Celebrating Hattie McDaniel: In This Our Life and Key to the City and Panel
Schedule
Sat Oct 26 2024 at 04:30 pm to 07:00 pm
Location
Wichita Orpheum Theatre | Wichita, KS
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The 22nd Annual Festival is dedicated to Celebrating Wichita Native Hattie McDaniel. Before the screening, the City of Wichita will present a key to the city to her relatives. A panel discussion will be held after the film with Gordon Parks filmmakers, David Parks and Kevin John Goff about Black Representation in Cinema Then and Now.Hattie McDaniel was an American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedienne. For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar. She was born in Wichita, Kansas. We are partnering with the Kansas African American Museum to host an exhibition and talk with her nephew Kevin John Goff.
Filmmaker, actor, and public speaker Kevin John Goff attributes much of his entrepreneurial spirit to his legendary entertainment family, The McDaniels. The great-grandnephew of Hollywood's first black artist to win an Oscar (actress Hattie McDaniel, for her work on the 1939 film Gone with the Wind), Goff continues to honor her legacy by inspiring the newest generation to take courage from her trailblazing accomplishments.
In This Our Life (Hattie McDaniel Celebration)
The day before her wedding, a pampered young woman absconds with her sister's husband. Her sister begins seeing the woman's former fiancé.
*Featuring Oscar-winner and Wichita native Hattie McDaniel*
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Where is it happening?
Wichita Orpheum Theatre, 200 N. Broadway,Wichita,KS,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
