Reel Sisters Film Fest Begins Tomorrow! Win A Free Ticket To The Awards Ceremony!

Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival + Lecture Series The Black Documentary Collective (BDC), Presenting Partner Long Island University/Brooklyn 1 University Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Featuring BDC Member* documentaries and panels! CLICK PIX FOR TICKETS! La Belle Vie (The Good Life) by Rachelle Salnave* Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band by Carol Bash* Changing the Face of Medicine by Crystal Emery* AMEN: The Life and Music of Jester Hairston by Lillian Benson* Jimmy Goes to Nollywood by Jimmy Jean-Louis The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo by Yaba Badoe Taboo Yardies by Selena Blake Good Love (Re) presentations of Love & Sex in Black Women's Cinema Panelists: Michele Stephenson*, Yoruba Richen* and Nefertite Nguvu Discussing notions of love and sex in film and television as it relates to Black women and women of color. There have been too many films in which we are portrayed as not having diverse human thoughts and feelings when it comes to love and sex. Are the old tropes of Sapphire, Jezebel and Mammy still valid in light of women filmmakers who are creating roles for Black women in which we are not devalued - roles in which we are told we are not worthy of love, devotion and healthy sexual relationships?  This panel celebrates women of color filmmakers who are claiming spaces for us to solidly give and receive "Good Love"! Reel Sisters Awards Ceremony Oct. 25, 2015, 6:30 pm $35 BDC Members Eligible to Win Free Tickets! Email bdcnewyork@gmail.com for more information BET's Centric on Board to Film the Event! Award Ceremony Honors actresses Jessica Williams, beloved comedienne on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and Ebony Jo-Ann, renowned for her role as Ma Rainey in August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.

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