The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival, a program of the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, kicks off the UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FILM SERIES with food and film on September 21st.
The UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FILM SERIES & LE CORDON BLEU COLLEGE OF CULINARY ARTS
PRESENT
“PRESSURE COOKER”
DIR. Jennifer Grausman, Mark Becker
Tuesday, September 21
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: Le Cordon Bleu
360 Corporate [...]
The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival is pleased to partner with LE CORDON BLEU College of Culinary Arts to bring a unique screening experience to Seattle area audiences.
Join master chefs and chefs-in-training for an immersive culinary and cinema treat! Chefs will be on hand providing cooking demonstrations, tasty bites and insight on what it [...]
We just can’t quit A DIOS MOMO. This magical and vivid story of Obdulio a cheerful eleven-year-old Afro-Uruguayan boy who lives with his devoted grandmother and two sisters.
The Underground Railroad Film Series continues the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center’s Afro-Latino focus, exploring the intersections between Black and Brown people in the Americas. African slaves were [...]
This ambitious and hard-hitting documentary looks at the popularity of hip-hop among America’s white youth. It asks whether white identification is rooted in admiration and a desire to transcend race or if it is merely a new chapter in the long continuum of stereotyping, mimicry and cultural appropriation?
A much needed anecdote to much of the [...]
A tender, revealing documentary about one of the most famous and popular performing artists of the 20th century. Her legendary banana belt dance created theatre history; her song “J’ai deux amours” became a classic, and her hymn. The film focuses on her life and work from a perspective that analyses images of Black people in [...]
Nat Turner’s slave rebellion is a watershed event in America’s long and troubled history of slavery and racial conflict. Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property is directed by Charles Burnett and tells the story of that violent confrontation and of the ways that story has been continuously re-told during the years since 1831. It is a [...]
Roma Ndolo’s story is a parallel journey to that of President Barack Obama, who has a Euro-American mother and a Kenyan father, echoing the multicultural experience. My Father the Luo is a film about finding one’s identity.
PRESSURE COOKER captures a moment in time, as high school seniors – on the brink of adulthood – battle for achievement against a backdrop of uninspiring opportunities, with a determined and irreverent mentor leading the way.
Screens November 24, 2009 @ 7PM
Director: Mark Becker, Jennifer Grausman
Location: Soho Coffee Company 1918 E Yesler Wy, Seattle, WA 98122 [...]
The Underground Railroad Film Series (URFS) is the neighborhood participation component of the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival.
Each month from September through February, at various ‘safe houses’ in greater King County, the Underground Railroad Film Series partners with community groups, organizations and traditionally marginalized populations to host a screening of films by or about [...]
PROCEED AND BE BOLD
Dir. Laura Zinger
December 17, 2009 @7pm
(Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. scheduled to attend this screening)
Location: Hidmo, 2000 South Jackson Street, Seattle. Metro bus #14.
Suggested Donation $5
Kennedy will have art for sale at this event!
Perfect for holiday giving.
Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. is an internationally recognized printing press artist, though he would rather be referred [...]
