Film Forum

Melissa Lyde is the founder of Alfreda's Cinema, a long-running Black video art series, lifestyle and immersive, currently working towards opening its own space in Brooklyn. She's written for Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media in  the Fall issues of 2019 and 2020, and was recently featured in the Journal of Film and Media Studies — In Focus: Curators Speak: Film Programming in the wake of Covid 19 (Fall 2022). Alfreda's Cinema screens films that express the depth and love and richness of our culture.