FIRST EVER PUBLIC SCREENING IN AMERICA!
I’m unabashedly going to plug this event like crazy all week:
Four years ago, I located a fascinating, thought-to-be lost documentary that led me to meet a whole cast of extraordinary people. I’m thrilled that HARLEM THEATRE, on its 50th ANNIVERSARY, will finally receive its FIRST EVER public screening in America!
Furthermore! actor-activists George Lee Miles and Gary Bolling, who feature in the movie, will be in attendance to tell the story behind the film, and how Harlem’s New Lafayette Theatre formed to resist racial and social oppression.
This movie could not receive a timelier screening.
Seen boxing in the above clip is George Lee Miles, rehearsing Ed Bullins’s play “How Do You Do,” to be performed at a Black Panthers’ fundraiser.
Thanks to Ira Gallen who saved the film, Jenny Miller (Union Docs), and Steve Macfarlane for making this event possible!