Caribbean Film Series presents MAFIFA (Oct. 6, 2023)
We're screening Daniela Muñoz' transfixing documentary on Oct. 6th 2023. Q&A with the filmmakers to follow, moderated by Katherine Cheairs. Tix: www.bam.org/film/2023/caribbean-film-series
The city of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, is renowned for its conga music, the soundtrack to the annual carnival. It’s here that the filmmaker comes to trace the legacy of the late Gladys Linares Acuña, also known as “Mafifa,” a legendary player of the bell, a conga percussion instrument. Forty years on from her death, the memory of this extraordinary woman, moving in a mostly man’s world, lives on through the oral testimonies of those who knew her.
By Way of Canarsie
Dirs. Emily Packer (@marginalgapgirl), Lesley Steele (@lesleylesley_) | US | 2020 | 14 min
Q&A with filmmakers to follow
A wandering portrait of an oft-neglected shoreline community, By Way of Canarsie paints a portrait of the predominantly Black New York City neighborhood of Canarsie through brief encounters, observation, and expressive use of analog film.
Presented by Third Horizon, The Luminal Theater, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Co-presented with Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (@CCCADI) and Cinema Tropical (@cinematropical).