Monday, April 22, 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
FILM FESTIVAL OPENING CEREMONY,
Trinity Repertory Company at The Lederer Theater
201 Washington Street Providence, Rhode Island
Tuesday, April 23. 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
National Grid Innovation Hub, Dunkin’ Donuts Center,
1 Lasalle Square- Providence, R.I.
10:10 a.m. SCREENING: The Good Radical by Kendall Moore -:38
10:45 a.m. PANELGETTING REEL WITH HEALTH
PROMOTIONAL VIDEO Ocean’s Awakenings by BJusticeProductions
11:10 a.m.
SCREENING: “Can We Talk? by Kendall Moore - 0:50
BREAK
SCREENING: Bigger Than Me: My Fight With ALS - 1:36:28 by James Ridley
Wednesday, April 24, 10:00 a.m.
Remembering 42:100th Birthday of Jackie Robinson
Mt. Hope Baptist Church 734 Hope Street - Providence, R.I.
10:00 a.m.SCREENING: The Reckoning by Chris Reese - 12:42
10:25 a.m. SCREENING : Jackie Robinson Documentary -1:54:23
by Ken Burns
Thursday April 25, 5:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Rhode Island Indian Council 807 Broad Street - Providence, R.I.
5:00 p.m.
SCREENING: Simone - Stories in Train Transfer Station - 24:58
Renato Candido De Lima
5:30 p.m.
SCREENING: Last Disintegrated School by Alice Crowe 27:13
PANEL: Community Farming and Food Access
Presented by The African Alliance of Rhode Island
VENDORS HALL - R.I. Indian Council
5:30-8:30 p.m.
Friday, April 26, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Providence Career and Technical Academy
Presented by PPSD Ethnic Studies program
“U - Street Contested” by M Barry, Jr. 32:00
Q&A with Filmmaker Michael Barry, Jr.
Friday, April 26, 4:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Institute for Entrepreneurship and Leadership Sprout Working Space
166 Valley Street, Providence, R.I.
4:00 p.m. SCREENING: Last Days by Moses Olufemi 2:26:24
6:35 p.m. Voices of Baltimore 59:16
SCREENING: Ladies Night by Helen Baskerville Dukes 40:34
SCREENING: Voices of Baltimore 59:16
Saturday, April 27, 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Rochambeau Library, 708 Hope Street, Providence, R.I.
PANEL: “What’s A Sister Got to Do To Get A Part Around Here?”
10.00 a.m.
SCREENING
Doorways by Tosin Coker 25:00
SCREENING
Wrath City by Raeshelle Cooke 22:12
SCREENING
Three Women by Linda Tate 1:11
AFTERNOON SESSION
SCREENING 1:10 p.m. by Frederick Lewis
Q&A with Film ProducerSCREENINGSimone
- Stories in Train Transfer Station - 24:58 Renato Candido De Lima
5:30 p.m.
SCREENING Last Disintegrated School by
“U - Street Contested” by M Barry, Jr. 32:00
Q&A with Filmmaker Michael Barry, Jr.
Friday, April 26, 4:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Institute for Entrepreneurship and Leadership/ The Sprout Work Space
166 Valley Street, Providence, R.I.
4:00 p.m.
SCREENING:Last Days by Moses Olufemi 2:26:24
6:35 p.m.
SCREENING Ladies Night by Helen Baskerville Dukes 40:34
SCREENING Voices of Baltimore 59:16
Saturday, April 27, 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Rochambeau Vommunty Library, 708 Hope Street, Providence, R.I.
10:00 a.m. PANEL: “What’s A Sister Got to Do To Get A Part Around Here?”
SHZiRT FILM SCREENING: Doorways by Tosin Coker 25:00
Wrath City by Raeshelle Cooke 22:12
SCREENING: Three Women by Linda Tate 1:11
Saturday, April 26, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Beneficent Congregational Church, UCC
300 Weybosset Street, Providence, R.I.
The Rhode Island Black Film Festival celebrates the Black Experience in Film. The Rhode Island Black Film Festival showcases independent, short, and feature films and documentaries, and hosts panel discussions that foster a dialogue about social justice and civil rights issues effecting persons of African, Afro-Carribean and Afro-Latin background.
The Rhode Island Black Film Festival showcases independent, short, and feature films and documentaries, and hosts panel discussions that foster a dialogue about social justice and racial issues.
RIBFF provides a platform for awareness for health, economic, environmental and education disparties. Our films and panel discussions will discuss serious issues and also mark the milestones and remember the historic events that currently shape our lives.
From classic black cinema of THE JACKIE ROBINSON STORY to DO IT MAN: the Story of the Celebrity Club to Paul Laurence Dunbar. Rhode Island filmmaker Kendall Moore. and introducing new talent from the region. The Rhode Island Black Festival is where social justice and cinema take a seat.
Set against the social, political and cultural landscape of the times, CHASING TRANE brings John Coltrane to life as a fully dimensional being, inviting the audience to engage with Coltrane the man, Coltrane the artist. A Toronto International Film Festival winner. If you are a jazz enthusiast, you do not want to miss this one
"The films selected succeed in being both entertaining and illuminating which is what you desire from great storytellers”
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