Freep Film Festival welcomes Highland Park’s own, film critic and documentarian Elvis Mitchell, and his new film, “Is that Black Enough For You?!?” The film examines the contributions Black people made to 70s cinema, which includes and goes beyond Blaxploitation and into the current Black cinema. The post-screening Q&A is scheduled to feature Mitchell and legendary actor Laurence Fishburne.
Mitchell will hold the position as the Bob Allison (Allesee) Endowed Chair in Media at Wayne State University College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts beginning in May 2023, the Detroit Free Press reported.
Fishburne executive-produced another entry, “The Cave of Adullam,” a documentary about the karate dojo The Cave of Adullam Transformational Training Academy, its founder Jason Wilson and the Black male youth he works with. The movie is directed by another Michigander, Laura Checkoway. Fishburne, Wilson and Checkoway will have a post-film discussion.
Other nonfiction films on the Freep Film Festival roster include the Nikki Giovanni documentary “Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project”; “Locked Out,” about Black women fighting evictions; “Black Mothers Love and Resist,” which follows Wanda Johnson and Angela Williams, mothers of Black men traumatized by the police; and “Coldwater Kitchen,” about Chef Jimmy Lee Hill and the renowned culinary training program he leads in a Coldwater, Michigan prison.
The 10th annual flick fest will take place April 26-30. For tickets, go to freepfilmfestival.com.
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