Watch anytime between September 11-21. Building banjos from earth materials. Styling identity on Baltimore streets. Searching for permission to exist in your own hometown. Staging a heist against the luxury brands gentrifying your city.

A musician and community organizer is spearheading a movement to reclaim the banjo's Black past from the root, by building banjos from scratch out of earth materials, a continuation of a land-based practice of their diasporic ancestors.

Anti-Black racism, Archival images of white performers in blackface

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Hannah Mayree: Songs of Reclamation

In Songs of Reclamation, a musician and community organizer reclaims the banjo’s Black roots, literally, by building banjos from scratch out of earth materials, continuing a land-based practice of their diasporic ancestors.

A journey into the self-stylings of Baltimore’s Black queer artists and activists, Damn Y’all Fine explores how living in Baltimore shapes the way Black queer folx express their gender and sexual identities.

Emotional distress, Body dysphoria, Personal safety concerns, Transphobia

Damn Y'all Fine

Damn Y’all Fine follows Baltimore’s Black queer artists and activists as they style identity on their own terms, how the city shapes the way they express gender, sexuality, and self.

Budget Paradise follows Chester a Black, non binary painter as they search for space and permission to exist within their hometown.

Budget Paradise

Budget Paradise follows Chester, a Black, nonbinary painter searching for space and permission to exist in their own hometown.

As San Francisco’s tech boom gentrifies their city, three young black trans women decide to take matters into their own hands, staging an audacious heist targeting the city’s most exclusive luxury brands.

Gentrification, Displacement, Drug use, Swearing

Rainbow Girls

In Rainbow Girls, a group of friends stage a heist targeting San Francisco’s most exclusive luxury brands as the tech boom gentrifies their city.

The&nbsp;Filmmaker&nbsp;Q&amp;A&nbsp;following&nbsp;our&nbsp;Friday&nbsp;Opening&nbsp;Night&nbsp;Screening&nbsp;Queer&nbsp;Black&nbsp;Joy&nbsp;Like&nbsp;Fire.&nbsp;Moderated&nbsp;by&nbsp;QWOCMAP's&nbsp;Managing&nbsp;Director&nbsp;T.&nbsp;Kebo&nbsp;Drew,&nbsp;this&nbsp;Q&amp;A&nbsp;features&nbsp;Ebony&nbsp;Marie&nbsp;Bailey&nbsp;and&nbsp;Myriam&nbsp;Boisselle.

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Filmmaker Q&A - Queer Black Joy Like Fire

Queer Black Joy Like Fire post-screening Filmmaker Q&A

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