WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
FILMMAKER'S RECEPTION
CONGRATULATIONS to all the filmmakers whose film made it onto the roster of the 5th Annual Harlem International Film Festival! Hi 5!! We are excited about this year's line up and want to celebrate with you and your friends at the Filmmaker's Reception @ 7:30 PM.
Bistro Chez Lucienne Harlem
308 Lenox Avenue
(between 125th & 126th)
New York, NY 10027
Come out and co-mingle with your competition!
$21 ALL FESTIVAL PASS at Maysles (Excluding Special Screening Friday at 7pm)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
(1:20 - 5:00 PM)
645 Saint Nicholas Avenue @ 141st Street
New York, NY 10030
PROGRAM I 1:20 PM
FATHERHOOD
A Bike Ride (USA) - 13 min
Breadwinner (USA) - 10 min
Sand (USA) - 10 min
The Essay (USA) - 17 min WORLD PREMIERE
War Stories (USA) - 11 min
FREE SPECIAL SCREENING!
RSVP to info@harlemfilmfestival.com to guarantee your seat.
PROGRAM II 2:30 PM
HARLEM
A Harlem Reprise (Harlem) - 22 min WORLD PREMIERE
In its thirty plus years of existence, the Boys & Girls Choir of Harlem grew to become a world renown performing ensemble, providing musical training and life-changing opportunities to disadvantaged youths in New York City. But in 2007, the choir faded away following years of legal and financial troubles, accompanied by the death of its founder. A group of alumni decided to join together to carry on the spirit and traditions of the choir. 'A Harlem Reprise' profiles their group as they try to resurrect the legacy of the Boys & Girls Choir and build a name for themselves.
Obama Song (Harlem) - 17 min
The sights and sound of Harlem, hours after the presidential election of Barack Obama.
Welcome to My World (Harlem) - 50 min
Welcome to My World is a documentary film about two groups of American teenagers from disparate walks of life, and what happens when they come together. Through their adventures on a high school exchange trip, these students discover that the woods of Maine and the streets of Harlem are not as far apart as they had once imagined.
With
Flat Love (Spain) - 15 min HARLEM PREMIERE
Great Celebration/Mec Ton (Armenia) - 34 min
FREE SPECIAL SCREENING!
RSVP to info@harlemfilmfestival.com to guarantee your seat.
MAYSLES INSTITUTE
(6:00 - 10:00PM)
343 Malcolm X Boulevard/Lenox Avenue (127th & 128th)
New York, NY 10030
PROGRAM III 6:00 PM
FREEDOM
Freeing Silvia Baraldini (USA) - 102 min
Documents the life of former US political prisoner, Silvia Baraldini, who after 15 years as a political activist was arrested by the FBI and sentenced to 43 years in part for her participation in the freeing of Black Panther, Assata Shakur, from prison.
Portrait of a Filmmaker (USA) - 3 min
PROGRAM IV 8:00 PM
NEW YORK CITY
125 Franco's Boulevard (Harlem) - 21 min WORLD PREMIERE
With colorful strokes, Franco the Great changed the face of Harlem's most famous street, 125th. Now, a massive rezoning and city council vote threatens to discard his living canvas.
The Vanishing City (USA) - 55 min
An in-depth look at the forces behind the 'luxurification' of New York City and its far reaching effects on the middle class and working poor.
Just Be Frank (USA) - 15 min WORLD PREMIERE
Just Be Frank is an inspiring film about Frank Senior, a black blind jazz singer who we follow as he adjusts from walking with a cane to training his new guide dog, Kew. As he navigates the streets of Manhattan the audience witnesses the trust, courage and humour necessary for a blind man's survival in New York City. Presented with:
The Lift (Animation) - 5 min
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2010
HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
(1:30 - 5:00 PM)
645 Saint Nicholas Avenue @ 141st Street
New York, NY 10030
PROGRAM V 1:30 PM
SHORTS
Echomotion (USA) - 5 min
Kidnap (Animation) - 4 min
Lunch (USA) - 27 min
Mozambique (Mozambique) - 14min
Alcides Soares is a sixteen-year-old AIDS orphan, one of half a million living in Mozambique today. An American television writer (Neal Baer) and movie director (Chris Zalla) gave Alcides a movie camera and taught him how to shoot. The result is a moving chronicle directed by Alcides himself.
Ndapewa: I am Given (Namibia) - 15 min
Oakland School For The Arts (USA) - 16 min
FREE SPECIAL SCREENING!
RSVP to info@harlemfilmfestival.com to guarantee your seat.
PROGRAM VI 3:00 PM
SPOKEN WORD
Louder Than a Bomb (USA) - 99 min
Louder Than a Bomb tells the story of four Chicago high school poetry teams as they prepare for and compete in the world's largest youth slam. By turns hopeful and heartbreaking, the film captures the tempestuous lives of these unforgettable kids, exploring the ways writing shapes their world, and vice versa. Louder Than a Bomb is not about high school poetry as we often think of it. It's about language as a joyful release, irrepressibly talented teenagers obsessed with making words dance, and the communities they create along the way.
The Lost Samurai (USA) - 6 min
FREE SPECIAL SCREENING!
RSVP to info@harlemfilmfestival.com to guarantee your seat.
MAYSLES INSTITUTE (12:00PM - 12:00AM)
343 Malcolm X Boulevard/Lenox Avenue (127th & 128th)
New York, NY 10030
PROGRAM VII 12:00 PM
COMING OF AGE
Lunatics, Lovers & Actors (Harlem) - 80 min
A drama teacher in an urban university decides to take a topical approach to Shakespeares comedy classic, A Midsummer Nights Dream, and set it in Kuwait. And to make things interesting, he packs the cast with a rainbow of incompatibles: Muslims, fundamentalist Christians, out gays, homophobes, Orthodox Jews, and he lets em rip!
Presented with:
You Stole My Heart (USA) - 5 min
Mamas Boy/Mamanek (Czech Republic) - 23 min
PROGRAM VIII 2:00 PM
THE RECE$$ION
Skylight (Animation) - 5 min
Heaven Garden/Jardim Beleleu (Brazil) - 15 min
Presented with:
Road to Las Vegas (UK) - 90 min
Spurred on by a dream from God, Vanessa and Maurice take their five youngest children to start a new life in Las Vegas. With only their car for shelter, they set up camp next to the airport runway. Over the following four years of their lives, we track the familys mixed fortunes as they attempt to sustain a living in the face of unemployment, an impending recession and Maurices recurring drug abuse.
PROGRAM VIV 4:00 PM
MAD SCIENCE
Gartxot (Spain, Animation) - 19 min
Scientists Under Attack (Germany) - 88 min
rpd Pusztai and Ignacio Chapela have two things in common. They are distinguished scientists and their careers are in ruins. Both scientists choose to look at the phenomenon of genetic engineering. Both made important discoveries. Both of them are suffering the fate of those who criticise the powerful vested interests that now dominate big business and scientific research.
PROGRAM X 6:00 PM
SEX SELLS
The Virgins (USA) - 11 min
Does Sex Ruin Lives (USA) - 87 min WORLD PREMIERE
Does Sex Ruin Lives? The Unspoken Birds and Bee's. Everyone has an Adam and Eve experience. Taking a bite of the forbidden fruit can be a decision filled with excitement and can come with painful consequences. Join Diann Johnson on her journey to discover the truth about sex and the impact that it has on so many people's lives as she shares her own experiences; the good, the bad, and the ugly.
PROGRAM XI 7:40 PM
SPECIAL SCREENING
Blood Done Sign My Name (USA) - 128 min
Tells the true story of the 1970 murder of Henry Marrow in a rural North Carolina town by Robert Teel and his sons including the aftermath and the eventual acquittal of the Teels by an all white jury, despite testimony of multiple eyewitnesses. It also depicts the emergence of the Civil Rights leader Dr. Benjamin Chavis. Featuring Rick Schroder and Nate Parker as Dr. Chavis.
Discussion with Dr. Benjamin Chavis to follow the screening.
View the trailers: http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2856256537/
PROGRAM XII 10:00PM
SUSPENSE
The Things You Lose in the Ocean (USA) - 28min NEW YORK PREMIERE
The Toll (Australia) - 90 min NEW YORK PREMIERE
Steve and his best mate Nick embark on a journey to the Western Australian town of Denmark following a tip off that a recently deceased farmer has buried his fortune somewhere on his land. Armed with what they believe to be the map to the supposed fortune, the pair quickly bite off more than they can chew as their forest setting closes in on them, testing their resolve and their friendship.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2010
BARNARD COLLEGE
(12:00 - 6:00 PM)
Held Auditorium, 304 Barnard Hall
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
PROGRAM XIII 12:00 PM
CIVIL RIGHTS
But Some Are Brave (Canada, Animation) - 5 min
Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama (Harlem Spotlight) - 97 min NEW YORK PREMIERE
Features conversations spanning 13 years between two formidable women whose lives and political work remain at the epicenter of the most important civil rights struggles in the US. Through the intimacy and depth of conversations, we learn about Davis, an internationally renowned scholar-activist and 88-year-old Kochiyama, a revered grassroots community activist, longtime Harlem resident and 2005 Nobel Peace Prize nominee's shared experiences as political prisoners and their profound passion for justice.
FREE SPECIAL SCREENING!
RSVP to info@harlemfilmfestival.com to guarantee your seat.
PROGRAM XIV 2:00 PM
WOMEN and WAR
A Lost Generation (USA) - 6 min
Hope (Australia) - 104 min NEW YORK PREMIERE
400 refugees set out on a boat from Iraq to Australia. Only seven made it. Amal Basry was one of them...
FREE SPECIAL SCREENING!
RSVP to info@harlemfilmfestival.com to guarantee your seat.
PROGRAM XV 4:00 PM
SPECIAL SCREENING!
THE BLUES
Frosty Man and the BMX Kid (New Zealand) - 4 min WORLD PREMIERE
Black, White and Blues (USA) - 107 min
Director, Mario Van Peebles latest film features Michael Clarke Duncan and Morgan Simpson on a road trip to the heart of the blues.
View the trailer http://www.blackwhiteandblues.com/
FREE SPECIAL SCREENING!
RSVP to info@harlemfilmfestival.com to guarantee your seat.
MAYSLES INSTITUTE
(6:00 - 11:00PM)
343 Malcolm X Boulevard/Lenox (127th & 128th)
New York, NY 10030
PROGRAM XVI 6:00PM
EVERYDAY BLACK MAN (USA) - 100 min
A small neighborhood grocer wants to do good for his community, but when he is convinced to take on a young black man posing as a Muslim to be his partner, he realizes that he has put his beloved neighborhood and his family in danger, and must become the man he used to be in order to save them.
PROGRAM XVII 7:45 PM
ISLAM
Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam (Harlem Spotlight) - 80 min
Punk rock meets Islam. The rest is history
PROGRAM XVIII 9:00PM
HIP HOP
Baby Daddy Memoirs (USA) - 6 min
Hip Hop - A Tale From the Hood (Germany, Harlem) - 95 min HARLEM PREMIERE
1986. HipHops Golden Age. Its high-point: the infamous Bronx versus Queens battles between KRS-One and MC Shan. Years later, Bronx meets Queens again. But its no rematch, no battle for street hype and respect. Now the feud between the Bronx and Queens is over: I.G.Off and Hazadus team up together to make it big.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
MAYSLES INSTITUTE
(12:00 - 6:00PM)
343 Malcolm X Boulevard/Lenox Avenue (127th & 128th)
New York, NY 10030
PROGRAM XIX 12:00 PM
KATRINA
Take Too Long (Animation) - 18 min
Katrina Cop in the Superdome (USA) - 81 min
Documents the story of Rhett Charles, a veteran of the New Orleans Police Force, who found himself assigned to the New Orleans Superdome just prior to Hurricane Katrina making landfall on August 29th, 2005. Originally expecting the storm to hit with little impact, Officer Charles soon finds himself stuck in a steadily disintegrating situation, as the New Orleans levees fail, the city is flooded, electrical power vanishes, and upwards of 30,000 people descend on the Dome, seeking shelter.
PROGRAM XX 2:00 PM
WOMEN
If I Leap (USA) - 18 min
Jacob (Australia) - 12 min
Knock Off (UK) - 11 min
Presented with:
I Remain (Harlem) - 46 min
Tracy a young woman and Harlem resident, age 39, goes home to Washington, DC to receive a double mastectomy and breast reconstructive surgery after being diagnosed a few weeks before. In this film, Tracy's journey weaves the history of her 'Family of Matriarch's' individual battles with the disease that seems to have made itself at home over the span of twenty plus years. With the support of family, awareness, fighting spirit, and caring doctor's you have a recipe for 'survivor' in this documentary.
Excluding cancers of the skin, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, accounting for nearly 1 in 4 cancers diagnosed in US women. African American women have a higher incidence rate of breast cancer before age 45 and are more likely to die from breast cancer at every age!
*This screening contains adult themes, partial nudity and graphic content. For mature audiences.
PROGRAM XXI 4:00 PM
ILLEGAL
The Clearing (Australia) - 18 min
Anchor Baby (Canada) - 94 min WORLD PREMIERE
Married illegal immigrant couple, Joyce (Omoni Oboli) and Paul Unanga (Sam Sarpong) have been ordered to be deported by the US immigration department. They agree to leave; only after Joyce who is 5 months pregnant delivers her baby inside the US. This will guarantee automatic citizenship for their child. But, when Paul is caught and deported Joyce struggles on her own to accomplish the American Dream for her baby.
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