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THE BLACK AND THE GREEN

Join the Black Documentary Collective and Harlem Stage as we celebrate 10 years of the BDC with a tribute to St. Claire Bourne by screening one of his most rarely seen films. In 1983, Mr. Bourne produced and directed The Black and the Green, which drew a parallel between the civil rights movement and the troubles in Northern Ireland. In the film, a group of American civil rights activists traveled to Northern Ireland and found that many Catholics there had been influenced by the civil rights movement. As The Washington Post reported then, “In the Belfast ghetto, the delegation members are strangers in a familiar land of crushed tenements, graffiti-stained walls and heavily armed law officers.”

The movie, Mr. Bourne told The Post, “ends up seeming pro-Irish Republican Army in the same sense that a film about Selma in the 60s might have ended up seeming pro-black, but then I’m a filmmaker from the 60s. I try to be humanistically political.” His sister, Judith Bourne, is special guest.

 

St. Clair Bourne

St. Clair Bourne had, over the past thirty-five years, produced, directed, and written some forty-five film productions. These included documentaries for HBO, PBS, NBC, BBC and National Geographic, as well as work on his own independent productions. The feature-length documentary he produced, Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Park, was broadcast by HBO. With actor Wesley Snipes as narrator and executive producer, St. Clair directed John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk and Paul Robeson: Here I Stand! a two-hour documentary for the American Masters PBS series. He also was a co-producer on an HBO dramatic feature Rebound, the true story of playground basketball legend Earl “The Goat” Manigault as well as Woodie King’s independent theatrical feature The Long Night. Bourne himself was lately in post-production on a film about an 86-year-old veteran photographer Ernest Withers and a documentary series about the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party for PBS. This film is dedicated to the memory of St. Clair Bourne.

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Co-Presented with the Black Documentary Collective