Film

Our Song

Tue, Jul 23, 2013

LOCATION:

Peter Jay Sharp Building

BAM Rose Cinemas

RUN TIME: 96 minutes

RATED: R

FORMAT: 35mm

GENERAL ADMISSION: $13

MEMBERS: $8

STUDENTS/SENIORS: $9 (Students 29 and under with a valid ID, Mon—Thu)

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Tuesday July 23, 2013

Performances no longer available.

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Part of BAMcinématek 2013 series Brooklyn Close-Up

Directed by Jim McKay | 2000

With Melissa Martinez, Anna Simpson, Kerry Washington, Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching B, Marlene Forte

“An astonishing movie, with a real-life feel."

—The Washington Post

During a sweltering summer in Crown Heights, best friends Lanisha (Washington), Maria (Martinez), and Joycelyn (Simpson) navigate a host of teenage anxieties—the closing of their high school, unplanned pregnancy, and tumultuous family lives—all between rehearsals with the legendary Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band (which pops up to punctuate the movie with rousing performances). This refreshingly raw, unsentimental portrait of female adolescence was shot on location in Crown Heights and captures the sights and sounds of a Brooklyn summer with near-documentary realism.

Talks

Q&A

with Jim McKay, Hannah Weyer, and Anna Simpson

Screening will be followed by a Q&A with writer-director Jim McKay, actress Anna Simpson, and Hannah Weyer, author of the new novel On the Come Up. There will be a book signing with Weyer after the Q&A.