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SUMMARY:Virtual Program 1 - Chaos & Magic
DESCRIPTION:Daughter of the Sea\nWriter: Alexis C Garcia\nDirected by: Alexis C Garcia\nProducer: Debora Perez \nNarrative\, 19:03 \nAfter the death of her grandfather\, a young woman experiences a spiritual awakening when she is called by Yemaya\, the orisha Goddess of the Sea. \n  \nSupa Hair\nDirector/Writer: Glenís Hunter\nProducer: Ricky Rosario\, Sara Seligman \nAnimation\, 14:20 min. \nAfter the death of her mother\, Luna and her sister\, Carmen move from Dominican Republic to Arizona to live with their estranged grandmother. There\, Luna is confronted with bullying and her sister’s cold shoulder. At this point\, Luna has neglected her hair as a manifestation of her grief. One night\, Luna decides to comb her hair with an old comb she found in the river in the Dominican Republic prior to her exit. Unbeknownst to her\, the comb is actually part of her family lineage that activates a magic power that had been lost for decades. \n  \nGrandma’s Magic Pills\nDirector/Writer: Jing-Yu Xiao \nNarrative\, 14:09 min. \nA young girl discovers her grandmother’s mysterious magic pills. A beautiful story on a strong bond between a granddaughter and grandmother who loves dancing. \n  \nThe Silence of the Seeds (INVITED)\nWriter: Miguel Ángel López Hernández\nDirected by: Elizabeth Pirela\nProducer: Elizabeth Pirela \nDocumentary\, 9:11 min. \nThe pandemic forces a Wayuu woman to return to her maternal territory in Alta Guajira-Colombia. This exile becomes a journey where she meets her own knowledge\, and with her dead and close spirits.
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/virtual-program-1-chaos-magic/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
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SUMMARY:Virtual Program 2 - UK & Beyond
DESCRIPTION:A.V. Van\nWriter: Morayo Akandé\nDirected by: Morayo Akandé\nProducer: Helen Gladders\, Moyo Akandé \nNarrartive\, 12:17 min. \nTwo film-fanatic sisters try to reconnect with their estranged deceased father by selling his vintage porn collection. \n  \nDaddy’s Girl\nWriter: Jessica Magaye\nDirected by: Jessica Magaye\nProducer: Koby Adom\, Dola Araoye\, Domenique Fragale\, Danielle Goff \nNarrative\, 12:55 min. \nAfter facing eviction\, Sade\, a young desperate carer enters the Influencer Olympics – a game that allows players around the world a chance at a large cash prize and internet stardom. However\, the game soon takes a dark and twisted turn. \n  \nYellow Fever\nWriter: Shan Gao\nDirected by: Shan Gao\nProducer: Shan Gao \nDocumentary\, 18:32 min. \nYellow Fever is an investigative documentary that uses participants’ first-hand tales of emotional abuse and pain in their interactions with racial obsessions to show viewers how the phenomena of Yellow Fever/Asian Fetish occur in contemporary culture. The setting is real life.   This is the first investigative documentary that explores the specific forms of sexual and emotional abuse experienced by a large number of young Asian women and is worth the time and funding invested in its production. \n  \nTeju’s Tale\nWriter: Teniola Zara King\nDirected by: Teniola Zara King\nProducer: Danielle Goff \nNarrative\, 14:49 min. \nSet in the 1950s\, Teju relocates to London from Lagos to study nursing but faces challenges when her colleagues demand to see her tail. \n  \nImpurrfection\nWriter: Yen-Chiao Huang\, Chiang Yao\nDirected by: Chiang Yao\nProducer: Yiju Chiang \nAnimation\, 13:10 min. \nMr. Cat has aquaphobia\, and he was too terrified to swim in the zodiac race to fulfill his dream of becoming the Guardian God of the Year. He has since lived regretfully by the sea\, overlooking the race’s destination every day for countless years\, until an accident brings him closer and closer to the water…
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/virtual-program-2-uk-beyond/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
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SUMMARY:Virtual Program 3 - Phoenix: David's Dream
DESCRIPTION:Phoenix: David’s Dream\nWriter: Vinicius Donola\, Roberta Salomone\, João Rocha\nDirected by: Vinicius Donola\, Roberta Salomone\, João Rocha\nProducer: Roberta Salomone \nDocumentary\, 74 min. \nAfter helping to fight the fire that destroyed the National Museum\, in Brazil\, a firefighter decides to look for wreckage to transform them into art. The musical instruments are made with the help of artists such as Gilberto Gil\, Paulinho da Viola and Hamilton de Holanda.
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/virtual-program-3/
LOCATION:Virtual Program
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SUMMARY:Virtual Program 4 - Pregnancies & Circumstances
DESCRIPTION:Good Egg – USA (CA)\nWriter: Mitra Shahidi\nDirected by: Mitra Shahidi\nProducer: Samara Al-Jumaily \nNarrative\, 8:29 min. \nWhen a self-reliant woman is thrust into fertility treatments\, she goes to painstaking lengths to become a mother. \n Sitting the Month  – USA (CA)\nWriter: Rebecca Chu\nDirected by: Felicity LuHill\nProducer: Rebecca Chu\, Felicity LuHill \nNarrative\, 18:20 min. \nA new mother struggles with Chinese postpartum traditions.  SITTING THE MONTH is a carefully considered story about the emotional and cultural complexities of postpartum motherhood\, particularly in the absence of one’s own mother. Through Iris\, we pivot between cultural experiences and attitudes; a Western perspective lauds new mothers for “bouncing back” while a Chinese belief system encourages rest and recuperation\, and it’s between these two cultural points of view that Iris is torn. \n  \nThe Best Time\nWriter: Shaunic Stanford\nDirected by: Shaunic Stanford\nProducer: Shaunic Stanford\, Edrei Hutson \nNarrative\, 18:29 min. \nSydney is doing everything she can to meet the demands of being a new mom. She feels the pressure to bounce back\, care for the baby\, and be the best wife. Exhausted from a lack of uninterrupted sleep\, a never-ending stream of dirty laundry\, and pumping. Sydney decides to return to the office as a means to feel “normal” again. However\, unable to secure childcare\, she remains tied to the house. Turning to her husband Derrick for comfort\, who is  blind to her unhappiness\, a depressed and seemingly alone Sydney loses the battle within herself. \n  \nThe Bond – USA (CA)\nDirector/Writer: Jahmil Eady\nProducer: Jahmil Eady\, Selena Leoni\, Reina Higashitani \nNarrative\, 15:50 min. \nPregnant and incarcerated\, Aria fights for her most precious connection against a system designed to isolate her.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Program 5 - King of Kings: Chasing Edward Jones
DESCRIPTION:King of Kings: Chasing Edward Jones\nDirector/Writer: Harriet Marin Jones\nWriters: Michel Fessler\, Giles Gardner\nProducers: Harriet Marin Jones\, Quincy Jones\, Debbie Allen \nDocumentary\, 98 min. \nA filmmaker searches for the truth about her grandfather Edward Jones\, a charismatic African American who rose to the heights of financial and political prominence in Depression-era Chicago.
 In shaping the destiny of a city\, Ed Jones could not however escape discrimination. In conflict with both the mob and the Feds\, he was forced into a life on the run.
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/virtual-program-5/
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SUMMARY:Section A
DESCRIPTION:Dance In Circles\nWriter: Yuming Zhang\nDirected by: Yuming Zhang\nProducer: Yuming Zhang\, Ryan Rosenthal\, Hanna Dzaferovic \nNarrative\, 8:55 min. \nTwo women dance a duet piece together\, exploring their collective traumatic experiences through their movements. \n \nI AM NOT OKAY\nWriter: Tiffiney Davis\nDirected by: Gabrielle Lansner\nProducer: Ben Glickstein\, Dean Taucher\, Gabrielle Lansner \nDocumentary\, 12:10 min. \nA mother and son respond to the unending killings of black Americans amidst the backdrop of the protests that followed the death of George Floyd. Dance and archival photographs are woven together to evoke fear\, outrage\, and anger and the need for communities to come together and find solutions. \n \nHere Is A Man\nWriter: Jarvis D. Matthews\nDirected by: Sideeq Heard\nProducer: Jarvis D. Matthews\, Joanna White-Oldham \nNarrative\, 18:32 min. \nDonny\, a young black musician\, is on the cusp of becoming the greatest soul singer of the 1970’s\, but the quiet dread within his own mind threatens to derail his future.  This is film is inspired by the life\, legacy\, and music of Donny Hathaway. \n \nCity of Dreamz\nWriter: Imani Celeste\nDirected by: Imani Celeste\nProducer: Imani Celeste \nNarrative\, 12:06 min. \nCity of Dreamz follows four Black art students telling stories of community\, divine intervention\, and the artistry that led them to this very moment…smoking weed in a cramped NYC apartment trying not to get caught. \n \nRIP\, LOL\nWriter: Khaya Fraites\nDirected by: Charles Coleman\, Khaya Fraites\nProducer: Hannah Looney \nNarrative\, 16:22 min. \n\, goes back home to Richmond\, Virginia with her best friend Jackie as her support system\, to see her parents and ‘celebrate’ what would have been her older brother’s 26th birthday. RIP\, LOL is an examination of grief and how loss affects an entire family.
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/section-a-3/
LOCATION:Columbia University\, Miller Theatre\, 2960 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Oct. 28 & 29, 2023 Film Screenings
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SUMMARY:Section B
DESCRIPTION:Confirmation\nWriter: Nana Duffuor\nDirected by: Nana Duffuor\nProducer: Yaél Bermudez \nNarrative\, 11:49 \nMaame is a God-fearing mother who wants nothing but the best for her son\, Kojo. But when he befriends an out and proud\, expressive young man in their church\, Maame must confront her fear of accepting Kojo’s burgeoning sexual identity or risk losing him. \n \nSunday Dinner\nDirector/Writer: Monique Needham\nProducer: Kashif Boothe \nNarrative\, 18:30 min. \nOn paper\, life for Maya looks perfect: an athlete\, popular\, has a loving family\, and is head over heels for her girlfriend Jasmine. However\, she’s about to risk it all by inviting Jasmine around to Sunday Dinner. With the help of her grandmother\, with whom she shares a special bond\, will dinner with her quirky family go smoothly\, or will they scare Jasmine off? \n \nRing Shout Let The Circle Be Unbroken\nWriters: Olubayo Jackson\, Christopher Miles\, Iyabo Kwayana\nProducer/Director: Olubayo Jackson \nDocumentary\, 17 min. \nThe exploration of sacred dance in Africa and diaspora leads a NYC teacher on a worldwide journey to reconnect severed cultural ties. Her quest to document the Ring Shout\, an age-old praise dance rooted in African Spiritual Traditions leds her to a rural Georgia museum where she discovers a long lost branch of her family and her Gullah Geechee roots. There she must decide if she will honor her elder cousin’s dying wish and embrace the mantle of carrying his legacy and these vanishing traditions forward. \n  \nWith Woman\nProducer/Director: Mia Harvey\nProducer: Mia Harvey \nDocumentary\, 27:45 min. \nThe long-established tradition of African-American home-birth midwifery has been outlawed in the State of Illinois. At the same time\, Black women suffer massively disproportionate maternal mortality in US hospital settings.   ‘With Woman’ follows Star\, a Black\, direct-entry midwife\, who has taken up the cause of providing Black women with home-births. Star guides Raven through her last month of her pregnancy\, from prenatal visits to the astonishingly intimate and agonisingly perilous experience of her birth on the kitchen floor. Felony charges and being separated from her four children are at risk for Star if there is a poor outcome for mother or baby.   Through intimate observational black and white footage\, the film documents an act of both defiance and radical self-empowerment by Black women—mothers and midwives—in a country so hostile to their very existence.
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/section-b-3/
LOCATION:Columbia University\, Miller Theatre\, 2960 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Oct. 28 & 29, 2023 Film Screenings
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231028T200000
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SUMMARY:Section C & D
DESCRIPTION:Join Reel Sisters and While We Are Still Here for Starring Harlem\, a daylong film festival\, on October 28 from 1pm -8 pm at the Miller Theatre at Columbia University. The afternoon will include film and music celberating the Harlem’s rich film and arts heritage. \nSection C – 4:30 p.m.-6:05 p.m. EDT\nThe Five Demands \nDirectors: Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss \nDocumentary\, 75 min. \nDirected by Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss\, The Five Demands (2023) revisits the untold story of the explosive student takeover and proves that a handful of ordinary citizens can band together to take action and effect meaningful change. In April 1969\, a small group of Black and Puerto Rican students shut down the City College of New York\, an elite public university located right in the heart of Harlem. Fueled by the revolutionary fervor sweeping the nation\, the strike soon turned into an uprising\, leading to the extended occupation of the campus\, classes being canceled\, students being arrested\, and the resignation of the college president. Through archival footage and modern-day interviews\, we follow the students’ struggle against the institutional racism that\, for over a century\, had shut out people of color from this and other public universities. \nModerator: Karen D. Taylor is a writer\, curator\, and multi-genre artist who has lived in Harlem for over thirty years. She is the founder and executive director of While We Are Still Here\, a Harlem-based\, heritage-preservation non-profit. Inspired by the national discussion on “gentrification\,” Karen is moved to steward the creation of programming that wraps the arts and humanities in a package that is a gift to the future. \nSection D – 6:20 p.m.-8:00 p.m. EDT\nSundays at the Triple Nickel \n(13 minutes) \nWritten by Jess Colquhoun and directed by Colquhoun and Adam Rachlitz\, Sundays at the Triple Nickel(2020) is a documentary short that features Marjorie Eliot\, a woman who is making sure her apartment building’s iconic jazz legacy lives on in the iconic neighborhood of Sugar Hill\, Harlem. Marjorie and her son have been hosting jazz concerts in her apartment every Sunday for the past twenty-six years—a pursuit of overcoming grief through music. This film tells the story of the woman behind the piano\, and how Marjorie’s generous vision came to be. \nMary Lou Williams: Lady Who Swings the Band\n(70 minutes) \nDirected by Carol Bash\, Mary Lou Williams: Lady Who Swings the Band (2015) features the life and legacy of jazz pianist\, Mary Lou Williams\, a genius ahead of her time. From child prodigy to “Boogie-Woogie Queen” to groundbreaking composer to mentoring some of the greatest musicians of all time\, she never ceased to astound those who heard her play. But for a Black woman in the early 1900s\, life as a star did not come easy.
URL:https://reelsisters.org/event/section-c-d/
LOCATION:Columbia University\, Miller Theatre\, 2960 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Oct. 28 & 29, 2023 Film Screenings
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