FRIDAY APRIL 23rd - Leading Local Talent
FREE ADMISSION
7:30PM
EVERYDAY BLACK MAN (105 min.)
Dir. Carmen Madden, 2009
Filmmaker in attendance
Since closing the door to a violent past, quiet and thoughtful Moses Stanton’s existence is running a small neighborhood store, and watching over his daughter who doesn’t know he exists. When a young man, Malik, comes in claiming to be a black Muslim that is doing good for the neighborhood, Moses takes him on as a partner but soon realizes that Malik is nothing but a drug dealer seeking to destroy the neighborhood and Moses’s daughter. Therefore, Moses must become the man he used to be in order to save his beloved neighborhood and his daughter.
9:30 PM
A DAY LATE IN OAKLAND (26 min.)
Dir. Zachary Stauffer, 2009
Filmmaker in attendance
On the morning of August 2, 2007, a man wearing a ski mask and carrying a shotgun walked up to a local reporter named Chauncey Bailey and shot him three times. It happened in the United States, where a journalist hasn't been murdered for his work since 1993. The next day, 200 police rushed the headquarters of Your Black Muslim Bakery, a business that was long seen as a bastion of black empowerment in Oakland, California. Political and civic leaders embraced the bakery throughout its nearly 40-year history, despite its troubling and hidden legacy of violence and abuse. Mixing interviews with archival footage, photographs, news clippings, and public documents, A Day Late in Oakland follows Bailey’s life and the evolution of the bakery, from their common roots to their troubling intersection.
A LIFE TAKEN (45 min)
Dir. by Josh Banville, 2010
Filmmaker in attendance
For Shawn Drumgold 1989 was a roller coaster year. He proposed to his high school sweetheart, had a baby girl, and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. In a prison visiting room, with guards acting as his witnesses, he exchanged vows with his wife and made her a promise: he would return home. Fifteen years later Shawn Drumgold made good on his word.
If you missed EVERYDAY BLACK MAN on April 23rd, or if you just want to see it again, be sure not to miss her next screening at The Bal Theater in San Leandro on May 21st and 22nd with special musical guest DWAYNE WIGGINS of TONY TONI TONE.
