The Hollywood Theater presents the first Portland Black Film Festival, showcasing films either directed by African Americans or that deal with being black in America. The festival features eleven days of films in February, which is also Black History Month. The lineup was curated by Hollywood Theater programmer Dan Halsted and local pop culture writer and film director David Walker, an expert in black cinema of the 1970s and the publisher of the website badazzmofo.com. The festival highlight will be a night with director Michael Schultz, who will be on hand to present his films
The Last Dragon and
Krush Groove, the latter of which tells the story of the founding of Def Jam Recordings and its founder Russell Simmons.
International Youth Silent Film Festival
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