2nd Annual Malcolm X Film Festival @ The Harlem Maysles Cinema

Tuesday, May 17th & Thursday, May 19th

2nd Annual Malcolm X Film Festival Schedule Of Films & Speakers

Malcolm X on Film, Part One
Tuesday, May 17th
Doors Open at 6:30pm

Malcolm’s Echo
Dami Akinnusi, 2009, 41 min

Narrated By Prof. James Smalls, this award winning documentary travels in the footsteps

of Bro. Malcolm's travels through Harlem. Includes music, spoken word and statements

dedicated to Malcolm X by several Harlem residents and well known personalities.

7:30pm Feature
Malcolm X: His Own Story as It Really Happened
Marvin Worth, 1972, 92 min.
Adapted for the screen from the autobiography he wrote with Alex
Haley’s assistance, Malcolm X (released two decades before the Spike
Lee film Malcolm X) is a stirring portrait of the man whose life has
become a rallying cry for millions. Includes rare footage of his
speeches and interviews as well as newsreel footage. Narrated by James
Earl Jones with Martin Luther King, Betty Shabazz, Ossie Davis,
Muhammad Ali, Jesse Jackson, Rap Brown, Angela Davis and many more.

Malcolmology
Michael Tyner, 2011, 11 min.
This three part series serves as an introduction to the late Manning
Marable’s new book about Malcolm X, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.
It goes through some of the primary contributions of the book, as
explained by Marble himself, in terms of tearing down some of the
myths about Malcolm X that have been popularized by the autobiography
written by Alex Haley and movie directed by Spike Lee.


Panel Discussion with Amiri Baraka, Kazembe Balagun, Nellie Hester
Bailey, Omowale Clay and moderated by Dequi Kioni-Sadiki.

Amiri Baraka, born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, USA, is the author
of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and
criticism, a poet icon and revolutionary political activist who has
recited poetry and lectured on cultural and political issues
extensively in the USA, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. He is a
founding member of The Black House during the 60's and the former
chair of The Congress For Afrikan People (CAP). Baraka remains the
last named Poet Laureate of New Jersey as the title was eliminated by
the Governor & The Jersey State Legislation after he refused to resign
for reading his politically controversial 9/11 poem entiltled
"Somebody Blew Up America.”

Kazembe Balagun is an uptown boy who enjoys subverting the downtown
scene as program and outreach coordiator at the Brecht Forum/NY
Marxist School. His has been featured in the New York Times, Time Out
NY, UK Guardian and The Indypendent. He is also part of the Red
Channels Collective and has served as a guest curator at the
BAMcinemtak. He is currently at work on a long form essay, Queering
the X: James Baldwin, Malcolm X and the Third World. Balagun lives in
Co-Op City with his cat Jack Reed and partner Claudia Copeland.

Nellie Hester Bailey is a human rights activist who has worked in
peace and justice movements for over forty years. Bailey co-founded
the Harlem Tenants Council (HTC) in 1994. She currently serves as
director of the tenant led grassroots organization and is co-founder
of Blacks in Solidarity Against the War. She hosts two weekly radio
programs and her writings have appeared in the Amsterdam News, the
Black Star News and the Working People’s Voice. Media outlets that
have reported on Bailey and the Harlem Tenants Council include the New
York Times, the New York Post, the  New York Daily News, the
Washington Post, the Amsterdam News, the Village Voice, The Final
Call, the Guardian, BBC World News, NPR, WBAI, NBC, ABC and NY1.

Omowale Clay is one of the co-chairs of the Malcolm X Celebration
Committee, co-founder of The Committee To Honor Black Heroes and a
leading member of the December 12th Movement's International Secretariat.

A well respected organizer, thinker, graphic artist and writer, he has also

served on the Pacifica Radio board.

Dequi Kioni-Sadiki is a former member of the Black Panther Collective,
the NYC Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, and now serves as co-chair of
the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee. She served as national co-chair
of the People of African Descent Caucus for the Wasington, DC based
United States Student Assocation, and currently works with the NYC
Jericho Movement in the campaign to free united states political
prisoners and prisoners of war.  Dequi is a WBAI radio producer,
artist, poet, public speaker and educator.

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Thursday, May 19th
Malcolm on Film, Part Two
(In Celebration of Malcolm X’s 86th Birthday)
Doors Open at 6:00pm

The Speeches of Malcolm X

30 min.
Utilizing background images of the various subject matter, this film

chronicles Malcolm’s speeches from 1963-1965 including several

legendary Harlem speeches.

7:00pm Feature
El Hajj Malik el Shabazz (AKA Make It Plain)
Gil Noble, 1991, 60 min.
A "Like It Is" television program special presentation produced,
written and reported by Gil Noble. This documentary covers the life of
Malcolm X featuring tons of archival footage of Malcolm X’s speeches
and rare interviews with various members of his family.

Malcolmology
Michael Tyner, 2011, 11 min.
This three part series serves as an introduction to the late Manning
Marable’s new book about Malcolm X, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.
It goes through some of the primary contributions of the book, as
explained by Marble himself, in terms of tearing down some of the
myths about Malcolm X that have been popularized by the autobiography
written by Alex Haley and movie directed by Spike Lee.

Panel Discussion with Herb Boyd, Cleo Silvers, Immortal Technique,
Shaka Shakur and moderated by Dr. Shaka-Zulu

Herb Boyd is an activist, historian, journalist, author and professor.
Herb Boyd is the
co-editor of the American Book Award winning "Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black
Men in America". In 1999 he won three first place awards from the New York
Association of Black Journalists. He has recently been following and covering
President Obama and teaching at both the City College of New York and
the College of New Rochelle.

Cleo Silvers states that the focus of her life "continues to be the
improvement of conditions for working people in every aspect of their
lives; housing, healthcare, education, integrity, peace and justice,
criminalization of youth in communities of color, and culture." Among
other endeavors she sits on the boards for the Harlem Tenants Council,
Brecht Forum, National Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, David Sanes
Rodriguez Brigade for Peace in Puerto Rico and the Maysles Institute.
During the late 60's and early 70's Silvers was a member of both The
Young Lords and The Black Panther Party.

Immortal Technique, is an American rapper of Afro-Peruvian descent as
well as an activist. He was born in Lima, Peru and raised in Harlem,
New York. Most of his lyrics focus on controversial issues in global
politics. The views expressed in his lyrics are largely commentary on
issues such as class struggle, poverty, religion, government and
institutional racism.

Shaka Shakur is the former New York chairperson of the New Black
Panther Party and an alumni of the Black Panther Collective. A member
of the Mosque of the Islamic Brotherhood Shakur also currently serves
as Chairperson for the United Muslim Alliance
which is one of the coordinating organizations of the People’s
Survival Program (PSP) which politically focuses on feeding and
clothing the needy along with 15 other
organizations.


Dr. Shaka-Zulu is an entrepreneur and producer/co-host to the official

Afrika Bambaataa "True School Radio Show" on WHCR 90.3.FM and

also currently now "ZULU-TV.NET". Founder of the "Shaka-Jutsu Warrior

Academy" Teaching many young, old, women, children and men self-defense

and protection. Dr. Shaka-Zulu is also the Chief Legal Detective for I.S.P.I. an
international security & investigative firm. He is a facilitator and instructor at

I.P.N. and also serves on the World Council of The Universal Zulu Nation.

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