This weekend, UnionDocs in W'burg, Brooklyn, will present two great programs. On Saturday the 17th, guest curator, Rachael Rakes of Doctruck, will bring three wonderful pieces on contemporary China: the marginalized Turkic-Muslim community of Ughyurs in Deborah Stratman's Kings of the Sky from 2004, Sam Green's haunting short film, Utopia: Part 3, The World's Largest Shopping Mall (2009), and Yin-Ju Chen and James T. Hong's 11-minute, Dogs of Straw (still from film, pictured), a profile of the streets of Taiwan right before the 2008 elections. Great filmmakers, great films! Special guests will be on hand; the screening will begin at 7:30 p.m.
On Sunday the 18th also at 7:30, UnionDocs is partnering with the African Film Festival New York to bring in documentary filmmaker, Mamadou Niang to present a short work-in-progress cut of his new piece on Ousmane Sembene, the father of African cinema. Following this, the multiple award-winning Pray the Devil Back to Hell will play. Devil presents the story of the powerful struggle of a group of Liberian women who band together to end a violent and long-standing civil war in their country. Their methods of peacemaking are a sight to behold. After the screening, I will moderate a conversation with the film's producer, Johanna Hamilton, and its cinematographer, Kirsten Johnson.
It's supposed to rain for the next several days, so it's the perfect weekend to get your ass to a movie. Come join us!
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