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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Annette Caine FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Annette Caine, African American Performing Arts Center 505-222-9756; [email protected] Secondary contacts Laurel Wyckoff, New Mexico PBS 505-277-8296; [email protected] Donna Hardwick, ITVS 415-356-8383; [email protected] Signature photo downloadable here: http://bit.ly/2B9AnEe NEW MEXICO PBS AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER PRESENT A SPECIAL 10th ANNIVERSARY PRESENTATION OF ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO SCREENING TO FEATURE Q&A WITH Mr. DEVONT’E KURT WATSON (Albuquerque, New Mexico) — New Mexico PBS and African American Performing Arts Center are excited to present an Indie Lens Pop-Up screening of Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro, one of the most acclaimed films of the year and a 2017 nominee for Academy Award for Best Documentary. In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, to be called Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends — Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. But at the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of his manuscript. Now, in this incendiary documentary, which premieres on New Mexico PBS Monday, January 15, 2018, 8:00 - 9:30 PM, filmmaker Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words, spoken by Samuel L. Jackson, and a flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for. WHAT: FREE preview screening of I Am Not Your Negro followed by a community discussion moderated by Mr. Devont’e Kurt Watson. WHERE: African American Performing Arts Center, 310 San Pedro NE WHO: Presenters: Indie Lens Pop-Up, New Mexico PBS, The African American Performing Arts Center WHEN: Friday, January 12, 2018 at 6:00 PM reception followed by a 6:30 screening and interactive discussion RSVP: https://nmpbs-jbaldwin-011218.eventbrite.com For more information, visit: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/i-am-not-your- negro/ About the Filmmaker Raoul Peck’s (Director/Producer/Writer) complex body of work includes feature narrative films like The Man by the Shore (Competition Cannes 1993), Lumumba (Director’s Fortnight, Cannes 2000, bought and aired by HBO), Sometimes in April (HBO, Berlinale 2005), Moloch Tropical (Toronto 2009, Berlin 2010) and Murder in Pacot (Toronto 2014, Berlin 2015). His documentaries include Lumumba, Death of a Prophet (1990), Desounen (1994, BBC) and Fatal Assistance (Berlinale, Hot Docs 2013), which was supported by the Sundance Institute and Britdoc Foundation (UK) and broadcast on major TV channels (Canal+, ARTE, etc.) He has served as jury member at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and at the Berlinale, is presently chairman of the board of the national French film school La Fémis, and has been the subject of numerous retrospectives worldwide. In 2001, the Human Rights Watch organization awarded him the Irene Diamond Lifetime Achievement Award. He recently completed his latest feature film, The Young Karl Marx, a European coproduction, shot in Germany and Belgium (produced by Velvet Film, in coproduction with Agat Films) that will be released in the U.S. in the coming months. About Indie Lens Pop-Up Indie Lens Pop-Up is a neighborhood series that brings people together for film screenings and community-driven conversations. Featuring documentaries seen on PBS's Independent Lens, Indie Lens Pop-Up draws local residents, leaders and organizations together to discuss what matters most, from newsworthy topics, to family and relationships. Make friends, share stories, and join the conversation. Can't attend in person? Find Independent Lens on Facebook for information on our online Pop-Up events. About Independent Lens Independent Lens is an Emmy® Award-winning weekly series airing on PBS Monday nights at 10:00 PM. The acclaimed series, with Lois Vossen as executive producer, features documentaries united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement, and unflinching visions of independent filmmakers. Presented by ITVS, the series is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people, with additional funding from PBS, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Wyncote Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. For more visit pbs.org/independentlens. Join the conversation: facebook.com/independentlens and on Twitter @IndependentLens. About New Mexico PBS Celebrating over 58 years of service, New Mexico PBS (KNME & KNMD-TV) serving northern and central New Mexico, broadcasts a wide array of national nature, history, current affairs, health, performance, children's, educational and entertainment programs. New Mexico PBS also produces NEW MEXICO IN FOCUS, COLORES!, and a variety of specials. New Mexico PBS operates 5 digital broadcast channels: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 9.1, and 9.2. New Mexico PBS is co-licensed to the University of New Mexico (UNM) and Albuquerque Public Schools (APS). www.newmexicopbs.org About The African American Performing Arts Center Celebrating its 10th Anniversary, The African American Performing Arts Center (AAPAC) Foundation is New Mexico’s only art foundation supporting an African American performing arts center and exhibit hall. The foundation’s mission is to bring a heightened awareness of and promote African American arts as it relates to culture and heritage. AAPAC proudly presents its 2018 AFRIQUERQUE Series which seeks to adopt a proactive role with respect to the regular utilization, support, nurturing, and visibility of both performers of color in New Mexico and the African American Performing Arts Center’s 300 seat Auditorium. For more information about AAPAC visit www.aapacnm.org ### .
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