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Presented in Partnership with Black Documentary Collective

For the first time, Harlem Stage is hosting a night of works-in-progress inconjuction with the Black Documentary Collective.

MR SOUL!: Ellis Haizlip And The Birth Of Black Power TV
Producer / Director: Melissa Haizlip
Director:  J. Kevin Swain
Editor: Sam Pollard

From 1968 to 1973, America got SOUL! – television’s first "black Tonight Show." The film celebrates the groundbreaking PBS series from its genesis to its eventual loss of funding against the backdrop of a swiftly changing political and social landscape, while profiling Ellis Haizlip, the charismatic man behind one of the most culturally significant and successful television shows in U.S. history.

THE NEW BLACK (working title)

Producer/Director - Yoruba Richen

Yoruba Richen is a documentary-in- progress that uncovers the complicated and often combative histories of the African-American and LGBT civil rights movements.  Specifically the film examines homophobia in the black church and reveals the Christian right wing’s strategy of exploiting this phenomenon in order to pursue an anti-gay political agenda.

LITTLE BROTHER

Filmmakers: Nicole Franklin

Producer: Jasmin Tiggett

A conversation that will save a generation. Beginning in Camden, New Jersey, the traveling series of short documentary films known as Little Brother will give Black boys a unique voice. During the 2010 decade, filmmakers Nicole Franklin and Jasmin Tiggett will take an annual look at Black boys as young as nine years old in various urban environments for a one-on-one conversation demystifying what society tends to rob them of: Love.

www.littlebrotherfilm.com

Presented in Partnership with Black Documentary Collective