MSP Film Presents Virtual Cinema!
Though our daily in-house cinema programming is temporarily suspended and the 2020 MSPIFF disrupted for now, we are busy looking for creative ways to bring film viewing opportunities to you, our amazing members and patrons!
We are partnering with independent distributor Monument Releasing to bring a brave new alternative online experience to film fans in our community for home viewing!
Your purchase will directly support MSP Film as we reassess, plan for the future, and uphold our commitment to bringing our community together through the very best in international independent cinema. Thank you. We do it for you and couldn't do it without you.
WATCH MOVIE
Details to watch PAHOKEE:
For $10*, the distributor Monument Releasing will make the movie viewable at the web link provided above. Please note, the initial price will display $18 and will discount to $10 once the process is completed. If the discount is not automatically applied, enter code mspfilm to receive the $10 price. Please find a Customer FAQ for PAHOKEE here.
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- Complete payment information and click Rent $10.00 to complete purchase.
- You will have access to the film for 3 days from the moment of your purchase.
*Please note this arrangement with Monument Releasing - in these especially unprecedented times - means we’re unable to offer member pricing.
About the Film
Watch Q&A with directors Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan: May 2!
May 2 at 7:00pm (CST)
In a small agricultural town in the Florida Everglades, hopes for the future are concentrated on the youth. Four teens face heartbreak and celebrate in the rituals of an extraordinary senior year.
Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan create a detailed and incredibly nuanced portrait of Pahokee, a small rural town located in the Florida Everglades. A community tightly knit together that struggles with financial insecurities and a bleak future. Through an extremely precise observational approach, the film manages to capture the daily life of the town with a great wealth of nuanced details. From sports events to school beauty contests, the filmmakers observe how, through social and collective rituals, the ideas of gender and identity are publicly displayed while creating new narratives. Moving past the crucial Wiseman lesson, which Lucas and Bresnan have fully absorbed, the film possesses the distinct feel of a Gil Scott Heron song, with its deep streak of rural blues tinged with urban echoes.
A complex and multi-layered work that recalls also both the gritty social realism of the new American cinema as well as the neorealist touch. Pahokee is a powerful portrait of a forgotten America absent from the current political discourse.
Press
"Lively and rousing as a generational snapshot, buoyed by the lovable, resilient kids at its heart." -Guy Lodge, Variety
"Compelling in its exploration of the stunning marvels of the seemingly mundane, Pahokee astonishes, one subtle dramatic turn after the other." - Christopher Reed, Hammer to Nail
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