Birth of the Sun screened in the AFRICA WORLD DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL.
The festival took place in St. Louis, Missouri and in Bridgetown, Barbados from February 26
to Mid-March 2009. Birth of the Sun screened on Saturday, February 28 at 12:30 PM.
AWDF Screening Schedule (pdf)
The Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee Film Festival
Slavery and Civil Rights Museum
"Birth of the Sun", and "Welcome to Batey 6, directed by Emmanuel Alexandre jr.
screened at the Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma, Alabama. The event is held in the first
full weekend of every March to commemorate “Bloody Sunday", the March from Selma-to-Montgomery,
and the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. http://thebridgecrossingjubilee.org/
Wednesday,
April 1 2009 at 6:00 PM
Birth
of the Sun screened in the New
Filmmakers Spring Festival, which takes place at the
historical and independent Anthology Cinema on East 2nd Street in the East
Village. You can download
the spring schedule from the New Filmmakers web page
- or can get it (See page 3) here
(Pdf).
Birth of the Sun screened at 6:00 PM on Wednesday,
April 1 2009.
Friday
April 17, 2009, 8:00 PM
Grady
Alexis lived at El Taller Latino Americano from
1986 until his death in 1991. Much of that
time was at the Russian Orthodox Church on East 2nd Street, a few doors from
the Anthology
Cinema.
There will be a screening of Birth of the Sun at El Taller Latino Americano
on the Upper
West Side on Friday evening, April 17, 2009.
Alexandre jr. and shot by Kemah Keita-Diouf. The film offers an intimate look into the lives of Haitian
sugarcane cutters and the effects on their families and the local culture. Additionally, there will be a screening
of excerpts from a new documentary about El Taller Latino Americano.
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