Black Lens Program Schedule – Films by African Americans at the MKE Film Festival

This year the Milwaukee Film Festival introduces its program of films by emerging and established black filmmakers, including Milwaukee’s own John Ridley, the 2014 Academy Award-winning screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave.

The keynote address on the “State of Cinema” will be delivered by Wesley Morris, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

Please come out and support this work!

Black Lens showtimes and links to trailers.

Spotlight Film – JIMI: All Is By My Side

SAT 10/4 – 7pm Oriental Theatre

25 to Life

• SAT 10/4 – 7pm Times Cinema
• TUES 10/7 – 11am Oriental Theatre

CRU

• SUN 9/28 – 4:30pm Times Cinema
• TUES 9/30 – 7:45pm Oriental Theatre

Evolution of a Criminal

• TUES 9/30 – 3pm Oriental Theatre
• FRI 10/3 – 9:30pm Fox-Bay Cinema

Freedom Summer

• FRI 9/26 – 4:15pm Oriental Theatre
• MON 9/29 – 7pm Fox-Bay Cinema

Hollywood Shuffle

• FRI 10/3 – 7pm Oriental Theatre

Things Never Said

• WED 10/1 – 7:30pm Oriental Theatre
• THUR 10/2 – Oriental Theatre

Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People

• THUR 10/2 – 2pm Fox-Bay Cinema
• TUES 10/7 – 2pm Times Cinema
• THUR 10/9 – 7:30pm Oriental Theatre

‘Til Infinity: Celebrating 20 Years of the Souls of Mischief

• SAT 9/27 – 9pm Oriental Theatre

Two films about black musicians that may also be of interest:

Finding Fela

• MON 9/29 – 1:15pm Oriental Theatre
• FRI 10/3 – 7:30pm Oriental Theatre
• WED 10/8 – 9:30pm Fox-Bay Cinema

Take Me to the River

• SUN 10/5 – 4:30pm Oriental Theatre
• MON 10/6 – 7:30pm Oriental Theatre
• WED 10/8 – 2:00pm Times Cinema

Keynote: The State of Cinema

• SAT 9/27 – 12:00pm Colectivo Coffee on Prospect (FREE non-ticketed event, open to the public)

Check out our community events calendar for more film events.