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RFF - "America the Beautiful w/Nina Baby"

Tower Auditorium, Mass College of Art
Boston, MA

America the Beautiful - 89 minutes

America the Beautiful is a socially probing documentary which explores the question, "Does America have an unhealthy obsession with beauty?" Filmmaker Darryl Roberts journeys into the psyche of celebrities like Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson, athletes like Reggie Theus, industry professionals such as Jill Ishkanian from "US Weekly", Ted Casablanca from the "E! Channel" and the American citizeny to determine the roots of this superficial obsession.

Nina Baby - 14 minutes

Inspired by turning thirteen, Nina Wright, an aspiring jazz musician, decides to take a journey. She walks through the streets of Los Angeles giving her take on what's wrong with Hip-Hop music, people's prejudices, her loves, her dreams for the future, and peppers her soliloquy with beautiful interludes on her trumpet. No one listens to her or her trumpet playing, so she uses the camera as her sole audience. She talks to the camera, gets angry with the camera, and laughs with the camera. On her journey we see flashes of her dead brother, her chess obsessed father with whom she shares a tent in downtown Los Angeles, and, most importantly, we see her decide to take the biggest gamble of her life.

Kid Friendly: No

Dog Friendly: No

Non-Smoking: No

Wheelchair Accessible: No

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