The Wednesday screening is at 7 p.m. at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and will feature his new documentary, Nat Turner: A Troubleblesome Property, which explores the contested history of Turner's 1831 slave revolt, using non-fiction and reviews interspersed with dramatizations.

The screening of his 1996 film Nightjohn on Thursday morning, for an audience of Indianapolis-area schoolchildren and their teachers at the Madame Walker Theater in Indianapolis, is part of a community outreach program funded by the Indianapolis Foundation and the IUPUI African-American and African Diaspora Studies Program in the IU School of Liberal Arts.

IUPUI faculty and 8th-grade teachers will participate in a follow-up with students the following day.The film addresses issues of language, literacy and learniug.

Burnett's recent work includes Warming by the Devil's Fire, two-hour segment of the PBS mini-series The Blues.