Actress Ruby Dee will be one of the panelists
at "High Tea and Reel Talk," a discussion sponsored
by New York Women in Film & Television, as part of the annual
Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Fest & Lecture series on
March 15 at 3 pm in the Luntey Commons on Long Island University’s
Brooklyn campus.
Film veteran Dee, whose films include "No Way Out,"
opposite Sidney Poitier in 1950, "A Raisin in the Sun"
(1961) and Spike Lee’s "Jungle Fever" (1991), will
be joined on the panel by film producer Grace Blake and film
historian Pearl Bowser.
The sixth annual festival, beginning at 6 pm on March 14 with
an opening night reception and award ceremony, will screen 36
films by women of color.
The festival will continue through March 16 at LIU, at DeKalb
and Flatbush avenues. For festival schedule and tickets, call
(718) 488-1052 or visit www.africanvoices.com.
Student discounts are available.
