Harlem International Film Festival

"In honor of Women’s History Month, PETA (an organization founded by a woman and led by women) has chosen Harlem’s own Cicely Tyson as one of five female trailblazers to celebrate." Other honorees include Angela Davis, Dolores Huerta, Gloria Steinem, and Coretta Scott King (Tyson portrayed her in the television miniseries KING) all of them vegetarians or vegans. https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/peta-honors-harlems-ci/

"TOKYO Business has never been better for Japanese anime. And that is exactly why Tetsuya Akutsu is thinking about calling it quits..." https://www.nytimes.com/2021//24/business/japan-anime.html

"When a white singer dropped out of a recording session at the last minute, Bradford convinced Hagar to take a chance on Smith, a Cincinnati-born star of the Harlem club scene, and scored a substantial hit. Bradford then decided to use Smith to popularise a form of music that had been packing out venues in the South for almost 20 years..." https://www.bbc.com//20210216-the-forgotten-story-of-ameri

The Assassination of Malcolm X: Ex-Undercover Officer Admits Role in FBI & Police Conspiracy. We Want the Truth Uncovered, Malcolm X’s Daughter Ilyasah Shabazz Backs New Probe into Assassination https://www.democracynow.org

As recently as 15 years ago, the term ‘content’ was heard only when people were discussing the cinema on a serious level, and it was contrasted with and measured against ‘form,' Scorsese writes. Then, gradually, it was used more and more by the people who took over media companies, most of whom knew nothing about the history of the art form, or even cared enough to think that they should. ‘Content’ became a business term for all moving images..." https://www.indiewire.com//martin-scorsese-streaming-lack/

Harlem Love Pt. 2 (Narrative Shorts) screening online today September 20 at Harlem Film Festival. For tickets, please visit watch.eventive.org/harlem

Songs That Never End screening online today September 20 at Harlem Film Festival. For tickets, please visit watch.eventive.org/harlem

The official poster for Zulu Wedding which screened at Harlem Film Festival earlier today. Watch it now here. https://watch.eventive.org/harlem//5f5e809c30fdc1005a813022

Experimental Cinema (from Harlem to Hong Kong) screening online today September 19 at 9:00pm EDT at Harlem Film Festival. For tickets, please visit watch.eventive.org/harlem

The Black Emperor of Broadway w/Trouble In My Mind screening online today September 19 at 7:00pm EDT at Harlem Film Festival. For tickets, please visit watch.eventive.org/harlem

Harlem Love Pt. 1 (Short Docs) screening online today September 19 at 5:00pm EDT at Harlem Film Festival. For tickets, please visit watch.eventive.org/harlem

Waiting w/Henet Ward screening online today September 19 at 3:00pm EDT at Harlem Film Festival. For tickets, please visit watch.eventive.org/harlem

Two Days Left #ClosingWeekend... https://watch.eventive.org/harlem

The official poster for Opeka (directed by Cam Cowan) which screened at Harlem Film Festival earlier today.

Higher Love w/First Chances (Dir: Hasan Oswald) screening online today September 18 at 9:00pm EDT at Harlem Film Festival. For tickets, please visit watch.eventive.org/harlem

Cabarete w/Look at Lucas (Dir: Ivan Bordas) screening online today September 18 at 7:00pm EDT at Harlem Film Festival. For tickets, please visit watch.eventive.org/harlem

For Fear of Kofi w/Lift Every Voice and Sing (Dir: Marina Petrovskaia) screening online today September 18 at 5:00pm EDT at Harlem Film Festival. For tickets, please visit watch.eventive.org/harlem

Hope Village w/Just Us (Dir: Ri-Karlo Handy) screening online today September 18 at 3:00pm EDT at Harlem Film Festival. For tickets, please visit watch.eventive.org/harlem