REMIX Summer Spotlight: Black Coming-of-Age Stories
Aug. 20–25, 2021
The coming-of-age stories featured in this series highlight Black characters who experience hardship but retain the ability and the fervent desire to imagine abundant futures. The hopelessness and violence of last summer demands a counter-narrative and so this program exists as a balm and a reclamation of summertime for stories of Black youthfulness, heartache, growth, and freedom. —Saidah Russell, Film Programmer
Crooklyn
Aug. 20, 2021
Spike Lee’s semi-autobiographical period piece is a tender and heartfelt portrait of the Carmichaels, a Black middle class family living…
The Wood
Aug. 21, 2021
Three old friends—Mike (Omar Epps), Roland (Taye Diggs), and Slim (Richard T. Jones)—recount memories of their shared childhood in Inglewood,…
Midnight in Paris
Aug. 23, 2021
Shot in 2012—two years before the water crisis began—this charming, warmhearted film focuses on six Flint, Michigan, teenagers and their…
Miss Juneteenth
Aug. 24, 2021
A former beauty queen, now struggling to make ends meet as a single mom, prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for…
Cane River
Aug. 25, 2021
Written, produced, and directed by Emmy Award-winning documentarian Horace B. Jenkins, Cane River is a racially-charged love story set in…
Our Song
Oct. 28, 2021
Our Song is a clear-eyed, unsentimental look at three teenage girls (played by Kerry Washington, Anna Simpson, and Melissa Martinez)…
This series is presented with generous support from
