Dear BDC/NY Colleagues & Guests,

The BLACK DOCUMENTARY COLLECTIVE members’ screening series will be at the ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES (32 SECOND AVENUE, New York, NY, at the corner of Second Street and Second Avenue) on Wednesday JULY 18. THE SCREENING WILL BEGIN PROMPTLY AT 6 pm.

The JULY 18 screening will be SEGREGATING THE GREATEST GENERATION. In this documentary feature film, director Woodie King shows how World War II changed the lives of 16 people now between the ages of 70 and 90: Camille Billops, artist/filmmaker; Evelyn Cunningham, journalist; James V. Hatch, historian; Gertrude Jeannette, actress/director; Philip Rose, theater producer/director; Don Ryder, architect; Neal Tate, musician/composer/arranger; Therese Hayden, acting teacher; Lloyd Richards, theater director; Luther Henderson, musician/composer/arranger; Clara Villarosa, businesswoman; Max Eisen, press agent; Ossie Davis, playwright/actor/director; William Greaves, filmmaker; Dr. Roscoe Brown, educator/Tuskegee Airman; and Natsu Ifill whose Japanese-American family was imprisoned in camps in the U. S. King also explores their difficulties of becoming artists during and after World War II. Segregating the Greatest Generation is a Black "concept" documentary that deals with segregation in World War II and the lessons to be learned from that war and beyond.

Well-known theater producer Woodie King recruited many veterans from the Black Theater movement to make this film. Shauneille Perry and Irving Vincent conducted the interviews. The legendary stage and screen actor Ruby Dee and Michael Tolan, co-founder of the pioneering American Place Theatre, serve as narrators. Composer/arranger Ernest McCarty composed the film’s score.

WOODIE KING WILL BE PRESENT FOR A POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION.

The BDC Anthology Screening Series is a quarterly gathering of BDC members and their guests actively working in film, television, theater and other media to stimulate discussion on political principles, creative techniques and the exchange of ideas that can help us all make the most powerful work possible in these important times. Please feel free to invite a guest you feel is sympathetic to the goals of this group.