Upcoming Screenings:
"No Time to Die" (African Love & Comedy)
Location: Central Library, Faulkner Gallery
Friday - February 11
5:00 pm
90 min
Director: King Ampaw
No Time to Die is a turbulent African comedy about love and death.
Asante drives a shiny black car; his job is to transport dead bodies. He and his assistant Issifu take the corpses from the Ghanaian capital Accra to the villages the people came from, where the funeral ceremonies are held.
Asante loves his job. But he does have one problem. What woman would choose to be together with a driver of dead bodies? Until Esi walks into Asante's life. She is a young dancer whose mother has just died; she wants to take the body back to the village. For Asante it is love at first sight. And with the help of Issifu he even manages to win the heart of the beautiful girl. But Esi's father is adamantly opposed to a liaison between his daughter and the young man. Marriage? Over his dead body! Asante refuses to give up. Absolutely determined to marry Esi, he even resorts to the use of a few supernatural tricks…
SKIN
Location: Central Library, Faulkner Gallery
Saturday - February 12
1:00 pm
107 min
Director: Anthony Fabian
The Santa Barbara African Heritage Film Series never fails to bring poignant films to the community such as this one "SKIN'. Back by popular demand on the big screen , this is a must see film if you missed the first screening. Follow the real life drama of a black child born to white parents in the 1950's in South Africa during apartheid. Sophie Okonedo portrays the real life story of Sandra Laing and was nominated by the academy awards for her compelling performance . This film explores the issue of "who am I and where do I belong". This is a great film also for students as well as adults that explores the history of people that lived during the changing world of Apartheid. Please join us as we celebrate our yearly events .
Trouble the Water
Discussion (Facilitator: Charles H. Nicholson, M.D.)
Location: Central Library, Faulkner Gallery
Saturday - February 12
3:00 pm
90 min
Directors and Producers: Tia Lessin and Carl Deal
Nominated for an Academy Award® for best feature documentary, TROUBLE THE WATER takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. It's a redemptive tale of two self-described street hustlers who become heroes-two unforgettable people who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning.
"Everyday Black Man" Honoring our Own
Henry Brown, Local Actor (Film / Discussion / Reception)
Location: Central Library, Faulkner Gallery
Saturday - February 12
5:30 pm
105 min
Director: Carmen Madden
Moses seems like an everyday man running
a small neighborhood store. Everything
changes when Moses take on an unsuspecting
partner that seeks to destroy his daughter
and the neighborhood.
Up From the Bottoms
Special Film Screening/Reception/Discussion
(Facilitators: Professor Otis Madison, UCSB
Monique L. Snowden, PhD, Fielding Graduate University)
Location: SBAHFS/UCSB MultiCultural Center Theatre FREE
Wednesday – February 16
5:00 pm Reception
6:00 pm Film: "Up From the Bottoms"
58 min
Director: Jim Schaub
Up From the Bottoms: The Search for the American Dream tells the story of the massive migration of African Americans from the rural south to the prosperous north during the World War II years and beyond. They left behind the legacy of slavery and segregation and set out to find the American dream.