HOFSTRA CULTURAL CENTER DEPARTMENT OF RADIO, TELEVISION AND FILM and THE LAWRENCE HERBERT SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION
SUMMER OF SOUL Film Screening and Discussion Summer of Soul premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award. It has since been named “Best Documentary” at the 2022 Academy Awards.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Executive Producer, Marie Therese Guirgis.
This powerful and transporting documentary—part music film, part historical record—was created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was largely forgotten–until now. Summer of Soul shines a light on the importance of history to our spiritual well-being and stands as a testament to the healing power of music during times of unrest, both past and present. The film includes concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, Mavis Staples, The 5th Dimension and more.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2023 6:30-9:30 p.m. Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
This event is FREE and open to the public. To RSVP, visit events.hofstra.edu. For more information, please call the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 or visit hofstra.edu/culture.