That didn't happen, but there is a light inside of me that wants to make it happen for this generation.” “It would have meant the world to me if I would have had someone to look up to and hear these stories when I was coming of age there in town. I want them to grow up to become writers and filmmakers if that's what they want to do,” he said. “I insisted, when I started talking to the powers that be in town, that I have a chance to share this story with junior high students and high school students and students who are in college and young filmmakers, because I think it's important that they see an artist at work. Just as important to Haygood, though, are the events with Columbus youth, such as an all-day film program for teens at the Columbus Museum of Art and talks for college students at Ohio State and Columbus State. 18 a screening of 1972 film “The Man” paired with a conversation between Haygood and Hanif Abdurraqib at Gateway Film Center on Wednesday, Oct. 17 a screening of Michael Schultz’s “Cooley High” at the Wexner Center and a virtual conversation with Schultz on Monday, Oct. 16, followed by a conversation with Townsend on Sunday, Oct. In the leadup to the release, Haygood will visit Columbus for a series of film screenings, artist talks and readings tied to the book, including a screening of filmmaker Robert Townsend’s “The Five Heartbeats” at the Lincoln Theatre on Saturday, Oct. Join us for a conversation timely, cinematic, and vital.Haygood’s experience with the movie adaptation provided the spark for his forthcoming book, Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World, which comes out on Tuesday, Oct. Simpson trial, to the Black Lives Matter movement. Using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves-from Gone with the Wind to Blaxploitation films to Black Panther-as a prism to explore Black culture, civil rights, and racism in America, Haygood makes clear the effects of changing social realities and events on the business of making movies and on what was represented on the screen: from Jim Crow and segregation to white flight and interracial relationships, from the assassination of Malcolm X, to the O.
Journalist and acclaimed author of The Butler and Showdown Wil Haygood takes the virtual Greenlight stage to present Colorization, his kaleidoscopic, deeply-researched history of Black cinema. Wil Haygood presents Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series).
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