Events and Public Programs
Burning Cane
Cinema + Conversation
Phillip Youmans- Director of Burning Cane in a post screening discussion with Dr. Rhea Combs, Curator of Photography and Film and Director of the Center for African American Media Arts
December 15, 2019
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Waves
Cinema + Conversations
Wu-Tang Clan: ‘Of Mics and Men
Cinema + Conversation
Post-screening discussion
CAAMA / NMAAHC, May 5, 2019
The Burial of Kojo
Cinema + Conversation
March 25, 2019
Post screening discussion with Blitz Bazawule and Rhea Combs
Video
Amazing Grace
Cinema + Conversation
March 25, 2019
CAAMA / NMAAHC
Symposium
October 24 - 27, 2018
Video
Smithsonian African American Film Festival | Milford Graves: Full Mantis Performance
Film Festival
October 26, 2018
Video
Putney Swopes
Cinema + Conversation:
CAAMA / NMAAHC, July 2, 2017
Putney Swope post screening discussion with filmmaker Robert Downey, Sr. and Jordan Carlos.
Video
Women of the L.A. Rebellion
Cinema + Conversation:
CAAMA / NMAAHC, March 25, 2017
W.E.B. Dubois: A Biography in Four Voices
Screening:
CAAMA / NMAAHC, March 16, 2018
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The Rape of Recy Taylor
Screening:
CAAMA/NMAAHC, February 22, 2018
Marvel’s Black Panther
Screening:
CAAMA / NMAAHC, February 11, 2018
King: A Filmed Record…Montgomery to Memphis
Screening:
CAAMA / NMAAHC, January 25, 2018
An Affinity for Technique
Cinema + Conversation
CAAMA / NMAAHC, January 11, 2018
Marshall
Cinema + Conversation:
A dialogue between Will Haygood and Reginald Hudlin
CAAMA / NMAAHC, October 7, 2017
Video
Reimagining African Spiritualities
Cinema + Conversation:
CAAMA / NMAAHC, March 24, 2017
I AM SOMEBODY
Cinema + Conversation
Watts Stax
Cinema + Conversation:
CAAMA / NMAAHC, May 5, 2017
Boomerang
Cinema + Conversation
,CAAMA / NMAAHC, July 1, 2017
Represent: African Americans and the Advertising Industry
Symposium
,CAAMA / NMAAHC, July 1, 2017
Moonlight
Screening and Discussion
Post screening discussion led by museum curators Dr. Rhea Combs with film director and screenwriter Barry Jenkins, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, and cast members TreVante Rhodes, Naomi Harris, Andre Holland, with special guest filmmaker Julie Dash.
CAAMA / NMAAHC, October 25, 2016
I Am Not Your Negro
Historically Speaking:
Screening and Discussion with Rahul Peck
CAAMA / NMAAHC, February 1, 2017
Fences
Screening and Discussion
Post screening discussion with director Denzel Washington and cast.
CAAMA / NMAAHC, 6 December, 2016
Loving
Screening and Discussion
Featuring the Director and Cast
CAAMA / NMAAHC, October 24, 2016