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Film Venue: Logan Center for the Arts
September 17, 2026
The Watermelon Woman
In 1990s Philadelphia, Cheryl (played by writer-director Cheryl Dunye), a twenty-something aspiring filmmaker working at a video rental store, embarks on a personal mission: uncovering the true identity of an elusive, uncredited 1930s Black Hollywood actress billed only as “The Watermelon Woman.”...
September 17, 2026
Victorian Psycho
In true Victorian gothic fashion, our story begins when a governess named Winifred Notty (Maika Monroe) arrives at Ensor House, an elegant manor owned by the oafish Mr. Pounds (Jason Isaacs). But unlike other governesses, she has a bloodthirsty streak underneath a thin veneer of middle-class prop...
September 17, 2026
Tricontinental, Letter to Open in Case Of
May 1966. Michèle Firk, a French film critic and contemporary of Jean-Luc Godard, becomes increasingly political, joining the anti-colonialist movements of the time and attending Havana’s Tricontinental Conference—a first-of-its-kind international meeting of anti-imperialist leaders and activists...
September 17, 2026
Black Perspectives Shorts: Love with No Place to Go
Crashing into the Montreal jazz scene, newly immigrated Koffi must navigate a new city and his father’s legacy in Jazz Infernal. In Speechless, a man spirals over his place in the family after his best-man speech gets stolen. Tell Me When You Get Home unearths poignant family lore using bold, col...
September 17, 2026
Chocolate Babies
Set against the height of the 1990s AIDS epidemic in New York City, Chocolate Babies centers on an underground cell of radical, HIV-positive Black and queer drag queens and community activists. Determined to expose government neglect and political corruption, the collective stages a series of bol...
