🎞️ The Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts returns with nine open-to-the-public screenings that pay homage to Black women in film. | ✍️ ArionneNettles
The first ever Black women’s film festival in 1976 was a celebration of culture and art with live performances and lectures on change. It showed new work by Black women filmmakers while also showcasing essential discussions about the art’s future.
“This is unprecedented; this is the first time we’re doing the entire course as public engagement,” Field says. “And what’s neat about that is a lot of the material on the program is rarely screened. Some of it we had to make access copies for, [or] it was sourced from various archives, and so it’s an opportunity for the public to see material that’s not widely screened.
O’Malley, who was researching the original festival, found a program from 1976 in special collections at Northwestern University. As she started to look for organizers and participants from that time, she connected with other co-organizers, and together they created the idea for a way to honor that festival with new programming.
“There’s a much longer history of Black feminist media,” she says. “And so hopefully, by bringing together filmmakers, writers, curators, programmers for this gathering, for the symposium in 2023, we can celebrate that history and also start thinking not only about what Black women’s filmmaking was in the past and what it is now but what it can be in the future.”
Each week, the screenings have a theme, such as “A Sense of Place,” “Adaptation and Beyond,” “Family Stories,” and “Interior Lives”—themes that resonate with the human experience.
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