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The Forty-Year-Old Version
The movie really takes shape once Radha feels she’s written enough rhymes to need some beats and reaches out to a Brownsville DJ named D (Oswin Benjamin), who gets paid in weed. The first track she records, is “Poverty Porn,” which reflects back on those supposed “woke” patrons of the arts, and the likes. D plays it low-key but is impressed and surprised by both Radha’s words and style. Too bad when he gives her a chance to spit in front of an audience, she chokes.
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PHILADELPHIA ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL 2020
By exploring the themes of immigration, belonging, identity, and tradition - this year’s festival program features stories and narratives that will inspire new ideas and conversations around the future of Asian American storytelling and the role we play during this time of monumental and exponential change.
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Gershman Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival 2020
GPJFF is also proud to premiere two extraordinary documentaries that explore race relations in the United States. Both films were previously shown this summer in a special series titled SHARED STORIES: THE INTERSECTION OF BLACK AND JEWISH EXPERIENCES IN AMERICA. Viewers loved the movies so much, we're bringing two of them back!
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5 QUESTIONS FOR FILMMAKER LESLIE RIVERA ————— Papi Ramirez vs Giant Scorpions
Tinsel & Tine's 5 Questions Series continues with an old friend, Leslie Rivera, Les and I met at a screenwriting class, at the University of the Arts, a ways back, I'm not gonna say how long. We reconnected in the last 2 or 3 years on social media. Les is a Puerto Rico born writer/director/producer who has, since we met, made a number of low budget independent short films and documentaries,
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Philadelphia Environmental (Virtual) Film Festival 2020
13 curated programs and 50 films available to watch from Sept. 23-27! The Full lineup of all screenings, including filmmaker Q&As, panel discussions Twitter Updates during the Fest 🐝Check out our one-day-only viewing of Honeyland until midnight!🐝 The film follows the last female bee-hunter in Europe whose peaceful existence in the remote mountains of Macedonia is threatened when a family of nomadic beekeepers moves in next door.➡️ https://t.co/i4TwooOdg1 pic.twitter.com/5GVdyxnLEn — PhilaEnviroFilmFest (@PhilEnvFilmFest) September 25, 2020 Check out this great festival! YVFP’s award-winning #WordsHavePower film screens Sunday, Sept. 27. The film documents the inspiring story of 10 yr-old Jaysa Hunter Mellers fight for #environmentaljustice in her hometown of Bridgeport, CT. https://t.co/dFZjEUcmHV…
