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7th Annual BlackStar Film Festival
Start Date: 8/2/2018 All Day
End Date: 8/2/2018

Event Description
These listings are for Thursday 8/2, for a full festival schedule click here
 
The BlackStar Film Festival is an annual celebration of the visual and storytelling traditions of the African diaspora and of global indigenous communities, showcasing films by black people from around the world.

Thursday, 8/2 in the Screening Room:
 
5pm – Not My Neighborhood  BUY TICKETS
Gentrification has been constantly, falsely, perpetuated as a process of affirmative social renovation. However, despite these forced agendas, the controversy of displacement, conflict and loss of affordable housing has led to one communal response: Resistance. Award-winning filmmaker Kurt Orderson offers an insightful look into the lives of those who are struggling against the atrocities of Gentrification, Urban Renewal, Architectural Apartheid and Spatial Violence. He cohesively facilitates an international dialogue by exploring the parallels of the current urban environments in three seemingly disparate cities: São Paulo, Cape Town and New York. Not In My Neighbourhood portrays an “on the ground” approach which evokes poignantly beautiful personal sentiments that are effortlessly juxtaposed with the courageous  ability of the ordinary citizen mobilising for their right to the city.

7pm MILWAUKEE 53206 BUY TICKETS
MILWAUKEE 53206 chronicles the lives of those affected by incarceration in America's most incarcerated ZIP code. Through the intimate stories of three 53206 residents, we witness the high toll mass incarceration takes on individuals and families that make-up the community.

Preceded by:
Nuuca
Over the last decade, an oil boom in North Dakota has seen the state’s population double with primarily male workers flocking to the region. With this dramatic increase has come an influx of drugs, crime and sexual violence. Nuuca is an evocative meditation revealing the connections between the rape of the earth and the violence perpetrated against Indigenous women and girls.

Contact Information:
Name: Pearlstein Gallery
Phone: 215-895-2548
Email: gallery@drexel.edu
Location:
Screening Room (rm 110)
URBN Center Annex | 3401 Filbert Street
Audience:
  • Everyone

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