Événement

11th Annual African American Film Festival

Screenings: PRÆY and Four Little Girls
$15 ($12 for Students and Seniors)
FESTIVAL PASS: Includes ALL programs
$55 ($45 for Students and Seniors)

PRÆY (Short Film | 2015)
Recording artist PRODA, the films creator details that, PRÆY was created out of a passion and need to tell a story that stems directly from the Black community, PRÆY is a journey of self-realization, exploring the complexities of choice when surrounded by influences from the streets, gang life, and violence.

Directed by NYU student Kyleel Proda Rolle, the film follows main character, Tymir, on a rocky journey called life. In search of self, Tymir struggles to survive in a city that eats its children. Were telling the
story that many people have lived where some have survived and some have lost. Its the stories of the streets, gang life, violence and how some people cant find their way out, says PRODA.

FOUR LITTLE GIRLS (Documentary Feature | 102 minutes | 1997)
On Sunday, September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed by four members of a Ku Klux Klan-affiliated racist group. Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, four African-American girls between the ages of 11 and 14 who had been attending the church's Sunday school, were killed in the blast. Director Spike Lee's somber 1997 documentary tells the story through interviews and archival footage.