Please join us, in partnership with ArtsThursdays and the Black Film Project of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, for a special screening of The Dutchman with actor, filmmaker, and Black Film Project fellow André Holland and Andre Gaines, director, producer, and co-writer of The Dutchman.

André Holland is an acclaimed actor, theater director, and film producer. He produced and starred in High Flying Bird, The Eddy, Exhibiting Forgiveness and the Sundance-premiered Love, Brooklyn. Known for his roles in Moonlight and Selma, Holland has also appeared on Broadway in Jitney and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.

Andre Gaines is a two-time Emmy^®-nominated producer, writer and director. Through his company Cinemation Studios, Gaines has produced and financed an extensive number of documentary and narrative films, including The Lady and the Dale on HBO, Stephen King’s Children of the Corn reboot, and The One and Only Dick Gregory on Showtime. Gaines made his feature film directorial debut with The Dutchman, an adaptation of Amiri Baraka’s Obie Award winning 1964 play. The Dutchman premiered at the SXSW Film & TV Festival and Cannes film market.

This event is co-presented by the Film Study Center at Harvard University, The Hutchins Center, and ArtsThursdays, a university-wide initiative supported by Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA).