HHFF PopUp 2025

Hayti Heritage Center & Visionary Village Present
Images & Ideas
March 15th & 16th, 2025

Experience a weekend discovering the cultural impact of the images & ideas in indie film today.

FEATURING WORKSHOPS, FILM SCREENINGS with TALKBACKS AND A VIP RECEPTION

About Us


Hayti Film centers Black Southern film as a means to 1) create a robust ecosystem and 2) connect the diaspora to the richness of our ancestral home in America; the South.

The mission of Hayti Heritage Center (HHC) is to preserve and advance the heritage and culture of historic Hayti in Durham, North Carolina and the African American experience through arts programs that benefit the broader community nationally and globally.

1:00-2:00 pm

NOELLE MERCY

Twenty-six year old Noelle returns home after being missing for 16 years, only to learn she’s long since been declared dead to everyone she once knew. Questioning her reason to live, Noelle unexpectedly finds purpose in saving young girls like herself from
corrupt rings of child sex-trafficking.


Talkback: “Creating Your Own Work” Q&A with star/director Lauren E. Banks

1:00-2:00 pm

FREIGHT

Five versions of an everyman who travels through time in different incarnations, including a 19th-century minstrel, a faith healer, an FBI informant, a struggling actor and
an out-of-work mortgage broker. In each life, Abel is guided, distracted, helped or hindered by a handful of characters with whom his destiny is forever intertwined

Talkback: “Mixed Mediums” A Q&A with writer Howard Craft

5:00-7:00 pm

THE RHTHYM & THE BLUES

A tale of passion, struggle, and the enduring power of music in an ever-changing world, The Rhythm and The Blues is the true-life story of legendary bluesman Eddie Taylor and
his fight for recognition against obscurity, industry corruption, and the British Invasion’s cultural appropriation. Portrayed by actor and musician Leon, Taylor’s battles extend to his family, where an ambitious young wife and idolizing stepson complicate his quest for musical respect

Talkback: “Sustaining a Career” Q&A with star Leon and director Darryl Pitts.

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Performance Reviews

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Financial Planning

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