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SIXTH ANNUAL
February 1 - 4, 2012!

Studio Movie Grill

DALLAS

TBFF 2012 SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY Feb. 1

7:00 PM OPENING NIGHT SCREENING

            Kiss and Tell (Black Romance in Film) by Darryl Pitts (IL)


THURSDAY Feb. 2

10AM  - EDUCATIONAL SCREENING

One Call Away (17 mins)  Warren Burke (CA)

SHOWTIME (1 hr) Ben Guest (MS)

SOLD OUT


12:00 Noon  --- Feature Film

Zer01ne (90 mins) Feature by Kareem Gray (TX)


2:00PM ---  HISTORICAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES

Black Baseball in Indiana – Paul Weller (IN)

On the Road to Memphis: from Memphis to D.C. – Antonio James (Memphis, TN)

On That Road  (Reliving the Civil Rights Movement) - Barbara Irwin (Buffalo, NY)


4:00PM --- CLASSIC FILM

Presented by SMU Division of Film and Media Arts

Blood of Jesus. Feature (53 mins) An historical African-American film by Spencer Williams, restored by the SMU Division of Film and Media Arts.


6:00PM  SHORT FILM SERIES

Okechukwu  - Short by Anayo Amuzie (16 mins); Mikel’s Faith by Alexander Etseyatse (30 mins); Doorways  (19 mins) by Tosin Coker; Broken Silence by Gerrad Wilson (20 mins); Grace by Salli Richardson Whitfield (10 mins).


8:00PM  Movie and a Martini  Feature


10:00PM  TEXAS SCREENING

Free Your Sins  (13 mins) G. Lee Gordon; God’s Pub (15 mins) Troy Larkin;

Catholic School Boys (10 mins) Theada Redwine; The Becoming Box  (16 mins) Monique Walton; Finding Kismet  (12 mins) Armani Valentino;  Elevator Ride (10 mins) Troy Larkin.


FRIDAY Feb. 3

10AM  FAMBUL TOK (Feature 82 mins) Sara Terry (France)


12:00 Noon ---  WORKSHOP


2:00PM --- DOCUMENTARY SERIES

Close Ties: Tying on a New Tradition –by Gemal Woods (Washington DC); Who is Wright by Mike Mo (Sharon, PA); Kenya Boys by Alvin Shen (KENYA); April’s Hero by Dwight Cammeron (Tuscaloosa, AL); The XY Project by Kathryn Morrissey (Austin TX)


4:00PM – SHORT FILM SERIES

Kissed by the Devil  (25 mins) M. Legend Brown & Sharice Henry Chasi; Keeper of the Flame  (30 mins) Brian Nelson ; First Day Home  (15 mins) Drew Louis; The Pony Man (22 mins) by Chane’t Johnson.


6:00PM HAPPY HOUR SHORTS

Polar Reversal (7 mins) Alistar Johnson (Canada); Saved   (13 mins) James Williams, III; Gut Feeling  (15 mins) Aaron Downs; Odessa  (7 mins) Aaron Thompson; Time Calls  (12 mins) Nancy Stricklin (AL); Their Eyes Were Watching Gummy Bears  (20 mins) Raafi Rivero (NJ); The Save  (8 mins) Jean-Marc Le Doux (NH); Interception    (10 mins) Jason Neudecker; The Photographs of Your Junk Will Be Televised  (6 mins) Ronnie Butler, Jr.


8:00PMWarm December  - Sidney Poitier Classic


10:00

Thugs, The Musical!  (25 mins) Liam Sullivan (CA); I Aint Scared of You  - Tribute to Bernie Mac  (60 mins) Robert Small (NY).


SATURDAY Feb 4

10:00  High School Screening: Featured Short - Double Agent (16 mins) Althea Brown (GA); also, short films from select area high school film students.


12:00 Noon  Kamp Hollywood film production workshop for high school students.

2:00  Black History Programme - Harriet Returns (10 mins) Marquis Smalls (NJ); One Call Away  (17 mins) Warren Burke (CA); Stepping: Beyond The Line (46 mins) Dee Garceau (TN).


4:00  INSPIRATIONAL SHORT FILM SERIES

Chasing the Train  (18 mins); The Collegians    (18 mins) Brian Lewis (FL); Brotherly Love  (17 mins) Choice Skinner (CA); The Cleaning Lady (10 mins) Tom Brandau (MN); Junior and the Saint   (15 mins) Lamont Stephens (NJ); Finding Soil  (8 mins) Torch Eberhart (FL); A Higher Power  (14 mins) Jacolby Percy (TX).


6:00 –  Feature Documentary

The Contradictions of Fair Hope by S. Epatha Merkerson (NY)


8:00 – TBFF Awards

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