Film Screening
"Cubamor" & "Favela Rising"
Sunday April 06, 2008
$10 each or $15 both - Cubamor @ 6pm / Favela Rising @ 8:30pm
In honor of Ori, the Center for African Diasporic Culture, an arts & culture organization that preserves and presents African Diasporic culture, presents two films: Cubamor and Favela Rising.
Cubamor. Cuba is a place where magic is a part of daily life. Lazaro Rosengberg-Acosta and Zoe Green are two Americans in Havana. Lazaro spends his mornings studying Afro-Cuban music and his afternoons exploring the magic of Kongolese mysticism and Yoruba Lukumi (Santeria). He falls for his godfather's granddaughter, Maria, and breaks his promise to be faithful to his fiancée and the Orisha Oshun.
Favela Rising documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá is a former drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro's most feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance, he rallies his community to counteract the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police. For more information on this film click here.
