#FilmFriday: it may be #satire, but #DontLookUp is one of the few feature-length films that indirectly addresses systemic and political failures to collective address #ClimateChange. Stream if on #Netflix if you're looking for something to laugh and/or cry at https://buff.ly/l9qLSEq

#FilmFriday: check out Ryan Coogler's 2013 film #FruitvaleStation, which tells the real-lifestory of #OscarGrant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with family, friends, and enemies on the last day of 2008. https://buff.ly/5qsrlZE

#FilmFriday: check out Cheryl Dunye's 1996 debut film, The Watermelon Woman, which earned a place in cinematic history as the first feature-length narrative film to be written and directed by an out Black lesbian filmmaker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFIznlZ0z3o

#FilmFriday: check out a great #PBS documentary on the late music icon #RobertaFlack, whose virtuosity was inseparable from her commitment to #CivilRights.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/roberta-flack-documentary/23084/

It's #Oscar season, so for our #FilmFriday recommendation, check out the Oscar-winning film #Moonlight! A coming-of-age drama film centering on a gay Black man.

In addition to winning #BestPicture, Joi McMillon became the first black woman to be nominated for an editing Oscar, and Mahershala Ali became the first Muslim to win an acting Oscar. https://buff.ly/2EjhaUx

#FilmFriday: check out the documentary, "John Lewis: Good Trouble", about the life of civil rights activist and United States congressman #JohnLewis. The late congressman was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 #MarchOnWashington https://buff.ly/2U4swTS

#FilmFriday: check out the 2016 #Oscar-nominated film #HiddenFigures, which focused on three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, who worked at #NASA during the #SpaceRace. https://buff.ly/4gvmm6T

#FilmFriday: check out the Frontline #documentary, "Maui's Deadly Firestorm", which examines how #ClimateChange and other factors contributed to one of the deadliest #wildfires of the 21st century so far.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/mauis-deadly-firestorm/

Tonight's movie: Manganinnie (1980) on Beamafilm (free through our Library).

A grim film, apparently, and truly, it started dark; but it is charmingly and brilliantly composed, with characters you can care about (and some you can't).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganinnie

#FilmFriday