Films from the Southern Documentary Fund @ Brooklyn Independent August 6, 2007
376 9th St
Brooklyn, New York 11215
Brooklyn, New York 11215
FIRST & THIRD MONDAY of Every Month @ 7pm FREE !
Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series
Barbes - 376 9th St (at Sixth Ave)
Park Slope, Brooklyn
subway: F to Seventh Ave
MONDAY, AUGUST 6 @ 7pm
Special Program
Co-Curated by Jessye McDowell
Feature Program
THE GUEST WORKER
Directed by Cynthia Hill
60 min - 2006 - USA - English - Color
Having spent the last 40 years harvesting American crops, Candelario Gonzalez
Moreno (Don Cande) is now a guestworker in the U.S. Government's H-2A Visa
Program. While he has made the trip illegally many times before, the program
ensures him safe passage but offers no hope of citizenship and the benefits that
go along with it.
Filmed on both sides of the border, The Guestworker: Bienvenidos a Carolina del
Norte chronicles Don Cande's life while looking at the H-2A program from
contrasting perspectives. The film shows the pressure on farmers to produce
their crops and documents the struggle farmworkers face to secure a future
for their families back home in Mexico.
Short Program
METACARPUS
Directed by Melanie Nicole Triche
7 min - 2006 - USA - Color
An experimental documentary that takes a closer look at the human hand.
An orthopedic surgeon, sleight-of-hand magician, classical guitarist, henna
artist, sign language interpreter, and jazz pianist explore the ways in which
their hands make artistic expression and communication possible.
GULU STORIES
Directed by Rex Miller
20 min - 2006 - Uganda - Color
Gulu Stories is an intimate portrait of life on the ground in Northern Uganda.
Through camp fire stories, aid worker accounts and the compositions of local
musicians, this collection of vignettes stitches together anecdotes that
collectively relay the pain and suffering, but also the endurance that
epitomizes the story of the people of northern Uganda through this
twenty years of war.
FIRST & THIRD MONDAY of Every Month @ 7pm FREE !
Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series
Barbes - 376 9th St (at Sixth Ave)
Park Slope, Brooklyn
subway: F to Seventh Ave
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The Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series will present audiences
with the best in contemporary independent cinema.
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Added by pbnoj productions on August 2, 2007