Event

About the Event
What does it mean to make films that deal with Black death? What is the weight that it carries? What are the decisions you make as a filmmaker about what you show and don’t show? Why are these films important to make? Do these films empower a Black audience?

6:00 PM Murders that Matter (2023, 90 minutes)
A film by Marco Williams, Murders that Matter a documentary set in Philadelphia about Movita Johnson-Harrell and her quest to save others from gun violence, in the aftermath of her youngest son's murder.

7:30 PM The Weight: Documenting Black Death and Anti-Black Violence
A conversation on the responsibilities and urgency of image makers who explore Black death and anti-Black violence in film with filmmaker Marco Williams (Murders that Matter) and literary scholar and cultural critic, Dr. Deborah McDowell (“Photography and Mourning,” Leaving Pipe Shop) the Alice Griffin Professor of English at University of Virginia.

Two of Marco Williams' earlier films will be available for free on-line screening to all who register for The Weight: Documenting Black Death and Anti-Black Violence. Banished (2007, 90 minutes) on the destruction of Black towns and the expelling Black citizens in the US between 1860 and 1920 and Two Towns of Jasper (2002 , 90 minutes ) a documentary created by two film crews, one white and one Black, exploring the lynching murder of James Byrd in Jasper, Texas.

The event takes place at Scribe Video Center, 3908 Lancaster Avenue.  It is $7.50 General Admission, $5 Students/Seniors, $4 Scribe Members

Registration link here: http://www.scribe.org/events/producers-forum-marco-williams