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Making a Home for Black Southern Film

Humanities in Community

Date

Feb 26 2024

Time

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Location

Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall

Bay 4 (C105), Smith Warehouse, 114 S Buchanan Blvd, Durham, NC 27701

Making a Home for Black Southern Film

Tyra Dixon in Conversation with Joseph Winters

 

Tyra Dixon is a writer, editor, producer, director, photographer, videographer, and business owner. After serving in 2023 as co-director, alongside Lana Garland, of the Hayti Heritage Film Fesitval, Tyra is now director of the festival.

Tyra Dixon will be in conversation with Duke University professor Joseph Winters (Religious Studies and African and African American Studies) about the power of Black film - and especially Black Southern film - to preserve wisdom, celebrate creativity, subvert expectations, and transform futures.

The Hayti Heritage Film Festival is held yearly during the first week in March, and is one of the nation's longest-running Black film festivals. The festival features screenings of documentaries and short and feature-length films, with a particular focus on the US South.

 

This is the third in a series featuring conversations with people who are bringing the ideas and values of the humanities into work beyond university borders.

Light dinner/snacks will be provided.

Registration is not required, but we'll be grateful if you let us know you're planning to attend!

 

PARKING INFORMATION: Please see the detailed guidance on this page, thanks to our friends at the DHRC@FHI.
Click Here To RSVP

Speakers

Tyra Dixon

Tyra Dixon is a writer, editor, producer, director, photographer, videographer and founder of T. Dixon Media, LLC. Tyra’s career began as a broadcast news editor where she worked for various national affiliates before eventually segueing into filmmaking and photography. Some of her projects and photographic work have been featured in…...

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Joseph Richard Winters

Duke University

My name is Joseph Winters and I am an associate professor at Duke University in Religious Studies and African and African American Studies. I hold secondary appointments in English and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. My interests lie at the intersection of black religious thought, black studies, and critical theory.…...

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Making a Home for Black Southern Film

Tyra Dixon in Conversation with Joseph Winters

 

Tyra Dixon is a writer, editor, producer, director, photographer, videographer, and business owner. After serving in 2023 as co-director, alongside Lana Garland, of the Hayti Heritage Film Fesitval, Tyra is now director of the festival.

Tyra Dixon will be in conversation with Duke University professor Joseph Winters (Religious Studies and African and African American Studies) about the power of Black film - and especially Black Southern film - to preserve wisdom, celebrate creativity, subvert expectations, and transform futures.

The Hayti Heritage Film Festival is held yearly during the first week in March, and is one of the nation's longest-running Black film festivals. The festival features screenings of documentaries and short and feature-length films, with a particular focus on the US South.

 

This is the third in a series featuring conversations with people who are bringing the ideas and values of the humanities into work beyond university borders.

Light dinner/snacks will be provided.

Registration is not required, but we'll be grateful if you let us know you're planning to attend!

 

PARKING INFORMATION: Please see the detailed guidance on this page, thanks to our friends at the DHRC@FHI.
Click Here To RSVP

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