Texas Black Film Festival
Texas Black Film Festival
Texas Black Film Festival Texas Black Film Festival Texas Black Film Festival

SIXTH ANNUAL
February 1 - 4, 2012!

Studio Movie Grill

DALLAS

The Texas Black Film Festival will host three (3) full days of entertaining and insightful films, workshops, and events. Programmed for family entertainment and inspired by the African-American experience, this festival will provide film makers an opportunity to reach audiences with films seldom recognized through major theatrical release.

Film categories will be screened in 2 hour blocks. Each block is a separate $8  ticketed event. 

To purchase ADVANCE TICKETS, scroll through the schedule and fill in the number of tickets you want for each scheduled screening, then either press your enter key or scroll to the bottom of page and click on "Buy Tickets". After going to the next screen, you may choose to pay by either PayPal or by major credit card. You will receive e-mail confirmation and your tickets will be at will-call the day of the screening.

Festival Pass – admission to all three days of festival screenings. You will receive e-mail confirmation and your pass(es) will be at will-call.

Day Pass – admission to a full day of screenings. Day passes $30. You will receive e-mail confirmation and your pass(es) will be at will-call.

Wednesday Pass
7:00p
$15 # of passes

Thursday Pass
10:00a – midnight

$30 # of passes

Friday Pass
10:00a – midnight

$30 # of passes

Saturday Pass
10:00a – midnight

$30 # of passes

Festival Pass

$75 # of passes


To purchase ADVANCE TICKETS, scroll through the schedule and fill in the number of tickets you want for each scheduled screening, then either press your enter key or scroll to the bottom of page and click on "Buy Tickets".

Film categories will be screened in 2 hour blocks. Each block is a separate $8  ticketed event. 

Wednesday February 1 2012

OPENING NIGHT SCREENING
7:00p
$15 # of tickets

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


To purchase ADVANCE TICKETS, scroll through the schedule and fill in the number of tickets you want for each scheduled screening, then either press your enter key or scroll to the bottom of page and click on "Buy Tickets".

Thursday February 2 2012
EDUCATIONAL SCREENING
10:00a
$8 # of tickets

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

SHOWTIME (1 hr) Ben Guest (MS)

SOLD OUT

FEATURE FILM
noon
$8 # of tickets

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

HISTORICAL
DOCUMENTARY SERIES 

2:00p
$8 # of tickets

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)

CLASSIC FILM
4:00p
$8 # of tickets

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.

SHORT FILM SERIES
6:00p

$8 # of tickets

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)

Road Rage by Heather Donnell (6 mins).

MOVIE and a MARTINI FEATURE
8:00p
$8 # of tickets

Paris Blues - (82 mins) Sidney Poitier Classic Starring Sidney Poitier, Diahann Carroll, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Licensed by Swank Motion Pictures for MGM/ United Artists.

TEXAS SCREENING
10:00p
$8 # of tickets

Free Your Sins  (13 mins) G. Lee Gordon

God’s Pub (15 mins) Troy Larkins

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 Larkins


To purchase ADVANCE TICKETS, scroll through the schedule and fill in the number of tickets you want for each scheduled screening, then either press your enter key or scroll to the bottom of page and click on "Buy Tickets".

Friday February 3 2012

PEACE STUDIES FEATURE
10:00a
$8 # of tickets

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

FILM MAKER WORKSHOP
noon
$8 # of tickets

DOCUMENTARY SERIES 
2:00p
$8 # of tickets

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)

SHORT FILM SERIES
4:00p
$8 # of tickets

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.

FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR
SHORT FILM SERIES
6:00p
$8 # of tickets

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.

FRIDAY NIGHT FEATURE
8:00p
$8 # of tickets

In The Hive" by Robert Townsend.

FEATURE FILM
10:00p
$8 # of tickets

Thugs, The Musical!  (25 mins) Liam Sullivan (CA)

I Aint Scared of You  - Tribute to Bernie Mac  (60 mins) Robert Small (NY).


To purchase ADVANCE TICKETS, scroll through the schedule and fill in the number of tickets you want for each scheduled screening, then either press your enter key or scroll to the bottom of page and click on "Buy Tickets".

Saturday February 4 2012

HIGH SCHOOL SCREENINGS
10:00a – noon
$5 # of tickets

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

KAMP HOLLYWOOD FILM PRODUCTION WORKSHOP FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
noon
$5 # of tickets

BLACK HISTORY PROGRAMME
2:00p
$8 # of tickets

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)

INSPIRATIONAL FILM SERIES
4:00p
$8 # of tickets

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)

FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
6:00p
$8 # of tickets

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

Texas Black Film Festival Awards
8:00pm
$8 # of tickets


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