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Our Mission:

 

Alfreda’s Cinema is working towards becoming the only micro-cinema in Brooklyn to operate under the leadership of a Black woman with a mission to screen films that celebrate Black and non-Black people of color. We’ll provide an urgent platform for marginalized films and filmmakers. Founded by Melissa Lyde in 2015, Alfreda’s Cinema screens films that tell Black stories that resonate with depth and love, the richness and culture of our history, our dynamics, our shapes, our colors, and our truth. By strategically operating in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY,  Alfreda’s Cinema directly connects Black audiences with Black films.

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Press for Alfreda's Cinema

"Alfreda’s Cinema is bringing rich, dynamic and hopeful Black stories back to the big screens of Black audiences."
— Kimberlean Donis of BK Reader

"Curated by Melissa Lyde, Protect Black Women is framed as a call to action which centers the lives and interiority of those who have “historically been the most vulnerable,” on the eve of Kamala Harris’s inauguration as vice president." 
— Dessane Lopez Cassell of Hyperallergic

" The talk will feature Melissa Lyde, whose film programs have emphasized the voices of artists of color, and Ed Halter, who helped rediscover [Ed] Owens’s movies."
— Ben Kenigsberg of the New York Times

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