The Luminal Theater Host BLK Docs: Back To Natural, 8/27-9/3

[Image Description: A woman is having her hair braided in this still from Back To Natural a documentary by Gillian Scott-Ward. She has her eyes closed and is smiling. She wears an earring with red beads.]

BACK TO NATURAL

Directed by Gillian Scott-Ward, PhD. 2018, USA, 66 minutes

The shocking truth about the intersection of hair, politics, and racial identity in Black communities is revealed in this documentary, inspired by New York City-based clinical psychologist Gillian Scott-Ward’s clinical practice work and her drive to go natural. This call for healing also serves as an exploration of the globalized policing of natural Black hair while equally celebrating Black history and how natural Black hairstyles are taking the world by storm.

You can buy tickets for this event here.

LIVE Q&A with 

Gillian Scott-Ward, Okema T. Moore and Prof. Wendy Greene

August 27 - 8pm EST

 “Back to Natural” director, Dr. Gillian Scott-Ward will be joined by documentary interviewee Okema T. Moore, an actress, producer, writer, and director who runs MOOREthanEnuff Media, and Dr. Wendy Greene, a trailblazing anti-discrimination law scholar, teacher, and advocate who has devoted her professional life’s work to advancing, racial, color, and gender equality in workplaces and beyond, and author of a forthcoming book, “#FreeTheHair: Locking Black Hair to Civil Rights Movements”.  Moderated by Charlon Turner, the Festival Director of the North Carolina Black Film Festival, they will talk about the making of the film, and the emotional, self-identity, political, and legal battles behind going natural. 

You can find out more about Luminal Theater’s programs here.