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Event
Short Film Saturday
Black Love: Inspired by the relationship between George Jackson and Angela Davis, a young couple is forced to make difficult decisions during the Black Power movement. [Director: Max Cole ** Category: Short Films ** Runtime: 8 min.]
El Camino: El Camino' follows the path of the anonymous migrant in search of the New World. The journey leads to exploitation and raises questions of culpability and complicity in the host society and on the part of the immigrant who crosses the political line in the sand. This film explores the metaphor for the reality faced by migrants arriving in strange, new lands every day. [Director: Raquel Tresvant ** Category: Short Films ** Runtime: 8 min.]
Rise Up!:A young black man from the 21th century travels back in time to and meets Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King and gives them a modern man's perspective on social and cultural issues in their struggle for civil rights and racial equality. [Director: Marcellus Cox ** Category: Short Films ** Runtime: 14 min.]
American Falls: The year is 1965, the height of the Civil Rights Era. One night a stranger sporting 'city clothes' checks in, the first Black man that Japanese-American Toru Suzuki's children have ever seen at their family-run rural Idaho motel. Yoshiko, Toru's precocious 13 year old daughter, takes it upon herself to solve the mystery of this man, especially after two detectives come knocking on their door in the middle of the night, and Toru must balance his role as a small business owner, a father, a husband, and a minority in America. [Director: Be' Garrett ** Category: Narrative ** Runtime: 25 min.]
G.I.R.L: A young girl harbors an incredible gift that goes virtually unnoticed in a society that teaches her 'it's all about the boys.' [Director: Vanessa Baden ** Category: Short Films ** Runtime: 20 min.]
*Tickets are also available in person through the LHPAI box office.
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LocationLangston Hughes Performing Arts Institute (View)
104 17th Avenue S
Seattle, WA 98144
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 13 |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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