SUNDAY – Maysles Cinema
SUNDAY – SEPTEMBER 14
MAYSLES CINEMA
343 Malcolm X Blvd / Lenox Ave
(Between 127th and 128th Streets)
Hi Noon – 12 PM
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
Antoine Craigwell (US, 65 min) NON-COMPETITION
2012
A 65-minute documentary examining many underlying psycho-social factors causing depression in Black gay men: struggles with sexual orientation and identity; being sexually abused by an older adult family member/relative/familiar or authority figure; pastors and imams declaring that a gay man is an abomination and encouraging ostracism from families and communities; low self-esteem, setting out to contract HIV as a form of suicide with the ensuing stigma and discrimination accompanying the diagnosis; and for many aging Black gay men, struggles with loneliness, isolation and abandonment, including desperation for affection, intimacy and sex. In interviews with Black gay men of varying ages, opinions from mental health professionals and religious leaders, and re-enactments of experiences explores the reasons for the descent into depression and suicide.
Watch the trailer: http://vimeo.com/52130265
Preceded by
THE LIVES OF LAMOTT ATKINS
Robert Philipson (US, 35 min) East Coast Premiere
2013
W. E. B. DuBois famously wrote that every Black in America grow up with ‘this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others.’ But what happens when the double consciousness of being gay is overlaid on that? This self-narrated documentary follows a man of extraordinary talent: running back for the Stanford Cardinal; dancer at Julliard; model, singer, and performer in Europe; the epitome of Black masculinity and grace. And yet he’s closeted for the first 40 years of his life. When he finally crashes and burns, his wanderings bring him to the very heart of gay life in San Francisco. And still he won’t come out.
Watch the trailer: http://vimeo.com/82072631
Q&A with the filmmakers follows screening
1:45 PM
LAKAY
Tirf Alexius (Haiti/US, 83 min) World Premiere
2013
After the 2010 devastating earthquake, two brothers return to Haiti hoping to find their loved ones alive.
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2r-Bx6BPvU
Preceded by
THE ART OF HAITI
Mark Mamalakis (Haiti/US, 29 min) East Coast Premiere
1982/2014
The Art of Haiti is a 28 minute documentary film about the unschooled painters of Haiti who have created a dynamic art movement documenting the everyday life, history, and culture of their country and consequently achieving international praise and recognition. The film also serves as a permanent record of the beautiful murals of the Cathedral St Trinite in Port-au-Prince filmed years before the church was destroyed during the earthquake of 2010. The Art of Haiti has received 3 awards from the Chicago International Film Festival including an award from the French Ministry of External Relations.
Q&A with the filmmakers follows screening
3:40 PM
THE BICYCLE
James Richards (US, 72 min)
2013
Bobbi can’t stand Teddy. Teddy isn’t thrilled with Bobbi. Now that isn’t that big a deal on the playground. But Teddy is 36 and Bobbi is 10. And they live in the same house. And Teddy is going to marry Bobbi’s mother Cheryl in less than a month.
When Bobbi is jumped and her bicycle stolen, Teddy realizes this is the moment to repair his relationship with Bobbi. He volunteers to help find the bully and get the bicycle back. Bobbi resists, seeing this as ploy for Teddy to get in good with her mother. What they do discover as they travel through the many worlds that make up their community will both surprise them and connect them in a way neither could imagine.
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JMRsD8bgys
Preceded by
SUNDAYS AT NOON
kA’ramuu Kush (US, 14 min)
2013
An absentee father is recently granted joint custody of his daughter after 12 years apart.
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THE BATTLE OF ISLAND MOUND
Brant Hadfield (US, 21 min) New York Premiere
2014
On a frigid January evening in 1862, twenty-two year old George Washington escapes the bonds of slavery in Missouri for free soil in Kansas, and joins the first African-American Union regiment to ever see combat in the Civil War. The outcome of the first-ever battle between those vastly outnumbered former slaves and rebel horsemen, known as Bushwhackers, will play a pivotal role in setting the stage for Civil Rights in America, and changing the misconceptions of those who thought the black man unequal, and unfit for the task of fighting for his own freedom. This is the first time the story of the First Kansas Volunteer Regiment, and The Battle of Island Mound has been told on film.
Watch the trailer: http://vimeo.com/83361114
Q&A with the filmmakers follows screening
5:30 PM
CLOSING NIGHT FILM and SPECIAL EVENT
The NASTY TERRIBLE T-KID 170: JULIUS CAVERO
Carly Starr Brullo/Niles (US, 48 min) New York Hi-light/World Premiere
2014
Graffiti is one of the most misunderstood sub cultures in history. It is a culture not for the faint of heart. Up until now the story of T-Kid 170 has for the most part been kept within the sub culture of graffiti. This film uses nearly 30 years worth of archived footage and T-Kid’s never before seen home movies, a very rare glimpse into the world of subway graffiti. Follow T-Kid into train yards all over the world and through his trials and tribulations, arrests, addiction, violence, love & triumphs. Follow the story of one man’s rise to becoming a legend and witness the story of someone who came from the bottom to write his name on the top.
Watch the trailer: http://vimeo.com/8723556