Calendar   |   Packages  |   Support Abrons Arts Center  |   | My Account  |   Shopping Cart  
Cannot access this performance because it occurred in the past: 7/14/18, 4:05 PM.
The selected performance is NOT available for sale.
Please Select Tickets
You have selected:
Afro-Latino Festival NYC 2018 Presents:
Displacement & Resilience
Shorts Program
Saturday, July 14, 2018 at 4:05PM

Abrons Arts Center, Underground Theater
466 Grand Street
New York, NY 10002
Underground Theater
F/M to Delancey/Essex; B/D to Grand St.; M14A to Pitt St.

For Wait List Tickets Check In At Box Office Day Of !

Film 1: Jimmy Jean Louis Goes to Tijuana

Director: Todd Kellstein/Haitian Chicken
Run Time: 15:23 min
Country: Mexico/Haiti
Language: English
Synopsis: What do Tijuana and Haitians have in common? Recently… a whole lot. Tijuana has become a home for a community of thousands of Haitian refugees. They took great risk and traveled long distances to live somewhere they felt would be a better life and provide better working conditions. However, many of them have gotten stuck on the south side of the US border due to recent border control laws. Living in limbo, many of these refugees are still in need of proper shelter, resources and opportunities. Rainn Wilson and Haitian actor Jimmy Jean-Louis have teamed on a very important lunch break to give you a peek into what life as a Haitian refugee in Tijuana is like.

Film 2: AFROFUTUROS

Director: Defend PR
Run Time: 10 min
Country: Puerto Rico
Language: Spanish (English Subtitles)
Synopsis: Defend PR is a multimedia project designed to document and celebrate Identity and racism, topics that despite all the crisis, despite all the social and economic political issues, is not being discussed in Puerto Rico. This Defend Puerto Rico Short introduces you to scholars, artists and entrepreneurs exploring what it means to be afro-boricua in the last colony and how they strive to have their work inspire a confrontation to these issues and undeniable lineage

Film 3: From Drums of Resistance: La Boquilla, Colombia

Director: Sheila Walker, PhD
Run Time: 20 min
Country: Colombia
Language: Spanish /w English subtitles
Synopsis: The Afro-Colombian fishing community of La Boquilla, bordering the city of Cartagena, is threatened by the tourist and hotel industry that wants its land. A dynaic group of young musicians is using their talent to promote their culture and assert their right to their homes and lifestyle.

Program is followed by Q&A/Talkback

This program is presented as part of the Afro Latino Festival NYC/Liberación Film Festival, July 13-15, 2018 (www.afrolatinofestnyc.com).

Festival passes to the Liberación Film Festival can be purchased here.

There is limited wheelchair accessible seating available. To request wheelchair accessible seating and for more information on access services, please email audienceservices@henrystreet.org.