About
Please join us for today's discussion with Writer & Director CJ Hunt:
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://moadsf-org.zoom.us/j/87242451052?pwd=TzhEM2xpL0crRVFTVHVaQTRJelF0dz09
Passcode: 166317
MUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA AND BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA PRESENT
AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM CLUB AT MOAD | THE NEUTRAL GROUND
Join us for our monthly series, The African Diaspora Film Club. Modeled after our African Book Club, we will meet once a month to discuss a film that we have all viewed in advance of the discussion. The conversation will be moderated by Cornelius Moore, co-director of California Newsreel and film series curator at MoAD.
We will be choosing a selection of films, some previously screened at MoAD. You may have already seen it, or this may be your first introduction. In either case, join us for a lively discussion of the film.
This month we will be discussing THE NEUTRAL GROUND (2021,CJ Hunt, 90 mins). You will receive instructions to join via zoom after you sign up here. Look for an email from MoAD after you sign up, if you don’t receive it in your inbox, look in your spam or junk mail.
We will not be screening the film. THE NEUTRAL GROUND will premiere on POV (PBS) on July 5th and will be available for streaming for 30 days following the premiere. You can find the film on your local PBS station here.Director & Writer CJ Hunt will join us for the discussion.
THE NEUTRAL GROUND documents the City of New Orleans’ fight over monuments and America’s troubled romance with the Lost Cause. In 2015, director CJ Hunt was filming the New Orleans City Council’s vote to remove four confederate monuments. But when that removal is halted by death threats, CJ sets out to understand why a losing army from 1865 still holds so much power in America.
CJ Hunt | Director & Writer
CJ Hunt is a comedian and filmmaker living in NYC. He is currently a field producer on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. He has also served as a staff writer for A&E's Black and White, and a field producer for BET's The Rundown with Robin Thede.
Before working in late night, CJ spent nine years living in New Orleans where - in 2015 - he began filming what he thought would be a quick and easy confederate monument removal. CJ is an alumnus of Firelight Media's Doc Lab and New Orleans Film Festival's Emerging Voices program. He is also a 2020 New America Fellow and a regular host of The Moth.
A graduate from Brown University's Africana Studies department, CJ is endlessly fascinated by race and comedy's ability to say what we can't. @gocjhunt. website
This event is a collaboration with POV, PBS' award-winning nonfiction film series. https://www.pbs.org/pov/.
The African Diaspora Film Club is presented in partnership with Black Public Media
Black Public Media (BPM), formerly known as National Black Programming Consortium develops, produces, funds, and distributes media content about the African American and global Black experience. Our mission is to commit to a fully realized expression of democracy and we accomplish this by supporting diverse voices through training, education, and investment in visionary content makers.
For 40 years, BPM has addressed the needs of unserved and underserved audiences. BPM continues to address historical, contemporary, and systemic challenges that traditionally impede the development and distribution of black stories.