On Wednesday, June 9 at 7:30pm Join the Black Documentary Collective and Harlem Stage as they celebrate 10 years of the BDC with a tribute to St. Claire Bourne by screening one of his most rarely seen films. In 1983, Mr. Bourne produced and directed "The Black and the Green", which drew a parallel between the civil rights movement and the troubles in Northern Ireland. In the film, a group of American civil rights activists travelled to Northern Ireland and found that many Catholics there had been influenced by the civil rights movement. As "The Washington Post" reported then, "In the Belfast ghetto, the delegation members are strangers in a familiar land of crushed tenements, graffiti-stained walls and heavily armed law officers."
The movie, Mr. Bourne told "The Post," "ends up seeming pro-Irish Republican Army in the same sense that a film about Selma in the 60s might have ended up seeming pro-black, but then I'm a filmmaker from the 60s. I try to be humanistically political." His sister, Judith Bourne, is special guest.Videos