Join us for free screenings and conversation at BRIC House. BRIC FLIX offers premieres, shorts, new media projects and web series that all reflect the diversity and vibrancy of Brooklyn. Each screening is followed by a discussion with the filmmakers, artists, curators and more.
BRIC FLIX has partnered with Bushwick Film Festival to bring you an exciting evening of LGBTQ films.
Moderator:
Tiq Milan has been an advocate in the LGBT community for over a decade. An educator and mentor, he began doing grassroots advocacy in the Bronx and at the Hetrick-Martin Institute, home to the only all LGBT high school in the country Harvey Milk High. He is also a writer and journalist who carved a niche for himself as a media advocate and one of the leading voices for transgender equality. He has won several awards for his media advocacy from organizations like The Hispanic Black Gay Coalition, Black Transman Advocacy Inc., The National Trans Latina Coalition and The National Pride Index. He’s also been recognized by BET, Ebony Magazine, and MTV.
Panelists:
Trae Harris (Actress) who has appeared in the Wire and Orange is the New Black http://www.traeharris.com/. She will show her film-Newlyweeds, a match made in stoner heaven turns into a love triangle gone awry when Lyle can't decide which matters most, Nina or Mary Jane.
Jess X Chen (Poet) is a multi-disciplinary artist/activist, filmmaker and poet currently living in New York City. After the Cultural Revolution, her parents immigrated from rural Nanchang, China to Canada in 1989. Her work exposes narratives of diasporic time travel, intimacy and collective protest by connecting the traumas between the queer and colored body and the body of the Earth. Through film, mural-making, poetry and youth art education, she is working toward a future where migrant and indigenous youth of color see themselves whole and heroic, on the big screen and the city walls & then grow up to create their own.
Mx. Je'Jae Cleopatra Daniels (Media Maker) an artist and designer behind the documentary Mx. Enigma explores the intersection of Je'Jae's Orthodox Jewish community and their gender identity, and how one suppresses the other.
Jeremy Hersh (Playwright/ Filmmaker) is a playwright and filmmaker based in New York. His most recent short film, NATIVES, screened at over 25 festivals worldwide including: SXSW, The New Orleans Film Festival, Outfest, BFI Flare, and The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian/SWAIA Showcase. Out Of Order magazine called it "the beginning of what will be a sterling career.”About Natives: Rachel and Anita, a young Manhattanite couple, are visiting Anita's parents on the Indian reservation she grew up on, for the first time as a couple. Anita, estranged from her parents, wants the fact that they are a couple to be kept secret. In private moments Rachel fights to convince Anita that they should come out to Anita's parents and in public tries to build a relationship of her own with Anita's parents, chiefly by demonstrating her reverence for Indian culture--a culture which Anita has no interest in. As Rachel's attempts to connect with the parents become more and more desperate, Anita begins to question whether her background is what attracted Rachel to her in the first place.
Daniel Armando (Filmmaker) is a writer and producer, known for Boys Like You (2011), Daddy's Boy (2016) and Love Me Anyway (2014). Will show one of the two movies;
What It Was- Hollywood Actress Adina J. Spencer faces her past and confronts her identity when she returns back to New York.
Billy Gerard Frank (Filmmaker) will show a clip of Absence of Love, an intimate and taut portrait of three lives: James and Michael, on the far side of a once passionate romance, and James and Samuel, estranged brothers, coming to terms with their father’s death. Absence of Love is an intimate and taut portrait of three lives: James and Michael, on the far side of a once passionate romance, and James and Samuel, estranged brothers, coming to terms with their father’s death, a former minister of a small Atlanta parish. Billy Gerard Frank refreshes the clichés of the coming-of-age film (and family drama) with a intense story of lost – and found – love.
Don’t miss this showcase of short films produced by emerging NY filmmakers that are by, for and about the LGBTQ community. And take advantage of the opportunity to network with the local film community.
Have a question? Call or email the BRIC FLIX team at BRICFLIX@BRICartsmedia.org or 718.683.5600.
THIS EVENT IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.
Venue Information:
The Stoop at BRIC House is a public cultural gathering space featuring free, drop-in programming, and offering a place to sit, observe, and participate in multi-disciplinary work.
Beginning Nov. 1, 2022, attendees of any BRIC House programming will no longer have to show proof of vaccination or a negative test to enter the building. Masks are encouraged but not required in all BRIC operated spaces. If you have questions regarding this protocol, please email Safety@bricartsmedia.org
