Past Meetup
Her Spirit Was For Dancing - Screening w/ Filmmaker
This Meetup is past
13 people went
Details
Friday, January 11, 2013, 7:00PM
@ Scribe Video Center
4212 Chestnut Street
$5, Free for Scribe and Reelblack Season 10 members
director Morenike Olabunmi in person!
Presented in partnership with Reelblack
Her Spirit Was For Dancing (2013, 60 mins) chronicles the death rituals performed for Phyllis Gordon, a 92-year-old Etu member and Yoruba descendant in Jamaica, West Indies. The deceased is honored with a Christian funeral in addition to age-old African celebrations that involve the community. This film is an intimate look into the coexistence of Christian and African traditions.
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Morenike Olabunmi is a Jamaican-born independent filmmaker, writer, and researcher. Her documentary, Etu & Nago: The Yoruba Connection which illumines the story of Yoruba/Nago descendants in Jamaica, West Indies, received Best Documentary Short awards at Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film and Jamerican Film and Music Festivals. It also won the Jurors' Choice award from the Brooklyn Chapter of Links Film Festival.
