Black Film Festival

Presented by the Bridgehampton Child Care & Recreational Center (The Center) in partnership with Bay Street Theater, Black Public Media, JoLa Films, Suffolk County-Office of Minorities & The Witness Project.

“Our Black Film Festival is an extension of our THINKING FORWARD LECTURE SERIES, Equality Matters in the Hamptons. With our talks & films THE CENTER aims to start and continue important conversations about race. The more we learn the better we can understand each other. This brings us together. Hope and love are our guiding forces.” -Bonnie Michelle Cannon, ED-BHCCRC

4 Short Films with brief discussion after each

Doors open at 2:45pm

3pm Welcome- Bonnie Michelle Cannon, ED

3:10pm- BLUE PRINT FOR MY PEOPLE: Carol Bash (10.5 min)) & Discussion Carol Bash is the Founder and President of Paradox Films. She is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with over 20 years of experience. Her current project on the film festival circuit, Blueprint For My People, is a visual poem that interweaves spoken-word narration of Margaret Walker’s poem, “For My People” with contemporary images and rare 19th-century cyanotypes (blue photographic prints known as “blueprints”).

3:30pm- FREEDOM HILL: Resita Cox, Director/Producer (25 min) & Discussion Princeville, NC is the first town incorporated by freed, enslaved Africans in America. This historical significance sits on a precipice: it is gradually being washed away. Princeville sits atop swampy land along the Tar River in North Carolina. In the 1800’s this land was disregarded and deemed uninhabitable by white people. After the Civil War, this indifference left it available for freed Africans to settle. Before its incorporation, residents called it ‘Freedom Hill,’ gradually establishing a self-sufficient town. Resting along the floodplain of the river, Princeville residents are no strangers to adversity. The historical town has been inundated with flooding over the centuries. Freedom Hill is a documentary that explores the environmental racism that is washing away the town of 2,000 through the lens of Marquetta Dickens, a Princeville native who recently moved back to help save her hometown and whose grandmother casted the historic vote in 99’ as mayor against the federal and state government’s recommendation to simply move the town elsewhere.

4pm- Break with refreshments

5pm- FOR THE MOON: Nile Price, Screenwriter/Director (9 min) & Discussion A coming-of-age narrative based on the true story of Ronald McNair; the 2nd African American to go to space following his stand against segregation in an all-white Library

5:20pm- DESCENDED FROM THE PROMISED LAND: The Legacy of Black Wall Street: Nailah Jefferson, Director (23 min) & Discussion If the Tulsa Race Massacre had never happened, would Black Wall Street have influenced the entire nation? An intimate look at the lingering economic, psychological, and emotional impacts through the lens of several family descendants. If the Tulsa Race Massacre had never happened, would Black Wall Street have influenced the entire nation?

5:55pm - Closing Remarks – Black Public Media and The Center

Contact: info@bhccrc.org/631-537-0616