ByDesign [Online] 2020 – All on a Mardi Gras Day + The Maze
Sliding scale admission: $0–25
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Showtime listed is Pacific Standard Time.
ByDesign Festival 2020 is STREAMING ONLINE! Northwest Film Forum’s physical space is temporarily closed in light of public health concerns around COVID-19, but community, dialogue, and education through media arts WILL persist.
• • HOW TO WATCH • •
- Purchase a ticket or festival pass through Brown Paper Tickets as usual
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Michal Pietrzyk
US
2019
22m
Festival -
ByDesign [Online] Festival 2020
About
There are African-American men in some of New Orleans’ roughest neighborhoods who spend all year sewing feathered suits. All On A Mardi Gras Day follows Demond, who makes huge sacrifices to be Big Chief in this secret, 200-year old tradition known as Mardi Gras Indians. When the day comes, he battles in a competition that will decide who’s “the prettiest.”
About the director:
Michal Pietrzyk was born in Poland, and emigrated to the US after his father’s imprisonment as a member of the anti-communist movement Solidarity. He started his career as an editor of unscripted television, graduating to Field and Executive Producer. He’s produced over 130 hours of network TV for National Geographic, Discovery, and Travel Channel, specializing in intimate, character-driven content, often in remote, dangerous places. One of his more memorable projects was spending Christmas in a Russian maximum security prison with a cannibal. All On a Mardi Gras Day is his first independent documentary, and first as director.
The Maze
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