John Mullaly Park
Jerome Ave & McClellan St
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Bronx Princess
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Tuesday Sep 1, 2009 (7pm)
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Rooftop Films goes all-out for its inaugural Bronx screening. The beautifully observed documentaries on queue for tonight are short in length, but global in scope. Yoni Brook's on-the-road bildungsroman, Bronx Princess, tracks 17-year-old Rocky as she leaves metropolis and mother to return to her roots and father in Ghana. Nora, on the other hand, pairs performance and dance to capture the many trials and triumphs of Zimbabwe-born dancer Nora Chipaumire, her odyssey accompanied by the famed Chimurenga music of Thomas Mapfumo. Preceding these transatlantic journeys is Blitz the Ambassador, an Afro-hop rapper who spent his early years in Accra City, Ghana.
