The Little will screen If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins, U.S. 2018, 119 min.) as part of the Black Cinema Series.

The series, a partnership between the Rochester Association of Black Journalists and The Little Theatre, celebrates both documentary and narrative expressions in black cinema with a curated film choice each month. To complement each film, The Little hosts discussions led by RABJ members, local experts, community leaders, and filmmakers after each series screening.

Based on the novel written by James Baldwin, and directed by Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins (Moonlight).

In early 1970s Harlem, daughter and wife-to-be Tish vividly recalls the passion, respect and trust that have connected her and her artist fiancé Alonzo Hunt, who goes by the nickname Fonny. Friends since childhood, the devoted couple dream of a future together, but their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit.

[source: Rochester Association of Black Journalists' e-mail, 2019-Jan-17]