TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing
About this Event
TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing (2025, 105 minutes) is a biography of the influential writer, filmmaker and cultural worker, who with humor and deep insight, inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to community empowerment. The film is structured as a series of lessons on cultural organizing, gleaned from Bambara's life and shared by her friends, colleagues and students.
This is the second screening of of HCC's Summer Programme .
About the film & filmmakers
Trailer (on the official film site).
AWARDS
Best Feature Documentary (Juried)
2025 BlackStar Film Festival (USA)
Best Feature Documentary (Audience)
2025 BlackStar Film Festival (USA)
Feature Documentary – Award of Excellence in Creativity
2025 Seventh Art Independent International Film Festival (India)
Audience Choice Award
2026 Seattle Black Film Festival (USA)
LOUIS MASSIAH: Director & Producer
Louis Massiah is a documentary filmmaker and the founder of the Scribe Video Center in
Philadelphia, He has developed production methodologies that assist first time makers author their own stories, including the Precious Places Community History project, a collection of 150 documentaries; Muslim Voices of Philadelphia; The Great Migration - A City Transformed, and The Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets.
Massiah’s documentaries include The Bombing of Osage Avenue, W.E.B. Du Bois – A Biography in Four Voices, Cecil B. Moore, two films for the Eyes on the Prize II series, A is for Anarchist, B is for Brown and TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing.
MONICA HENRIQUEZ: Director & Editor
Monica Henriquez is a Venezuelan/Dutch freelance film and video editor/director, based in the UK since 1978. She trained at the BBC in the 1980s, and worked as an editor for Channel Four (UK) in several projects on Latin America, notably the Marc Karlin Nicaragua Series (1985-1991); Faction Films Fidel (1998). For the U.S. network PBS, she was editor of WEB Du Bois – A Biography in Four Voices (1995), and was researcher/associate producer of The Hugo Chavez Show Frontline (2008). She was Producer/Director of Gynecological Chronicles (1992) and Director/Editor of M**der & the Feather Boa (1996), both for Channel Four UK. Recently she was the Editor/Director with Louis Massiah as Producer/Director of TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing.
About our Guest Speakers
Dr SM Rodriguez is a scholar-activist and Assistant Professor of Gender, Rights and Human Rights at LSE's Department of Gender Studies. Their research examines the impact of racialisation, criminalisation, ableism, and gendered and sexual control on people of African descent. Their first monograph, The Economies of Queer Inclusion: Transnational Organizing for LGBTI Rights in Uganda (2019), analysed the effects of transnational advocacy on Ugandan LGBTI organising during the period in which Uganda's "K*ll the Gays Bill" was under consideration.
Their current work explores the globalisation of abolitionist feminist praxis and the political processes shaping gender and sexual identification, including the Nonbinary Identity Project. They have also launched Black Queer Movements, a global knowledge-exchange hub for LGBTIQ activists of African descent, and The Black Professors Pipeline, a UK racial equity initiative in higher education.
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About the venue
Lordship Hub is a vibrant community centre and café at the heart of Lordship Rec, Tottenham’s largest park. The building is fully accessible, but located inside the park. If you need to be dropped off next to the building's main entrance (with the ramp), please contact us early so we can arrange the park's gate to be open. If you have any accessibility needs or questions, please contact us at [email protected].
About HCC
Haringey Community Cinema (HCC) was launched in April 2025 and is run by volunteers. Inspired by Brixton Community Cinema, HCC is aimed at bringing residents of Haringey together through film. Our mission is to showcase films that challenge, inspire, and spark critical reflection—films that make us think and act. Visit our website.
About Haringey & Tottenham For a Free Palestine
Organising in Haringey and Tottenham in solidarity with Palestine. To follow us: Instagram.
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