[Durham INC] Hayti Heritage Center 27th Annual Film Festival

[Will Wilson]

INCers,

Here's forwarded information on next week's Hayti Heritage Center's film 
festival...please distribute widely!


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Thank you...
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 22:43:43 -0500
From: Robin Emmons <remmons at hayti.org>

I wanted to ensure that you have information on Hayti's 27th annual film 
festival scheduled for *March 1 - 6*

The Hayti Heritage Film Festival (HHFF) hosted each year in Durham, NC, 
is one of the nation’s longest-running Black film festivals. Since it’s
revamping in 2018, it has drawn record crowds from across the region, 
and is well-positioned to become the region’s premier African American 
film festival.

That said, we are excited to again host this year's film festival to 
which we invite the entire Durham community to join us as we demonstrate 
through film, our belief in the power of images and image-makers to 
transform communities by:

1) Exposing people to artistic, informative, and innovative films by
African American filmmakers
2) Providing a platform for exhibition for these artists who oftentimes
struggle to get film distribution

It's sure to be a great time and particularly given the continued 
pandemic. As such, we hope you'll share this programming opportunity 
widely and that you will plan to join us by securing your tickets today at

https://haytiheritagefilmfest.eventive.org/welcome

where you'll also find trailers, schedules, film descriptions, and panel 
discussion themes and times.

Also, as you will note and in response to one of the member's questions
this evening, the drive-in component will not be available for on-line
viewing given film licensing restrictions that allow only for drive-in
showings, exclusively.

In any case, I encourage you to share the film festival opportunity with
your respective list-serve subscribers and neighbors, and hope that you
will receive my and Hayti's sincere gratitude for your help in
amplifying not just the film festival, but the broader community 
relevance and importance of Hayti Heritage Center.

-- 
Robin Emmons, Development Manager
Hayti Heritage Center
St. Joseph's Historic Foundation
804 Old Fayetteville Street
Durham, NC 27701
www.hayti.org
remmons at hayti.org
919-683-1709 (office)
919-428-9301 (mobile)


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