Tangerine [Online]
It’s Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee (newcomer Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn’t been faithful during the month she was locked up, the sex worker and her best friend, Alexandra (newcomer Mya Taylor), embark on an odyssey to get to the bottom of the rumor that leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles. By director Sean Baker, and shot on three iPhones.
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Shirley [Online]
Renowned horror writer Shirley Jackson is on the precipice of writing her masterpiece when the arrival of newlyweds upends her meticulous routine and heightens tensions in her already tempestuous relationship with her philandering husband. The middle-aged couple, prone to ruthless barbs and copious afternoon cocktails, begins to toy mercilessly with the naïve young couple at their door.
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*Ends July 7!* Nearly six years have passed since Michael Brown was killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown’s shooting led to numerous demonstrations in Ferguson and nationwide that catalyzed the organization of the Black Lives Matter Movement. In those years, we have continued to see minorities wrongfully arrested, subjected to police brutality and murder, and misrepresented in myriad ways in our society.
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BLACK LIVES MATTER. All June Film Proceeds to Benefit the Cause.
Dear Northwest Film Forum Community,
From the time they were forcibly brought to the Americas hundreds of years ago, Black Americans have expressed – using offerings of art, philosophy, story, song and dance – the struggles they have endured within a society which continues to strip them of their rights and systematically limits their access to resources. Yet not enough has changed.
Over the past week, as protests rose up all over the world in support of justice for Bl…