7pm, Thursday, November 10, 2011
Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater

FILM * PANEL * RECEPTION

In Alrick Brown's moving directorial feature debut, a young Tutsi woman and a young Hutu man fall in love amidst chaos, a soldier struggles to foster a greater good while absent from her family, and a priest grapples with his faith in the face of unspeakable horror. Six intimate stories are interwoven to illustrate both tragedy and triumph. KINYARWANDA is the winner of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival's World Cinema Audience Award.

Join the ImageNation Cinema Foundation and the Film Society of Lincoln Center for a special advance screening, followed by a reception and talkback with the director, survivor Marie Claudine Mukamabano and Imam Talib Abdur Rashid. Reception by SoulFixins.com.

In 1991, The New York Times Magazine ran a cover story about the unprecedented number of black films released by Hollywood. Produced both inside and outside the studio system, these films heralded the arrival of a new generation of filmmakers, including Spike Lee, John Singleton, Mario Van Peebles, Robert Townsend, the Hudlin brothers, and Matty Rich. The films released that year, including Boyz n the Hood, New Jack City, Jungle Fever, and Straight out of Brooklyn, sparked a cultural explosion that still reverberates.

Author and filmmaker Nelson George will present a keynote address at the Museum of the Moving Image including clips from key films of the era and followed by live interviews onstage via Skype with major filmmakers from the period. John Singleton is confirmed.

The program will conclude with a town hall discussion, organized with the assistance of Sheril D. Antonio, Associate Dean at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and led by key faculty members.

Joining the discussion will be filmmakers, film programmers, critics and journalist to critique and comment on the trajectory of black cinema over the past twenty years, its impact on American culture, and its future direction.