Queer Black Cinema International Film Festival 2009 Curated by Angel L. Brown

10:00am – 1:00pm 

Brunch with Black Queer Writers               

Continental style brunch with screenwriters and authors including booking signings.

CD's Cakes Sponsored Event

1:00pm – 3:00pm

Closing Film:

Anacostia (New York Premiere)                     

Anthony Anderson, Web/TV Series, 2009, 80 min.

From the Writer and Producer of the award winning Independent Film The Ties That Bind comes an independent web series like no other. Anacostia the series follows the lives of four friends as they navigate life and love.

The director and cast will be in attendance

3:00pm- 4:00pm                       

Queer Black Cinema Awards Ceremony

Sunday, Oct. 18

7:00 pm

Co-Presented by Friends of the Congo

Mobutu, King of Zaire

Dir. Thierry Michel, 1999, 135 min.

 Following two years of investigation, this documentary charts the amazing life Congo’s eponymous dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko.