Stories From the Balcony - Film Premiere
Schedule
Fri Jan 09 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Grand Theatre Frankfort, KY | Frankfort, KY
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Doors at 6pm. Film starts promptly at 6:30 followed by a Q&A with director and participants and a reception in the Stewart Gallery. This event is free and open to the public.
Twenty years in the making, Stories from the Balcony is a documentary film about growing up going to the movies at the Grand Theatre during the era of Jim Crow segregation. It is the story of community, love, and belonging, despite the discrimination and degradation faced by Frankfort’s Black community, who were relegated to the balcony. The film features George Wolfe, Sheila Mason Burton, Mike Fields, Freddie Johnson, Van Warren, Vinson Parsons, Bill Crumbaugh, and many others. Katima Smith-Willis’s voice brings a modern-day perspective to the story, with Mary Jackson as narrator. Produced and directed by Joanna Hay.
The film is 40 minutes long with appearances by:
John Baughman
Celina Collins Warren Bean
Jeff Bradshaw
Virginia Brooks
Sheila Mason Burton
Anna Dolores Coleman
Bill Crumbaugh
Isaac Fields
Mike Fields
Katherine Graham
Teresa Harris
Joanna Hay
Billie Jean Hayes
Shirley Hogan
Freddie Johnson
Bobby Jones
Barbara Lester
Benjamin Mapp
Roumania Marshall
Clarence “Buzzy” Metcalf
Norman Wayne Moore
Eugene Parrish
Vinson Parsons
Dr. Johnny Sheppard
Katima Smith-Willis
Dorothy Hudson Switzer
Johnny Sykes
Rev. James Thurman
Camellia Susie Million Tinsley
Van Warren
Mary Washington
Marjorie Duncan Doneghy Willis
George C. Wolfe
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Where is it happening?
Grand Theatre Frankfort, KY, 308 W Main St, Frankfort, KY 40601-1808, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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