Black Film as Protest: Shantré Pinkney

Black Film as Protest: Shantré Pinkney

​Screening: Detour by Shantré Pinkney

Reading: Raw Black & Blue Photobook

AAACC (African American Art & Culture Complex)

Friday November 14 2025

6P (Doors open)

630P (Reading)

645 (Screening)

Free Community Screening

Filmmaker in person.

​DETOUR (7 mins)

A love story told through the journals and photographs of Tamia a photographer piecing her life back together after a nervous breakdown. When she reconnects with Keith an old school crush now working as a community social worker she begins documenting his work in the neighborhood where they grew up.

​Raw Black & Blue

Raw Black and Blue is a love story told through the lens and journals of Tamia a photographer navigating her relationships and mental health upon returning to her childhood home.

• Reading: Excerpt from the filmmaker's newly published photobook Raw Black & Blue.
• ​Screening: Watch a curated program of work by filmmaker Shantré Pinkney.
• ​​Discussion: Engage in a lively insightful Q&A with the artist after the films.
• ​​Community: Connect with a community dedicated to radical cinema.

​Shantré Pinkney

Shantré Pinkney is a filmmaker writer and photographer with roots in New York and Atlanta. Her work reflects social relationships and characters coming of age through narrative portrait and documentary styles. She was awarded the Zellerbach Grant and selected as an Arts Fellow with Asian Improv Arts and a Media Fellow by Kala Arts Institute. Her work has been exhibited in film festivals galleries and museums including the Pan African Film Festival Somarts and the historic African American Arts and Culture Complex in Fillmore San Francisco. Through her work Shantre partners with people and groups using storytelling through film photography literature and audio narratives as a force for good.

shantre.com

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