Filmmaker Maurice Jamal along with Best selling author James Earl Hardy will be on hand on Saturday Sept 1 to commemorate the legacy of pioneering black gay filmmaker Marlon Riggs, this year’s film festival debuts the Marlon Riggs Speaker Series featuring acclaimed writer/director Maurice Jamal (Dirty Laundry, Ski Trip, Noah’s Arc) and author James Earl Hardy. Both scribes will discuss their efforts to transform Hardy’s breakthrough novel “B-Boy Blues” from the printed page to the silver screen. Also The here! Network series DL Chronicles also makes a return to this year’s See Us In The Life Film Festival. Series creators Quincy LeNear and Deondray Gossett screened the television show at ITLA’s popular film festival last year, capturing a win for Best Short. Chronicles tells the stories of men of color who by consequence and by choice, live sexually duplicitous and secret lifestyles.