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Nappy is a pioneering film that directly addresses the “politics” of black women’s hair. Winner Best Documentary Film Prize!
Nappy was created for Black women and girls, however, the film has a diverse audience that relates to the pressure to assimilate into the dominant Eurocentric culture. Nappy is the winner of the Best Documentary Film prize from the "Jamerican Film and Music Festival", 2000. Nappy distinguishes itself with its thought provoking and sometimes humorous interviews and its awesome cinematography.
Doors Open 6:30
Screening 7:00
Talk back with the film maker 7:30-9:00
Door Prizes and Raffles!
"To get an idea of how intense this discussion on hair will be just think of 30-40 middle class white women sitting around talking about body image. I say middle class because in my experience middle class white women have been the target of the conditioning that says to be worthy of walking the planet they must be a size 8 or smaller.
Or...imagine dying a little white girls hair blonde at age 8 or making her go on a diet at age 10. That is the level of toxicity that black people, and black women in particular, are suffering from. Not -to-mention the fact that black people, even children, are forced to change the natural texture of their hair to stay in school, keep their jobs and be in front of a movie camera."
Please join us for this important screening and conversation!
ADVANCE TICKETS: ADULTS $20 | STUDENTS & LOW INCOME $15
DAY OF BASED ON AVAILABILITY $25
CAFE WILL BE OPEN | FREE OFF-STREET AND ON-STREET PARKING
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
About the Artist:
Lydia Douglas has been a fine art photographer since 1979 and more recently an independent filmmaker since 1997. She received her BFA in photography from the University of Bridgeport and her MFA degree in film from Howard University. Nappy, her thesis film, is a pioneering film that directly addresses the “politics” of black women’s hair.
Douglas uses photography and film to document the culture, contributions and history of people of African ancestry in the diaspora. Her photography showcases images of black people that are honest. Exhibited and published nationally and internationally, a short list of where her work has been published is The Face of Our Past: A History of Black Women From Colonial Times to the Present, and Reflections in Black: A History of African American Photographers, 1840 – Present; to-name-a-few.
During the segment “In the Spirit”, her photograph, Ife and Raven, a portrait of a mother and her young daughter on the beach, was displayed on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Exhibitions of note include "Reflections in Black: A History of African American Photographers, 1840-Present" shown at the Smithsonian Institute Center for African American History and Culture, in Washington, DC and “Africans in the Diaspora” which was exhibited at the Reginald Lewis Museum in Baltimore, MD.
Ms. Douglas is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, Honorable Mention from Foto Week DC, 2008, which was screened at National Geographic Magazine and most recently, the Lincoln Center Education’s Summer Forum 2017.
A fine art photographer true to the medium of silver gelatin image making, Ms. Douglas shoots and prints all of her own black and white film. Her work distinguishes itself because it arrests the eye and spirit with its gentle, poetic quality that captures the essence of her subjects.