2 days of movies at DFC
The Detroit Film Center is putting on the Progressive Film Festival tonight and tomorrow night. Doors open at 7, films start at 8. Tickets are $5.
FRIDAY, JUNE 22
B.I.K.E. (Jacob Septimus and Anthony Howard) presented by the Progressive Film Festival
Anthony Howard began to make a film about New York’s chapter of the Black Label Bicycle Club and found himself vying to become a member of the group. Black Label is known for living a lifestyle centered on building bikes together, riding together, eating together, and sometimes living together. Black Label is more than just a bike club or a lifestyle – it is life. This is a rare look at a way of life that may challenge your own.
SATURDAY, JUNE 23
REVOLUTION ‘67 (Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno) presented by the Progressive Film Festival
Revolution ‘67 is an illuminating account of events too often relegated to footnotes in U.S. history – the black urban rebellions of the 1960s. Focusing on the six-day Newark, N.J., outbreak in mid-July,
Revolution ‘67 reveals how the disturbances began as spontaneous revolts against poverty and police brutality and ended as fateful milestones in America’s struggles over race and economic justice.
Voices from across the spectrum – activists Tom Hayden and Amiri Baraka, journalist Bob Herbert, Mayor Sharpe James, and other officials, National Guardsmen, and Newark citizens –
recall lessons as hard-earned then as they have been easy to neglect since.
The Detroit Film Center is located at 1227 Washington Blvd. Detroit, MI 48226
2 blocks west of Woodward, 1 block south of Grand River