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  • Sistah Sinema: Karmen Gei

    Karmen GeiKarmen Gei: The story of tempestuous Carmen, first told in a short story by Prosper Merimee and made famous in an opera by Georges Bizet, gets a new and striking modern-dress adaptation in this provocative drama with stunning Senegalese music.
    Karmen Gei (Jeinaba Diop Gai) is an inmate in a women’s prison in Senegal; bisexual, lusty, impulsive, and looking out for herself at all times, Karmen’s uninhibited dancing and sensual demeanor excites the Sapphic passions of Angelique (Stephanie Biddle), the prison’s warden.

    Film is in Wolof with English sub-titles.

    Trailer http://youtu.be/TlSeTL-qSpQ

     

  • Periwinkle Cinema: The Transgender Day of Remembrance

    HOLY_TRANNITY_FINALThe Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was started by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was killed in 1998. The vigil commemorated all the transgender people lost to violence that year and began an important memorial that has become the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.

    This November we at Periwinkle Cinema will honor the voices that are often silenced. On November 19th on the eve on the TDOR, we offer our Trans/GenderQueer/Non-binary showcase. Please help us celebrate who we are and remember those who we have lost.

    With works by:

    J’vlyn D’Ark

    Lorin Murphy

    Tobi Hill Meyer

    Sam Ripinsky

    Silas Howard

    Plus more!

    “The Transgender Day of Remembrance seeks to highlight the losses we face due to anti-transgender bigotry and violence. I am no stranger to the need to fight for our rights, and the right to simply exist is first and foremost. With so many seeking to erase transgender people — sometimes in the most brutal ways possible — it is vitally important that those we lose are remembered, and that we continue to fight for justice.”
    – Transgender Day of Remembrance founder :

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gwendolyn-ann-smith/transgender-day-of-remembrance-why-we-remember_b_2166234.html” \t “_blank” Gwendolyn Ann Smith

  • Private event: Firestone’s operations during the Liberian Civil War