JACKIE ROBINSON PARK

LOCATION: 150th St. and Bradhurst Ave. map...

RAIN VENUE: Inside Jackie Robinson Recreation Center at 146th St. and Bradhurst Ave.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

8:00 pm Live music by The Project, featuring members of New Rap Order

8:30 pm FILMS: City Blocks Short Film Program (90m.)

An exciting collection of short films that looks at urban life in a whole new way, and captures the trials, tribulations, joys and accomplishments of city life across America.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

8:00 pm Live dance performance by Urban Dance Alliance

8:30 pm FILM: Stories from the Faubourg Tremé (Dawn Logdson, USA, 58m.)

Faubourg Tremé is arguably the oldest black neighborhood in America, the birthplace of the Civil Rights movement in the South and the home of jazz. Every frame of this film is a tribute to what African American communities have contributed even under the most hostile of conditions.

MARCUS GARVEY PARK

LOCATION: The Amphitheater: Behind Pelham Fritz Recreation Center, Mt. Morris Park West at 122nd St. map...

RAIN VENUE: Inside Pelham Fritz Recreation Center

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

8:00 pm Live dance performance by Urban Dance Alliance

8:30 pm FILMS: New York Non-Fiction Uptown (1st edition) Short Film Program (90m.)

Documentaries made by real New Yorkers, about real New Yorkers. These films tell the true stories of the people that make everything happen in this, the greatest city on earth. It’s your city, take a look.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

8:00 pm Dance performance by Uptown Kids Urban Dance Theatre

8:30 pm FILM: Marcus Garvey: Look For Me In The Whirlwind (Stanley Nelson, USA, 90m.)

He was both a visionary and a manipulator, a brilliant orator and a pompous autocrat. This is the dramatic story of the rise and fall of an African American leader who influenced politics and culture around the world.

ST. NICHOLAS PARK

LOCATION: 135th St. & St. Nicholas Ave. map...

RAIN VENUE: St. Mark’s Church, 55 Edgecombe Ave. (intersection of 137th St. and Edgecombe Ave.)

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

8:00 pm Live music by Kimistry, an original jazz/pop group

8:30 pm FILMS: New York Non-Fiction Uptown (2nd edition) Short Film Program (90m.)

Documentaries made by real New Yorkers, about real New Yorkers. These films tell the true stories of the people that make everything happen in this, the greatest city on earth. It’s your city, take a look.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

8:00 pm Live music by Tantra-zawadi with musical guest King Tut (Spoken Word / Jazz.)

8:30 pm FILMS:

Road to Recovery (CLIMB - City Life is Moving Bodies, USA, 22m.)

In this joyous film, six young people bring us the story of parks being reclaimed by people who love them. Through interviews, historical photographs and tender moments in the parks, they help us understand why New Yorkers need the CLIMB trail that will link Central Park at 110th Street to Swindler's Cove at 200th Street.

Hip Hop Revolution (Weaam Williams, South Africa, 48m.)

“Revolution” is an exploration of the lives of a generation so touched by this genre and its culture that they are inspired to question, survive and conquer an unjust political system. Through the struggles of DJs, B-Boys, MCs and creative graffiti artists, “Hip Hop Revolution” depicts an element of hip hop so often forgotten – its power to inspire and catalyze change.

MORNINGSIDE PARK

LOCATION: 113th St. & Morningside Dr. map...

RAIN VENUE: Church of the Master, 86 Morningside Ave. (between 121th & 122nd Sts.)

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

8:00 pm Live dance performance by Uptown Kids Urban Dance Theatre

FILM: Hard Road Home (Macky Alston and Andrea Mellor, East Harlem, 74m.)

Julio Medina beat the odds. A former felon and gang leader, he created a Harlem program dedicated to breaking the cycle of incarceration, employing a staff of badass do-gooders who are ex-cons themselves. Road is the story of an extraordinary task: turning around the fate of one person born into a cycle of poverty and crime.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

8:00 pm DJ Stormin' of Sundae Sermon spinning classic tunes from the 70's and 80's

8:30 pm FILM: Chisholm ‘72 (Shola Lynch, USA, 75m.)

Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman elected to the United States Congress (in 1969), and then--long before the likes of Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton--the first African American of either gender to seek a major party’s presidential nomination. Whether or not she met her goal of becoming “a catalyst for change,” is arguable. But that she had guts and the strength of her convictions is beyond debate. The film will be introduced by the film maker Shola Lynch.

HARLEM MEER, CENTRAL PARK

LOCATION: Lawn adjacent to the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, 110th St. between 5th and Lenox Aves. map...

RAIN VENUE: To Be Determined

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

8:00 pm Live dance performance by Uptown Kids Urban Dance Theatre

8:30 pm FILM: Trouble the Water (Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, New York/New Orleans, 90m.)

The winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Trouble the Water tells the story of an aspiring rap artist and her streetwise husband who are trapped in New Orleans by deadly floodwaters. Armed with a video camera, they show what survival is all about when they seize a chance for a new beginning.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Dancing On The Plaza

6 – 6:45 pm Dancing Instruction

7 – 8:30 pm Roy Abrams Big Band Dancing With Live Performers

8:30 pm FILM: Promised Land (Yoruba Richen, NY, 60m.)

Promised Land examines post-apartheid South Africa’s efforts to bring about racial reconciliation through land redistribution.

The Historic Harlem Parks Coalition would like to thank Partnerships for Parks for assisting its efforts to bring new audiences to our parks.

The 7th Annual Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival: Reel is sponsored by: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, City Council Member Inez E. Dickens and Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer, and Central Park Conservancy.

Rooftop Films is sponsored by: IFC.com,

New York Magazine, Scion, NYSCA, and many others.