Join us in celebrating award-winning artist Lonnie Holley’s 73rd birthday with a special global screening of Thumbs Up for Mother Universe, which won Best Documentary at Harlem International in 2020.
If you missed the film’s North American premiere at the Harlem International Film Festival right before it went on to win our 2021 New York Vision Award, or you just want to watch it again from the comfort of your own home, then now’s your chance.
Before Citizen Kane and the War of the Worlds, leading Broadway actress Rose McClendon and producer John Houseman convinced a gifted but untested 20-year-old Orson Welles to direct Shakespeare’s Macbeth with an all-Black cast in Harlem’s Lafayette Theater.
