Castillo Theatre Presents Castillo's Friends Film Series 7/16 Thru 8/6

Castillo Theatre Presents Castillo Friends Film Series on Thursdays - July 16, 23, 30 August 6.

The Castillo Theatre is presenting Castillo's Friends Film Series featuring four films. The film series will take place on Thursday evenings from July 16th to August 6th at the Castillo Theater, located on 543 West 42nd Street between 10th and 11th Ave. TDF accepted; group rates available. For tickets call 212-941-1234

Black Theater: The Making of a Movement, directed by Woodie King Jr., documents the birth of a new theater after the Civil Rights Activism of the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s. This film features many of the leading figures of the African-American theater movement, including Amiri Baraka, Ossie Davis, and James Earl Jones. Excerpts from A Raisin in the Sun, Black Girl, Dutchman, and For Colored Girls... Mr. King will be present to dialogue with the audience after the screening. [July 16th 7:00 PM]

We Want a J-O-B, So We Can E-A-T, written and directed by Emmy-award-winning journalist Carolyn Kresky, examines the day-to-day lives-the anger, the hopelessness and the activism - of young people growing up in East New York, Brooklyn in the 1970's. New York City had just gone bankrupt, and unemployment was at a record-high. The film features Lorraine Stevens and her daughter, Jamela Stevens, both of whom are active in the All Stars community and will be joining Carolyn Kresky for a post-film discussion. [July 23rd 7:00 PM]

Theater of War, directed by John Walter. In 2006, the Public Theater mounted an outdoor production of ‘Mother Courage and Her Children' featuring Meryl Streep. Written by Bertolt Brecht in 1939, largely in response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, the play is about the devastating effects of war and the blindness of anyone hoping to profit by it. Theater of War is not only an engrossing and fiercely intelligent look at war and capitalism, but even more, it's about the power - if not responsibility - of art and artists to cast a light on that which we prefer not to see. [July 30th 7:00 PM]

Nothing Really Happens (Memories of Aging Strippers), written and directed by Fred Newman and winner of the Grand Festival Award, Berkeley Film Festival, and First Prize, Director's View Film Festival , is the story of three very different women, Tillie Hirsch, a concentration camp survivor in her 80s, Paula Brownell, a sociology professor and Carmela Petrelli, a working-class stripper who's stories intertwine, in a painful and joyous journey of discovery. [August 6th 7:00 PM]