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Cane River Q&A with Sacha Jenkins and Bun B

a Conversation about Cane River

Jul 28, 2020, 07:00 PM Virtual Screening Free Get Tickets

Join HCAS and MFAH for an online conversation with Sacha Jenkins (son of the film's late director Horace Jenkins and director of Fresh Dressed and Wu Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men) and Bun B on HCAS YouTube Channel on Tuesday, July 28th at 7pm CST.  This program is supported by funding from Humanities Texas and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the federal CARES Act.

And make sure to watch Cane River, streaming July 22nd through August 30th via the MFAH virtual platform.

Written, produced, and directed by Emmy Award-winning documentarian, Horace B. Jenkins, and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew, Cane River is a racially-charged love story in Natchitoches Parish, a “free community of color” in Louisiana. A budding, forbidden romance lays bare the tensions between two black communities, both descended from slaves but of disparate opportunity — the light-skinned, property-owning Creoles and the darker-skinned, more disenfranchised families of the area.

This lyrical, visionary film disappeared for decades after Jenkins died suddenly following the film’s completion, robbing generations of a talented, vibrant new voice in African American cinema.

Country, Year United States, 1982
DirectorHorace B. Jenkins
WriterHorace B. Jenkins
CastTommye Myrick and Richard Romain
ProducerHorace B. Jenkins
LanguageEnglish
Runtime104 MINS, SECS
Event TypeFree Event
Special Guests

Bun B

It’s been well over 25 years since Bernard Freeman—known better to the world as Bun B—changed the hip-hop landscape as one half of the legendary UGK alongside the late Pimp C. In 2006 Bun B won an ASCAP Award for Top R&B/Hip Hop Song for his writing and performance on the single “Give Me That” and also holds an MTV Music Award for Best R&B Video for Beyonce’s “Check On It”. His third solo album, 2010’s Trill O.G. was met with critical acclaim. By 2013, he would release his last project before his musical break, The Epilogue. As a professor of Theology at Houston’s Rice University, Bun along with Professor Anthony Pinn led a course about Religion and Hip-Hop Culture. In August 2018, Bun B delivered Return of the Trill, a full length effort produced by Big K.R.I.T.. From selling millions of albums to Grammy nominations, changing academia, publishing, sneaker, food, and car culture, plus philanthropy, there isn’t much that Bun B hasn’t done. Bun B is also a board member of the Houston Cinema Arts Society.

Sacha Jenkins

Sacha Jenkins is a New York–based, Emmy Award-nominated filmmaker who likes to take long, barefoot walks on the beach. Television producer, filmmaker, writer, musician, artist, curator, and chronicler of hip-hop, graffiti, punk, and metal cultures, Jenkins has directed the critically acclaimed Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men (2019), Word is Bond (2018), and Burn Motherfucker, Burn! (2017), and Fresh Dressed (2015). While still in his teens, Jenkins published Graphic Scenes & X-Plicit Language, one of the earliest 'zines solely dedicated to graffiti art.