Soul Food Cinema Presents SOUL DEEP 2/17
On Friday February 17, Reelblack will showcase two episodes of the critically acclaimed BBC2 documentary series SOUL DEEP: THE STORY OF BLACK POPULAR MUSIC (2005). Unavailable in the US, this definitive
history of the rise of Black popular music in America features tons of rare interviews and performances.
Friday, February 17, 2012 at 7pm
The Point of Destination Cafe
6460 Greene Street Phila., PA 19119
Admission is Free w/ purchase of a
Soul Food Friday Meal ($12 and up).
Special Valentine’s Day Premiere of You, Me & The Circus
WHAT: You, Me & The Circus: A Musical Love Story (Philadelphia Premiere)
WHERE: International House, 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
WHEN: Tuesday February 14 at 7pm
COST: FREE for IHP & Reelblack Season 9 Members
$7 Students + Seniors
$9 General Admission
From the makers of Miles From Home (Reelblack S4), YOU ME & THE CIRCUS: A MUSICAL LOVE STORY is a fantasy, drama, musical in the vein of great writer/directors of screen and stage including Federico Fellini (8 1/2), and Bob Fosse (All That Jazz, Chicago and Cabaret). You, Me & The Circus is an intimate story about four people falling in and out of love told over an afternoon of intense conversation, soul searching, and new discoveries revealed on a journey leading to an undeniable truth. A Ty Hodges Film. Co-produced by Omar Epps
Official Selection Urbanworld Film Festival. www.ymcmovie.com
More Than A Month Free Screening With Filmmaker In Person 2/21
MORE THAN A MONTH
with Filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman in person!
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
6:30pm-8:30pm (doors open 6pm)
Community College of Philadelphia
1700 Spring Garden Ave
Registration is required.
Visit www.reelblack.com for details
or call (215) 351-0511 to register.
Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29-year-old African-American filmmaker, sets out on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. He stops in various cities, wearing a sandwich board, to solicit signatures on his petition to end the observance. He explains that relegating Black History Month to the coldest, shortest month of the year is an insult, and that black history is not separate from American history. Through this thoughtful and humorous journey, he explores what the treatment of history tells us about race and equality in a “post-racial” America.
His road trip begins in Washington, D.C., crisscrosses the country during Black History Month 2010, and ends with an epilogue one year later. Each stop along the journey explores Black History Month as it relates to four ideas: education, history, identity, and commercialism.
Tilgman’s campaign to end Black History Month is actually a provocative gambit to open a public conversation about the idea of ethnic heritage months, and whether relegating African American history to the shortest month of the year - and separating it from American history on the whole - denigrates the role of black people and black culture throughout American history. But it is also a seeker’s journey to reconcile his own conflicting feelings about his own identity, history, and convictions.
More Than a Month is not just about a yearly tradition, or history, or being black in America. It is about what it means to be an American, to fight for one’s rightful place in the American landscape, however unconventional the means, even at the risk of ridicule or misunderstanding. It is a film is about discovering oneself.
Exit Strategy - On RBTV
First Weekend Field Trip 2/11 at 1:40pm (note time change)
Reelblack, in collaboration with The Greater Philadelphia Film Office, WURD 900 AM, Art Sanctuary. The Philadelphia Film Society and The Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, is hosting a special First Weekend Field Trip in support of the new movie EXIT STRATEGY this Saturday 2/11 1:40pm at the AMC Loews Cherry Hill 24.
African-American film needs our support in theaters–not on bootleg.
Join us as we show our economic support for the new un-romantic comedy, EXIT STRATEGY. We’ll meetup for the 1:40pm matinee on Saturday 2/11 at AMC Cherry. Afterward, we’ll meet co-stars JAMEEL SALEEM and KIMELIA WEATHERS for a special post-film discussion moderated by Monica Peters and giveaways followed by lunch with them at Wegman’s Market Cafe.
This First Weekend Field Trip is “Dutch Treat” — pay for your own meal and movie tickets. However, we will be doing a special dollar raffle whose proceeds will be used to cover the cost of our guest’s meals.
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James (JAMEEL SALEEM) gets evicted from his apartment and moves in with his girlfriend of three months Kim (KIMELIA WEATHERS) and quickly discovers she’s everything he never wanted in a woman. He enlists best friends Carville (QUINCY “QDEEZY” HARRIS) and Leona (NOELLE BALFOUR), plus high-schooler Scoop (NICK SINISE) and strangers Big Boy and Kevin Hart to find a relationship exit strategy; but for Kim, breaking up just isn’t an option. Official Trailer : Click Here Tickets & Show Times: Click Here Official Site: http://exitstrategy-themovie.com/ Director: Michael Whitton Cast: Jameel Saleem, Kimelia Weathers, Quincy “QDeezy” Harris, Big Boy, Kevin Hart More details will soon be posted at www.meetup.com/reelblack.
PIFVA CINEMA SPEAKEASY: LOVE & GRIEF: 5 FILMMAKERS FROM PHILLY
PIFVA’s February 7 Cinema Speakeasy @ L’Etage features 5 short films by the following filmmakers. Please join them after the screening for an engaging conversation about why and how they make films in Philadelphia.
WHAT: LOVE & GRIEF: 5 FILMS BY PHILADELPHIA FILMMAKERS
WHEN: Tuesday, February 7, 2012; 6:30, doors open; 7pm screening,
COST: $5
Our February 2, Cinema Speakeasy showcases new short work by Philadelphia filmmakers,
Robert Larkin, Jill Hackney, Katya Gorker, Greg Koorhan, & Krystin ‘Blue’ Simmons
Red Tails Screening This Sunday Hosted by 100 Black Men
Tribute to Jimi 2/4 at Painted Bride
Mike D is Guest on REEL TIMES This Week at 10pm CCPTV
Tune in this week to REEL TIMES on Community College TV. Hosted by assistant professor of English, Alex Bove, this new program is focused primarily on Philadelphia based independent film makers and their films. Each week the show features a full length film along with an illuminating interview with the director. This week’s guest is Reelblack founder Michael Dennis (aka Mike D.) who will screen two of his works, PHILLY BOY: A MOVIE ABOUT MC BREEZE (2002) and THE STORY OF BREAKOUT (2004) starring John Canada Terrell.
The show airs at 10 p.m. every day. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience a work by one of Philadelphia’s contemporary artists.
CCPTV is cablecast on Comcast 53 and Verizon FIOS 21.
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