REEL TALK IN BROOKLYN
Big up Brooklyn for doing what you do since day one! Big up women worldwide for claiming your minds, bodies, and souls when it seems the whole world wants to take those very things from you! And big up good independent cinema for showing us what we want to see even when we don't know what it is! Put all the big ups together and you get mad love for the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series that has been holding it all down for the past ten years. Sponsored by BAM ,Target, and a plethora of local supporters, the ashe of women in film will be summoned to Long Island University's Brooklyn campus for some dissection and discussion September 27 to 30.
Be sure not to sleep on "Silent Choices", a film by Faith Pennick. A strong black woman without a hint of B.S. compromises, Faith puts image to video dealing with the rough, double-binds some black women have to endure when thinking about abortion. Faith's previous short documentary about a company that paid drug addicts to give up their reproductive rights was wrenching so we here at Code Z have no doubt "Silent Choices" is golden. We are truly rooting for Tokumbo Bodunde's short "Black Girls Face: R. Kelly" to make plain the confusion that is the black popular response to R. Kelly. But no matter what your cinematic yin, if you like good film, women, or Brooklyn, you need to get over to the Reel Sisters come this Thursday.
For more information and film schedule, visit Reel Sisters or BAM.