OUTTA THE MUCK + SWERVE + THE TRAILS BEFORE US
Wednesday, November 2, 6 - 8 PM @ THE STATE THEATRE
Directors, BHAWIN SUCHAK (Outta the Muck) , FRITZ BITZOIE (The Trails Before Us) and LYNN SACHS (Swerve) in attendance in conjunction with the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism
Outta The Muck (runtime: 82 minutes) all films tagged "Screening in Person Only"
Family, football and history come to life in an intimate portrait of the Dean family, longtime residents of the historic town of Pahokee, Florida. We take a journey back home, with filmmaker Ira McKinley, to the land of sugarcane, as he reconnects with his niece Bridget and nephew Alvin and explores their shared family history that spans seven generations. Told through stories that transcend space and time, Outta The Muck presents a community, and a family, that resists despair with love, remaining fiercely self-determined, while forging its own unique narrative of Black achievement.
The Trails Before Us (runtime: 12 minutes, Language: English, Navajo)
Through revitalizing old sheep and livestock trails on his grandparents’ land, 17-yr-old Nigel James and his friends prepare to host the first Enduro bike race in the Navajo Nation.
Swerve (runtime: 8 minutes)
A food market and playground in Queens, NY becomes the site for this film inspired by Paolo Javier’s Original Brown Boy poems. The film itself transforms into an ars poetica/cinematica—a meditation on writing and making images in the liminal space between a global pandemic and what might come next—as five New York City performers speak in verse while wandering through food stalls in search of a new sensation.