FILM SCREENING: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003)
In April 2002, the democratically elected Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, faces a coup d'état by an American-backed opposition party.
In April 2002, the democratically elected Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, faces a coup d'état by an American-backed opposition party.
Infused with performance, poetry, and animation, the film constructs a living archive of oral history and community theater.
Nostalgic About The Future is a documentary film about Venezuelan women’s organization, shot during the COVID-19 pandemic under crippling U.S. sanctions.
Join us Thursday, Feb 5th at 7PM for the first film in our 100 Years of Black History Month Film Program organized by Daniel Simmons III. For the first film of the series we’ll be viewing “Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know” directed by Arlen Harris and Danial Harris-Vajda
I Heard It Through The Grapevine (1982) isa documentary following author and activist James Baldwin as he retraces his steps through the American South—including Selma, Birmingham, and Atlanta—revisiting pivotal sites of the Civil Rights Movement. Baldwin assesses the progress made since the 1960s, documenting the ongoing struggles with inequality.
An immersive archival documentary that depicts the four-day clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the 40,000+ people who took to the streets of Seattle in 1999 to protest the WTO Conference and the WTO’s impact on human rights, labor, and the future effects of continued globalization.
"Now Is the Time" (1967) is a short documentary film that utilizes newsreel footage, literature, and archival materials to explore the history of Black resistance and anger in the United States. The film connects earlier African American writers, such as Langston Hughes and James Baldwin, with the Black Power movement. It was produced during the late 1960s to contextualize the rise of Black nationalism and address the American experience of slavery and inequality.
In October 1972, nine Black men and one white woman were wrongfully convicted of arson and conspiracy and sentenced by the North Carolina state court to 282 collective years in prison. An international cause célèbre, the so-called Wilmington 10 languished for nearly a decade in separate jails, even as journalists and lawyers exposed criminal wrongdoing in the State’s case; religious leaders, politicians, and activists demanded their release and exoneration; and the Soviet Union brandished their photos as a symbol of American hypocrisy and racism.
100 years after the Haitian Revolution, the people of Haiti find themselves once again having to defend their liberty, this time against a powerful neighbor: the United States.
El Benny is a Cuban film released in 2006, directed and co-written by Jorge Luis Sánchez, his first feature-length film. It is a fictional story based on the life of the famous Cuban musician Benny Moré.
Join us for a screening and talkback at the Angelika Film Center on Friday March, 13th & Saturday March 14th at 7:15PM for the theatrical re-release of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised also known as Chávez: Inside the Coup.
Join Hindus for Human Rights on March 14th for a free screening of Homebound, a film by director Neeraj Ghaywan, which was India’s submission to the Academy Awards, and was shortlisted in the best international film category.
