Video from BIFF Panel: Racial Justice In View


Oct 11 @ 3:00pm-4:00pm – live discussion streamed to social + website
This panel is comprised of filmmakers presenting work in Buffalo Int’l Film Festival’s Racial Justice in View Shorts Block – a curated program of shorts that includes documentary, experimental, video essays, and everything in between – exploring racism, protest, police brutality and inequality in the United States, Canada and sovereign Indigenous lands. Discussion will focus on the film selections and related topics.
Panelists:
"The Ascendants" Director Ladan Osman + Producer/DP Joe Penney
"Graffica" Director Yogi Data
"Hustle" Director Xavier Cousins
"Ego of a Nation" + "Monologue Harmonic" Writer, Producer and Performer Janet Rogers
"Monologue Harmonic" Director Yuma Dean Hester
"Shoulders Deep" Director John Fiege
Moderators:
Rachael Homewood + Tammy McGovern + Anna Scime
Video from BIFF Panel: Racial Justice In View

Still from BIFF Panel: Racial Justice In View
Video from The Ascendants (Episode 2)
Directed by: Ladan Osman

Still from The Ascendants (Episode 2)
Directed by: Ladan Osman
Video from Graffica!
Directed by: Yogi Dada

Still from Graffica!
Directed by: Yogi Dada

Still from Hustle
Directed by: Xavier Cousens

Still from Ego of a Nation
Directed by: Wes Da
Video from Monologue Harmonic
Directed by: Yuma Dean Hester

Still from Monologue Harmonic
Directed by: Yuma Dean Hester

Docs, video essays and narratives that shine a light on race, (de)colonialism, and inequity in the US, Canada and nearby Indigenous Nations.

Fleeing Mississippi in 1915 as her father escaped a lynch mob, Mamie Lang Kirkland resettles and eventually raises her family in Buffalo.
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A portrait of the larger than life Walter Perry, organizer of the largest Emancipation Day celebration in the world.
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