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Tribute Screenings
Little Fugitive
Directed by Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin
When filmmaker Morris Engel passed away in March, independent cinema lost a true pioneer whose first
film - about a 7-year-old boy who runs away to Coney Island - influenced Truffaut, Cassavettes, and
Scorsese.
A Tribute to Ossie Davis
With guests Isaiah Washington, Brock Peters (To Kill A Mockingbird, Roots), and Davis's grandson Abdulmuta-Ali Muhammed
Moderated by Elvis Mitchell
Featuring a screening of Gone Are The Days
Directed by Nicholas Webster
An adaptation of Ossie Davis's play, Purlie Victorious, this slice of old school indie filmmaking and
early black storytelling follows Purlie Victorious Judson returning to the plantation with his cousin
Lutiebelle to claim an inheritance.
Stan Brakhage - Last Films
Directed by Stan Brakhage
The late Stan Brakhage became synonymous with personal and experimental filmmaking. This program of
shorts from is last three years -- most made up of painted and hand-carved elements -- display an
astonishing range and subtlety of emotion.
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