JuneteenthKC 2023 Film Festival-The Blackening

JuneteenthKC presents its inaugural film festival curated by Fox 4 News film critic Shawn Edwards.

Film is an important part of the black experience and has been since the beginning of the motion picture industry in the early 1900s, says Edwards As we celebrate one of the most important days in Africa American culture I felt it was important that we include groundbreaking cinema. 

JuneteenthKC Film Festival Featured Film #2

The Blackening (Lionsgate)

The Blackening centers around a group of Black friends who reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer. Forced to play by his rules, the friends soon realize this ain't no game. The Blackening skewers genre tropes and poses the sardonic question: if the entire cast of a ho

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