African American Heritage Film Screening
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USC-Aiken 471 University Parkway, Aiken, South Carolina 29801
The Global Studies & Multicultural Program along with the Center for African American History, Art and Culture present a film festival in celebration of Black History month. The festival will show two films on the USC Aiken campus at the Penland Building 106. The festival begins at 2pm with the showing of Dear White People & Slavery by Another Name beginning at 5pm. The series is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served and a discussion will follow each film. Dear White People is a 2014 American satirical drama film written and directed by Justin Simien. The film focuses on African American students attending a college in America. The film premiered in competition in the US Dramatic Category at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014. Slavery by Another Name is a 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans’ most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. For most Americans this is entirely new history. Slavery by Another Name gives voice to the largely forgotten victims and perpetrators of forced labor and features their descendants living today. It was the official selection of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.