Now in its third year, The Boston Globe’s Black History Month Film Festival will honor and celebrate the lives, culture, and creativity of Black Americans through film. Both classic and new works will be made available for virtual viewing throughout the month. Each screening will also be followed by a virtual panel event to provide insight and context for these stories of strength, joy, and love. Join Globe writers and editors, filmmakers, and talent for these five installments.
Sign up once to be registered for free for all virtual Black History Month film events.
To sign up and get full schedule, visit: https://tinyurl.com/ms9eykvf
Embrace: The Kings
Stream the film, February 1-5
Discussion: Monday, 2/6, 3:00 p.m.
In honor of the unveiling of The Embrace Memorial, NBC10Boston and The Boston Globe presents a special half-hour documentary on the time that Martin Luther King, Jr., and wife Coretta Scott King spent in Boston.
Watch the full story of love now at https://tinyurl.com/32xf3hv9
In partnership with NBC10Boston, GlobeDocs.
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Attend the screening
Friday, February 10, 7:00 p.m.
Location: Museum of Fine Arts,465 Huntington Ave., Boston, Mass. 02115, Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161),
Join us for a special screening in celebration of the Roxbury International Film Festival’s 25th year! Based on the bestselling biography of the same name by Jeanne Theoharis and executive produced by award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien, this crucial documentary about the “mother of the civil rights movement,” Rosa Parks, is a comprehensive telling of the icon’s lifelong dedication to activism.
Co-presented with the Boston Globe’s A Beautiful Resistance initiative, the Boston Globe Black History Month Film Festival, and Embrace Boston. Followed by a Q&A with the director moderated by Callie Crossley. In partnership with Roxburyu International Film Festival and MFA Boston.
Tickets: $12/members; $15/non members. Order online at https://tinyurl.com/4dhjwc84. To order tickets by phone, call 1-800-440-6975 ($6 processing fee applies); to order in person, visit any MFA ticket desk.
Watch the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvYejuYHWX4
Set it Off
Stream the film—February 8-12
Discussion: Monday, 2/13, 3:00 p.m.
An action-packed saga about four embittered, strong-willed women who decide to beat the system and become bank robbers. Featuring Jada Pinkett, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, and Kimberly Elise. Directed by F. Gary Gray.
Sign up at https://tinyurl.com/ms9eykvf
A Beautiful Resistance, Season 3
Stream the film—February 15-19
Discussion: Tuesday, 2/21, 3:00 p.m.
Jeneé Osterheldt, Senior Assistant Managing Editor for Culture, Talent & Development at The Boston Globe created A Beautiful Resistance — to celebrate and center Black Joy and Black lives and the lives of other folk of color, too. A multimedia series, it features written stories, Q&A, Instagram posts, playlists, and a docuseries.
Osterheldt teamed up with three Boston filmmakers of color to help bring her vision to life and ensure these stories were told through a lens of love, through a lens of community, in a way that counters the lies we’ve been told about Blackness.
Sign up at https://tinyurl.com/ms9eykvf
In partnership with GlobeDocs, A Beautiful Resistance.
James Hemings: A Ghost in America’s Kitchen
Stream the film—February 22-26
Discussion: Monday, 2/27, 3:00 p.m.
June 20, 1790. A dinner party, at the home of then Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, that may have saved the newly formed United States of America from financial collapse. In the room where it happened were Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and…a ghost, James Hemings.
Who was James Hemings? The bigger question is how could such an important figure in American culinary history become a ghost in our kitchens? The answer is mired in our complex history of race and the still biting effects of slavery on our society.
“A Ghost in America’s Kitchen” explores the life, contributions and erasure of the culinary founding father, James Hemings.
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In partnership with Roxbury International Film Fest, GlobeDocs
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