Past Events

2025

Image from Mami Wata
  • March 29, 2025: Mambar Pierrette, part of the New African Cinema film series.
  • March 28, 2025: Dahomey, part of the New African Cinema film series.
  • March 28, 2025: Eyimofe (This is My Desire), part of the New African Cinema film series co-sponsored by the CDRP, the IU Cinema, the Black Film Center/Archive, and Black Camera.
  • February 25, 2025: Earth Mama, part of the AfroFutures film series.
  • February 18, 2025: Milisuthando, part of the AfroFutures film series.
  • February 11, 2025: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, part of the AfroFutures film series.
  • February 4, 2025: Mami Wata screening, part of the film series AfroFutures: Black Women and Cinematic Storytelling. The series is co-sponsored by the CDRP, IU Cinema, Black Film Center/Archive, The Media School, Women's Philanthropy at IU, the Black Philanthropy Circle, and the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.

2024

In Light Film Festival 2024
  • November 20, 2024: CDRP co-sponsored with Jacobs School of Music on the visit of Eileen Karmy Bolton, a musicologist from Chile, and her partner Martin Farias, and the screening of her documentary Himno (2023) based on the protest song,"El pueblo unido jamás será vencido."
  • November 6, 2024: Screening and discussion of El Muro/The Wall with director Ramón Resendiz, a Chicanx documentary filmmaker and media anthropologist from the south Texas U.S.-Mexico borderlands. He is at I.U. as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Media School.
  • October 30, 2024: Book talk with Nora Alter, Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University, on her latest book, Harun Farocki: Forms of Intelligence.
  • September 24-26, 2024: CDRP co-sponsored with the Black Film Center/Archive a visit by filmmaker Kevin Willmott for a series of screenings at IU Cinema and a Jorgensen lecture.
  • April 9, 2024: One More Step West is the Sea: ruth weiss, screened at the IU Cinema. The film is about the legendary Beat poet ruth weiss (name always lowercase), a Nazi refugee in the 1930s, innovator of jazz & poetry in Chicago in the late 1940s, major female Beat Generation partaker in San Francisco in the 1950s, filmmaker in the 1960s, and environmental activist at the Mendocino Coast in the 1980s who was still performing until her death in 2020. The film is followed by a Q&A with the documentary's director Thomas Antonic.
  • April 5, 2024: CDRP co-sponsored with Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies a visit by documentarian Geraldine Zuasnabar, a member of Chola Contravisual, a collective of Quechua feminists.
  • March 28-30, 2024: In Light Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.
  • February 11-April 2, 2024: CDRP co-sponsored with IU Cinema and American Studies a series of events funded in part by Indiana Humanities, Care Not Cages: Beyond Walls, Beyond Prisons.

2023

The Best of FESPACO

2022

Portraits in Permafrost: "Garage People/Garagenvolk"

2021

“Pipeline” (“Truba”) (2013): Russian Studies Workshop Fall 2021 Film Series

2020

Hugo Perez: All That Still Matters at All

2019

Documentary Film Editing Workshops

2017

Jean-Michel Dissard: Screening and panel discussion on documentary film, "I Learn America"
In Light Film Festival 2017

2016