"GUN HILL ROAD" Hosted at the QUEENS MUSEUM of ART
Directed by Rashaad Ernesto Green
CINEMAROSA, the monthly Queer film screening series is pleased to present acclaimed feature film “Gun Hill Road” directed by local filmmaker Rashaad Ernesto Green. Continuing with its Spring 2013 Season Series, and reaching its ninth year of monthly Queer film screenings, CINEMAROSA has the privilege to bring this award winning film to diverse LGBT audiences of Queens and New York City at large. “Gun Hill Road” tells the story of a family in transition, portrays the life of a young man exploring his sexuality in an intolerant and judgmental world, and treats the impact of the protagonist’s exploration's on his relationship with his parents and himself.
GUN HILL ROAD
Dir. Dir. Rashaad Ernesto Green
USA, 2011, 88 min.
A powerful and moving family drama told with authenticity and honesty. After three years in prison, macho Enrique (Esai Morales) returns home to the Bronx and finds things changed. His wife, Angela (Judy Reyes), is distant, and his teenage son, Michael, has come out as Vanessa, a transgender woman. Unable to accept his child for who she is now, Enrique clings to his masculine ideals while Angela attempts to hold the family together by fiercely protecting Vanessa. Still under the watchful eye of his parole officer, Enrique must become the father he needs to be or once again risk losing his family and freedom. The heart of GUN HILL ROAD lies in two places: the richly drawn character of Michael/Vanessa (newcomer Harmony Santana is unforgettable) and a father’s inability to escape the vicious cycle of his life. Writer/director. Rashaad Ernesto Green’s first feature film is told with gentle humor, sensitivity and a deep understanding of the environment that defines its inhabitants.
After the screening, join us for a Q&A session with attending audience, local LGBT groups, and Hector Canonge, director of CINEMAROSA. Light refreshments will be served.
CINEMAROSA is a monthly, independent, film program created in 2004 by artist, Hector Canonge. CINEMAROSA’s mission is to promote, and present Queer independent films and videos by local, national, and international filmmakers. The monthly program encourages discussion forums among guests and participant filmmakers in order to create a cultural cinematic hub around LGBT issues and concerns. CINEMAROSA has been recognized as the leading independent LGBT film program in NYC featuring works that best reflect the diverse experiences and lives of LGBT peoples around the world. CINEMAROSA has co-produced events such as Queerin’ Queens, Rosalicious, Gayleria, E V A (School for Alternative Filmmaking) in Corona, Queens, and the monthly literary reading inQbator at Word Up: Community Bookstore in Washington Heights, Manhattan. In 2010, CINEMAROSA received a Proclamation by the City of New York, through the office of Jackson Heights Councilman Daniel Dromm. CINEMAROSA will celebrate its 9th ANNIVERSARY in 2013.
Suggested Admission Donation: $ 5.00
RSVP is highly recommended: info@cinemarosa.org
Directions to QMA: #7 Flushing Trains from 42 Street or E, F, V, R Trains to 74th Street & Roosevelt Avenue, change for #7 Train (Flushing Bound). Exit at Willest Point/Citi Fields Stadium, walk in the direction of the park. Museum is located in front of the metal globe, the Unisphere.
CINEMAROSA is an independent program of QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development, and is supported, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the decentralization program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Queens Council on the Arts, , discretionary funds from NYC Council Member Daniel Dromm, and by independent donors.