Archival News

News from the Black Film Center/Archive

Novelist and screenwriter Sam Greenlee was a guest of the Black Film Center/Archive from March 21 to 23, 2010. Sam joined us for the symposium "Cinematic Representations of Racial Conflict in Real Time," which focused on Bob Young and Michael Roehmer's Nothing But a Man and Greenlee's own The Spook Who Sat by the Door. Among other archive-related activities, Sam met with students and attended a number of classes. With the support of IU Cinema director Jon Vickers, a screening of The Spook Who Sat by the Door was held at the newly renovated IU Cinema.

Recent Donations to the Black Film Center/Archive

The BFC/A would like to thank the following individuals for their support:

• ▶ Filmmaker Kathe Sandler donated the film and sound elements along with some interview transcripts for her films Remembering Thelma (1982) and A Question of Color (1993).

• ▶ William Boyd donated a DVD copy of the film his aunts Lula and Mabel Martin took during their 1951 trip to Africa. The sisters filmed the trips they took throughout the world and then would give presentations to groups around Kankakee, Illinois, describing their journeys. Their 1951 African trip included stops in South Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kenya.

• ▶ S. Torriano Berry added to his collection with a donation of nineteen DVDs containing films done by students at Howard University which were featured on the Black Visions/Silver Screen program at WHUT-TV in Washington, DC, as well as his own recent productions including all three seasons of the series No Matta Wat! The series was the first dramatic television series in Belize.

• ▶ Filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno donated posters for his films Lieux Saints (2009), Le malentendu colonial (2004), Vacances au pays (2000), Chef! (1999), and Clando (1996).