We have also invited special guests enabling audiences to hear from emerging Scottish based black female filmmakers and musicians. We have selected films for a wide audience – feel good family films films directed by black female filmmakers and some black cinema classics. Join us to celebrate black on screen talent through watching and discussing films with black female leads. Screenings take place throughout autummn at GWL and the Glasgow Film Theatre as part of the British Film Institute’s Black Star season, the UK’s biggest ever season of film and television dedicated to celebrating the range, versatility and power of black actors. Celebrating Black on Screen Talent: The Color Purple, Tuesday 15th November*, 5.30pm to 8pm
The Color Purple was nominated for 11 Oscars. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa. Based on the novel by Alice Walker. After Celie’s abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing “Mister” Albert Johnson (Danny Glover), things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can.
The Colour Purple Film Still courtesy of Warner BrosĪ monumental movie for Black Cinema, The Color Purple is an epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.
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