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LightReel Film Fest Selections

Here are the films that will headline this year’s festival


ATTENTION D9 MEMBERS

Join us for our 2024 LightReel Film Festival Kickoff, School Daze,
May 24, 2004.

Come out and represent your fraternity or sorority and enjoy a great throwback movie, snacks, a silent auction, and vendors selling paraphernalia and other products.

You don’t have to be a Divine 9 member to attend, come out and show your support as we launch this year’s festival. For tickets, scan the QR Code on the poster or below.

Festival Accomodations

Marriott Washington Capitol Hill — $269

The official host hotel for the 2024 LightReel Film Festival.

The hotel is three (3) minute drive; 20-minute walk to
the Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market

Courtyard Washington, D.C/U.S. Capitol — $219

The alternate hotel for the 2024 LightReel Film Festival.

The hotel is two (2) minute drive; an 18-minute walk to
the Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market

LightReel Film Series

  • New Jack City (May)

    LightReel Film Series
    May 10, 2024
    The Hip Hop Shop

    The film centers on Nino Brown, a drug lord in New York City during the crack epidemic, and Scotty Appleton, an NYPD detective who vows to end Nino's rise to power by going undercover to work for Nino's gang.

    in conjunction with the National Hip-Hop Museum

    Coming Soon

  • Do the Right Thing (June)

    LightReel Film Fest Anniversary Film
    June 7, 2024
    Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market

    On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

    in conjunction with the National Hip-Hop Museum & The Black Reel Awards

    Coming Soon