Maya Angelou Film Programme<\/p>\n
Each year, ILFU highlights a selected author from the literary canon. This year\u2019s icon is Maya Angelou (1928-2014), poet, writer, dancer, singer, filmmaker and civil rights activist. She had her international breakthrough with the autobiographical novel I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (1969) Angelou worked as a journalist in Cairo and Ghana, worked as an activist together with Dr. Martin Luther King, and President Bill Clinton asked her to read her now-famous poem \u2018On the Pulse of the Morning\u2019 at his inauguration. We will focus on Maya Angelou\u2019s work for the coming year, and during the festival we will screen two of her exceptional films: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (1979) and Georgia, Georgia (1972).<\/p>\n
Georgia, Georgia (1972)<\/strong> Tuesday, 28 September 19:00 Wednesday, 29 September 19:00 Friday, 1 October 19:00 Louis Hartlooper Complex Maya Angelou Film Programme Each year, ILFU highlights a selected author from the literary canon. This year\u2019s icon is Maya Angelou (1928-2014), poet, writer, dancer, singer, filmmaker and civil rights…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-13915","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","odd"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nA curiosity in the oeuvre of Maya Angelou, Georgia Georgia is the first script she wrote, and also the first script by a Black screenwriter in cinema history. Diana Sands plays the popular Black singer Georgia, who travels to Sweden for a gig and has an affair with a White man. They quickly encounter the prejudices towards interracial relationships, and Georgia has more and more difficulty with the a-political, \u2018whitewashed\u2019 character she portrays in public. The film, directed by the Swede Stig Bj\u00f6rkman and featuring Diana Sands and Dirk Benedict (from The A-Team), is a must-watch for fans of Maya Angelou\u2019s work and themes.
\nIn English, with subtitles<\/em><\/p>\n
\nintroduction by writer and film journalist Basje Boer<\/strong> (Dutch spoken).<\/p>\n
\nintroduction by journalist and writer Dominique van Varsseveld<\/strong> (Dutch spoken).<\/p>\n
\nintroduction by film journalist Kevin Toma<\/strong> (Dutch spoken).<\/p>\n
\nThere are a limited number of ticket available, so order today via hartlooper.nl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"