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Throughout October SceneIT cinema are showing a number of films in support of Black History Month. Here's what's showing -

Marley

Mon 20/10/14, 6:15pm in 2D07 – FREE admission

Oscar winning documentarian Kevin Macdonald (TOUCHING THE VOID, LIFE IN A DAY) examines the life of pioneering reggae artist Bob Marley in this film featuring intimate footage from the family's personal archives.
Starring:Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Rita Marley
Director: Kevin Macdonald

The Secret Life of Bees

Wed 22/10/14, 6:15pm in 2D07 – FREE admission

Set in South Carolina in 1964, the film is the moving tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters, Lily finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping, honey and the Black Madonna.

Starring: Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning

Precious

Mon 27/10/14, 6:15pm in 2D07 – FREE admission

Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. At home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, who is pregnant by her absent father and is a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is a place of chaos and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and an awful secret: she can neither read nor write. Precious may sometimes be down, but she is never out. Beneath her impassive expression is a watchful, curious young woman with an inchoate but unshakeable sense that other possibilities exist for her.
Starring: Gabourey Sidibe, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz, Sherri Shepherd, Nealla Gordon, Mo'nique.

Director: Lee Daniels

Inconsequential Monuments

Wed 29/10/14, 6:15pm in 2D07 – FREE admission

A creative media project by Shawn Sobers and Rob Mitchell for Firstborn Creatives. Commissioned by Bristol Cultural Development Partnership and Arts Council of England.

Project description: How do communities respond to memorial, in particular to the tragedy of the SS Mendi? ‘Inconsequential Monuments’ will be a collection of photography and audio/visual work which explores the feelings, responses and personal commemorations to the plight of the SS Mendi, and the fate of the 600+ black South African officers ready to join the British war effort in 1917 -  but who died in devastating circumstances before even reaching the shore. On route to France, the SS Mendi was accidentally sunken off the coast of Isle of Wight when it was hit by a meat transporter the SS Darro. Controversially the captain of the Darro made little attempt was made to save their lives. The wreck of the Mendi and all its contents still lay under the waters. This work will include; underwater and near-water portraits of African heritage former soldiers, coastal and water landscapes of the Isle of Wight, audio fragments of interviews and conversation about this event in history, and a specially commissioned poem, creating an audio/visual work which resonates on this history from multiple viewpoints. The output of this work will be a ‘digital story’ format short film, and a series of photographic prints.