The New Negress Society will host a free virtual conversation with Third Horizon on October 28th at 6:30pm.
New Negress Film Society invites you to its inaugural Collective Conversations Series. This virtual conversation series features scholars and filmmakers amplifying communal forms of filmmaking while centering the political act of collectivity.
On Thursday, Oct 28th at 6:30PM ET, the series will kick off with Romola Lucas and Monica Sorelle, two members of the creative collective Third Horizon.
This free and public event series will be recorded and made available on the New Negress Film Society’s website. Selected film clips representing several film and media collectives will screen on loop at the Maysles Documentary Center storefront as part of our #SidewalkCinema.
New Negress Film Society is a collective of Black women and non-binary filmmakers who create community, spaces, and films that reimagine cultural productions that have traditionally exploited our communities. The work we create, the programming we offer, and the conversations we facilitate are all rooted in a legacy of collective artmaking, institution-building, and consciousness-raising grounded in the personal and political realities of Black people.
Third Horizon is dedicated to developing, producing, exhibiting, and distributing film and other art forms that give voice to the stories of the Caribbean, its diaspora, and other marginalized and underrepresented spaces in the Global South. Their flagship initiative is the Third Horizon Film Festival, which takes place every year in Miami and celebrates the exciting new wave of cinema and creativity emerging from the Caribbean and its diaspora. It was recently named “one of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World” by MovieMaker Magazine.
More about the films at our #SidewalkCinema:
Papa Machete
Jonathan David Kane, 2014, 11 minutes
Two hundred years ago, Haitian slaves defeated Napoleon's armies with the same tool used to work the land: the machete. Papa Machete explores a martial art evolved from this victory through the practice of one of its few remaining masters.
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Keisha Rae Witherspoon, 2019, 14 minutes
A film crew follows three grieving participants of Miami’s annual T Ball, where folks assemble to model R.I.P. t-shirts and innovative costumes designed in honor of their dead.
A Look Back
2018, 1 minute
A look back on the 2018 Third Horizon Film Festival.
