MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - Madison’s Black Film Festival began Wednesday night with a documentary and panel discussion highlighting local art, community and resistance.

For the third year, Madison-based nonprofit, Nehemiah, has hosted the free festival, which will continue through Saturday.

Coordinators said the event is meant to highlight the art of Black filmmaking to the Madison community.

“We’ve created a space for allies to show up,” said Siobhan Jackson, Nehemiah’s director of adult education. “But we will also always continue to protect the space in which we invite Black people into."

Many of the attendees at the opening night were white, but the documentary shown, “Decades of Discontent”, chronicled the Black experience of the 1960s Civil Rights movement in Milwaukee.

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