2023 - 2024 Kravis Center Season Brochure - Flipbook - Page 51
FESTIVAL PANELISTS
Saturday February 17 at 2pm
Moderated by Director Stefani Saintonge,
Professor Tiffany Gilbert and Curator Terri Francis
In this charming literary adaptation, Bright Road, Dorothy
Dandridge and Harry Belafonte play a caring teacher
and a thoughtful school principal who mentor a troubled
but gifted student. Stefanie Saintonge’s short film about
friendship in the tumultuous tween years, Seventh Grade.
Tickets $15
ISLAND IN THE SUN (1957) (2 hours)
Saturday, February 17 at 7pm
Terri Francis
PhD, Associate Professor
of Cinematic Arts, School of
Communication University
of Miami
Moderated by Professor Tiffany Gilbert and Curator
Terri Francis
James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Harry Belafonte, Dorothy
Dandridge and Joan Collins star in this drama that
explores the politics of beauty, family and interracial
relationships in a Caribbean society.
Tickets $15
Lagueria Davis
Director, Filmmaker
Imani Warren
Producer, Writer,
Filmmaker
Ja’Tovia Gary
Director, Filmmaker,
Artist
Stefani Saintonge
Filmmaker, Educator,
Editor
Helen Peña
Filmmaker, Curator,
Activist
Tiffany Gilbert
PhD, Chair and Professor
of the Department of
English at the University
of North Carolina
Wilmington
RUBY BRIDGES (1998) (1 hour 36 minutes)
Sunday, February 18 at 2pm
Moderated by Curator Terri Francis and guest panelists
French director Euzahn Palcy’s docudrama, Ruby Bridges,
presents the heroic and beautiful portrayal of a little
girl’s gigantic courage as an instrument of historical
transformation in American society.
Tickets $15
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (1991) Feature (1 hour 52 minutes)
WHEN ANGELS SPEAK OF LOVE (2021) Short
Sunday, February 18 at 6:30pm
Moderated by Filmmaker and Community Organizer
Helen Peña and Curator Terri Francis
Daughters of the Dust portrays the conflict of tradition
and change for a close-knit Gullah family on the cusp of
migration north and is credited with inspiring some of the
beautiful imagery in Beyoncé’s Lemonade (2016). Peña’s
poignant portrait of a grieving woman, When Angels Speak
of Love, evokes mythical mermaids and political realities.
Tickets $15
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AFRICAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
BRIGHT ROAD (1953) Feature (1 hour 9 minutes)
SEVENTH GRADE (2014) Short (Mature Content)