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The COSMIC RAYS FILM FESTIVAL is an annual celebration of short films that expand our idea of what film is and what it can be. The Festival presents several programs of short films made by filmmakers from North Carolina and around the world that are formally inventive; speak with a personal voice; and are inspired... Read More →
Join us for the next screening in the Ackland Film Forum’s Spring 2023 series Do Something: Responding to Climate Change presented by UNC Film Studies and the Ackland Art Museum. “The Last Forest” (Luiz Bolognesi, Brazil, 2021) Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin Street | 7:30 p.m. Free Tickets at the Varsity Theatre Introduction by Dr.... Read More →
Join us for the next screening in the Ackland Film Forum’s Spring 2023 series Do Something: Responding to Climate Change presented by UNC Film Studies and the Ackland Art Museum. Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006) Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin Street | 7:30 p.m. Free Tickets at the Varsity Theatre Introduction by Dr. Rick Warner... Read More →
Join us for the second screening in the Ackland Film Forum’s Spring 2023 series “Do Something: Responding to Climate Change” presented by UNC Film Studies Program and the Ackland Art Museum. Join the artist collective known as Ghost of a Dream – Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom – as they present an evening of their... Read More →
Join us as we kick off the 2019 Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film with a screening of Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart. LORRAINE HANSBERRY: SIGHTED EYES / FEELING HEART Dir.: Tracy Heather Strain | USA | 2017 | |118 Min | Documentary A documentary feature about Lorraine Hansberry, whose play A RAISIN IN THE SUN... Read More →
Dir.: Joel Katz, USA 57 min. Join us at Chapel Hill landmark, Varsity Theatre, for a screening of Strange Fruit, the first documentary exploring the history and legacy of the Billie Holiday classic. The song’s evolution tells a dramatic story of America’s radical past using one of the most influential protest songs ever written as... Read More →
Intertwining jazz genealogy, biography, performance footage, and the history of lynching, director Joel Katz fashions a fascinating discovery of the lost story behind a true American classic.
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