(PCM) The winner of African Movie Academy Awards’ Best Diaspora Documentary, Through A Lens Darkly, will open in New York theaters on a limited run starting August 27, 2014.
Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People is a two-hour film that will explore the role of photography, since its rudimentary beginnings in the 1840s, in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present.
The film was well received at the Sundance Film Festival where it premiered on February 17, 2014. Since then Through A Lens Darkly has run at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the Montclair Film Festival, and the Frameline Film Festival.
Part of the larger project that is Digital Diaspora Family Reunion, Director Thomas Allen Harris utilizes family photo albums among other media in Through A Lens Darkly to portray the power that images hold over society and over one’s self.
Watch the trailer for Through A Lens Darkly below and visit the official website for more info.
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