WEDNESDAY 20 DECEMBER
BALIE 2, 22.00

BLACK MIX

Welcome to Africville

  • CA, Dana Inkster, 1999, 15 min.
  • Luscious 'documentary' of a family and their thoughts on Africville, a Black community in Halifax, Canada, torn down in 1969.

The Potluck and the Passion

  • USA, Cheryl Dunye, 1993, 30 min.
  • A black and a white woman want to celebrate the fact that they've been together for a year. It is also an opportunity for their separate groups of friends to get to know one another.

Whitney: Mama's Little Baby

  • USA, Lawrence Elbert, 1999, 8 min.
  • A shockingly candid look into the private life of Whitney H.; the joy, the love, the music, the pain and the torment that comes with fame.

Billy Turner's Secret

  • USA, Michael Mayson, 1990, 26 min.
  • Set among educated urban Blacks in Manhattan and their stylish Puerto Rican girlfriends, this is an energetic comedy about a young Black man coming out to his homophobic roommate.