October 18, 2018
CITY-WIDE Milwaukee - Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC supports Black Lens of the 2018 MKE Film Festival. It is year 3 for Black Lens and year 10 for MKE Film Festival.
The film clips, conversations,and forums are to be commended.
Three (3) of this year's presentations are of focus for MPA-LLC Productions and its Racial Bias Initiative to promote film excellence, dialogue and historic presence-appreciation of African American evolving body of work in the media.
Black Lens
There are 3 films that are being highlighted by MPA-LLC to dissect through viewing, discussion, performance, and enjoyment. They are:
- SOUL OF YOUNG FOLKS *
Date: Saturday, October 20, 2018
Time: 12 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: MFF Hospitality Lounge/Kenilworth Square East Art Gallery - 2155 N. Prospect Ave. (Lower Level)
Curated by local teens, Souls of Young Folk is a post-screening forum using visual platforms to explore the experiences that shape how black youth see themselves. Following a screening of feature film Jinn, attendees will participate in a multifaceted dialogue focused on exploring personal identity.
The discussion also features the Art Start's Portrait Project, a multi-media exhibition giving young people the opportunity to portray complex narratives about their identities, asking the world to see them for how they choose to be seen.
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- I've GOT TO BE ME - Sammy Davis Jr.
- 6:00 p.m. At the Oriental Theatre Main
1 Hr. 52 Min.
Follow the legendary Sammy Davis Jr. as he navigates the racial prejudices and shifting political terrain of 20th century America. A documentary worthy of this complex, contradictory, and complicated figure, I've Gotta Be Me explores the career and art of this larger-than-life performer who found himself bracketed by the bigotry of White America and the scruitiny of civil rights-era Black America. New interviews (Norman Lear, Billy Crystal, and Whoopi Goldberg) combine with never-before-seen photos to provide an entirely fresh look at this icon who sat at the crossroads of cultural/racial identity.
- MR. SOUL - 10-31
2 Hr. 2 Min.
Before Oprah, before Arsenio, there was SOUL!, a remarkable public television variety show wildly ahead of its time. Hosted by Ellis Haizlip (hip, smart, innovative, and unapologetically gay), SOUL! was a celebration of all things Black culture—with topics ranging from soul music to literature, poetry, politics, and everything in between—with a dazzling array of A-list guests (James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni, and Stevie Wonder, to name a few). Follow this groundbreaking phenomenon from conception to its final episode in this stirring reminder of the power of representation in
media.
* Dialogue Aftermath for Smart Conversations of Racial Bias from Shorewood High School - To Kill a Mockingbird play
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