Support Black Communities Today, Tomorrow, and Forever
Collage Art of Black Panthers’ Free Breakfast Program created by Oddball Vintage
This Juneteenth Day, we’ve compiled a list to share of films to watch, events to support, and organizations you should donate to right now, tomorrow, and in the future.
Black Lives Matter. Black Trans Live Matter.
Black Children Matter. Black Futures Matter.
FILMS TO WATCH
Criterion
In an effort to use their streaming platform to highlight films that focus on Black Lives, the Criterion Channel has taken down the paywall on many titles with that focus you can now view for free, no subscription necessary.
Here is a list we curated for you:
Down in the Delta (1998) Dir. Maya Angelou
My Brother’s Wedding (1983) Dir. Charles Burnett
Black Girl (1966) Dir. Ousmane Sembène
Cane River (1982) Dir. Horace Jenkins
Bless Their Little Hearts (1983) Dir. Bill Woodberry
The Watermelon Woman (1996) Dir. Cheryl Dunye
Daughters of the Dust (1991) Dir. Julie Dash
Portrait of Jason (1967) Dir. Shirley Clarke
A Well-Spent Life (1972) Dir. Skip Gerson, Les Blank
Body and Soul (1925) Dir. Oscar Micheaux
Black Panthers (1968), Dir. Anges Varda
Kanopy
Kanopy is a free access movie platform that can be accessed through Public Library accounts & Universities. If you have a library card, you can have access to our picks & more for $0.
Black Is...Black Ain’t (1995, Dir. Christiane Badgley, Marlon Riggs, & Nicole Atkinson)
Just Mercy Film
Just Mercy (2019) Dir. Destin Daniel Cretton, is available to rent for free across digital platforms in the US for the month of June 2020.
PBS
PBS will release multiple programs focused on race in America.
John Lewis: Get in the way (2015) Dir. Kathleen Dowdey
Reconstruction: America after the Civil War (2019) Produced by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures is offering SELMA (2014) Dir. Ava Duverny, for free rental across digital platforms for the month of June 2020.
Support Black Filmmakers & Other Relevant Films
Available for Purchase on Vudu/Prime/iTunes/etc.
Black Bodies (2018) Dir. Charlotte Moore*
Do The Right Thing (1989) Dir. Spike Lee
The Hate U Give (2018) George Tillman Jr.
Rest in Power (2018) Dir. Jenner Furst, Julia Willoughby Nason
12 Years a Slave (2013) Dr. Steve McQueen
Selma (2014) Dir. Ava Duverny, Cinematography by Bradford Young
*Available via Alamo On Demand
LOCAL EVENTS
STAY BLACK AND LIVE FESTIVAL
The Stay Black and Live Festival is holding a virtual celebration on June 19 from 6 to 10 p.m. According to the event's website, the Juneteenth Committee will distribute 600 barbecue plates to communities impacted by COVID-19 starting at 5:30 p.m. in the Carver Museum parking lot.
Neil-Cochran House Museum Driving Tour
The Neil-Cochran House Museum is hosting a driving tour during the weekend of June 19. The tour begins at the museum and works its way through the historic sites of Wheatville and Clarksville.
Growing Your Roots
Downs-Jones Library at Huston-Tillotson University will host a virtual Juneteenth event on June 19. Library director Danielle McGhee will discuss how to use genealogy as a “progressive tool during a global pandemic”.
DONATE TIME + MONEY
SIX SQUARE AUSTIN
To preserve and celebrate the cultural legacy of the African American community that once thrived in Central East Austin through cultural arts, education, economic development, and historic preservation.
Austin Area Urban League
To enable African Americans and other underserved urban residents to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power, and civil rights, and to provide tools for them to build a foundation for social and economic equality.
Austin Justice Coalition
The Austin Justice Coalition (AJC) serves people who are historically and systematically impacted by gentrification, segregation, over policing, a lack of educational and employment opportunities, and other institutional forms of racism in Austin.
AJC’s mission is to improve the quality of life for people of color by helping them be the driving force behind their own liberation.
Grassroots Leadership
Grassroots Leadership works for a more just society where prison profiteering, mass incarceration, deportation, and criminalization are things of the past. One day, they envision a safe and healthy city, state and world where people have agency over their lives, and their lives are not interrupted by prison profiteering, mass incarceration, deportation, and criminalization.
400+1
A home for Black revolutionaries to build a world beyond survival.
Mutual Aid Collective ATX
A student-driven digital community center building solidarity and practicing collective care.
Black Mamas ATX
The Black Mamas Community Collective’s goal is to reduce and ultimately eliminate the alarming maternal mortality and morbidity rates among Black women. Through programs, increased awareness, training, outreach and research, the Black Mamas Community Collective is leading the charge in Travis County to help Black mothers get the education and access to resources needed to have healthy pregnancies and birthing experiences.
Measure Austin
MEASURE seeks a better quality of life for members of underrepresented communities - especially People of Color in through shared research, best practices, and community participatory action. MEASURE empowers underserved communities to become active participants in the process of changing statistics.
Allgo: Queer People of Color organization in Texas
Queer People of Color organization in Texas. Social Justice, Cultural Arts, and Health & Wellness.
Rosa Rebellion
A platform for creative activism by and for women of color
Stonewall Riots collage art created by Oddball Vintage
“No Pride for some of us without liberation for all of us” - Marsha P. Johnson
Austin School of Film is a nonprofit organization founded with a mission to help counteract systemic biases by providing alternative education programs, pathways, & resources to people of all ages within the arts & film communities. We are a small team of passionate people who believe in access to education and resources.
We also believe:
Black Lives Matter. Black Trans Live Matter.
Black Children Matter. Black Futures Matter.