Tiara West’s MELANIE & KYLE
Nomadic cinema and curators The Luminal Theater is proud to bring you FRESH BLACK FILMS South - presenting the work of emerging Black filmmakers from the Southeast USA.
Our series exposes fresh audiences to new, dynamic work from emerging Black filmmakers, and Black filmmakers and creatives to more of each other’s original work.
Join us for six diverse films that include dramas, documentaries, animation, and horror!
Post-screening Q&A moderated by Camisha Butler of Black Eye Film Club ATL!
Why Emerging Filmmakers for FRESH BLACK FILMS
It’s literally in the name of our series. We define "emerging" as filmmakers, regardless of age, who are fairly new to directing & producing cinema, and have had only intermediate success on the film festival circuit, and also may have not had films acquired by major distribution or streaming platforms. All our selected filmmakers have unique perspectives that are aching to be seen and discovered and supported by audiences like you and film industry professionals.
This edition of Fresh Black Films is sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, with Indie Media Arts South and Black Eye Film Club ATL as presenting partners.
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Selah.
Director - Shakirah Samuels Kaylee Samuels, Casey Rispoli
Rooted in Israel's Dimona Desert, located about 70 miles south of Jerusalem, the Village of Peace and its community members live, work, and thrive in a hand built village solely dedicated to God and God’s wish for peace. The people in the village operate their daily lives as directed through the Old Testimate. After migrating from American cities such as Chicago and Atlanta, the group of Black Hebrews erected a village in the early 70s to practice their ways of life freely and peacefully.
Melanie & Kyle
Director - Tiara West
Amidst the captivating world of poetry, Melanie and Kyle's love flourishes. They explore the depth of their emotions through verses that intertwine their souls, revealing a timeless bond of passion, trust, and poetic beauty that transcends their mortal existence.
This Thing Is Not for You
Director - Ifeanyi Awachie
The first Black woman president of the United States announces that African Americans will finally receive reparations. A Nigerian-American family grapples with what this means for them, unearthing latent tensions along the way.
In The Matchbox
Director: Mike Rae Anderson; Producer Jermi Little
Uncle Wendell shares a centuries old family secret with his great nephews. If the secret gets out, it can effect and infect the entire world. Literally.
The War Torn Drum
Director - Derek A Ham
In the late 1860’s, a U.S. Marshal bonds with a post Civil War drummer boy in their search to track down a wanted criminal.
MBAM: MY BROTHER AND ME
Director - Bobby Huntley
A gritty crime-drama BMF/Power inspired adaptation of the much beloved, yet short-lived, classic Nickelodeon 90’s sitcom, "My Brother and Me.” This trailer follows the now grown-up siblings Alfie, Dee-Dee, and Melanie Parker as they find themselves on opposite sides of the law following the untimely death of Goo.