BLK DOCS

BLK Docs, begun by Speller Street Films and The Luminal Theater, is an initiative to help build an authentic documentary film culture within the African-American community through film screenings, webinars, and more interactive film events. See more about this program at BLKdocs.com

 
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BLK Docs: Haile Gerima's WILMINGTON 10 – USA 10,000
Oct 18
BLK Docs: Haile Gerima's WILMINGTON 10 – USA 10,000

Haile Gerima’s newly restored, groundbreaking documentary, showing for the first time ever in Wilmington, NC

BLK Docs: THE PICTURE TAKER
Apr 22
BLK Docs: THE PICTURE TAKER

Ernest Withers. A million images. One BIG secret. Post-screening Q&A with famed civil rights photographer and museum founder Cecil Williams.

BLK Docs: GRANDMASTERS - multimedia exhibit & film screenings
Jun 15
BLK Docs: GRANDMASTERS - multimedia exhibit & film screenings

Illuminating the impact of martial arts on Black communities and culture since the 1960s

BLK DOCS: UNAPOLOGETIC
Sep 23
BLK DOCS: UNAPOLOGETIC

Meet Janaé and Bella, two fierce abolitionists whose upbringing and experiences shape their activism and views on Black liberation. Live in-person Q&A with Janaé Bonsu.

BLK Docs: SUMMER OF SOUL
Jun 25
BLK Docs: SUMMER OF SOUL

FREE screening…in Columbia, SC only, in partnership with Searchlight Pictures, Red Olive Culture Commons, and Spotlight Cinemas Capital 8

BLK DOCS: Digging For Weldon Irvine
Apr 8
BLK DOCS: Digging For Weldon Irvine

He was a visionary, but his story went untold...until now


BLK DOCS: Instant Ancestry
Nov 13
BLK DOCS: Instant Ancestry

An examination of HOME AND HISTORY THROUGH THE BLACK ARCHIVE. Drawing on a wide range of archival material, these filmmakers attempt to cohere questions of Black identity that have been obscured, suppressed, or erased by white supremacy and other dominative forces. Presented by our BLK Docs program in partnership with Maysles Cinema

BLK Docs: BACK TO NATURAL
Aug 27
BLK Docs: BACK TO NATURAL

The shocking truth about the intersection of hair, politics, and racial identity in Black communities and beyond

BLK DOCS: Miles in the Life - The Story of a BMF Drug Trafficker
Jul 30
BLK DOCS: Miles in the Life - The Story of a BMF Drug Trafficker

Jabari Hayes, an All-American track star who upon graduating with honors from college, used a cover of an Atlanta limousine driver to traffic large quantities of cocaine across the country for the Black Mafia Family (BMF)


BLK Docs: WILMINGTON ON FIRE
Jun 25
BLK Docs: WILMINGTON ON FIRE

BLK Docs is our new series that ensures high-quality works from Black directors get seen by Black audiences, including films that have not received the rapt attention they are due

About The Luminal Theater

Founded in 2015, The Luminal is a nomadic cinema that provides fully-curated exhibitions of diverse cinema and media of the Black/African diaspora, allowing these artists to present their work within our unique brand of shared audience experiences, centered in Bedford-Stuyvesant (Bed-Stuy), Brooklyn, and expanding beyond.   The Luminal absorbed its former theatrical offshoot, the Brooklyn Cinema Collective, in 2018.