Summer Film Festival

Summer is almost here and we, the Taskforce on Anti-Racism as Spiritual Transformation, want to invite you to view some films with us.

We will meet once a month in June, July and August. We are choosing a diverse mixture of films – drama, documentary, scholarly and literary.

• A Raisin in the Sun – by the celebrated and heroic Lorraine Hansberry. It was first a Broadway play, winning the N Y Drama Critics award and then a film that won at the Cannes Film Festival. • I am Not Your Negro – the compelling journey with James Baldwin when he returned from his artist life in Paris, to join the Civil Rights struggle, often mediating between the wing of the movement led by Martin Luther King Jr. and the other wing by Malcolm X. The director of the film is Haitian born, Raoul Peck who got an Oscar nomination for it. • Amend – A new Netflix production about the 14th Amendment. It is in 4 parts, parts 1 and 2 focusing on the Civil war and reconstruction time and then the Civil Rights struggle. Part 3 looks at how the 14th Amendment impacted the feminist movement and strengthened it even more than the later Right to Vote amendment. It is part documentary, part scholarly, part drama – all exquisitely done.

We will watch the movie before beforehand on our own, then gather on Zoom with an evening host who will lead us in discussion. And, of course we’ll have BYO popcorn and beverages of your choice. We hope you will join us!!

If you are interested email Juliet jspohntwomey@gmail.com. Once we have the group of interested people we will work on scheduling dates and times that work.