Race & Space in Los Angeles V: The Women of the LA Rebellion

LOS ANGELES– In continuing the series on Race & Space in Los Angeles, this installment turns its focus towards the women filmmakers of the LA Rebellion. Beginning in the late 1960s, a number of promising African and African American students entered the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, recruited under a concerted initiative by C.Z. Wilson to be more responsive to various communities of color. From that first class through the late 1980s, and continuing well beyond their college days, to now, these filmmakers came to represent the first sustained undertaking to forge an alternative Black Cinema practice in the United States. Tonight’s program includes short films by Ijeoma Iloputaife, Barbara McCullough, Alile Sharon Larkin and Stormé (Bright) Sweet. Special thanks to program partners California Humanities, the Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive at USC, KAOS Network and LA Freewaves. FREE EVENT! This project is made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org. Friday, August 4, 2017, 6:30 – 10:00 pm @ KAOS Network 4343 Leimert Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008 Program begins at 6:30 pm with a discussion at KAOS Network followed by films outside at Leimert Park Plaza at 8 pm. This event is free; everyone welcome. Look for the EPFC Filmcicle, our blue mobile cinema schoolbus! Feel free to bring a chair or blanket to sit on. Refreshments provided. Street parking available. Accessible by Metro Expo Line Crenshaw stop with transit connections Metro Local Line 210 and Metro Rapid Line 710. For more information, go to echoparkfilmcenter.org or contact Lisa Marr, Operations Director, 213.484.8846, info@echoparkfilmcenter.org Event Pages: http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/events/epfc-filmmobile-presents-race-and-space-v-the-women-of-the-la-rebellion/ https://www.facebook.com/events/1438055349593509 RACE & SPACE IN LOS ANGELES is supported by California Humanities’ Humanities for All Quick Grant program. To find out more about Humanities for All Quick Grants, visit our webpage HERE.