Hayti Heritage Black Film Fest To Feature Local Filmmaker’s Award-Winning Documentary
DURHAM, NC – Angela Harvey, Wake Forest resident and first-time filmmaker will have her documentary featured at the Hayti Heritage 25th Black Film Festival. Harvey’s first short documentary, Black Rainbow Love, is the talk of the film festival circuit; having been recognized by 20 festivals, screened at 13, and won six festival awards including Best Documentary.
The documentary shares the often muted, unseen, and unacknowledged personal stories of Black LGBTQ+ couples, individuals, friends, clergy, and activists. The festival is March 6 – 11, 2023 and Black Rainbow Love will be screened March 9, 2023, at the Hayti Heritage Center (804 Old Fayetteville Street, Durham, NC 27701). For more info, visit Eventive.
Harvey is a well-known and respected advisor, activist, advocate, and sometimes agitator of the Black LGBTQ+ community. She has spent 20+ years working in, with, and for the community and those organizations that serve them. Before becoming a documentarian Harvey spent her career as a social worker, motivational speaker, and a GROWTHologist, helping GROWN folks GROW up. The transition came easy as she is a seasoned orator and very comfortable engaging others, creative storytelling, and extracting personal stories from others.
Black Rainbow Love Trailer
Black Rainbow Love, ultimately to be produced as a docuseries, is a short documentary created from snippets of 18 interviews with 28 lovers from the Black LGBTQ+ community. Black Rainbow Love features honest and transparent truths about their lives through storytelling. The interviewees (Harvey calls them all Lovers) share relatable stories about their relationships, communication, coming out, religion, social justice, impact living, myths, and misconceptions. Harvey is also featured in the film delivering powerful commentaries that segue into each topic of conversation. Mic-drop moments from the interviews have been woven together to create a very unique and intriguing storytelling experience that leaves the audience educated, encouraged, and entertained.
“I’m so excited Hayti Heritage Black Film Festival selected BlackRainbow Love. This will be a state and city festival premiere. Black Rainbow Love is already making a profound impact on those who have seen it; that is exactly what I envisioned and hoped for,” Harvey stated. “Our stories will educate, empower, enlighten, expose, encourage, AND entertain. I’m honored to be one of the first documentarians to highlight the stories from our community. To reach the people I most want to reach I had to GROW and do something different. This honor is homegrown and I’m honored to have been selected.”
Harvey’s end goal is the create an anthology that will highlight and share the personal stories of the Black LGBTQ+ community, the Black LGBTQ+ organizations that serve them, the elders that paved the way, the activist and clergy that support them, and the new generation of way makers. Her vision is for Black Rainbow Love to provide representation for affirmation, knowledge for understanding, and inquiry for conversation. Although she wasn’t initially convinced that she was the right person for the job, it soon became more apparent that the skills she has acquired, the relationships crafted, and the reputation earned made her perfect for the job.