In honor of Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month, we are partnering with Doris Duke Theatre at the Honolulu Museum of Art for a special screening and panel discussion of La Negrada.
About the film:
Directed by Jorge Pérezhas. Mexico. 2018. 104 min. Spanish with English subtitles.
La Negrada (Black Mexicans) is the first Mexican feature film about the Afro-Mexican community, filmed entirely with people from different towns around the Costa Chica in Oaxaca. Among the black community in the Costa Chica in Oaxaca, it is socially accepted that a man lives with more than one woman. Juana and Magdalena share Neri’s love, though they both know that this situation is hurting them. Juana will have to sacrifice herself in order to show Magdalena a new path for her life. In Mexico, the afro communities represent only 1% of the total population. They have never been recognized as an ethnic group, nation or culture, suffering discrimination as an outcast group. This film is the first Mexican fiction movie filmed entirely in one of those black communities, with local people, no professional actors. This film is an effort to give them voice and make them visible.
Join us for a post-screening conversation moderated by Dr. Akiemi Glenn, Executive Director of The Pōpolo Project with panelists Tiare Mata and Dr. Rudy Guevarra.
Born and raised in Hawai’i director and filmmaker Tiare Mata is of African, Venezuelan and Puerto Rican descent. She holds a Bachelors of Art degree in Cinematic and Digital Narrative Production from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and a Masters of Art degree from Hawai’i Pacific University. Tiare has studied film direction at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and has brought her extensive knowledge back to Hawai’i’s underserved youth.
Dr. Rudy Guevarra is a professor of Asian Pacific American Studies at Arizona State University and is a co-curator of Latino Pacific Archive. Following up on his first book Becoming Mexipino (Rutgers University Press 2012), he is currently authoring a book on historical and contemporary Latino experiences in Hawaiʻi.
Tickets are available here.