IN CINEMA
Saturday, September 20th at 6PM
The Harlem International Film Festival
HARLEM to HARVARD
Zuzelin Martin, 2025, 15 min
An inspirational short documentary about a teacher, Edouard E. Plummer, who helped over 600 students from Harlem attend the most elite boarding schools in the country, creating countless ripples of generational impact.
DANCING WITH WAVES
Emmitt Thrower, 2024, 30 min
Tammi Judge, the founder of a transformative dance program, leads young dancers on a journey of self-discovery and personal growth, using the power of movement to heal, inspire, and change their lives forever.
RING SHOUT – LET THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN
Olubayo Jackson, 2022, 18 min
The exploration of sacred dance in Africa and diaspora leads a NYC teacher on a worldwide journey to reconnect severed cultural ties. Her quest to document the Ring Shout, an age-old praise dance rooted in African Spiritual Traditions leads her to a rural Georgia museum where she discovers a long lost branch of her family and her Gullah Geechee roots. There she must decide if she will honor her elder cousin’s dying wish and embrace the mantle of carrying his legacy and these vanishing traditions forward.
Post-screening discussion with Zuzelin Martin, Emmitt Thrower, and Olubayo Jackson
$15 General Admission / $7 Reduced Price
