The Schomburg Center presents a new film series dedicated to the
2008 commemoration of the Bicentennial of the American Abolition
of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The series will focus on Resistance and Revolt in the African Diaspora. Screenings will be held on selected Saturdays starting September 27 through November 15. Free admission. First come, first served.
September 27
11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
See schedule after the jump.
11 a.m. Quilombo chronicles Palmares, the most famous maroon
communities which flourished for several decades under the reign
of the legendary chieftain Ganga Zumba.
1:30 p.m. Maluala takes us into a Palenque, a settlement of
runaway Africans hidden somewhere in Cuba’s eastern mountains.
3:30 p.m. Placido portraits the dramatic story of Gabriel de la
Concepcio Valdes (Placido), a mulatto Cuban poet accused of
leading a conspiracy against the Spanish colonial government.
October 18
4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
4 p.m. July ’64: The Roots of Urban Unrest in America takes a
penetrating look at the underlying causes of the riots or urban
insurrections that swept through Black communities like
wildfires that summer and in years since.
5 p.m. You have struck a rock! commemorates the contribution of
South African women to the success of the anti-apartheid
struggle and recovers the women’s campaigns of the 1950s against
the hated pass system.
October 25
4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
4 p.m. Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power provides
a thought-provoking examination of Black radicalism and
resistance.
5 p.m. Black Panther features interviews with Huey P. Newton
describing the origins of the panthers, with Minister of
Information Eldridge Cleaver explaining the appeal to the
Black Community and with Chairman Bobby Seale explaining the 10
Point Program.
5:20 p.m. San Francisco State: On Strike recounts how a student
strike succeeded in creating the first Ethnic Studies department
on a college campus in America.
November 1
4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
4 p.m. Sons of Benkos explores the African culture of the maroon
settlement San Basilio de Palenque in Colombia through music and
shows the evolution of afro-Colombian music overtime through the
fusion of Cuban and contemporary African rhythms.
5 p.m. Candombe documents the cultural fight of a drummer to
preserve the music and culture brought by Africans deported to
Uruguay.
5:20 p.m. Catch a Fire tells the story of Deacon Paul Bogle who
led the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865 in Jamaica. The story is
constructed using extensive interviews with Paul Bogle’s
grandson as well as archive material.
November 8
4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
4 p.m. The Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela shows through the
stories of 12 young comrades from Bloemfontein how over 30 years
the African National Congress (ANC) built a successful worldwide
movement which eventually toppled the white supremacist regime.
5:30 p.m. Thomas Sankara tells the story of Captain Thomas
Sankara, the leader of the Burkinabe Revolution in the former
Upper Volta known today as Burkina Faso.
November 15
4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
4 p.m. Time and Judgment: A Diary of 400 Year Exile is an
overview of the African Liberation Movement that spans a period
of 400 years. The viewer is exposed to the critical political
analysis of leaders such as Maurice Bishop of Grenada, Walter
Rodney of Guyana, Jessie Jackson, Kwame Ture (Stokley
Carmichael), and Louis Farrakhan, Samora Machel of Mozambique,
Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, and more.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The New York Public Library
515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York
http://ga6.org/ct/bddXCnE1ycYt/
Posted on September 27, 2008 by Staff