Actor Delroy Lindo will be the star attraction at the Sowell Film Festival 2000 at the Cincinnati Art Museum Oct. 20-22.

        Mr. Lindo will discuss the career of the ever-controversial filmmaker Spike Lee, who gave the actor his breakthrough role in Clockers.

        Filmmaker-actor Tim Reid (Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored, Asunder) is also slated to make an appearance and to show one of his films.

        The schedule is:

        Oct. 20: “Movies, Music & Masterpieces” — A retrospective of works by the acclaimed Afro-Cuban filmmaker Gloria Rolando.

        7-9 p.m., El Alcran (The Scorpion); My Footsteps in Baragua;The Eyes of the Rainbow, about Black Panther Assata Shakur, who sought political asylum in Cuba in 1979.

        9-9:30 p.m., questions and answers with a representative of Hands Off Assata.

        9:30-midnight: Sowell mixer.

        Oct. 21: “The African American Independent Filmmaker”

1-2 p.m.: Cincinnati commercial director and filmmaker Alphonzo Wesson is scheduled to conduct a question-and-answer session with Mr. Reid.

        2-2:30 p.m., premiere of Mr. Wesson's latest short film, Flickering Dreams.

        2:30-4 p.m.: Mr. Reid's film about the Underground Railroad, Race for Freedom.

        4-5 p.m.: Dream Builder competition winner Just Passin' Through.

        6:30-8 p.m., gala and cocktail reception.

        8:15-9:30 p.m., Delroy Lindo on Spike Lee.

        Oct. 22: “Children and Churches” (overlapping events take place in different rooms).

        1-2:30 p.m. Junior's Groove.

        2:-3 p.m., Dream Builder competition winner What Angels Fear

        3-4 p.m., Dream Builder competition winner Brotherly Love.

        4:15-5 p.m., question-and-answer session with Dream Builder panel.

        4-5 p.m. The Vernon Johns Story.

        5:15-6 p.m., the Rev. Marvin McMickle on “The Image of the Black Preacher in Film.”

        6:6-30 p.m., question-and-answer session with the Rev. McMickle.

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