New Jersey Film Festival Screening: The Blues Society
Attend an in-person or virtual screening of The Blues Society, one of the many films featured in this year's New Jersey Film Festival.
In the segregated Memphis of the 1960s, blues masters and beatniks created a music festival that rocked the foundations of a conservative world. This documentary weaves together hypnotic and unforgettable performances with animation, archival images, and a chorus of diverse voices to create a moving image mixtape that both celebrates the music and re-evaluates the era. Following the screening, director Augusta Palmer will host a Q+A.
$15 general admission, $10 student admission. Open to students, faculty, and staff, and the public.
The New Jersey Film Festival is funded and/or sponsored in part by The Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center; the Rutgers Program in Cinema Studies/School of Arts and Sciences; Middlesex County, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts - Funding has been provided by the Middlesex County Board of County Commissioners through a grant award from the Middlesex County Cultural and Arts Trust Fund; The Rutgers University Office of Summer and Winter Sessions; OVID/Icarus Films, Rutgers American Studies Department; Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program; Zimmerli Art Museum; Rutgers Writers House; Pro 8mm; Rutgers Office of Disability Services, WRSU; New Jersey Stage; The Home News, The Asbury Park Press; New Brunswick City Center; Rutgers Office of Community Affairs; Design Ideas; Advanced Printing; Steven C. Schechter, Esq.; Share and Harris.