Name: Night Fight - Film and Talk
Start: 2026-02-05T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-05T20:30:00-05:00
Location: The City College of New York

In August 2017, filmmaker Khary Saeed Jones was followed by a vigilante down back roads in
rural Canada. As he returns, he has a dilemma.
About this Event

In August 2017, filmmaker Khary Saeed Jones was followed by a vigilante down back roads in rural Canada.As he plans his return, he wonders whether he wants answers to his many questions or something else

Night Fight is a hybrid documentary that charts a complex journey from retribution to self-renewal, to moving forward, while still facing your pain or fear. This candid,nuanced, and deeply personal treatment of the resurgent racial under- and over-currents that have moved stubbornly against efforts to unwind and address the permanence of systemic and interpersonal racial violence and discrimination results in a surprisingly human story.

Join us for this film that premiered in 2025 at SXSW and won the Editing award at IFFBoston, and hear from the director Khary Saeed Jones.

The building and screening is accessible, and the talk will have ASL and CART. There will be light refreshments.

When: Thursday, Feb 5th at 6 PM

Where: City College of NY, Shepard Hall Rm 291, 259 Convent Avenue at 140th street.

How to get there: #1 to 137th street, ABCD to 145th Street (school shuttle buses @ 15 min), accessible route: #6 tp 125th street, M101 to 140th street.

Questions to [email protected]

Sponsored by Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY.

Khary Saeed Jones is a flmmaker and educator. His films and collaborations have screened at Sundance, SXSW, MoMA (NY), CIFF (ME), Full Frame (NC), ICA Boston, and many other festivals and venues. As a writerdirector, his work includes the short films Hug, Three and a Half Thoughts, Chrysalis, and the forthcoming featurelength film Gumbo. Jones has also served on the editorial teams behind the documentary features: Where the Pavement Ends (PBS WORLDChannel/America ReFramed), Black Memorabilia (PBS/Independent Lens), Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart (PBS/American Masters), He Named Me Malala (Fox Searchlight), Sembene! (Kino Lorber), and The World According to Dick Cheney (Showtime). He is a Professor of the Practice in Drama and Film at Tufts University where he teaches storytelling for the screen and advises students developing both scripted and documentary projects from inception to edit. He studied at Morehouse and Columbia, and is a TWN Workshop graduate.