Summer 2016: Newark Black Film Festival

Newark Black Film Festival 2016

All screenings are at the museum and followed by a discussion/speaker, unless otherwise noted. 

• June 29:  What happened, Miss Simone?
  Speaker: Mayor Ras J. Baraka
   
• July 6: The Watsons Go to Birmingham
  Speaker: Deborah Smith-Gregory, NAACP
   
• July 13:  A Ballerina’s Tale
  Speaker: Nelson George, Filmmaker
   

• July 20:  Lee Hagan: Connecting Generations
  We Came & Stayed
  The Hon. Donald M. Payne
   
• July 27: Ayanda
  Speaker: Sara Blecher, Writer/Director
   
• Aug 3: Paul Robeson Awards 
  at CityPlex 12 Theatre

Newark Black Film Festival: Youth Cinema 

Youth Cinema will be held on Mondays at The Newark Public Library at 10:30am and at the Newark Museum on Wednesdays at 1pm unless
otherwise noted.

• July 6: Newark Library    
  I Lost My Tooth in Africa
  Cliques, Phonies & Other Baloney
  Tar Beach
  Ages 4-12 
   
• July 11 @ Newark Library AND July 13 @ Newark Museum
  Dancing in the Light: The Janet Collins Story
  Galimoto
  The Hunterman and the Crocodile
  Ages 4-12 
   
• July 18 @ Newark Library AND July 20 Newark Museum
  The Golden Blaze
  Rated G
   
• July 25 @ Newark Library AND July 27 @ Newark Museum
  Uncle Jed’s Barbershop
  Global Wonders Around the World
  An Apple for Harriet Tubman
  Rated G
   
• Aug 1 @ Newark Library  AND Aug 3    Newark Museum
  The Anansi Spider Collection
  Robinita Hood
  Rated G
   
• Aug 8 @ Newark Library AND Aug 10@ Newark Museum
  Polly
  Rated G