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cineSPEAK presents a Boycott the Oscars DOUBLE FEATURE with Spike Lee's Crooklyn + Do The Right Thing
cineSPEAK : alternative cinema is super proud to welcome you to the first event of our latest community gathering + film series -- Boycott the Oscars -- on race, honoring culture + being good neighbors.
FRIDAY JULY 21:
We're heating things up with a DOUBLE FEATURE!!
Showcasing the legendary Spike Lee + two of his classic films:
Crooklyn (5:30PM)
Do The Right Thing (8:00PM)
DOORS: 4:30PM
CROOKLYN @ 5:30PM *Families encouraged to attend. Please review content warnings below
**30 MIN INTERMISSION - 7:30PM - 8:00PM**
DO THE RIGHT THING @ 8:00PM
**DJs. FOOD. DRINKS. FRIENDS - NEW + OLD. Let's get cinema.**
SEE YOU AT THE PARTY, PEOPLE.
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FOOD + BEVERAGE:
We'll have drinks + snacks for sale on-site, however, you are more than welcome to bring your dinner.
21+ to Drink. Must have Photo ID.
VENUE:
Ground Floor. Wheelchair + Mobility Limited Accessible. Plenty of Street Parking. Bikes can be brought into venue, however, they are stored at your own risk.
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ABOUT THE FILMS:
Crooklyn (1994)
Starring: Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo + Zelda Harris
Plot: A semi-autobiographical film co-written and directed by Spike Lee. The film takes place in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York during the summer of 1973. Its primary focus is a young girl, Troy, and her family. Throughout the film, Troy learns life lessons through her four rowdy brothers, her loving but strict mother, and her naive, struggling father.
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 1 hr 55 min
Content Warning: mild obscenities; brief sexual language; mild drug use (sniffing glue); death of a family member
Do The Right Thing (1989):
Starring: dir. Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, Samuel L. Jackson + Rosie Perez.
Plot: "The story takes place on the hottest day of the summer and revolves around Sal's Famous Pizzeria, the only white-owned business in the Brooklyn neighborhood. Rather than being a film about clear rights and wrongs, Do the Right Thing is instead a cultural melange that is cumulatively an intricately detailed portrait of an ethnically diverse contemporary urban American neighborhood."- Film Reference Forum http://www.filmreference.com/Films-De-Dr/Do-the-Right-Thing.html
MPAA Rating: R
Running Time: 2 hours
Content Warning: brief nudity, excessive profanity, racialized derogatory language
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WHAT IS THE BOYCOTT THE OSCARS CINEMA PROJECT?
Our #BoycottTheOscars neighborhood cinema project is based in Lower North Philadelphia/Brewerytown, an epicenter of exponentially-advancing gentrification. We seek to bring together longstanding North Philadelphia residents and those newcomers moving in as neighbors.
Our community film screenings will take place at various gathering locations + will showcase films that The Academy of Motion Pictures have grossly snubbed films written, produced, and acted by important non-conforming individuals in history who have paved the cinematic way doing their own thingtheir own damn way. Post-screening discussions will be moderated by some of Phillys wisest community creatives, movers + shakers.
Additionally, we have formed a Boycott the Oscars Youth Crew. Where high school aged youth from our neighborhood will be trained in event production, media literacy, public speaking + important life skills, as outlined by P21s Framework for 21st Century Learning. The Youth Crew will put their new skills to practice + be hired to assist in the production of future cineSPEAK screening events.
UPCOMING SCREENINGS:
Fri Aug 25 - Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust
FRI Sept 22 - Dee Rees' Pariah
#cineSPEAK
#BoycotttheOscarsPHL
#OscarsSoWhite
#RepresentationMatters
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ABOUT cineSPEAK : alternative cinema:
cineSPEAK is a Philadelphia based non-profit organization that engages diverse audiences through our independent, repertory + foreign film programming; creating space + centering the stories of individuals and communities that are often underrepresented in mainstream cinema, with a specific focus on cause-based filmmaking.
cineSPEAK promotes community togetherness + global understanding by engaging film enthusiasts while cultivating the next generation of discerning moviegoers; encouraging people to demand social justice both on-screen + throughout society.
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LocationThe Glass Factory (View)
1517 N. Bailey Street
Philadelphia , PA 19121
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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