The fifth annual Black Film Festival, a partnership between the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center and Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater, is set for Sunday at 3 p.m. at the theater. Four short films are featured.
Carol Bash, founder and president of Paradox Films, is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with over 20 years of experience. Her “Blueprint for My People” is a visual poem that interweaves spoken-word narration of Margaret Walker’s poem “For My People” with contemporary images and rare 19th-century cyanotypes.
Princeville, N.C., is the first town incorporated by freed enslaved Africans in the United States. Resita Cox’s “Freedom Hill” explores the environmental racism that has allowed the town to be inundated by flooding over the years. The story is told in part by Marquetta Dickens, a Princeville native who recently moved back to help save her hometown.
After a break at 4 p.m. for refreshments, the program will resume at 5 with “For the Moon,” Nile Price’s coming-of-age narrative based on the true story of Ronald McNair, who, after standing up against segregation in an all-white library, became the second African-American astronaut to go into space. He died on his second mission, in the 1986 disintegration of the Challenger.
“Descended From the Promised Land: The Legacy of Black Wall Street,” directed by Nailah Jefferson, looks at the lingering economic, psychological, and emotional impacts of the Tulsa Race Massacre on the families of several of the victims’ descendants.
Each film will be followed by a discussion. Bonnie Michelle Cannon, the executive director of the child care center, will introduce the program. Tickets are $13, $5 for children and students, and are available via a link on the theater’s website.
