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Cup of Culture
Rocks
Director: Sarah Gavron
Film Screening/Online
Starring Bukky Barkray as Olushola, nicknamed “Rocks”, as a black british teenage girl in London whose troubled single mother abandons her and her younger brother Emmanuel, forcing them to fend for themselves and try to avoid being taken into care by authorities, with the help of loyal friend Sumaya and others. Gavron enlists a mainly female crew, including cinematographer Helene Louvart, editor Maya Maffoli and composer Emilie Leveinsaise Farrouch, and their empathy for the vulnerable characters lives the film. 2019. 1 h 33 m. No post film discussion.
Race and Religion
Saving White College Students: Korean Missionaries in America
MCC Lounge
This presentation introduces an unusual missionary encounter. It discusses the phenomena of missionaries from the global South evangelizing in the West through a case study of a Korean mission movement that has sought to evangelize Americans, particularly white American college students, across the United States since the 1970s. Why and how the Korean missionaries evangelized in the United States and how their mission efforts evolved over time will be discussed. Rebecca Y. Kim is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Ethnic Studies program at Pepperdine University.
Cup of Culture
See You Yesterday
Director: Stefon Bristol, Producer: Spike Lee
Film Screening/Online
TW // Police Brutality. Two Brooklyn teenage science prodigies, C.J. Walker and Sebastian Thomas, spend every spare minute working on their latest homemade invention: backpack makeshift time machines to save C.J.'s brother, Calvin, from being wrongfully killed by a police officer. From director Stefon Bristol and producer Spike Lee comes See You Yesterday, a sci-fi adventure grounded in familial love, cultural divides and the universal urge to change the wrongs of the past. 2019. 1 h 27 min
Cup of Culture
Seeds of All Things
a film by Yehuda Sharim
Film Screening/Online
Amid the backdrop of a contentious presidential election, a health clinic in Southwest Houston is run by and for immigrants and refugees. A family from Iran is bound by love as they build a new home in the city’s most diverse neighborhood. Post-film discussion with filmmaker, Yehuda Sharim, to follow. 1h 34m. 2018.
