The Africana Studies Institute is holding a film festival 9/12-9/14
Student Union Theatre
9/12
12 noon Life and Debt
Synopsis- Documentary look at the effects of globalization on Jamaican industry and agriculture.
2:00 pm I Am Not Your Negro
Synopsis - Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
9/13
12 noon School Daze
Synopsis- A not so popular young man wants to join to a popular fraternity at his historically black college.
2:35 pm - Bamboozled
Synopsis - A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit.
9/14
12 noon - Get Out
Synopsis - A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.
2:15 pm - Daughters of the Dust
Synopsis- Set in 1902, it tells the story of three generations of Gullah (also known as Geechee) women in the Peazant family on Saint Helena Island as they prepare to migrate to the North on the mainland.
All films will follow with a short discussion. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact: Africana Studies Institute at africana@uconn.edu