Reel Sisters Premieres For Colored Boys!

REEL SISTERS PROUDLY PRESENTS A FIRST TIME SCREENING OF STACY MUHAMMAD'S FOR COLORED BOYS 

The Reel Sisters Of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series will feature director Stacey Muhammad's For Colored Boys at the awards ceremony honoring Moikgantsi Kgama, the founder of ImageNation Cinema Foundation and Pearl Bowser, a pioneering filmmaker, scholar and author.  The awards ceremony will also include an exciting dance tribute by choreographer Nia Love and award presentations by songtress Imani Uzuri, Michelle Matere (Creatively Speaking), April Silver (Akila Worksongs), Dorothy Thigpen (Third World Newsreel) Mable Haddock (Firelight Media), Kay Shaw (National Black Programming Consortium) and Michael Unthank (Harlem Arts Alliance).  WBAI radio show host Esther Armah will serve as mistress of ceremonies for the celebration.

The awards ceremony will be held on Sunday, Oct. 16 at 5:00 pm at the Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts on Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus hosted by .

LOCATION:

The Kumble Theater is on Flatbush Ave. between DeKalb Ave. & Willoughby St. Tickets for the awards ceremony are $15 (or $25 for a festival pass that includes the awards ceremony).  The film festival will be held from Oct. 15 to 16, 2011. 

For tickets and film schedule call: 718-488-1624 or 347-534-3304

or visit www.reelsisters.org or www.kumbletheater.org.

About For Colored Boys

For Colored Boys, the EVIDENCE of things NOT seen (Redemption) is a short film written and directed by award winning filmmaker, Stacey Muhammad and stars Julito McCullum (The Wire, Akeelah and the Bee, Da Bricks), Robbie Morgan (Pariah, Shades of Brooklyn), Tiye Phoenix, Roudy St. Fleur, Kai Muhammad and Danny Simmons.

About the Filmmaker

Stacey Muhammad, a Brooklyn resident, is an award-winning independent filmmaker and activist committed to using the power of media to educate, enlighten and empower humanity. Her first film, A Glimpse of Heaven, The Legacy of the Million Man March, screened at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore, MD in 2005 and received rave reviews. Since that time, the New Orleans native has begun the work of documenting and preserving Hip Hop culture through film and digital media. Her projects include several multi-media projects, music videos and short form documentaries, including, the acclaimed I AM SEAN BELL, black boys speak, which made it's film festival premier at the New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival.