Celebrate Diversity Film Festival
Every member of the Prescott College community is enthusiastically invited to become part of the college-wide Diversity Coalition to define, foster, sustain, and celebrate diversity at Prescott College.
Between the months of September and April the Coalition meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 1:00 and then again at 6:00 with an open forum to network and plan projects--come at either time as your schedule allows. The each month at 7:30 the Celebrate Diversity Film Festival presents a film that celebrates and honors living beings.
Please come at 1:00 or at 6:00 on the first Tuesdays with your ideas! Bring your questions. Bring your commitment to diversity at Prescott College!!
September through April
First Tuesdays at 1:00 and at 6:00 p.m.
Diversity Coalition Meeting--come at either time
Crossroads Center Room 103
Or just come at 7:30 for a great movie in a room filled with a diverse gathering of socially conscious and motivated folks. Bring pillows or blankets or whatever you need to get comfy as you settle in for a cozy night of celebration and action for diversity at Prescott College!
September through April
First Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m.
Crossroads Center Room 103
Celebrate Diversity Film Festival
April 5, 2005
Before Night Falls
directed by Julian Schnabel
US, 2000
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2000 Venice Film Festival, Before Night Falls is a richly imagined journey into the life and writings of the brilliant Cuban author and exile Reinaldo Arenas. Directed and co-written by Julian Schnabel (Basquiat), the film stars Spanish actor Javier Bardem (Live Flesh, Jámon jámon), whose eloquent, complex performance as Arenas earned him the 2000 Venice Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Best Actor. Before Night Falls spans the whole of Arenas' life, from his rural childhood and his early embrace of the Revolution to the persecution he would later experience as a writer and homosexual in Castro's Cuba; from his departure from Cuba in the Mariel Harbor exodus of 1980 to his exile and death in the United States. It is a portrait of a man whose search for freedom - artistic, political, sexual - defied poverty, censorship, persecution, exile and death. Like Arenas' work, Before Night Falls combines passages of transporting imagination with urgent realism; in so doing, it embodies the creative ethos to which Arenas dedicated himself: transforming experience into unfettered expression.
March 1, 2005
Bend It Like Beckham
written and directed by Gurinder Chadha
UK, 2002
This comedy centers on Jess (Parminder Nagra), an Indian girl born in England whose only desire is to become a football star like her idol, David Beckham; but her traditional family refuses to even consider it. With the help of her friend she secretly joins a girls' team under the guidance of a male coach and the team starts to gain some attention. The story of Bend It Like Beckham is so genuine and detailed that it transcends all the sports-movie formulas that it also fulfills with cheeky exuberance. Wonderfully acted, and written and directed with loving care by Gurinder Chadha (Bhaji on the Beach, What's Cooking?).
February 1, 2005
The Business of Fancydancing
written and directed by Sherman Alexie
US, 2002
The Business of Fancydancing reunites Spokane Reservation best friends Aristotle Joseph (Gene Tagaban) and Seymour Polatkin (Evan Adams) sixteen years after their high school graduation.
Beginning with a brief flashback to the young men's enthusiastic look to the unlimited future, the film mirrors both Aristotle and Seymour as they leave the "rez" for college in Seattle. Though these co-valedictorians left the rez for the white world in an identical state of excitement, their success in Seattle would ultimately differ dramatically and eventually set them against one another.