The online segment of the 16th Annual Harlem Int’l Film Festival is now available to watch until Sunday, May 9 at midnight.
Two international films making their world premieres virtually are Avril E. Russell’s ALL ON A SUMMER’S DAY, and Ílker Savaskurt’s REFLECTION (ÁKIS).
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.