June 19 - 23, 2021
From the organizers:
“Houston Cinema Arts Society (HCAS) and Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) partner on screenings at Moonstruck Drive-In in celebration of both Juneteenth and Black Music Month. Miss Juneteenth will play on Saturday, June 19th at 8:30pm with $30 tickets per car and Summer of Soul will play on Wednesday, June 23rd at 8:30pm with free advanced registration.
On Saturday, June 19th at 8:30pm, HCAS and HMAAC will present A Juneteenth Celebration: Miss Juneteenth and Doretha’s Blues at Moonstruck Drive-In. The program will consist of the Texas-shot film Miss Juneteenth by Channing Godfrey Peoples, previously screened at HCAS’s Beyond Film Program with Sundance Film Festival, and will be preceded by the Houston premiere of the director’s new short film, Doretha’s Blues. Doors open at 7:00pm, and at 7:30pm audience members will get to listen to a custom Juneteenth Mixtape by DJ Red of Screwed Up Records and Tapes celebrating the legacy of Juneteenth, Black Texas, and Houston and aligning with the 50th anniversary of DJ Screw’s birthday on July 20th and the 25th anniversary of DJ Screw’s legendary June 27th mixtape.
On Wednesday, June 23rd at 8:30pm, the 2021 Sundance Documentary Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award winning film Summer of Soul plays at Moonstruck Drive-In for free as part of A Black Music Month Celebration: Summer of Soul. Doors open at 7:00pm, and at 7:30pm audience members will get to listen to another custom mixtape for Summer of Soul, from DJ Red of Screwed Up Records and Tapes, paying tribute to the legendary artists in the film, including Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, 5th Dimension, and Sly and the Family Stone, among others. Advanced registration is required. “It’s always a pleasure to partner with Houston Cinema Arts Society, and no better way to celebrate Juneteenth than with Doretha’s Blues and Miss Juneteenth, or to partner with HCAS to celebrate Black Music Month with Summer of Soul and DJ Red’s Mixtape,” says HMAAC CEO John Guess.
Saturday, June 19th, 8:30pm
Miss Juneteenth Channing Godfrey Peoples, 2020, 103 min
Built like a bird, Turquoise Jones is a single mom who holds down a household, a rebellious teenager, and pretty much everything that goes down at Wayman’s BBQ & Lounge. Turquoise is also a bona fide beauty queen—she was once crowned Miss Juneteenth, a title commemorating the day slavery was abolished in Texas. Life didn’t turn out as beautifully as the title promised, but Turquoise, determined to right her wrongs, is cultivating her daughter, Kai, to become Miss Juneteenth, even if Kai wants something else.
Preceded by:
7:30pm
DJ Red’s Junteenth Chopped and Screwed Mixtape
Doretha’s Blues Channing Godfrey Peoples, 2021, 15 min, Houston Premiere Doretha goes out for her evening drink at her local watering hole when a news story dredges up old memories.
Wednesday, June 23rd, 8:30pm
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, 2021, 117 min
In his acclaimed Sundance Film Festival debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary—part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was never seen and largely forgotten–until now. Summer of Soul shines a light on the importance of history to our spiritual well-being and stands as a testament to the healing power of music during times of unrest, both past and present. The feature includes never-before-seen concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, The 5th Dimension and more. Summer of Soul won U.S. Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the U.S. Documentary category at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Preceded by:
7:30pm
DJ Red’s Chopped and Screwed Mixtape featuring Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, Nina Simone, and more.
Tickets are on sale now for A Juneteenth Celebration: Miss Juneteenth and Doretha’s Blues and Registration is open for A Black Music Month Celebration: Summer of Soul. For more information, visit cinemahtx.org
ABOUT HOUSTON CINEMA ARTS SOCIETY
Houston Cinema Arts Society (HCAS) celebrates and illuminates the vitality of one of America’s most diverse cities by connecting audiences and artists with year round public, educational, and career-advancing film and arts programming. Our local-meets-global approach celebrates connectivity in all art forms, empowering and supporting regional and underrepresented filmmakers. We are a comprehensive and collaborative non-profit organization that produces an annual, internationally recognized film festival, provides filmmaker support and education, and forges connections between the moving image and other arts. HCAS flagship programs include the Houston Cinema Arts Festival held annually in November, the Cinespace short film competition (a collaboration with NASA challenging filmmakers to create films from the NASA archives), Borders | No Borders (a short film competition for filmmakers with meaningful ties to Texas, bordering states, and Mexico), and the Black Media Story Summit-Texas (a free conference in collaboration with Black Public Media, the Austin Film Society, and the Fifth Ward Community Redevelopment Corporation), and the Sundance Satellite series.The Houston Cinema Arts Society envisions a future where filmmaking, production, and public programming thrive and grow, in step with the city’s ever evolving fine arts and media sector. In turn, by fostering global filmmakers and promoting a flowering of locally based film,television and media production, HCAS helps realize and celebrate our city’s diversity and cultural riches. HCAS is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Brown Foundation, Kinder Foundation, Houston First Corporation, Franci Neely Foundation, Petrello Family Foundation, Cabrina & Steven Owsley, Carrin Patman & Jim Derrick, Catherine Asher Morgan, Sara and Bill Morgan, Louisa Stude Sarofim, Nina & Michael Zilkha, Mark Wawro, Amegy Bank, Texas Film Commission, Houston Film Commission, Texas Commission for the Arts, Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation, Six Foot, HEB, and the Houston Arts Alliance.
ABOUT HOUSTON MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE
The mission of HMAAC is to collect, conserve, explore, interpret, and exhibit the material and intellectual culture of Africans and African Americans in Houston, the state of Texas, the southwest and the African Diaspora for current and future generations. In fulfilling its mission, HMAAC seeks to invite and engage visitors of every race and background and to inspire children of all ages through discovery-driven learning. HMAAC is a museum for all people. As such, it is a multicultural conversation on race geared toward creating a common future. While our focus is the African American experience, our story informs and includes not only people of color, but people of all colors. As a result, the stories and exhibitions that HMAAC brings to Texas are about the indisputable fact that while our experience is a unique one, it has been impacted by and has impacted numerous races, genders and ethnicities.”
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