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| February 26, 2015 |
Time:
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location: Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art invites contemporary filmmakers to meet with students and museum guests for special screenings of their films. This semester, filmmakers explore race and culture
against the backdrop of a new civil rights movement, a college campus, and a prison.
The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is a program of South Arts. Southern Circuit screenings are funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment
for the Arts.
Films begin at 5 p.m. with a Q&A, live jazz and café service to follow until 8 p.m.
FEBRUARY 26: YOURBA RICHEN, DIRECTOR/PRODUCER
The New Black
Documentary | 80 min.
The New Black tells the story of how the African-American community is grappling with gay rights in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights. The film documents
activists, families, and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize gay marriage and examines homophobia in the black community’s institutional pillar—the black church. The New Black takes viewers into the pews and onto the streets and provides
a seat at the kitchen table. It tells the story of the historic fight to win marriage equality in Maryland, and charts the evolution of this divisive issue within the black community.
About the filmmaker
Yoruba Richen has directed and produced films around the world. Her latest film, The New Black, premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival, won Audience Awards at AFI (American Film Institute)
Docs, Philly Q Fest and Frameline LGBT Film Festival, and Best Documentary at the Urbanworld Film Festival. Richen is a 2014 featured TED Speaker, Guggenheim Fellow, Sundance Institute’s Producers’ Fellow and Fulbright recipient. Richen is Director of the Documentary
Program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
For more information, visit the museum's website.
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