Join us Thursday, April 16th – Saturday, April 18th for Reel Stories: A CFAC Film Festival. Enjoy a weekend of storytelling, screenings, panel discussions, and more!
Schedule of Events
Thursday April 16th : Join us Thursday, April 16, at 6:00 PM in the Blackbox Theatre for our opening reception and screening of Space to Breathe, Space to Breathe is an Afrofuturist science fiction hybrid documentary, framed with a future where there are no prisons or police. The year is 2070 and Sojourner is a young genderqueer filmmaker who sets out to understand how abolition came to be, through history’s archives on the movements of the early 21st Century. Learn more about the film and get to know the director through a panel discussion following the screening.
Friday April 17th : Starting at 5:00 PM, enjoy an evening of short dramas, international, and experimental films featuring nobodys word, St. Andrews, Youlogy/No Ghosts, Objectionable Fruit, and Same Water.
Saturday, April 18th starting at 11:00 AM : See a screening of The Bombing of Osage Avenue and TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing, followed by a panel discussion.
The Bombing of Osage Avenue: This film documents the communal response to the 1985 bombing of the MOVE organization’s house in West Philadelphia, killing 11 and destroying 65 houses in the neighborhood.
TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing is a biography of the influential writer Toni Cade Bambara, whose literary works and film collaborations were a catalyzing force in 20th-century cultural and political movements. The documentary is made up of stories shared by friends and colleagues, including Toni Morrison, Nikky Finney, and Haile Gerima.