Sing You Song, 2011, USA Wed, May 2, 7 pm ICE Theaters Lawndale 3330 W Roosevelt Road Adm: $5.00 Thursday, May 3, 7pm ICE Theaters Chatham 210 W 87th St Adm: $5.00 From Harlem to Mississippi to Africa and South Central Los Angeles, Sing Your Song takes us on a journey through Harry…(Read More)
Wednesday, April 4th at 7pm, Adm. $5 ICE Theaters Lawndale 3330 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60624 Thursday, April 5th at 7pm, Adm. $5 ICE Theaters Chatham 14 210 W. 87th Street, Chicago, IL 60620 “In their darkest hour, they turn on the video camera for the last time and document…(Read More)
Branwen Okpako’s “The Education of Auma Obama” is a captivating and intimate portrait of the U.S. president’s older half-sister, who embodies a post-colonial, feminist identity. An academic overachiever, she studied linguistics and contemporary dance in Heidelberg, Germany, before enrolling in film school in Berlin, where she met Nigerian-born director…(Read More)
Branwen Okpako’s “The Education of Auma Obama” won the Festival Founder’s Award for the best documentary at PAFF 2012. The Education of Auma Obama screens March 7 & 8th at ICE Theaters. Photo by: Guenny Pires at Txan Film…(Read More)
In this Skype interview, Branwen Okpako, director of The Education of Auma Obama talks about her journey in the making of the documentary film about President Barack Obama’s sister Auma, in “a captivating and intimate portrait of the U.S. president’s older half-sister, who embodies a post-colonial, feminist identity.” Wednesday, March…(Read More)
Exploring dilemmas of culture and race, Sarah Bouyain’s debut feature tells dovetailing stories of African women living in France. Amy is a young biracial woman whose mother is from Burkina Faso. At the age of eight, she was “reclaimed” by her father and went to live with him in France. His death 20 or…(Read More)
The Story of Lover’s Rock UK 2011, 96 min Director: Menelik Shabazz This is first and foremost a film about Black Social Dance. The US parallel would be the “slow-dance,” the “Bop,” “Sunset Bop.” Under dark blue or red lights in a crowded room young men and women came together to experience the…(Read More)
Wed, Nov 30, 7pm, ICE Theaters Lawndale 3330 W Roosevelt Admission: $5.00 Thurs, Dec 1, 7pm, ICE Theaters Chatham 210 W 87th St Admission: $5.00 THE NINE MUSES (UK 2011, 94 min HDCinema) Directed by John Akomfrah | TRAILER “Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses wraps the viewer in literature, music and archive footage, summoning…(Read More)
Wed, Nov 2, 7:00 pm ICE Theaters Lawndale 3330 W Roosevelt Road Thursday, Nov 3, 7:00 pm ICE Theaters Chatham 210 W 87th Street icetheaters.com | blackworldcinema.net Admission: $5.00 Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975, 2011, Sweden A film by Göran Hugo Olsson 45 Min Panel DIscussion After the film. At…(Read More)
THE FIRST GRADER, Kenya/UK 2010 Directed by Justin Chadwick starring Oliver Litondo, Naomie Harris, Tony Kgoroge and Nick Reding Wed, Sept 7, 7:00 pm ICE Theaters Lawndale 3330 W Roosevelt Road Thursday, Sept 8, 7:00 pm ICE Theaters Chatham 210 W 87th Street icetheaters.com | blackworldcinema.net Admission: $5.00 In…(Read More)