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The award-winning Shelter-in-Place Virtual Film Series (@SIPVFilmSeries) announces a schedule of 10 documentary films that it will screen for Black History Month. The screening of “The Green Siblings Project” on February 9 will feature a conversation with Ernest Green, a member of the Little Rock Nine and the first African American graduate of Little Rock Central High School.
Interspersed within this month's film screenings will be a new feature to the @SIPVFilmSeries expansive line-up: two different comedic PBS Digital Studios series originally created a few years ago for Black History Month.
"Say It Loud" celebrates Black culture, context, and history. Hosts Evelyn from the Internets and Azie Dungey give you a comedic take on identity and pop culture from Black pride movements to Black Twitter shenanigans. The show explores the complexity of Black experience and finds joy in the many ways Black folks have influenced American life.
"Black Folks Don’t..."” is an open conversation that invites you to take a second look at the grey areas between us all, no matter the race, and most importantly to do it with a sense of humor. This documentary web series is a special presentation of BlackPublicMedia.org, directed and produced by Angela Tucker, with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
"Since Shelter-in-Place Virtual Film Series was created in March of last year as a result of the shutdown, this will be our first Black History Month film series for an American audience," says Kwami Abdul-Bey, the @SIPVFilmSeries founder awarded the Ford Motor Company's 2020 Unsung Hero of COVID-19 Award for the international impact of the @SIPVFilmSeries.
The National Park Service's Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site has had a long-time relationship with the Arkansas Peace & Justice Memorial Movement (APJMM) and has joined as a presenting partner of the @SIPVFilmSeries Black History Month film series. Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site was instrumental in the development of “The Green Siblings Project," a film funded by a National Park Service Civil Rights Grant.
Below is the complete schedule and links to register and view each film:
Feb. 5th - Mr. Soul!
Before Oprah, before Arsenio, there was Mr. SOUL! Ellis Haizlip ensures the Revolution will be televised with SOUL!, America's first "Black Tonight Show."
https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/o1frg
Feb. 6th - The Invisible Vegan
An exploration of how plant-based eating intersects with race, class, and gender. It examines how institutional racism impacts the health of African American families. https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/q4rw9
Feb. 7th - Say My Name: The Life & Death of Sandra Bland
A memorial to Sandra Bland on what would have been her 34th birthday. Bland mysteriously died in police custody after being wrongfully arrested during a traffic stop by Texas State Trooper Brian Encinia, an officer later indicted and fired for lying on the police report concerning her arrest.
https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/b6wjh
Feb. 8th
Say It Loud / Black Folks Don't... (Episodes 5 & 6)
https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/9c6yg
Feb. 9th - The Green Siblings Project
The national debut of this 2021 film explores aspects of the lives of the Green Siblings– their navigations through the 1957 Little Rock Central High School Desegregation crisis and its long-term ramifications– and also draws connections with social and racial justice issues among indigenous communities in South Dakota where Treopia (Green) Washington and the film-makers Scott Simpson and Sharla Steever have worked for many years. (A panel discussion with Ernest Green will follow the film.)
https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/2af52
Feb. 10th - Say It Loud / Black Folks Don't... (Episodes 7 & 8)
https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/5d59u
Feb. 14th - Frederick Douglas & The White Negro
Commemorating the 204th birthday of Frederick Douglas, this screening shows a little-known segment of
his life as a recently self-emancipated Black man who lived in Ireland.
https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/30i8s
Feb. 15th - Say It Loud / Black Folks Don't... (Episodes 9 & 10)
https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/8dcrs
Feb. 17th - Say It Loud / Black Folks Don't... (Episodes 11 & 12)
https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/53zer
Feb. 19th - Village of Peace
Reveals the untold story of the African Hebrew Israelites, an incredible group originally from Chicago now thriving "Back in Africa" as a vegan community in Israel.
https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/ys5ye
Feb 21st - Who Killed Malcolm X?
On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X is murdered; three men are arrested, but only one admits to being part of the plot. Decades later, one activist pledges to find the real killers and vows to learn the truth about what officials knew regarding the crime.
https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/w56by
Feb. 24th - Tell Them We Are Rising
Vice President Kamala Harris has become the first HBCU graduate to hold this position; this film examines the culture of campus life at America's HBCUs.
https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/mol9e
Feb. 26th - Coded Bias
Joy Buolamwini, the Ghanaian-American founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, tells the story of how machine-learning algorithms — now ubiquitous in advertising, hiring, financial services, policing and many other fields — can perpetuate society’s existing race-, class- and gender-based inequities because of the data that they are fed.
https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/gza4q
Feb. 28th - Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
This 1995 docu-drama was the first film to explore Frantz Fanon, the pre-eminent theorist of the anticolonial movements of this century. Fanon's two major works, Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth, were pioneering studies of the psychological impact of racism on both the colonized and colonizer. This innovative film biography restores Fanon to his rightful place at the center of contemporary discussions around post-colonial identity.
https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/8btl1
Last updated: February 5, 2021