Gotham Alumni On Screen: April 2024
by The Gotham Staff on April 4, 2024 in Alumni on Screen
Welcome to Alumni on Screen, April 2024 edition! To champion and signal-boost our Gotham-supported projects, at the top of each month we’ll have a rundown of alumni making their way into the world on screens both big and small.
APRIL 5
Housekeeping for Beginners
In Theaters
From acclaimed filmmaker Goran Stolevski comes a story exploring the universal truths of family, both the ones we’re born into and the ones we find for ourselves. Dita never wanted to be a mother, but circumstances force her to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters, tiny troublemaker Mia and rebellious teen Vanesa. A battle of wills ensues as the three continue to butt heads and become an unlikely family that must fight to stay together.
Directed by Goran Stolevski.
Gotham Alum: Housekeeping for Beginners in an alum of Biennale College Cinema 2019.
APRIL 6
La Lucha
Museum of the Moving Image (ReelAbilities Film Festival)
Presented as part of the 16th Annual ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York, this powerful documentary follows Feliza, Mareele, Rose Mery, and Miguel as they spearhead a movement to advocate for the rights of people with disabilities. They gather and motivate hundreds during a 35-day, 250-mile journey across the Andes to reach the Bolivian capital, battling harsh conditions and hunger along the way. Confronting barricades, riot police, and hostility from fellow citizens, these activists persist and ultimately arrive in La Paz, rewriting national history. New York Premiere. Content warning: police brutality. —ReelAbilities Film Festival
Directed by Violeta Ayala.
Gotham Alum: La Lucha is an alum of the 2017 Project Market – Spotlight on Docs.
APRIL 14
Q
Museum of the Moving Image
An intimate and haunting portrayal of a quest for love and acceptance at any cost, this documentary depicts a secretive matriarchal religious order’s insidious influence on three generations of women in the Chehab family in Lebanon. Filmmaker Jude Chehab potently documents the unspoken ties and consequences of loyalty that have bonded her mother, grandmother, and herself to the mysterious organization. A masterful portrait of the toll that decades of unrequited love, lost hope, abuse, and despair take on a person, Q is a multigenerational tale of the eternal search for meaning. — Museum of the Moving Image
Directed by Jude Chehab.
Gotham Alum: Q is an alum of the 2021 Project Market – Spotlight on Documentaries.
APRIL 23-26
The Feeling That the Time For Doing Something Has Passed
Nitehawk Cinema / IFC Center
Filmmaker Joanna Arnow’s hilarious comedy, which world-premiered in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and is executive produced by Sean Baker, follows a 30-something New York woman (Arnow) as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family. — IFC Center
Directed by Joanna Arnow.
Gotham Alum: The Feeling That the Time For Doing Something Has Passed is an alum of the 2021 Project Market – U.S. Features
APRIL 24
The Imperialists Are Still Alive!
Nitehawk Cinema
A successful visual artist working in post-9/11 Manhattan, Asya lives the life of the hip and glamorous, replete with exclusive art parties, supermodels, and stretch limousines while she carefully follows the situation in the Middle East on television. Asya learns that her childhood friend, Faisal, has disappeared-the victim of a purported CIA abduction. That same night, she meets Javier, a sexy Mexican PhD student, and romance blossoms. Javier finds Asya’s conspiracy theories overly paranoid-but nothing in Asya’s world is as it seems. Asya’s life is reflective of the themes of cultural fusion, and the complications and humor that arise simultaneously out of everyday life. — Nitehawk Cinema
Directed by Zeina Durra.
Gotham Alum: The Imperialists Are Still Alive! is an alum of the 2009 Narrative Labs.
April 30
This World Is Not My Own
IFC Center
In rural Georgia, the self-taught African-American artist Nellie Mae Rowe created a breathtaking body of work across a plethora of mediums, reflecting the broader concerns of American political and social movements across most of the 20th century in which she lived. Opendox directors Petter Ringbom and Marquise Stillwell craft a bountiful expression of Rowe’s world in THIS WORLD IS NOT MY OWN, matching their subject’s limitless visions with an array of storytelling techniques. The words Rowe left behind are brought to vivid life by three-time Emmy winner Uzo Aduba (Orange is the New Black, Mrs. America). — IFC Center
Directed by Petter Ringbom & Marquise Stillwell.
Gotham Alum: This World Is Not My Own is an alum of the 2020 Project Market – Spotlight on Docs.
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