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JULY
Thursday, July 24 @ 7:30pm • Bigger, Stronger, Faster
Friday, July 25 @ 7:30pm • Bigger, Stronger, Faster
Saturday, July 26 @ 7:30pm • Bigger, Stronger, Faster

AUGUST
Thursday, August 14 @ 7:30pm • Girls Rock
Friday, August 15 @ 7:30pm • Girls Rock
Saturday, August 16 @ 7:30pm • Girls Rock

Thursday, August 21 @ 7:30pm • How To Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy it)
Friday, August 22 @ 7:30pm • How To Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy it)
Saturday, August 23 @ 7:30pm • How To Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy it)

Friday, August 29 @ 7:30pm • Imposters book signing and screening

SEPTEMBER
Thursday, September 11, 7:30pm• Musician
Friday, September 12, 7:30pm• Musician
Saturday, September 13, 7:30pm• Musician

Thursday, September 25, 7:30pm • Order of Myths
Friday, September 26, 7:30pm • Order of Myths
Saturday, September 27, 7:30pm • Order of Myths

OCTOBER
Thursday, October 16, 7:30pm • Banished
Friday, October 17, 7:30pm • Banished
Saturday, October 18, 7:30pm • Banished

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All screenings at Jengo's Playhouse
815 Princess Street
Wilmington, NC 28401
Call 910-343-5995 for more info...

Racial Rewind Film Series presents:
BANISHED

Thursday, October 16, 7:30pm
Friday, October 17, 7:30pm
Saturday, October 18, 7:30pm

Free Admission!

American Ethnic Cleansings (2006). Racism in America has manifested itself in a grim variety of ways, and throughout the 19th and 20th centuries it was hardly uncommon for communities to make African-Americans feel unwelcome outside of ghettos in the poorest side of town. However, some cities took a more aggressive stance against citizens of color, and a number went so far as to stage vigilante pogroms in which the entire black population would be forcibly
expelled under threat of violence. Documentary filmmaker Marco Williams examines this hidden side of America's racial history in Banished, which focuses on four examples of primarily white communities rising up to force their African-American neighbors to flee, in incidents which took place in Texas, Missouri, Georgia and Indiana between 1886 and 1923. Banished was screened in competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. (www.moviefone.com)

The Racial Rewind Film Series is presented by the Cucalorus Film Foundation and the YWCA Lower Cape Fear and is funded in part by a grant from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. Following each screening filmmakers and guest speakers will lead discussions exploring racial concerns in the context of each film.

All screenings at Jengo's Playhouse
815 Princess Street
Wilmington, NC 28401
Call 910-343-5995 for more info.

THE ORDER OF MYTHS
part of the Racial Rewind Film Series

Thursday, September 25, 7:30pm
Friday, September 26, 7:30pm
Saturday, September 27, 7:30pm

FREE! FREE! FREE!

The Order of Myths(2008) is an intimate consideration of race in America through the story of our oldest Mardi Gras celebration.

The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2007, it is still racially segregated. Filmmaker Margaret Brown, herself a daughter of Mobile, escorts us into the parallel hearts of the city's two carnivals to explore the complex contours of this hallowed tradition and the elusive forces that keep it organized along enduring color lines.

With unprecedented access, Brown traces the exotic world of centuries-old traditions and pageantry; diamond-encrusted crowns, voluminous, hand-sewn gowns and trains, surreal masks and enormous paper mache floats. Against this opulent backdrop, she uncovers a tangled web of historical violence, power dynamics and intertwined and interdependent race relations (www.moviefone.com).

The Racial Rewind Film Series is presented by the Cucalorus Film Foundation and the YWCA Lower Cape Fear and is funded in part by a grant from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. Following each screening filmmakers and guest speakers will lead discussions exploring racial concerns in the context of each film.

All screenings at Jengo's Playhouse
815 Princess Street
Wilmington, NC 28401
Call 910-343-5995 for more info

MUSICIAN A film by Daniel Kraus

Thursday, September 11, 7:30pm
Friday, September 12, 7:30pm
Saturday, September 13, 7:30pm

Tickets $5, Members Free
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Common sense says you can't make a living in America playing avant-garde improvisational jazz. But Ken Vandermark does it anyway.

Among musicians, Vandermark's work ethic is almost mythic. The Chicago reed player has released over 100 albums with nearly 40 ensembles, spends over eight months per year on the road, and lives every other waking moment composing, arranging, performing — and trying to discipline his two hyperactive canines. Though Vandermark was the recipient of a 1999 MacArthur genius grant, he still spends most of his life in smoky clubs and low-budget recording studios, hoping people will plunk down hard-earned cash to hear his wholly non-commercial music.

Following the artful cinéma vérité style of the internationally acclaimed Sheriff, Musician forgoes all interviews and voice-overs. It is a fly-on-the-wall time capsule that expertly captures every subtle sound and texture of this most American of art forms.

Imposters Book Release party & screening
Friday, August 29 • 7:30 pm
Jengo's Playhouse
815 Princess Street
Wilmington, NC 28401

Everybody who moves to Hollywood thinks they could really be somebody...but in the meantime, it might pay better to be somebody else. Award-winning local author Shawna Kenney exposes the underbelly of celebrity impersonators in her new coffeetable book, Imposters (Mark Batty Publisher). Kenney's interviews and commentary combined with James Knoblauch's photos explore what Star News columnist Ben Steelman deemed "fascinating" and BPM magazine called "like Orangutan Planet, only smellier and more frightening."
Celebrate the release of Imposters at a signing party including a special screening of a documentary film about the very characters Kenney investigates in the book. Books available at the event, thanks to Pomegranate Books.

HOW TO EAT YOUR WATERMELON IN WHITE COMPANY (AND ENJOY IT)
part of Racial Rewind Film Series

August 21@ 7:30pm
August 22@ 7:30pm
August 23@ 7:30pm

FREE FOR EVERYONE!

“My politics is to win,” Van Peebles declares at the beginning of How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It), a documentary that explores the life and work of this maverick, modern-day Renaissance man. Whether making guerrilla-style films, flying Air Force sorties over the Pacific (ferrying the atom bomb, no less), studying astronomy in Amsterdam, writing novels in self-taught French, composing music (by means of a self-devised notation system), writing musical stage plays (for which he received nine Tony nominations), recording seminal rap albums or trading options on Wall Street, Van Peebles has blazed his own path, making a mark in each endeavor he’s pursued.

In How to Eat Your Watermelon… the events of Van Peebles’ life are vividly recounted through interviews with colleagues, contemporaries, critics, family and friends. The film also takes advantage of remarkable archival footage culled from all corners of Van Peebles’ diverse life—ranging from rare interviews on French TV to a hilarious series of opinion pieces culled from his brief foray as a financial-news analyst—to paint a sharp portrait of this unique personality. But How to Eat Your Watermelon… doesn’t merely enumerate Melvin Van Peebles’ artistic glories, nor does it plot a static hagiography of accomplishments; by virtue of original cinema vérité footage shot over the past eight years in the U.S. and France, it constructs a gripping narrative of a restless artist in an often unforgiving world, and reveals that Van Peebles, at age 74, is still a vital creative force who shows no signs of slowing down
(mvpmovie.com).

The Racial Rewind Film Series is presented by the Cucalorus Film Foundation and the YWCA Lower Cape Fear and is funded in part by a grant from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. Following each screening filmmakers and guest speakers will lead discussions exploring racial concerns in the context of each film.

All screenings at Jengo's Playhouse
815 Princess Street
Wilmington, NC 28401
Call 910-343-5995 for more info.

GIRLS ROCK! screening August 14-16

Thursday, August 14 7:30pm
Friday, August 15 7:30pm
Saturday, August 16 7:30pm

Tickets $5, Members Free
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“Tear jerker and rockumentary are two genres that don’t generally go hand in hand but you’ll need a hanky and your Joan Jett lighter when watching Girls Rock.” –Bust Magazine

Girls Rock is a documentary about the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls, a music program for girls ages 8-18. The documentary follows four girls through their experience at rock camp and reveals what many books and studies have already described-- girls are struggling with a bewildering and heartbreaking array of challenges to their self-image. When given the opportunity to work together and make music, the girls are given a temporary reprieve from being sexualized, analyzed and pressured to conform. The act of picking up a guitar and making noise becomes a truly revolutionary act.

BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER screening July 24-26

Thurday, July 24, 7:30pm
Friday, July 25, 7:30pm
Saturday, July 26, 7:30pm

Tickets $5, Members Free
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In America, we define ourselves in the superlative: we are the biggest, strongest, fastest country in the world. We reward speed, size and above all else: winning - at sport, at business and at war. Metaphorically we are a nation on steroids. Is it any wonder that so many of our heroes are on performance enhancing drugs? From the producers of Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 comes a new film that unflinchingly explores our win-at-all-cost culture through the lens of a personal journey. Blending comedy and pathos, BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER* is a collision of pop culture, animated sequences and first-person narrative, with a diverse cast including US Congressmen, professional athletes, medical experts and everyday gym rats. At its heart, this is the story of director Christopher Bell and his two brothers, who grew up idolizing muscular giants like Hulk Hogan, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and who went on to become members of the steroid-subculture in an effort to realize their American dream. When you discover that your heroes have all broken the rules, do you follow the rules, or do you follow your heroes?

The Racial Rewind Film Series presents:
Confederate States of America

Thursday, July 17@7:30
Friday, July 18@ 7:30
Saturday, Jule 19@ 7:30

FREE FOR EVERYONE!

C.S. A.: The Confederate States of America (2004)
What would the United States look like if the South had won the Civil War, slavery was still legal and liberals had fled to Canada? According to filmmaker Kevin Willmott (an assistant professor at the University of Kansas), it would resemble the vision put forth in this provocative mockumentary, set in a modern-day Confederate States of America. Spike Lee lends his name as a producer to this daring, if discomforting, parody. (www.netflix.com).

The Racial Rewind Film Series is presented by the Cucalorus Film Foundation and the YWCA Lower Cape Fear and is funded in part by a grant from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. Following each screening filmmakers and guest speakers will lead discussions exploring racial concerns in the context of each film.

All screenings at Jengo's Playhouse
815 Princess Street
Wilmington, NC 28401
Call 910-343-5995 for more info.

ABEL RAISES CAIN screening with Wedding Jimmy

Thursday, July 10@ 7:30pm
Friday, July 11 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, July 12 @ 7:30pm

Tickets $5, Members Free
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“Abel Raises Cain” documents the life of the prankster Allan Abel. At work since 1959, Abel pulled nation wide pranks that included a school for panhandlers, The Society for Indecency of Naked Animals (SINA), and a national campaign to Ban Breastfeeding. Told from the point of view of Abel’s daughter, Jenny Abel, ABEL RAISES CAIN takes the audience through the myriad of elaborate hoaxes and schemes that Abel pulled off over the years, causing everyone to question what they see, hear and read. Exciting and inspiring, you may leave with grand schemes of your own.



As a bonus Abel Raises Cain will be screening with the short film Wedding Jimmy by LA-based filmmaker Lisa Pescia. A man rapidly nears his wedding day while dealing with his obsession with the bride-to-be’s younger sister. Lisa Pescia will be in attendance to answer questions following the screening.

EVERYTHING'S COOL

Organizations Tie Global Warming Film to Local Solutions

At Jengo’s Playhouse on Wednesday, June 18, 7pm

On Wednesday June 18th at 7 pm, Cape Fear Biofuels, Cape Fear Climate Action Network and Working Films will show the film Everything’s Cool and connect the issues to local solutions to global warming. Filmmaker Judith Helfand will also participate in the post-screening action oriented Q&A.

From the filmmakers of Blue Vinyl, Everything’s Cool is a documentary that mixes humor with urgency and profiles the small group of global warming messengers who continue to prod a largely apathetic public into political activism. Looking for the perfect image or most effective language, these modern-day Paul Reveres – including author Bill McKibben (The End of Nature) and Pulitzer-winning journalist Ross Gelbspan -- worry that time is running out. Meanwhile, corporate spinmeisters and recalcitrant politicians continue to obscure scientists' warnings.

Please join us and be a part of the solution:

Everything’s Cool film screening
Wednesday June 18th, 7 – 9 pm
Jengo’s Playhouse
815 Princess Street
Wilmington, NC 28401

$3 - $5 suggested donation. Proceeds go to support the work of Cape Fear Biofuels, Cape Fear Climate Action Network. Following the film will be an action-oriented Q&A. Hosted by Cape Fear Biofuels, Cape Fear Climate Action Network and Working Films.
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