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AFRICAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
Inventing Beauty
18th African American Film Festival
February 15–18 • Curated by Terri Francis
6-Show Series $70 • Includes opening night reception • All films in Rinker Playhouse
Save $30 when purchasing the entire festival • All feature films rated PG • General
admission
THE KRAVIS CENTER
African American Film Festival
INVENTING BEAUTY
It’s often said that beauty is in the
eye of the beholder and that beauty
is only skin-deep. Yet, beauty is
power. So, what is beauty? Where
does it come from and what does
it mean to us today? Join author,
curator and film scholar Terri
Francis for the 18TH AFRICAN
AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL.
Francis and her special guests take
you on a cinematic journey through
the social, historical and personal
dynamics of how we learn and
question what and who we (should)
find beautiful in the context of
ground-breaking and gorgeous
African American films. The films
in INVENTING BEAUTY invite us to
reflect on our personal and perhaps
shifting notions of beauty—a
concept that is as intimate as it
is social, as timeless as it is
always changing.
BLACK BARBIE:
A DOCUMENTARY
(2023) Rated PG (1 hour 40 minutes)
Thursday, February 15 at 7pm
Moderated by Director and Filmmaker,
Lagueria Davis, Curator, Terri Francis
and Producer, Writer and Filmmaker,
Imani Warren
This revelatory documentary focuses
on the little-known history of the
African American designers at Mattel
who imagined and created the iconic
Black Barbie doll.
Tickets $25
Includes opening night reception
prior to film on Thursday, February 15
at 6pm
Refreshments will be served.
LOSING GROUND (1982) Feature (1 hour, 26 minutes)
AN ECSTATIC EXPERIENCE (2015) Short
Friday, February 16 at 7pm
Moderated by Director, Filmmaker and Artist,
Ja’Tovia Gary and curator Terri Francis
Kathleen Collins’s feature film, Losing Ground, focused
on the tensions between freedom and fidelity, abstraction
and representation in this American independent film.
In her experimental short film, An Ecstatic Experience,
Gary explores themes of beauty, resistance and freedom.
Tickets $15
PEAK performances made possible by a grant from the MLDauray Arts Initiative in honor of Leonard
and Sophie Davis
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Guests attending PEAK performances in the Rinker Playhouse and Persson Hall will receive one
complimentary beverage with every ticket purchased (underage guests will be offered a non-alcoholic
selection).