Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff
Published: Monday, March 7th, 2016
New York (TADIAS) — The Schomburg Center in Harlem will be screening the award-winning film Ashes and Embers on Wednesday, March 9th followed by a discussion with its director, cinematic legend and film professor Haile Gerima.
Ashes and Embers, which Haile directed and produced in 1982, “explores a disillusioned Vietnam War veteran’s attempt to come to terms with his past and his current place as a black man in America,” the Schomburg Center announced. “Winner of the 1983 FIPRESCI Prize for the Forum of New Cinema at the Berlin International Film Festival, Ashes and Embers is the American film debut of highly acclaimed Ethopian-born director, Haile Gerima.”
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is hosting the screening and talk in collaboration with ARRAY, the rebirth of the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement (AFFRM) founded by filmmaker Ava Duvernay.
The two-hour drama was written, produced and directed by Haile Gerima in 1982. (Image: Mypheduh Films)
Haile Gerima has produced and directed several works including Harvest: 3000 Years (1976), Sankoka (1993), Adwa: An African Victory (1999) and Teza (2009). He won Outstanding Production for Ashes and Embers at the London Film Festival in 1984, Best Cinematography Award for Sankofa at FESPACO in Burkina Faso, the Lifetime Achievement Award from Independene Film Festival in Washington DC in 2003, and Best Screenplay and Special Jury Prize for Teza at the Venice Film Festival in 2008.
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If You Go:
Films @ the Schomburg:
Ashes and Embers
Wednesday, March 9, 2016, 7 p.m.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,
Langston Hughes Auditorium
515 Malcolm X Boulevard
New York, NY, 10037
(917) 275-6975
www.nypl.org