PRESENTS
BACK TO NATURAL
2018/USA/66 minutes
Directed by Gillian Scott-Ward, PhD
The shocking truth about the intersection of hair, politics, and racial identity in Black communities is revealed in this documentary, inspired by New York City-based clinical psychologist Gillian Scott-Ward’s clinical practice work and her drive to go natural. This call for healing also serves as an exploration of the globalized policing of natural Black hair while equally celebrating Black history and how natural Black hairstyles are taking the world by storm.
LIVE Q&A with
LIVING ROOM FILM CLUB
Mon, Aug 31 at 8pm
Our second BLK Docs: Back to Natural Q&A is hosted by the Belcourt Theatre & Nashville Scene’s LIVING ROOM FILM CLUB,
Join us online for a conversation about the new film BACK TO NATURAL with director Gillian Scott-Ward, PhD, BLK Docs film series curator Curtis Caesar John, and natural hair blogger Candice Straughter, moderated by Nashville filmmaker Meleisha Edwards.
RSVP below or at bit.ly/BACK-TO-NATURAL-conversation
Q&A with
Gillian Scott-Ward, Okema T. Moore and Prof. Wendy Greene
August 27 - 8pm EST
“Back to Natural” director, Dr. Gillian Scott-Ward will be joined by documentary interviewee Okema T. Moore, an actress, producer, writer, and director who runs MOOREthanEnuff Media, and Dr. Wendy Greene, a trailblazing anti-discrimination law scholar, teacher, and advocate who has devoted her professional life’s work to advancing, racial, color, and gender equality in workplaces and beyond, and author of a forthcoming book, “#FreeTheHair: Locking Black Hair to Civil Rights Movements”. Moderated by Charlon Turner, the Festival Director of the North Carolina Black Film Festival, they will talk about the making of the film, and the emotional, self-identity, political, and legal battles behind going natural.