The Black Arts Alliance will present the North Carolina Black Film Festival, formerly Cine Noir, March 24-27, 2011 in Wilmington, NC. In its 10th year, the four day juried and invitational festival of independent motion pictures by African-American filmmakers will showcase features, shorts, animation, and documentary films.

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10TH FESTIVAL EXPANDS TO SIX SCREENS


Wilmington, NC - March 11, 2011 The North Carolina Black Film Festival (formerly Cine Noir) will be held March 24-27, 2011, at Cameron Art Museum, Hannah Block USO Community Arts Center, Screen Gems Studios, and UNCW's Lumina Theater in Wilmington, NC. In its 10th year, the festival will showcase dozens of short and feature-length narratives, documentaries, and animation, with cash prizes awarded for the best films. Tickets are $5 per screening block and $25 for festival passes, which can be used to view any screening. Youth are admitted free to all age-appropriate screenings. The film schedule is posted at www.blackartsalliance.org.




Other highlights include:

CineMixer - Our opening reception will be held at Cameron Art Museum on Thursday, March 24, from 6-7 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. Sponsored by Ken Weeden & Associates.

Cameron Art Museum will also offer free tours of two new exhibits during the CineMixer:
Remembering BIG, honoring the life and work of the late Allen D. Carter, a.k.a. Big Al or Big, and From Heart to Hand - African-American Quilts from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.

Emerging Filmmaker Honorees - The 2011 honorees are Charlotte sisters Tajiya, Keita, and Saba. What started out as a hobby to entertain friends and family with self-made short movies has turned into a full-time business for the sisters, ages 13, 17, and 21. They have crafted everything on their animation projects from character drawings, scriptwriting, and music scoring, as well producing and directing each project as a team.

Red Carpet Event for Youth - In association with the screenings for our Emerging Filmmaker honorees, we will host a red carpet event for youth prior to the 2 p.m. screening block on Saturday, March 26, at the Community Arts Center.

Visiting Filmmakers - Specially arranged tours of Screen Gems Studios and other film industry venues will be held on Friday, March 25.

The NCBFF is produced by the Black Arts Alliance, Inc. Sponsors include the North Carolina Arts Council, the Landfall Foundation, Cameron Art Museum, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Screen Gems Studios, Hannah Block USO Community Arts Center, Ken Weeden & Associates, DigiEffects, Coast 97.3, and Colortyme.

Thursday, March 24, 2011
Cameron Art Museum

6:00 p.m.

CineMixer

Join us for the Opening Reception!

Sponsored by Ken Weeden & Associates
(Free and open to the public)

Cameron Art Museum will also offer free tours of two exhibitions during the CineMixer:

Remembering BIG, honoring the life and work of the late Allen D. Carter, a.k.a. Big Al or Big
From Heart to Hand - African-American Quilts from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.
7:00 p.m.

Opening Selection - TBA

riday, March 25, 2011
Screen Gems Studios


6:00 p.m. - Shorts Block

Punch Me
Director: Robert X. Golphin
With a romance on the rocks and a father on his sick bed, a young man must accept his true identity before he loses the two people he loves the most. (14 min)

Snipped
Director: Corey L. Branch
A short comedy about a man getting a vasectomy. (24 min)


Moth to a Flame
Director: Rosalyn Coleman Williams
Xavier is a man used to getting what he wants. A seemingly innocent visit with his ex-wife Audrey turns out to be anything but innocent. Xavier wants one thing and one thing only. Will she give it to him? (19 min)

BFF
Director: Rosalyn Coleman Williams
A wedding party stops in its tracks when the bride spots a familiar face in front of the church. (20 min)

They Call Me Dae
Director: Yasmin Shiraz
A teen girl brags about fighting other girls then her best-friend asks her to participate in a girl fight beat down. (6m)


Working Class
Director: Gary C. Hughes
A family struggles with losing what matters most; they will have to come together to overcome. (23 min)


Take Too Long
Director: Kwesi Davis
In the wake of hurricane Katrina, a young couple, Rich and Jessica, attempt to reunite with Rich's father, Lou Robinson, but an ignorant and under staffed police department (combined with massive flooding and disorganization of a city in peril) conspire to make the reunion almost impossible.


Wolf Call
Director: Rob Underhill
It is 1956. the previous year, 14-year-old Emmett Till from Chicago had gone missing in Money, Mississippi. Later, the boy's mutilated body was found in a river. William Bradford Huie of Look magazine sits down with the two men acquitted of the boy's murder, Roy Bryant, Jr. and J.W. Milam, to discuss the trial. Not a word had been uttered outside a courtroom by them or theier kin...until now.


8:00 p.m.

FILM HU$TLE
Feature Documentary, USA, 2010, TRT 78 mins.
Director/Exec Producer: Daron Fordham
A nuts and bolts, no-holds barred primer that every independent filmmaker needs to see chronicling the outrageous grassroots marketing campaign for the independently produced movie, "CONFESSIONS OF A THUG." After getting a distribution deal with Warner Bros., Daron Fordham and his filmmaking team discover that, "the deal is only the beginning..." with Bill Duke, John Martino, Sally Kirkland and Raymond Forchion as themselves...


Saturday, March 26, 2011

Hannah Block Historic USO Building
Second Street Stage

12:00 p.m.

Kirikou & the Sorceress
The tiny Kirikou is born into an African village upon which a sorceress called Karaba has cast a terrible spell: the spring has dried up, the villagers are being blackmailed, the men of the village have either been kidnapped or have mysteriously disappeared. But no sooner has Kirikou delivered himself from his mother's womb than he wants to rid the village of Karaba's curse and understand the cause of her wickedness.


2:00 p.m.

Join us for a red carpet screening of animated films by our 2011 Emerging Filmmaker honorees.

Mission Possible
Kwanzaa at My House
The Organic Four


4:00 p.m. - Shorts Block

Punch Me
Director: Robert X. Golphin
With a romance on the rocks and a father on his sick bed, a young man must accept his true identity before he loses the two people he loves the most. (14 min)

Snipped
Director: Corey L. Branch
A short comedy about a man getting a vasectomy. (24 min)

Moth to a Flame
Director: Rosalyn Coleman Williams
Xavier is a man used to getting what he wants. A seemingly innocent visit with his ex-wife Audrey turns out to be anything but innocent. Xavier wants one thing and one thing only. Will she give it to him? (19 min)

BFF
Director: Rosalyn Coleman Williams
A wedding party stops in its tracks when the bride spots a familiar face in front of the church. (20 min)

They Call Me Dae
Director: Yasmin Shiraz
A teen girl brags about fighting other girls then her best-friend asks her to participate in a girl fight beat down. (6m)

Working Class
Director: Gary C. Hughes
A family struggles with losing what matters most; they will have to come together to overcome. (23 min)

Take Too Long
Director: Kwesi Davis
In the wake of hurricane Katrina, a young couple, Rich and Jessica, attempt to reunite with Rich's father, Lou Robinson, but an ignorant and under staffed police department (combined with massive flooding and disorganization of a city in peril) conspire to make the reunion almost impossible.

Wolf Call
Director: Rob Underhill
It is 1956. the previous year, 14-year-old Emmett Till from Chicago had gone missing in Money, Mississippi. Later, the boy's mutilated body was found in a river. William Bradford Huie of Look magazine sits down with the two men acquitted of the boy's murder, Roy Bryant, Jr. and J.W. Milam, to discuss the trial. Not a word had been uttered outside a courtroom by them or theier kin...until now.


6:00 p.m.

Ghetto Physics
Directors: E. Raymond Brown and William Arntz
Heralded as " a radically ingenious, in-your-face documentary'bursting with insights' by the Philadelphia Inquirer, GHETTOPHYSICS takes an eye-opening look at the power relationships that permeate American society from the toughest street corners to Wall Street, from classrooms to boardrooms. The film utilizes documentary footage, animation, satire and dramatization to illustrate examples culled from the real world - be the players real-life pimps or corporate executives - repeating the same power dynamics that have persisted for centuries. The film includes interviews with notable entertainers and thinkers, such as Dr. Cornel West, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Ice-T, KRS-One, Too Short, John Perkins, former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, William H. Arntz (Co-Director) and Norman Lear. Of course, it also includes a colorful contingent of street characters.


8:00 p.m.

The Human Web
Director: Benedict Dorsey
CJ's pursuit of independence drives him into a world of thugging, betrayal, and revenge. Blissfully unaware, crippled by his refusal to avow he's trapped, CJ is on the brink of destruction, only to be rescued by a painfully eye-opening sacrifice which enables him to distinguish fact from fiction. 104 min

Saturday Doc Blocks

Community Arts Center
Peggy Farrell Room Screen
2nd & Orange
Wilmington

12:00 p.m.

Invisible Children
In the spring of 2003, three filmmakers traveled to Africa, producing a documentary about Africa's longest running war, where children are being kidnapped and turned into child soldiers by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). This caused the children to night commute, or walk miles nightly to avoid these troops. The film tells their story. Donations accepted.

2:00 p.m.

Reel Local: World War II
The late Hollis Briggs, Sr. gives his perspective on the treatment of African-American servicemen during World War II in this CBS special report.

Cointelpro 101

The Freedom Archives
A frank documentary about the official FBI Counter Intelligence Program that exposes the agency's illegal surveillance, disruption and murder in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. (56 min)


4:00 p.m.

From the Quarters to Lincoln Heights
Director: Mark Oliver
Undocumented story of thousands of African American people who migrated to northern California beginning in WWII to work in the expanding timber industry. 85 min


6:00 p.m.

Ladies & Gentlemen, Jordan Rock
Director: Michael Dennis
A snapshot of the younger brother of comedian Chris Rock as he tries to follow his own path on his own terms.

Black Masculinity in Comic Books
Director: Jonathan Gayles
Through interviews with prominent artists, scholars and cultural critics, along with images from the comic books themselves, this film examines the degree to which early Black Superheroes generally adhered to common stereotypes about Black men - from the humerous to the offensive. 52 min

Best of...
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Lavin Screen

Community Arts Center
Enjoy these encore screenings of previous officials selections at the North Carolina Black Film Festival, formerly Cine Noir Festival of Black Film.

To Be Announced

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Cameron Art Museum

2:00 P.M.

Welcome to Port City
Director: Nakia Hamilton


4:00 p.m.

Scorn
Director: Nick Dalmacy
Scorn takes a look at the trials and tribulations of a group of young people dealing with love, pain, and friendship as told through the eyes of an 8-year-old. 88 min


About Us
The Black Arts Alliance was founded in August, 1998, by a group of artists and arts patrons. Recognition as a 501(c)(3) organization was established in an advance ruling by the Internal Revenue Service effective September 23, 1999. The Alliance is governed by a volunteer board of directors, including five officers: President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Recording Secretary, and Membership Secretary. Board members and officers are elected for staggered terms at an annual meeting held in June of each year. Alliance members in good standing are allowed one vote at each quarterly and annual meeting. There are no paid staff positions.


The Mission
As a multidisciplinary vehicle for the advancement of African-American arts and culture, the Black Arts Alliance serves as an advocate for arts and artists, nurtures emerging and veteran artistic talent, and develops new works in the performing, visual, and literary arts.
As an alliance, we regularly collaborate with other institutions that share our mission, including the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Cape Fear Museum, Cape Fear Community College, the Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, et al. We have developed a loyal following of arts enthusiasts representing a broad cross-section of the community through distinctive programming.

The Board
President: Rhonda Bellamy
Vice-President - Daphne Holmes
Treasurer - Ken Weeden
Secretary - Charlon Turner
Octavia Coleman
Sandra (Harris) McClammy
Dr. Joanne Nottingham
Veda Wilson
Samm Art Williams

Thèmes :
Black Arts Alliance, Cine Noir, North Carolina Black Film Festival, Wilmington