Black History Film Festival 2024
Sat, Feb 17
|Museum of the Moving Image
The Afrikan Poetry Theatre & Museum of The Moving Image presents… The 9th Annual A.P.T. Black History Month Film Festival
Time & Location
Feb 17, 2024, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave, Queens, NY 11106, USA
About the Event
Co-Curated By: @ Admission Free With RSVP 2023, 70Min. Hubris, anger, prejudice…doo-wop, reggae, rock…expectations, heartbreak, transformation…Garland Jeffreys: The King of In Between examines the fifty-year career of this genre-bending, biracial singer-songwriter and asks why, as a deejay says in the film, “the name Garland Jeffreys either means nothing to you or everything to you.” , 4 mins. With Chloe Harper-Smith, Shantel Moses, Mattie Vasquez. Sequin is a narrative short about the wisdom of children and seeing beauty in our everyday interactions. The film depicts a grandmother and her granddaughter, Nya, sitting on a bench and waiting for a bus. Nya plays with her doll then notices Kyiv, who is gender-nonconforming; has beautiful, lavender-colored hair, very similar to Nya’s doll; and wears a fabulous birthday outfit. Nya tries to get Kyiv’s attention but fails repeatedly until finally, Kyiv takes notice and a friendship begins. , 11 mins. With Anthony S. Weston, Jr., Natalie Shields,…