn.



3:00 to 3:10 pm



Tug O War (2013)



Short film written, directed, edited by KareemaBee, the 2013 scholarship
recipient for the 20/20/20 film program at Stony Brook Southampton in
association with Killer Films (Christine Vachon).



3:15 to 4:30 pm



“Roots” season 1, part 2 (1977)



Emmy award winning dramatization of author Alex Haley's 1976 novel, “Roots:
The Saga of an American Family” that aired over 7 consecutive nights on ABC-TV.
This episode was directed by John Erman and features Tina Andrews as Aurelia,
Kunta Kinte’s girlfriend.



A Q&A follows with director John Erman and Tina Andrews (actress who
played Kunta Kinte’s girlfriend).



4:45 to 6:00 pm



I Am Slave (2010)



A thriller based on the real-life experiences of Mende Nazer who was
abducted at age 12 from her village in the Sudan and sold into the slavery,
first to a woman in Khartoum, then sent to in London where she begins her fight
for freedom. Director
Gabriel Range;
Screenwriter Jeremy Brock



Funding for the 2013 8th Annual Black Film Festival was made
possible in part by Suffolk County Community Development, Stony Brook
Southampton and the Town of Southampton.
Special thanks to Southampton Cultural Center,
The Innocence Project and the Village
of Southampton.



More about the films shown on Sunday, November 10th



2:00 pm to 2:40 pm



Prison Terminal: The Last Days
of Private Jack Hall (2013)



WORLD PRIEMER! This is a moving
cinema verité documentary that breaks through the walls of one of America’s
oldest maximum security prisons to tell the story of the final months in the
life of a terminally ill prisoner, Jack Hall and the hospice volunteers, they
themselves prisoners, who care for him. Prison Terminal: The Last Days of
Private Jack Hall draws from footage shot over a six-month period behind the
walls of the Iowa State Penitentiary and provides a fascinating and often
poignant account of how the hospice experience can profoundly touch even the
forsaken lives of the incarcerated. The Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences' documentary branch selected a
short list of eight documentary short films that will compete for the 86th
Academy Awards in 2014 and Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
is on the short-list.



 2:45pm to 4:10pm



Voices
of Sarafina! (1988)
is a
documentary film made with members of the young South African cast and based on
the 1987 Lincoln Center Theater/Broadway musical “Sarafina!” The musical play
retold the causes and the story of what is now known as the Soweto Uprising,
June 16, 1976, a series of protests led by high school students in the streets
of Soweto. The
peaceful protest began in a response to the introduction of Afrikaans as the
medium of instruction in township schools. An estimated 20,000 students took
part. The death toll on that day puts estimates from 176 to 700 children. That
day is considered a turning point in the history of South Africa because
everybody then began to understand the meaning of being black: People started
raising up their fists and saying “I’m black and I’m proud and I will fight for
my land,” the understanding that they should be sharing the land with the white
people of South Africa - that they own that land!







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