This Thursday, August 15th, welcome The Luminal Theater to Baltimore and Le Mondo! The Luminal Theater is a nomadic cinema that champions emerging Black filmmakers. Join us for FRESH BLACK FILMS, a unique showcase of short films from emerging Black filmmakers from the Northeast region of the USA.
Learn more about The Luminal Theater and reserve tickets to this special free screening below!
EVENT DETAILS
Fresh Black Films
Thursday, August 15 | 7PM 5 Short Films from Emerging Filmmakers
Free - Reserve Tickets Below
ABOUT THE EVENT
Fresh Black Films exposes fresh audiences to new, dynamic work from emerging Black filmmakers, and Black filmmakers and creatives to more of each other’s original work.
The Luminal Theater defines "emerging" as filmmakers, regardless of age, who are fairly new to directing & producing cinema, and have had only intermediate success on the film festival circuit, and also may have not had films acquired by major distribution or streaming platforms. All of their selected filmmakers have unique perspectives that are aching to be seen and discovered and supported by audiences like you and film industry professionals.
Join us for five diverse films that include dramas, documentaries, animation, and more!
This 2nd Northeast edition of Fresh Black Films is sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, Final Draft, and Coverfly.
FILM LINEUP
DOLL BABY
By Britt Sankofa
Part live-action, part stop-motion animation, this film takes a hard look at gender, its imagination, and its functionality
portal(s)
Directed by Victor Arumemi
Two travelers navigate borders and boundaries, in pursuit of radical change.
SIDE B
Directed by Brandon Jones
During the holidays, "Side B" tells the story of a record-store owner finding catharsis from her past through the healing power of music.
SHINING, IN PLAIN SIGHT
Directed by Oreoluwa Akinyode
A collection of rituals, research, and recollections of experiences that explore Black Queer and Trans people's relationships within African Spirituality.
IMPRESSIONS OF ASHER
Written, Directed, Edited by Sha-Shonna Rogers
Some people are born with a certain level of confidence and some people learn it along the way. Asher tells his journey through his memory.
ABOUT THE LUMINAL THEATER
The Luminal Theater is a nomadic cinema that brings Black film straight to the people.
We provide fully-curated exhibitions of diverse cinema and media of the Black/African diaspora (African-American, African, Caribbean, Afro-European, etc.), allowing these artists to present their work within our unique brand of shared audience experiences, presented in majority-Black communities across the United States & virtually.
In a rapidly-changing media landscape, we excel at keeping Black art alive through the cinematic arts. In making these films and filmmakers accessible to the community beyond film festivals and web/streaming services, and viewed in a collective environment — as cinema is best utilized as a shared audience experience — we serve the Black community’s diverse and growing population of filmmakers, film enthusiasts, multiple discipline artists and art-minded people which Black neighborhoods possess and attract in abundance.
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