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✨🎶 BLACK SONIC EVOLUTIONS FILM HIGHLIGHT 🎶✨ 
 
🎬 JEWEL’S CATCH ONE (2016)  
Dir. C. Fitz 
📽 85 mins 
 
💎JEWEL’S CATCH ONE celebrates the legacy of Catch One, a legendary Los Angeles nightclub and th

✨🎶 BLACK SONIC EVOLUTIONS FILM HIGHLIGHT 🎶✨ 
 
🎬 WATTSTAX (1973)  
Dir. Mel Stuart 
📽 98 mins 
 
🎙 In August of 1972, on the seventh anniversary of the Watts uprising, 100,000 people convened at the Los Angeles

✨🎶 BLACK SONIC EVOLUTIONS 2024 🎶✨ 
 
Black Sonic Evolutions is BACK, continuing our annual programming that recognizes Black Music Month! 
 
This year, we’re highlighting protest music movements and documentary films focus

🎬INTRODUCTION TO THE END OF AN ARGUMENT (1990) 
Dir. Jayce Salloum & Elia Suleiman 
📽41 minutes 
 
🌐 🇵🇸 An experimental documentary utilizing found footage sourced from travelogues, films, news broadcasts, documentaries,

🎬 THE WATERMELON WOMAN (1996) 
Dir. Cheryl Dunye 
📽 90 minutes 
 
“A wonderfully inventive journey through the annals of film history, African American culture, dyke attitudes, race relations and the mysteries of lesbian a

🎬 KOKOMO CITY (2023)
Director: D. Smith
📽️ 73 minutes

Shot, directed, and edited by filmmaker. producer, singer and songwriter D. Smith, KOKOMO CITY depicts the lives of four Black trans sex workers in Atlanta and New York City in a documentary d

🎬 TALKING ABOUT TREES (2019) 
Director: Suhaib Gasmelbari  
📽️ 93 minutes 
 
🇸🇩 A “beautiful portrait of friendship and hope”  
Suhaib Gasmelbari’s documentary TALKING ABOUT TREES follows the e

🎬 LUMUMBA (2000) 
Director: Raoul Peck 
📽 120 mins 
 
🇨🇩 A gripping political thriller which follows the story of African leader Patrice Emery Lumumba as the leader of the newly independent democratic Congo in the 1960s. Set i

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