Calendar

August 2017

18th Annual KIDflix Film Fest of Bed-Stuy! at Fulton Park, Brooklyn

September 2017

FIRST FRIDAYS!: Martha & Niki (+ DJ Eli Efi spins on the 1's and 2's and Performance by Davi Vieira with Cassa Paz) at Joyce Kilmer Park, Bronx

10th Annual Family Day Celebration at Governors Island, New York

October 2017

"Dreamstates" by Anisia Uzeyman (+ followed by a discussion with the Director and members of the cast and a musical performance by Saul Williams and CX KiDTRONiK) at Harlem Stage, New York

November 2017

Performa 17 Biennial Hub – Films at Performa 17 Biennial Hub, New York

"An Opera of the World" by Manthia Diawara at Anthology Film Archives, New York

February 2018

"An Opera of the World" by Manthia Diawara at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem

African Filmmaker Series (+ Q&A with filmmakers) at CANVAS Institute, Staten Island

April 2018

"Ṣoju" by Oluwaseun Babalola (+ Q&A with the director will follow the screening) at The George and Clement Bond Center for African Education, New York

Wùlu + Makala at Maysles Cinema at Maysles Cinema, New York

"Pastor Paul" by Jules David Bartkowski (+ Q&A with the filmmaker) at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica, Queens

"Kemtiyu, Cheikh Anta" by Ousmane William Mbaye (+ A talk back with Senegalese scholar and historian Mamadou Diouf and jazz musician and music composer for Kemtiyu, Randy Weston, moderated by multimedia journalist and the CEO of Afrikanspot, Isseu Diouf Campbell) at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem

May 2018

"Some Girls" by Raquel Cepeda (+ Q&A with Raquel Cepeda) at Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn

2018 NYAFF Youth Matinee Program at Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center - Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York

July 2018

"Footprints of Pan-Africanism" by Shirikiana Aina (+ Preview of exhibition and community discussion led by Naima Nur of Sun Song) at Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn

"Keteke" by Peter Sedufia (+ Come early to get your body moving with Masala Bhangra: Bollywood dance workout class from 7 pm - 7:45 pm) at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens

September 2018

In-School Program at East Harlem School at Exodus House, Harlem

11th Annual Family Day Celebration

October 2018

"Purple Dreams" by Joanne Hock at Jackie Robinson Park Bandshell, Harlem

10-Week Filmmaking Workshop with East Harlem School at East Harlem School at Exodus House, New York

November 2018

Mostra de Cinemas Africanos 2018 at Circuito Saladearte Cinema do Museu, Salvador

December 2018

Mostra de Cinemas Africanos 2018 at Cinemateca Capitólio Petrobras, Porto Alegre

February 2019

African Film Series (+ Q&A with filmmakers) at Search Party Studio, Staten Island

"Birth of Afrobeat" by Opiyo Okeyo

In-School Program with Project Rousseau at A. Philip Randolph Campus High School, New York

Take Light at Doc Fortnight 2019 at MoMA, New York

"The Burial of Kojo" by Samuel Blitz Bazawule (+ Q&A with Blitz and Sinat Giwa) at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem

March 2019

Ouaga Girls + Mr. Gele

"Too Black to be French?" by Isabelle Boni-Claverie (+ Q&A with director Isabelle Boni-Claverie and The Africa Center CEO, Uzodinma Iweala) at The Africa Center, New York

"Borders / Frontières" by Apolline Traoré

"Wallay" by Berni Goldblat

April 2019

"Sofia" by Meryem Benm'Bare (+ Post-screening discussion with Columbia University Professor Madeleine Dobie) at Maysles Cinema, New York

Wallay + Birth of Afrobeat

"Zin’naariyâ! / The Wedding Ring" by Rahmatou Keïta at The Apollo Theater, Harlem

Borders + Visions at Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

May 2019

The Fruitless Tree + dancedance / REVOLUTION

June 2019

2019 NYAFF Youth Matinee Program at Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center - Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York

July 2019

"Aya of Yop City" by Marguerite Abouet & Clement Oubrerie at Tompkins Square Park, New York

Traveling Series Films at Newark Museum’s Black Film Festival at Newark Museum, Newark

August 2019

KIDflix Film Fest 2019! at The Plaza at 300 Ashland, Brooklyn