First & Third Monday of Every Month @ 7pm • FREE

Monday, August 6 @ 7pm

 

Special Program


A selection of films from the Southern Documentary Fund
Co-Curated by Jessye McDowell

Feature


The Guest Worker
Directed by Cynthia Hill


60 min • 2006 • USA • 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.

 

 

Shorts

Metacarpus
Directed by Nicole Triche

7 min • 2006 • USA • English • 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 • 2005 • 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 !

Barbés
376 9th St (at Sixth Ave)
Park Slope, Brooklyn
Subway: F to Seventh Ave



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Barbés
Traveling Cinema &
pbnoj productions

present

The Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series
• • • •

First & Third Monday
of every month at Barbés in the
Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Building on Traveling Cinema's diverse selection of classic films, Brooklyn Independent presents audiences with the best in contemporary independent cinema.



Barbés
376 9th St (at 6th Ave)
Park Slope, Brooklyn


Subway: F to Seventh Ave

 

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