Body of Work: Cheryl Fabio

A retrospective glance at films and filmmakers who have shaped local culture.

$5 admission each night

Describing her work as Soft Politics, Cheryl Fabio has been working in documentary film since 1976. After receiving a B.A. in Sociology and Photography at Fisk University and M.A. in Documentary Film Production at Stanford, Fabio started freelancing and eventually became a producer/director for KTOP TV, a public access television station in Oakland. In addition to working with community-based organizations, Fabio was Program Director at Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in Oakland, CA, and taught at City College of San Francisco.

Cheryl is the founder and director of the Sarah Webster Fabio Center for Social Justice, named after her mother, the great revolutionary poet. She continues to work on documentary films. Thanks to a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation, the Black Film Center Archive at Indiana University preserved Cheryl Fabio’s 1976 documentary film Rainbow Black: Poet Sarah W. Fabio, a legacy of her mother and her work.

The host for the September 22 screening is Josslyn Luckett. 

Josslyn Jeanine Luckett is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at NYU. Her first book, Toward a More Perfect Rebellion: Multiracial Media Activism Made in L.A. (under contract University of California Press) centers the formation of the Ethno-Communications Program at UCLA (1969-1973), an affirmative action media training initiative whose participants transformed American film culture of the 1970s and beyond. She is a contributing editor for Film Quarterly and a member of the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress. She is also a screenwriter and in 2022 joined the writing staff of Queen Sugar (OWN) for its seventh and final season.  

Friday, September 22, 7:00 PM