Alfreda's Cinema

Support Alfreda’s Cinema🤍♥️ ✿ 2026 Open-Air Film Festival ✿ Help us continue to build spaces where our stories can be seen, felt, and held together. ✿ Your support helps make this work possible. Donation 🔗🌻below givebutter.com/Alfredas2026OAF

FREE + Open to the Public 6:30pm, TUES. May 5th ✿ Inner Lives. Outer Frames. ✿ Losing Ground (1982) + Cleopatra at the Mall (2025) 
@SchomburgCenter Q&A with Nina Collins + Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
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Big shout out to Katie & the African Film Society for getting us pass our first $1K $1000 raised—thank you for believing in this work! 
Join us in building something lasting🕊️ Donate today! 👇🏾 givebutter.com/Alfredas2026OA… #WeAreTheHarvest #CrowdfundCulture #BlackArt #FilmCommunity

Last call! ✿ 7:30PM, TONIGHT 4/24! 
Sun Ra: Do the Impossible (2025) Q&A with Talia Moore & Ahmed Abdullah 
@sistaspl 456 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn 🎟️RSVP 👇🏾 eventbrite.com/e/sun-ra-do-th…

First donors = everything ✿ $485 raised toward $15K
We’re just getting started Donors receive:
VIP perks + community all summer Support the vision → 🕊️Donate Today! 👇🏾 givebutter.com/Alfredas2026OAF #SupportTheArts #BlackCinema #NYCArt #CommunityCare #AlfredasCinema

I’m going into production on my first feature film, “A Nightmare On Malcolm X Blvd” on 9/11/26. I got the movie financed and casted with stars by myself thru IG DMs after firing my reps and producers. If you wanna make a movie you gotta do it with your friends not the industry.

7:30pm, This FRIDAY! 4/24 ✿
#ChristineTurner’Sun Ra: Do the Impossible (2025) at Sistas’ Place 456 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn A visionary portrait of Sun Ra
Q&A with Talia Moore + Ahmed Abdullah Seating is LIMITED 🎟️RSVP👇🏾 eventbrite.com/e/sun-ra-do-th…

✿ 6:30PM TONIGHT, 4/14✿
Belly (1998) @SchomburgCenter A landmark of Hip Hop cinema by Hype Williams
Q&A w/ film curator & Hip Hop cinema expert, Jessica Green #BlackCinema #NYCEvents #HipHopCinema #FilmScreening #AlfredasCinema FREE w/ RSVP 👇🏾🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/black-on-scr…

✿Come gather with us! ✿ 7:30pm, FRIDAY, 4/24 SUN RA: Do the Impossible (2025) A journey through sound, myth, and Black imagination. @sistas_place 456 Nostrand Ave., 11216 Q&A with Talia Moore + Ahmed Abdullah 🎟️🔗🌻 eventbrite.com/e/sun-ra-do-th…

FREE w/ RSVP 🎟️ New York Stories on Screen continues 6:30pm, TUESDAY, April 14th ✿
@SchomburgCenter Hype Williams’ BELLY (1998) A landmark of Black Neo-Noir + Hip Hop cinema Followed by a 
Q&A with Jessica Green #AlfredasCinema 🔗🌑👇🏾 eventbrite.com/e/black-on-scr…

Some images from 'The Magic City: Birmingham according to Sun Ra,' and a word from clarinetist & saxophonist Frank Adams on his early days playing for Sun Ra in Alabama...

2-9pm, Tomorrow (4/7) We open New York Stories @SchomburgCenter w/ ✿IN THE DARK, WE GATHER✿ A day-long reflection on Blk moviegoing as refuge + release. Ft: NYC shorts + The Long Night (1976, Woodie King Jr.)
Q&A w/ Alia Jones-Harvey.
FREE 🎟️🔗 eventbrite.com/e/black-on-scr…

Our double feature recommendation for today is Julie Dash's 'Daughters of the Dust' and Kasi Lemmon's 'Eve's Bayou'

no one does transitions like park chan-wook

@BlackStuffNYC Thx, Sis!

TONIGHT IN BROOKLYN

March 19th, 1996. Happy 30th anniversary to Bahamadia's "Kollage".

Mary Lou Williams is applauded as the most prolific woman-musician, composer, arranger in Jazz. 🤍♥️ We honor her! 7:30pm, Tomorrow, 3/20 at #SistasPlace with Dani Brito (Schomburg Center) #AlfredasCinema 🎟️RSVP🔗 eventbrite.com/e/a-song-for-m…

7:30pm, FRIDAY, 3/20 #SpringEquinox Celebrating Women’s History, 
our 3rd installment at Sistas' Place fts: Daniella Brito of the Schomburg Center. A song for Mary Lou Williams 🎹 🎟️RSVP 🔗 eventbrite.com/e/a-song-for-m… #MaryLouWilliams #BlackJazz #AlfredasCinema #BrooklynEvents

coincidentally Mary Lou, born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs…and I share similar middle names, Alfreda/Elfrieda…mad cool, both Taurus too…dope. 🙏🏿🙌🏿

Honoring jazz visionary Mary Lou Williams 🎹 Join us @Sistas_place for A Song for Mary Lou Williams 7:30pm, FRIDAY, 3/20 a celebration of the composer, pianist, and mentor who helped shape modern jazz. ✨ #MaryLouWilliams #AlfredasCinema RSVP 🎟️🔗 eventbrite.com/e/a-song-for-m…