REES’ EVENTUAL SALVATION EMERGES AT BAM’S AFRO PUNK
Once again channeling the spirit of revolution this holiday weekend BAMCinematek, hot off its inaugural BAMCinemaFEST, hosts the fifth annual Afro-Punk Festival, which will feature some filmmakers familiar to Filmmaker Magazine readers.
Bookending the repertory film portion of the event, which also encompasses concerts, a skate park and a closing weekend block party, are films by a pair of last year’s 25 New Faces in Independent Film. Tonight Dee Rees, who’s acclaimed short Pariah was one of our favorites of last year, will be on hand with her documentary Eventual Salvation. A penetrating glimpse at her grandmother’s roots and return to war torn Liberia, the film received funding from the Sundance Documentary Fund and won the 2007 Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award. July 8th the festival’s film screenings will wrap up with Barry Jenkins‘ Medicine for Meloncholy.
