"Black Panthers"/"Night of the Living Dead" double feature

Description

Night of the Living Dead, a classic of independent cinema from horror master George A. Romero that rewrote the rules of the genre, screens at the Parkway Theatre as part of the 1968 on Film series, presented by the Johns Hopkins Film and Media Studies Program.

Agnès Varda's powerful 1968 political documentary Black Panthers will be screening before the feature. The short film follows the Oakland demonstration against the imprisonment of activist and Black Panthers co-founder Huey P. Newton.

The screening is presented by:

• Keith Mehlinger, professor and coordinator of the Screenwriting and Animation program at Morgan State University and a filmmaker/writer/director, who has produced episodes of the syndicated series Story of a People and recently completed a short documentary about parents of street violence for the Morgan State multimedia project Mother's Lament
• MK Asante, professor of Creative Writing and Film at Morgan State University and a writer, filmmaker, and recording artist, who is a Sundance Institute film fellow and the author of the best-selling memoir Buck