First-Gen Immigrant Filmmakers Are Redefining the American Family Onscreen
Films like ‘Minari’ and ‘Farewell Amor’ counter the steely, back-breaking myth of the American dream with the soft, flexible salve of self-determination, self-acceptance, and self-care. A24/IFC/Getty
Westport, Conn. is the 19th richest community in America. It’s where some of my middle school and junior high classmates lived and it’s where my Jamaican grandma cleaned homes for years. I attended countless birthday parties and sleepovers in the same neighborhood where I would accompany my mom’s mom on the job when mine was away at her own. I preoccupied myself with books and schoolwork as she scrubbed, sponged, mopped, and polished interiors that dwarfed our six-person family’s three-bedroom apartment in Bridgeport. All of this was a slice of my so-called American life, my normal.
First-Gen Immigrant Filmmakers Are Redefining the American Family Onscreen
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To celebrate the fourth season premiere of its series
Snowfall, FX hosts a themed carwash with lights, music, design and effects inspired by the series. Set in L.A. in the 1980s during the first crack epidemic, the crime drama returns on Feb. 24. Reservations for the car wash are required as this is a contactless event. FX is also teaming with Official Black Wall Street to highlight the show and a selection of Black-owned L.A. businesses.
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FAMILY AFFAIR Lawson plays an Angolan teen adjusting to life in Brooklyn in an immigrant story told from three perspectives. Our streaming entertainment options are overwhelming and not always easy to sort through. This month, Vermont International Film Foundation streams a program of films directed by African American women from February 19 through 28 as part of the Split/Screen series. I watched
Farewell Amor, a 2020 Sundance Film Festival award winner from first-time feature director Ekwa Msangi. Find the whole program at vtiff.org.
The deal Walter (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine), an Angolan cabdriver in Brooklyn, has been working for 17 years toward a reunion with his wife, Esther (Zainab Jah), and daughter, Sylvia (Jayme Lawson), who remained behind in Africa.