Street Movies! Undercover with IDEA Center for the Arts

Join us for a curated night of local and award-winning short films, discussion, and live music! Scribe Video Center and IDEA Center for the Arts partner on Street Movies! Undercover to celebrate Juneteenth with shorts on Black American music, civil rights, and finding love at the end of the world. This event is free and will be held indoors. RSVP Is encouraged but not required.

Thursday, June 18th at 7PM -- IDEA Center for the Arts (217 Market St, Camden, NJ)

Film Program:

SONGS OF BLACK FOLK (USA / 2025 / 27 MIN)
Dir. Haley Watson and Justin Emeka
Leading Black musicians come together for a groundbreaking Juneteenth concert in the Pacific Northwest, creating a historic moment that paves the way for future generations of Black artists.

A CONCERTO IS A CONVERSATION (USA / 2021 / 13 MIN)
Dir. Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers
Kris Bowers is one of Hollywood’s rising young composers. At 29, he scored the Oscar-winning film “Green Book” (2018), and this year he premiered a new violin concerto, “For a Younger Self,” at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. For all that success, though, he says that as a Black composer, “I’ve been wondering whether or not I’m supposed to be in the spaces that I’m in.” In Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers's "A Concerto Is a Conversation," Bowers traces the process of breaking into new spaces through generations of sacrifice that came before him, focusing on the story of his grandfather Horace Bowers.

AT THE END OF THE WORLD (USA / 2026 / 7 MIN) 
Dir. Lanaa Dantzler
Teenage Yvette Jones learns how to practice love as an act of justice over the course of a summer in Wildwood, New Jersey. 

CROOKED LINES (USA / 2018 / 11 MIN) 
Dir. Monica Berra, Yoruba Richen, and Jacqueline Olive
Meet two women fighting against race-based gerrymandering in North Carolina: Val Applewhite, a plaintiff in a landmark Supreme Court case, and Moon Duchin, a mathematician who empowers organizers to use data to advocate for fairly drawn electoral maps.

THE BLACK BELT (USA / 2016 / 11 MIN) 
Dir. Margaret Brown
In 2015, the state of Alabama closed 31 DMVs across the state. Many of these closures occurred in the Black Belt, a predominantly African-American region, directly impacting voter enfranchisement in a state that requires photo IDs at the polls.

Event Flow:

• 7:00PM - Doors
• 7:10PM - Opening Performance by Aleigha Johnson
• 7:30-9:00PM - Screening and Discussion

Scribe’s Street Movies! series brings together communities across the Greater Philadelphia Region to engage with independent film and foster discussion around the cultural histories of neighborhoods and issues affecting communities. All screenings are free, open to the public, and family-friendly. 

PRESENTED BY – 

IDEA Center for the Arts builds more socially resourceful and vibrant communities by strengthening the human potential through creativity, culture and arts based learning. Learn more at ideacfta.org

Scribe Video Center is a Philadelphia based non profit organization founded in 1982 dedicated to using video and audio for artistic expression and tools for social change. We offer workshops, screenings, and community production programs that empower storytellers to share their unique perspectives. Learn more at scribe.org