Mamie Lang Kirkland was seven years old when she fled Ellisville, Mississippi in 1915 with her mother and siblings as her father and his friend, John Hartfield, escaped an approaching lynch mob.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, NYC’s Washington Heights neighborhood was considered the epicenter of America’s crack cocaine epidemic. Amid gang wars, street riots and growing tensions between citizens and police – the community needed a safe space, a political hub, a cultural center and a home-away-from-home.
If you missed the pandemic thriller that had its NY Festival Premiere at Harlem Int’l in September you can catch it now.
If you missed the New York Premiere of the film at the 2020 Festival, here’s your chance to catch this free uplifting screening of FIRST CHANCES.