Reel Sisters Tea & Cinema Screens Dressed Like Kings w/dir STACEY HOLMAN

343 Malcolm X Boulevard,New York NY 10027

29 March, 2022

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Enjoy Reel Sisters Tea & Cinema 25th Anniversary retrospective celebrating the work of Stacey Holman, dir. of Dressed Like Kings! Reel Sisters Tea & Cinema Harlem Series 2022 DATE: Tues., March 29, 2022 • 6:30 pm Location: Maysles Doc. Center, 343 Lenox Ave/Malcolm X Blvd. (Cor. 127 & 128 Streets) Suggested Donation: $10 (Donate any amount $1+) On Tues., March 29, 2022 at 6:30 pm, Reel Sisters Tea & Cinema Harlem Series will host our FIRST in person screening since the pandemic with a special retrospective event celebrating award-winning filmmaker Stacey Holman, director of Dressed Like Kings! In honor of Reel Sisters 25th Anniversary, our festival is hosting screenings of seminal films that defined our mission as an Oscar qualifying film festival devoted to women of color. Join us in enjoying two films by Stacey and an enlightening chat on filmmaking led by Clairesa Clay, founder of Blerd City Con and Reel Sisters Founding Curator. Synopsis Dressed Like Kings presents a compelling glimpse into a South African sub-culture unknown to most Westerners– oswenka (to swank); a tradition where men don their finest apparel for the weekly title of “Best Dressed” and a greater sense of self-worth. The stories of fellow oswenkas — Simon Khoza, Adolphus Mbuyisa, and Bhekiznzo Buthelezi — will reveal the mystique of swanking, explore the origins of this fifty-year old tradition within the Zulu culture, and highlight the extent the participants will go to feel good about themselves. Reel Sisters Tea & Cinema Series is supported by the West Harlem Development Corp., National Endowment for the Arts, NY State Council on the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council, Council members Laurie Cumbo, Farah Louis and Bill Perkins! ABOUT THE FILMMAKER Stacey L. Holman is a Harlem-based filmmaker who’s directed/produced several award-winning projects including episode three of the 2018 PBS series Reconstruction: America After the Civil War hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. She was a producer on the critically acclaimed documentary Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities and served as Associate Producer on the Emmy award-winning film Freedom Riders produced/directed by Stanley Nelson. Additionally, Stacey was Coordinating Producer for Nelson’s Peabody Award-winning documentary Freedom Summer, and she was Co-Producer on Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band. Stacey’s short film Dressed Like Kings garnered the Tribeca Film Festival All-Access Award and aired on the WORLD Channel as part of the AfroPoP Shorts Program. She was the Series Producer/Director of Henry Louis Gates, Jr’s Black Church series The Black Church: This Is Our Story. This Is Our Song scheduled to broadcast on PBS on February 16th and 17th from 8:00 – 10:00 p.m. (EST). Currently, she’s one of the producers/directors on Gates’ Making Black America: African American Social Networks airing on PBS in 2022. She is a graduate of Dillard University in New Orleans, LA, and the Tisch School of the Arts grad film program at NYU. Stacey also teaches a future generation of filmmakers at The City College of New York and Fairleigh Dickinson University. HOST Clairesa Clay, the founder and Executive Producer of Blerd City Con, has developed cultural programs in film visual arts, and literature in conjunction with academic and artistic organization as well as independent artists. For information on Blerd City Con visit www.blerdcitycon.com.