REEL UNITY PAIR: Voodoo Macbeth / Mishandled

2021 BIBFF Official Reel

The 8th Annual Black Film Festival features over 80 films from 16 countries on October 6-11, 2021. We are proud to bring this amazing group of "Official Selections" to Baltimore City both in our Virtual Theatre and at the SNF Parkway Theatre in Baltimore's Station North Arts District. Enjoy the films and be sure to use the unique pairs and shorts programs to have you own #ReelUnity moment.

Mishandled

A woman finds herself isolated and left with nothing but her pride and imagination as the short-film, Mishandled, dips itself into an Afrofuturistic world where self-interrogation, freedom of expression, and sisterhood serves as a medicinal lather on the wounds of what its like to be a dark-skinned femme in a dark world.. .

Voodoo Macbeth

Voodoo Macbeth follows the first all-black cast to perform Shakespeare's Macbeth, directed by an arrogant Orson Welles in 1936 Harlem, NY. Inspired by true events, the film engages in a timely dialogue told with a contemporary perspective set in the 1930s.

One of the most unique elements of the film lies within the project's formation. With a grant from Warner Bros, USC was able to continue its almost decade-long feature filmmaking experiment with the production of Voodoo Macbeth.