Tag Archives: Black Film

Hosts Clarence Boone and Cornelius Wrights speak with Renée Baker and Dr. Terri Francis, Associate Professor and Director of the Black Film Center/Archive, about the screening of the 1930 silent film “Borderline”. Renée Baker created an original score for the film and will host a Q&A session after the screening of “Borderline”. The screening will occur on Wednesday, April 24 …

Host Clarence Boone speaks with Dr. Terri Frances, director of the IU Black Film Center Archives. They are then joined in the second half of the program by Nina Lorez Collins, daughter of the accomplished author and filmmaker, Kathleen Collins. Nina Lorez Collins will be reading excerpts from “Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary”, a new collection of writings by …

We’re joined by James Naremore to discuss the cinema of Charles Burnett, who’s been called the nation’s least-known great filmmaker and the country’s most important African-American director. His major works, such as Killer of Sheep, To Sleep with Anger, The Glass Shield, and Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property explore history’s effect on the structure of family. In films about working-class …