Name: Stories from the Balcony at Speed Cinema
Start: 2026-06-28T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-28T16:00:00-04:00

May 27 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Speed Chat Spot

Stories from the Balcony at Speed Cinema

June 28 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Grand Theatre opening Courtesy Capital City Museum donated by Carolyn Lutes Turner on behalf of the Gene Lutes Family

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Stories from the Balcony
Directed by Joanna Hay

Sunday, June 28, 3 pm CINEMA +

Free, first come, first served

Twenty years in the making, Stories from the Balcony is a documentary film about growing up going to the movies at the Grand Theatre in Frankfort, Kentucky during the era of Jim Crow segregation. It is the story of community, love, and belonging, despite the discrimination and degradation faced by the town’s Black community, who were relegated to the balcony.

The film features George C. Wolfe, Sheila Mason Burton, Mike Fields, Bobby Jones, Vinson Parsons, Bill Crumbaugh, Benny Mapp, Camelia Tinsley, and many others. Katima Smith-Willis’s voice brings a youthful perspective to the story while Mary Jackson serves as narrator. 2026, U.S., DCP, 46 minutes. Recommended for 13+

CINEMA + with a post-screening discussion with the film’s producer and director Joanna Hay and one the documentary’s subjects Bobby Jones, Sheila Mason-Burton, and Katima Smith-Willis.

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Date: June 28
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Event Categories: Cinema+, Cinema

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