The Luminal Theater’s Beyond The Cut series resumes with its second installment this Saturday, July 9 at 2pm. Be there to see our film editor Curtis John in conversation with Brooklyn-based filmmaker Nikyatu Jusu. The Bedford-Stuyvesant resident, Sierra Leonean-American filmmaker’s short films have played at festivals nationally and internationally garnering her NYU’s prestigious Spike Lee Fellowship Award, the Princess Grace Foundation Narrative film grant and Director’s Guild of America Honorable Mentions.
Her feature screenplay Free The Town was one of 12 projects invited to participate in Sundance Institute’s first Diverse Writers Workshop. Presently Nikyatu is in development on her feature film Flowers. The short film rendition of Flowers, which she co-wrote/co-directed with Yvonne Shirley, won the 2016 HBO Short Film Competition at the American Black Film Festival and is currently touring the festival circuit. Nikyatu studied narrative filmmaking in New York University’s MFA film program and teaches filmmaking full time.
In case you missed the inaugural edition of Beyond The Cut, check out the highlights here.
Beyond The Cut takes place at Weeksville Heritage Center, 158 Buffalo Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11213. The event starts at 2pm and is FREE, but you MUST RSVP here.
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