The 20th Annual African American Film Festival
Dance like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee

Curated by author and cinema scholar Terri Francis
With special guest Gentry George

1943, 77 min Not Rated

Tygers, Kevin Jerome Everson 2014, 2 min (short)
Kompa, Al Plancher 2023, 9 min (short)

Bill Williamson (Bill Robinson), a struggling performer, meets a beautiful vocalist named Selina Rogers (Lena Horne). Bill promises her that they will be together after he becomes a success. However, he and Selina both skyrocket to fame and lose contact. Fortunately, Bill just might get one more chance to woo Selina at a huge musical stage show. Popular entertainers of the 1940s, including Fats Waller and Cab Calloway, perform as themselves in the film.