$5 Movie Night at Sankofa / Through the Door of No Return
Thu, Jun 02
|Washington
In-Person / Mask Required Join us for $5 Movie Nights, Thursdays at Sankofa. We are kicking off our film series with a screening of Shirikiana Aina's Throught the Door of No Return!
Time & Location
Jun 02, 2022, 6:30 PM
Washington, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
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About The Event
About Through the Door of No Return
In a personal quest, filmmaker Shirikiana Aina made this documentary capturing her efforts to learn more about her father, who died when she was a child. A Michigan man descended from slaves, he was labeled a radical by the FBI. Aina traveled to Ghana, documenting an oral history of slavery in Elmina, a port where Africans were warehoused before shipping to the New World
About Shirikiana Aina
After obtaining her B.A. in Film from Howard University, she earned an M.A. in African Film Studies from UCLA in 1982.
That same year, she directed the documentary Brick By Brick, a rare look at the issues of displacement and urban gentrification in the poor, black neighborhoods of Washington, D.C.
Later, she co-produced Sankofa (1993), directed by her husband, Haile Gerima, which received critical praise and prizes for its representation of the horrors of slavery in…
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Through the Door of No Return
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