Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 17:00:58 -0700 From: newsreel@ix.netcom.com (California Newsreel) California Newsreel and Tara Releasing present BLACK IS...BLACK AIN'T Produced and directed by: Marlon T. Riggs 1995 Sundance Film Festival - Filmmaker's Trophy 1995 Black Filmmakers' Hall of Fame - Best of Festival 1995 San Francisco Int'l Film Festival - Golden Gate Award **"Like Marlon himself, BLACK IS... is brilliant, thoughtful, undaunted by anticipated criticism,and profoundly salutary to our health. It's a powerful, *interesting*, riveting film." - Alice Walker **"Riggs' eye turns pain into poetry, ordinary people into prophets. To put it simply: BLACK IS...BLACK AIN'T is moving and brilliant." - Gloria Naylor **"Riggs couldn't have left a more effective or challenging legacy to the black community...Not just an insightful discussion of black consciousness, but a major contribution to the exploration of how we develop our identities." - Variety _________________________________________________________ BLACK IS...BLACK AIN'T may be the most powerful and controversial work yet by the late Emmy and Peabody winning filmmaker Marlon Riggs, who died of AIDS in April 1994. The groundbreaking documentary boldly confront conflicts over African American identity. BLACK IS...BLACK AIN'T eschews traditional story telling for a more lyrical approach. It weaves a moving patchwork of dance, music, visual essays and performance with the testimony of those who have felt uncomfortable and even silenced within the race because their complexion, class, gender, speech, or sexuality has rendered them "not black enough," or conversely, "too black." Threading the film together is Riggs' own search for meaning and self-affirmation as his health deteriorates from AIDS. BLACK IS...features commentary and performance from bell hooks, Cornel West, Angela Y. Davis, Michele Wallace, Barbara Smith, Maulana Karenga, Essex Hemphill, Bill T. Jones and Riggs himself. BLACK IS...BLACK AIN'T is a film no one concerned about issues of identity and how they divide us can ignore. *MAY SCREENINGS* FILMFEST DC Washington, DC 202-274-6829 *APR 29, MAY 3* ROXIE CINEMA San Francisco 415-863-1087 *MAY 5 - 11* UC THEATRE Berkeley,CA 510-843-6267 *MAY 15 - 17* INSIDE OUT FEST. Toronto,CANADA 416-977-6847 *MAY 18* ZEITGEIST New Orleans, LA 504-524-0064 *MAY 19 - until* ATLANTA FILM & VIDEO FEST. Atlanta, GA 404-352-4225 *MAY 24* SEATTLE INT'L FILM FEST. Seattle, WA 206-324-9996 *MAY 26, JUNE 2* FOR MORE INFORMATION: California Newsreel 149 9th St. San Francisco CA 94103 tel: 415-621-6196 fax: 415-621-6522 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ END MESSAGE ****************************************************************************** To send a message to the entire list "glbpoc", email glbpoc@abacus.oxy.edu To contact the List Manager, email glbpoc-owner@abacus.oxy.edu *******************************************************************************