BLACK SUMMER CAMP is Sankofa Film Society’s summer outdoor film series that brings the brilliance of Black cinema under the stars. The series screens on the 1st Saturday from June - September 2023 in the Roberto Maestas Plaza @ El Centro de la Raza on Beacon Hill.

Films begin at sunset. Bring a blanket or lawn chair and enjoy film, conversation and community.


Saturday, June 3 (film begins at sunset approx. 9:00pm)

PELO-MALO

Junior is 9 years old. He lives in Caracas with his mother and 2-year-old brother. Junior has his father's curly hair. He would like to have his mother's straight hair. Junior loves to sing, dance with his grandmother and do his hair in front of the mirror. But for his mother, Junior is the man of the family. That's how she likes it...

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Saturday, June 17 (6pm dance party; film at sunset)

PARIS IS BURNING DANCE PARTY

Sankfoa Film Society in partnership with Free In Movement and Devi Consults presents FREE IN MOVEMENT DANCE PARTY Featuring the film, PARIS IS BURNING

Come and dance with us! Free dance instruction with music from DJ Daps1- Cumbia, Bollywood and Salsa dance take center stage with a neighborhood dance party followed by a screening of the legendary "Ball" documentary, PARIS IS BURNING 

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Saturday, July 1 (Film at sunset)

FANTASTIC NEGRITO: HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND YET?

Mercurial blues-man Fantastic Negrito faces his demons amidst the mental health crisis ravaging his Oakland community. As he creates his most personal album, Negrito searches to answer: in a sick society, how do you keep from going crazy?

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Saturday, August 5 (film at sunset)

THE WOODSTOCK OF HOUSE

The Woodstock of House details the triumph of disco music, attacked by mainstream America in the 1970s for being too black, too Latin, and too gay, and its mutation, development, and re-birth as House Music, by African American teenagers on the South Side of Chicago in an underground culture of marginalized, largely gay nightclub constituents.