Join New Mexico Entertainment for the April Movie Night screening of I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, the 1988 blacksploitation spoof from Keenen Ivory Wayans. Early bird ticket purchasers have the chance to win door prizes from local businesses and organizations around town.
STORYLINE: Featuring Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown, Steve James, Damon Wayans & many others! Jack Spade comes home to the ghetto and finds his brother dead from a gold chain overdose. With the help of his hero, John Slade, and a team of washed-up crime fighters, Spade declares vengeance on Mr. Big, the white crime leader responsible for selling gold chains on the streets. But Spade realizes that he must take matters into his own hands to finish the job in this zany spoof of 1970s blaxploitation films.
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Following the preventable deaths of loved ones due to childbirth complications, two families galvanize activists, birth-workers and physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing American crises of our time – the US maternal health crisis.
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This short (18-min) documentary explores the importance of investing in and sharing stories created by Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color (BIPOC) filmmakers and storytellers.
Panelists include: Mel Adún, Writer and Cofounder of Editora Ogums Publishing Collective; Ausettua AmorAmenkum, founder of New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center Resident Group, The Gradates—a performance group comprised of former members of the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women; and Josie Lopez, PhD, Head Curator at the Albuquerque Museum.
Screening of short (15-min) film “Crooked Trees Gon Give Me Wings” followed by panel discussion.
Panelists include Film Writer & Director Cara Lawson; Ashoka Fellow & Founder of Birthing Project—Underground Railroad for New Life, Kathryn Hall Trujillo; Doulah & Healer Tauz TamuPovi; Ausettua AmorAmenkum who since the 1980s has engaged incarcerated women with performance & spiritual arts.
“Garifuna in Peril” delves into the Indigenous and Afro roots of the Garinagu, also known as the Garifuna.
Panelists include: Garifuna Scholar Pablo Jose Lopez Oro; San Ilefonso Tradition Bearer and Healer Tauz Tamu Povi; Afro-Latinidad and Afro-Indigeneity Scholar Dr. Sheryl Felecia Means; and Big Queen of the New Orleans Washitau Nation, Ausettua AmorAmenkum.
Indie Lens Pop-Up! “Storming Caesars Palace” tells the story of Ruby Duncan, a boisterous protestor who became a strategic organizer and then a White House advisor. She led a grassroots movement that fought for a basic income guarantee for families, she organized a massive protest that shut down Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and worked to defy notions of the “welfare queen.”
Through interviews with Duncan, her family, and key players in the movement such as Gloria Steinem, filmmaker Hazel Gurland-Pooler tells the story of the fight for justice, dignity, an adequate income, and democratic participation for low-income mothers. Based on the book by Annelise Orleck. This is an advance screening of the documentary, which will air March 20 on PBS. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by KUNM-FM News Director Megan Kamerick.
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