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Daily Stream: Wex virtual screenings as of August 21

Melissa Starker, Creative Content & PR Manager

Aug 21, 2020

A group of six Iranian women sitting in a prison dormitory in the documentary Sunless Shadows

Here's what's happening in our virtual screening rooms this week. Don't forget: your purchase of a ticket to watch something from our indie distribution partners helps support what we do.

If you're up for an in-person visit to the Wex, it's the last weekend to see our extended winter exhibitions. And looking ahead to next weekend, we're excited to partner once again with the Columbus Black International Film Festival. Details are here.

Premiering today: Sunless Shadows

A group of incarcerated women in Iran gather around one wearing a paper crown over her hijab, who's about to blow out candles on a birthday cake

Images above and at top of page courtesy of Cinema Guild

"It quietly but pointedly interrogates the notion of victimhood, while tacitly letting a damning essay on Iranian gender politics and hierarchies emerge through the words of his subjects."—Variety

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Holding: Change of Life

Change of Life movie

Image courtesy of Grasshopper Films

"Change Of Life pulsates just as vibrantly today in a world that’s undergoing a change in how we contemplate the human cost of modern life under capitalism."—The Playlist

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Holding: Represent

Scene from the documentary Represent

Image courtesy of Music Box Films

"First-time feature director Hillary Bachelder’s debut speaks directly to that 2020 perspective... Each of the film’s three narratives reminds us the patriarchy never yields its political power willingly."—Chicago Tribune

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Holding: River City Drumbeat

Scene from the documentary River City Drumbeat

Image courtesy of the producers

"The larger message of River City Drumbeat isn't just about how important White has been to his community. It's about how important community is. That may sound trite, but having this focal point is everything."—Austin Chronicle

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Now streaming—Samantha N. Sheppard: On Sporting Blackness, in conversation with Hanif Abdurraqib and Dave Filipi

Image from Zoom chat between Film/Video Director David Filipi and authors Hanif Aburraqib and Samantha N. Sheppard

Clockwise: David Filipi, Hanif Abdurraqib, and Samantha N. Sheppard

Cinema and media scholar Sheppard (Cornell University) discusses her new book, Sporting Blackness—an analysis of race and representation in sports films and what it means to perform Blackness on screen.

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