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.
8:00PM Warm 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