Luna Stage to Offer a Special Screening of Interview with Maya Angelou, 2/25

Luna Stage will present a special screening of REFLECTIONS OF A BLESSED SOUL: Tribute To Our Beloved Dr. Maya Angelou, a forty-five minute documentary based on an exclusive interview with Dr. Angelou at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Award-winning Director Hafiz Farid & Shelley Grodner Seidenstein, both Award-winning Producers & Co-writers.

The screening at Luna Stage takes place for one night only, Wednesday, February 25th, 2015 at 8pm. There will be a Pre-Screening Reception with the Filmmakers and Special Guests at 7pm. Tickets for thescreening and post-screening discussion are $15. Premium Tickets including the Pre-screening Reception are $25. Tickets can be purchased at lunastage.org, by calling 973-395-5551 or in person Tues.-Fri. 10am-3pm.

REFLECTIONS OF A BLESSED SOUL: A Tribute To Our Beloved Dr. Maya Angelou offers an intimate portrait of one of the greatest artists/poets/activists/teachers and humanitarians of our times. In the comfort of her home, Dr. Angelou shares insights and stories of her rich and colorful life, which spanned nearly a century and included many of the most dynamic people in the world. With a razor sharp memory of events that occurred many decades ago, Dr. Angelou reflects on her unforgettable experiences with such notables as jazz musician, Max Roach, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Reverend Eric Butterworth, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, and Amiri Baraka.

In her inimitable style, filled with ardor, laughter, sincerity, wisdom and soul, the great Poetess shares her deep insight on the mostcontroversial and pressing issues, such as Racism, Mother and Daughter Bonds, Anger and Bitterness, Forgiveness, Ignorance, American Society, Black and Jewish Relations in the Post Civil Rights Era. The country's first Black President, Courage, and G-d.

The interview was conducted for Foremost Productions, an independent multi award-winning New Jersey film company. Foremost Productions is dedicated to a standard of excellence in creating artistic and innovative cinema. "We make movies that move you." NoCane Inc is Foremost's sister art based nonprofit organization driven to raise the social and moral consciousness of individuals, especially youth, through filmmaking, seminars, and workshops.