Name: The Forty-Year-Old Version | 20th ImageNation Outdoors Film Festival
Start: 2022-08-27T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-08-27T22:00:00-04:00
Location: West 120th Street & Frederick Douglass Boulevard

The Forty-Year-Old Version | 20th ImageNation Outdoors Film Festival

ImageNation Cinema Foundation is a Harlem-based media arts group, founded with the goal of establishing a chain of art-house cinemas, dedicated to progressive media by and about people of color. Through a variety of exhibitions and programs, ImageNation edifies its audience. We foster media equity, media literacy, solidarity, cross-cultural exchange and highlight the humanity of Pan-African people worldwide.

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Set in Harlem, The Forty-Year-Old Version will be preceded by a talk with director Radha Blank and ImageNation founder Moikgantsi Kgama.

West 120th Street & Frederick Douglass Boulevard

Forty-Year-Old Version, dir. by Radha Blank, 123m, 2020, USARadha is a down-on-her-luck NY playwright, who is desperate for a breakthrough before 40. Reinventing herself as rapper RadhaMUSPrime, she vacillates between the worlds of Hip Hop and theater in order to find her true voice.An ImageNation x FDBA program.

ABOUT IMAGENATIONLed by Moikgantsi Kgama (Founder &amp; Executive Director) and Gregory Gates (Executive Producer), ImageNation has hosted film screenings, live music performances and other cultural events for more than 150,000 people worldwide since its inception in New York City in 1997. In addition to hosting year-round programs at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the world-famous Apollo Theater, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and in New York City Parks, ImageNation has presented internationally in South Africa, Scotland and Canada and domestically at Harvard University, MASS MOCA, and in Dallas, TX, Los Angeles, CA, Baltimore, MD and Washington DC. Programs have featured appearances by leading filmmakers such as Spike Lee, Lee Daniels, Stanley Nelson and Ava Duvernay.

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