Reel Sisters Tea & Cinema Series hosts a retrospective screening & talk on Black Girl written by Harlem playwright j.e. franklin!

About this event

Reel Sisters 25th Anniversary retrospective continues with an online Tea & Cinema screening of Black Girl written by award-winning playwright turned filmmaker j.e. franklin. Reel Sisters screened this classic film at our 10th Anniversary festival and we are honored to have Black Girl return to our virtual screening series!

Watch the film at www.reelsisters.org and join us Tues., April 26 at 6:30 pm for a chat with j.e. franklin via Zoom!

Film Synopsis: Black Girl celebrates the aspirations of three generations of women who strive for a better life. Billie Jean has dropped out of school and secretly taken a job as a dancer in a local bar, her ultimate goal is to become a ballet dancer. Billie Jean must fight a multiplicity of challenges, family issues, sex, racism and classism to win an education and forge her own identity.