A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance.

“When William Greaves assembled his subjects for this documentary, America was emerging from the contentious civil rights era and the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. The bigotry and violence ‘Once Upon A Time In Harlem’s’ men and women confronted decades earlier had not gone away, and we see the speakers wrestling with the work still to be done. Many of these figures are now dead, as is William Greaves, but this preserved summit showcases the Harlem Renaissance’s belief that art and activism could celebrate the richness of Black life in a country determined to minimise and destroy it.” ~ Tim Grierson, ScreenDaily

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