Courtesy of Tull Family Theater Tull Family Theater artists in residence Nadine M. Patterson (left) and Martha Richards Conley (right) The Tull Family Theater in Sewickley has worked to create programming combining film with low-cost or free screenings, educational opportunities, and chances to connect with the community. Now the theater has announced a new artists-in-residency program to advance the work of two local Black filmmakers. The theater will host Nadine M. Patterson and Martha Richards Conley for a year-long residency meant to support the production of their docudrama about Lewis Latimer, an under-recognized Black inventor who developed a successful light bulb filament in the 1880s.
Part 2: Wednesday, February 10 at 10pm
Part 3: Wednesday, February 17 at 10pm
Part 4: Wednesday, February 24 at 10pm
Join journalist and athlete Ade Adepitan as he travels across Africa to discover how the continent is changing. With his very personal take on the continent, this four-part series asks the question: Just as the last 30 years transformed Asia, does the future belong to Africa?
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Friday, February 5 at 11pm
Explore the complicated history of the American South and its music through the life of country star Charley Pride. Raised in segregated Mississippi, his journey shows the ways that artistic expression can triumph over prejudice and injustice.
A bruising gut punch.
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Nanfu Wang follows One Child Nation with an eye-opening investigation for HBO of the COVID-19 outbreak and the common thread of misinformation from both Chinese and American leaders.
In the closing moments of her blistering account of government and media mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic in both China and the U.S., director Nanfu Wang says: I have lived under authoritarianism and I have lived in a society that calls itself free; in both systems, ordinary people become casualties of their leaders pursuit of power. Like last year s
76 Days, the first half of Wang s film is an urgently immersive recap of the chaos that gripped Wuhan at the start of the outbreak in early 2020. The second half turns its haunted gaze to the arrival of the virus on American shores, and the refusal to heed ample warning signs and contain the foreseeable spread.