Community Calendar

Social Hour 7:00 PM

Admission: $10/$8 Reeling members (includes social hour and screening)
 
Co-presented by Black Cat Productions

Lip (directed by Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg, 1999, 10 min., USA): It is Hollywood's favorite role for black women: the maid. Sassy or sweet, snickeringly attentive or flippantly dismissive, the performers who play them steal every scene they are in, and Tracy Moffatt's entertaining video collage reveals the narrow margin Hollywood has allowed black actresses to shine in. But shine they do. "Giving lip" is proven an art form in these scenes from 1930's cinema to present-day movies featuring a remarkable roster of undervalued actresses and their more celebrated white costars.

Women Who Made the Movies (directed by Gwendolyn Foster and Wheeler Dixon, 1992, 55 min., USA): Recounting the history of women in Hollywood, after you watch this documentary you will be renting many of the wonderful films these ladies created. From femme director Ida Lupino to butch Dorothy Arzner, mark our words you will be making a list of their films to watch.