A.P.T. Black History Month Film Festival 2022
Sun, Feb 27
|Queens
Black Speculative Fiction (Journey of the Black Creative), at the Bartos Screening Room. Hosted by Tuffy Questell and Vernon “Smij” Williams. In honor of Black History Month, with our community partner Museum of the Moving Image, we present our annual Black Film Celebration.
Time & Location
Feb 27, 2022, 2:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST
Queens, 36-01 35th Ave, Queens, NY 11106, USA
About the Event
The Afrikan Poetry Theatre’s annual film festival will highlight the rise of Black fiction and how Black history is preserved, reimagined, and remixed through the narrative form. This program celebrates the achievements of contemporary Black filmmakers, writers, and podcasters who work in the genre of speculative fiction—horror, historical fiction, fantasy, or science fiction. This day of free programming includes a speculative short film program, a panel discussion on Black Speculative Fiction moderated by Tuffy Questell, and a feature film presentation of the star-studded Netflix revisionist western The Harder They Fall.
Speculative Shorts
2:00pm
Each story in this shorts program takes us on a journey into futuristic and surreal worlds. The showcase includes a trailer for Barzack Towers, a sci-fi short created by students at the Afrikan Poetry Theatre; Jahmil Eady’s Heartland (2021), in which a woman attempts to immortalize her dying grandfather using virtual reality technology; Amirah Mohamed Tajdin’s Negotiating…