2024 Recap
2024 March On! Fest Recap
Runtime: 90 mins
Relive the energy and excitement of March On! Festival 2024! From inspiring performances to unforgettable moments, this highlight reel captures the essence of the celebration. Watch as artists, creators, and […]
Presenting Lovely One: A Memoir with Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
Runtime: 90 mins
This event was a live taping of New York Public Radio’s nationally syndicated podcast, Notes From America With Kai Wright. Host Kai Wright and Justice Jackson talked one-on-one about her […]
2024 Recap
- 2024 Recap
James Baldwin: Born With The Thunder – Discussion Panel
The long and remarkable life of Dr. William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B) Du Bois (1868-1963) offers unique insights into an eventful century in African American history.
- Feature Documentary
A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde
Runtime: 1hr 30min
From Lorde's childhood roots in NYC's Harlem to her battle with breast cancer, this moving film explores a life and a body of work that embodied the connections between the Civil Rights movement, the Women's movement, and the struggle for lesbian and gay rights. At the heart of this documentary is Lorde's own challenge to "envision what has not been and work with every fiber of who we are to make the reality and pursuit of that vision irresistible."
- Feature Documentary
W. E. B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices
Runtime: 1hr 54min
The long and remarkable life of Dr. William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B) Du Bois (1868-1963) offers unique insights into an eventful century in African American history.
- Feature Documentary
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
Runtime: 1hr 52min
An in-depth biography of Zora Neale Hurston, the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.
- Feature Film
It Was All A Dream
Runtime: 1hr 23min
A visual memoir from director dream hampton's personal archives about the dawn of the golden era of hip hop.
- Shorts
Searching for Augusta Savage
Runtime: 22mins
Augusta Savage was the first person in the U.S. to open a gallery dedicated to African American art. A Harlem Renaissance sculptor and art educator, she was also one of the first Black women art activists of her time and fought for the inclusion of Black artists in the mainstream canon. Art historian Jeffreen M. Hayes, Ph.D. explores Savage's legacy, and why her artwork has been largely erased.
- Feature Film
Love Machina
Runtime: 1hr 50min
What if love could last beyond our mortal bodies? Meet Martine and Bina Rothblatt, two futurists who have commissioned a humanoid robot so they can house Bina's consciousness and extend their love affair into infinity and beyond.
- Feature Film
A Mother Apart
Runtime: 1hr 30min
An emotionally sweeping tale of healing and forgiveness, A Mother Apart accompanies powerhouse Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin as she re-imagines the essential art of mothering—having been abandoned by her own mother.
- Feature Documentary
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Runtime: 1hr 27min
Using rarely-seen archival footage from nine different countries, the film melds intimate interviews and eloquent public speeches with cinéma vérité glimpses of Baldwin and original scenes from his extraordinary funeral service in December 1987.
