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39 1/2
39 1/2 mixes drama laced with irony, documentary, and animation to follow a San Francisco Mission District experimental filmmaker named Kara (actor/writer Beth Lisick), approaching 40 and determined to have a kid.
Sun, Feb 9, 2020 1:15 PM Tue, Feb 11, 2020 7:00 PM
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Alice - (Closing Night Film)
Happily married Alice’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that her husband has bankrupted them by blowing all of their money on prostitutes and they are now a year behind on their mortgage. In a last-ditch bid to support herself and her child, Alice becomes a high-end escort, which challenges her perceptions of life and love. At times bitterly funny but always brutally honest, the film traces Alice’s journey to her own kind of freedom. Winner of the narrative feature Grand Jury Award at SXSW, newcomer Emilie Piponnier is a powerhouse in the title role.
Thu, Feb 13, 2020 7:00 PM
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American Psycho 20th Anniversary Party
When you're done returning your video tapes, join us for drinks, games, surprises and a whole hearted appreciation for Huey Lewis and the News.
In New York City in 1987, a handsome, young urban professional, Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), lives a second life as a gruesome serial killer by night. The cast is filled by the detective (Willem Dafoe), the fiance (Reese Witherspoon), the mistress (Samantha Mathis), the coworker (Jared Leto), and the secretary (Chloë Sevigny). This is a biting, wry comedy examining the elements that make a man a monster.
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Around the Sun
“Sort of a British, female-driven Before Sunrise crossed with an episode of Cosmos?” is how Bay Area based screenwriter Jonathan Kiefer once tried describing Around the Sun. As good as anything else, at least, which is to say that this sumptuous indie is really not like much of anything else but itself. A pleasure for lovers of talk, life and love.
Thu, Jan 30, 2020 9:15 PM Wed, Feb 5, 2020 7:00 PM
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Bad Art
In Bad Art, five art world archetypes show up to a female artist’s studio to buy a painting they’ve never seen (that may or may not exist) engaging in a hilarious debate about commerce, value, and identity.
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Bad Art Gallery S08E01
The best worst art carefully curated from the city's finest thrift stores and dumpsters then loving mocked with sincere-ish art catalog notes. 21up
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Big Fur
A world champion taxidermist undertakes the biggest challenge of his career in this funny portrait of an eccentric artist-hero. He decides to build a life-size Bigfoot, based on frames from an iconic 1967 movie. His motivation is not to take home the grand prize, but instead the hope it will prompt the discovery of the real Bigfoot.
Sat, Feb 1, 2020 5:00 PM Tue, Feb 4, 2020 7:00 PM
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The Big Lebowski Shadow Cast
Bawdy Caste, San Francsco's premiere Rocky Horror Picture Show troupe, give the Coen Brothers' cult classic slacker-noir the Live-On-Stage Shadow Cast Treatment.
Fri, Jan 31, 2020 9:00 PM
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Blood Machines
Two space mercenaries stalk a machine straining to free itself, and stumble upon a true ghost in the machine. Seth Ickerman continues his relationship with synth wizard Carpenter Brut that began with 2016 music video Turbo Killer and has blossomed into a fully-realized SciFi mini-epic.
Fri, Jan 31, 2020 9:30 PM Thu, Feb 13, 2020 9:15 PM
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Cat Sticks
On a rain-soaked night in India, the aimless lives of several young people crystallize into a sympathetic portrait of addiction. The city’s nearly empty streets create a stage for the petty crime, meandering conversations, and surreal encounters that accompany each of the characters’ search for the unsustainable high of “brown sugar." The result is visual poetry.
Sat, Feb 8, 2020 9:30 PM Wed, Feb 12, 2020 9:15 PM
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Come As You Are - (Roxie Opening Night Film)
Inspired by a true story - three young men with disabilities flee their overbearing parents for a road trip to a brothel that caters to people with special needs, in order to lose their virginity and embrace their independence. Gabourey Sidibe stars as their nurse driver, Janeane Garofalo and C.S. Lee also star as concerned parents hot on their trail. Come As You Are is a dark comedy meant to put a human touch on everyone’s longing for connection. With signature snappy dialogue and straight-faced humor, Bay Area filmmaker Richard Wong adds another hit to a buzz-worthy resume that already includes the cult hit Colma, The Musical.
Thu, Jan 30, 2020 7:00 PM
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Don't Give A Fox
In the outskirts of Copenhagen, the girls in the skate crew called Don’t Give A Fox are skating their way through life. Don’t Give A Fox is a coming-of-age story about unique friendship in a skateboarding crew and explores the struggles of being young and vulnerable.
Fri, Jan 31, 2020 5:00 PM Sun, Feb 2, 2020 5:00 PM
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Effigy - Poison and the City
Set in 1820s Germany, this proto-feminist procedural based on trial records dramatizes the case of notorious female serial killer Gesche Gottfried and adds an investigator punching above her weight to solve the murders. The remarkable period detail extends to forensic procedures used at the time. A must for true crimers.
Fri, Jan 31, 2020 7:15 PM Tue, Feb 4, 2020 9:15 PM
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Entangled
When four university students experiment with Quantum Physics, they open a doorway to a parallel existence, and the first ones through may just be themselves. Featuring great performances from deaf actors Marlee Matlin and Sandra Mae Frank, Gaurav Seth’s film blends a heady concept with down-to-earth emotional characters.
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The First Angry Man
If you ever wondered how the great public ambitions of postwar America collapsed into Reagan era parsimony and the permanent tax revolt, look no farther than Howard Jarvis, whose 1978 ballot initiative, Proposition 13, changed everything in California and beyond. The First Angry Man unpacks the dramatic campaign, its quirky characters and its enduring consequences. Co-presented with Urban Film Festival
Sun, Feb 2, 2020 12:30 PM
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Frances Ferguson
Nick Offerman's narration adds savor to this bone-dry comedy about a snarky Nebraska substitute teacher whose crushing discontent drives her to an ill-advised transgression followed by downward spiral: arrest, trial, jail time, divorce, probation, court-ordered group therapy, community service, and her unwelcome celebrity—all mined for comic possibilities.
Fri, Jan 31, 2020 9:30 PM Tue, Feb 4, 2020 9:15 PM
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Go/Don't Go
After a global cataclysm, Adam is alone, the sole inhabitant of a vacant, unchanging world. As his mental state starts to deteriorate, things become more uncanny and he is plagued by lingering questions and uncertain realities about his seemingly empty world. His grip on what’s left starts to slip away, sending him spiraling towards a deadly revelation.
Sat, Feb 1, 2020 7:15 PM Thu, Feb 6, 2020 9:15 PM
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The Great Rock N Roll Swindle
Called "a parable of our times" in 1980, but most music fans simply consider it one of the best rock films ever. This bizarre and hilarious mockumentary charts the rise and fall of punk’s most notorious band, the Sex Pistols, through the eyes of its calculating manager. Presented in rare 35mm.
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The Honeymoon Phase
Tom and Eve lie about being married so they can enter “The Millennium Project,” a relationship study with a $50,000 payout. Secluded in a smart home, Eve stares into the black mirror of the behavior of her not-husband and wonders how well she ever really knew him in the first place.
Sun, Feb 2, 2020 7:15 PM Mon, Feb 3, 2020 9:15 PM
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Ibiza: The Silent Movie
A mad social, economic, political, and cultural People’s History of Ibiza. With non-stop music mixed by some of the world's top DJs, this imaginative collaboration between Julien Temple and Fatboy Slim sends the audience on the ultimate, emotionally exhilarating and groundbreaking time-travel ride through the psyche of this magical island in the Mediterranean.
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I'll Be Around
The overarching plot (or lack thereof) takes place over the course of one day, before and during a music festival. The story focuses on no particular protagonist but an influx of interconnected characters (musicians, wanderers, fanatics) from all walks of life having discussions about music, romance, and facing artistic and existential dilemmas. Think Nashville meets Slacker.
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Inside The Rain
Facing expulsion from college over a misunderstanding, a bipolar student indulges his misery at a strip club where he befriends a gorgeous, intelligent, outrageous woman and they hatch a madcap scheme to prove his innocence.
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It's Always Autumn (Siempre es otoño)
This talky meditation on lost love unfolds in black and white as if to defy its protagonists’ youth; they split as teens, but is there still a flame seven years later? Sure-footed in its simple rendering of not-so-simple conversation, this stripped-down Spanish mumblecore plays more like Linklater’s Before Sunset or early Rohmer.
Sat, Feb 8, 2020 5:00 PM Thu, Feb 13, 2020 7:00 PM
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James vs His Future Self
James pushes forward in his relentless pursuit to become the world's first time traveler, until his nihilistic future-self shows up to stop him. Knowing the disappointment his own determination brings, foul-mouthed Jimmy does whatever it takes to turn his younger self away from science and to the cute scientist next to him.
Fri, Feb 7, 2020 7:15 PM Mon, Feb 10, 2020 9:15 PM
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Jesus Shows You The Way To the Highway
Special Agent DT Gagano dreams of leaving the CIA to open a pizzeria, but a global crises keep getting in the way! Tasked with the mission of destroying a computer virus called "Soviet Union," he enters the system using VR but the mission turns into a trap. It all winds up being an extraordinary dystopian sci-fi satire and homage to Afrofuturism.
Sun, Feb 9, 2020 9:00 PM Tue, Feb 11, 2020 9:15 PM
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Lake Michigan Monster
It’s man vs. sea monster in this Monty Python meets Lovecraft revenge tale. Drunk and slightly deranged Captain Seafield puts together a Great Lakes A-Team to hunt down the mythical beast that killed his father. Director Tews pushes the limits of low budget VFX and production design with great creativity.
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Lost Bayou
In this hauntingly evocative Southern gothic, a struggling addict returns home to the bayou to reconnect with her faith healer father, only to discover he’s hiding a troubling secret aboard his houseboat. Eerie, evocative and beautifully acted, Lost Bayou is a hauntingly evocative slice of Louisiana life.
Sat, Feb 1, 2020 2:45 PM Mon, Feb 3, 2020 7:00 PM
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Lucky Grandma
Here we have an Asian-American heist film that would make the Coen Brothers envious. It features an octogenarian Chinese woman and combines high-stakes black comedy with poignant family drama while set in Manhattan’s dingy Chinatown underworld. A movie like this only comes around once in a lifetime.
Fri, Feb 7, 2020 7:15 PM Thu, Feb 13, 2020 9:15 PM
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Mellow
A florist, a salon, a ramen shop--these are the eerily sedate settings for a tidy parable about young people navigating years of repressed desire, poignant miscommunications, and evolving sexual identities in urban Japan. By turns cathartic and hilarious, it’s wince-inducing to watch these characters give themselves permission to feel.
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Mother's Little Helpers
Four siblings are brought together when their former ’70s flower-power mother learns she has weeks to live... but it’s not exactly a lovefest. The film follows her estranged children as they try to do the right thing by a mother who always did them wrong.
Sat, Feb 8, 2020 5:00 PM Mon, Feb 10, 2020 7:00 PM
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Narrowsburg
A stranger-than-fiction story of a French film producer and her mafioso-turned-actor husband who attempt to turn a tiny town into the "Sundance of the East." Persuading the townspeople that they can be movie stars, the pair create a fever pitch of excitement, launching a film festival and shooting a gangster movie. A meditation on the fine line between dreams and delusions.
Fri, Feb 7, 2020 5:00 PM Sat, Feb 8, 2020 2:45 PM
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Pacarrete
If Pedro Almodovar got his hands on it’s-the-pictures-that-got-smaller Gloria Swanson and mixed in some of the screen-shattering work of Susan Tyrrell in the 70s, he’d land near the titular performance in Pacarrete, a radiant ode to the all-consuming power of dance, with a side of prickly class aspiration.
Fri, Feb 7, 2020 5:00 PM Sun, Feb 9, 2020 11:00 AM
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Pariah - (Centerpiece Film)
In this riveting dystopian drama, an outsider finds himself on the fringes of an idyllic village, a seemingly thriving civilization. He ventures into the village for sustenance but is greeted with severe animosity from the inhabitants. Fueled by suspicion, the village despot resorts to weaving a web of paranoia and brands the outsider's presence as an “attack on our society and culture.” Pariah raises searing questions on the coexistence of humanity and the inane belief systems of a society. The debut feature by Writer-Director Riddhi Majumder is an ardent attempt to recreate a society where religious and political convictions tragically turn to mass hysteria. -JR
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Permanent Collection
The ill-defined boundaries of modern relationships come home to roost in this bitterly dark comedy about a graying Brooklyn hipster torn between two women. When his estranged wife shows up for a surprise visit, she inadvertently...complicates things for the rudderless, wise-cracking loser who’s trying to be a protagonist.
Sat, Feb 1, 2020 5:00 PM Thu, Feb 6, 2020 7:00 PM
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Pigeon Kings
A cluster of pigeons somersault through the air like synchronized swimmers in the sky. Welcome to South Central’s curious subculture of competitive pigeon flying, in which a tight-knit community of Black and Latino trainers gather to prove that their flocks of Roller Pigeons have the skills to compete for the World Cup.
Fri, Jan 31, 2020 5:00 PM Sat, Feb 1, 2020 12:30 PM
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The Planters
Quirky small-town hijinks are complemented by stop-motion fantasy sequences in this deadpan comedy about an unlikely friendship between two twentysomething women, one a shut-in telemarketer and the other suffering from multiple personality disorder. Lynchian but gentler. The writer/director/stars have been bathed with awards on the festival circuit.
Sun, Feb 2, 2020 2:45 PM Wed, Feb 5, 2020 9:15 PM
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Porno
After closing down the local cinema for the night, the teen staff and their straight edge early thirties projectionist discover a boarded-up wing and the theater’s shady past as dirty picture house. When they try to sample a dusty film print, they accidentally release a sex demon and doorway to another dimension.
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Queen of Lapa
A proud trangender sex worker since the age of eleven, Luana Muniz, now fifty-nine, shapes a new reality in her “hostel” by housing a new generation of trans sex workers in Rio de Janeiro. Queen of Lapa explores their lives, rivalries, and quests for love as Muniz guides them in a city that’s a dangerous home for its LGBTQ community.
Sat, Feb 8, 2020 12:30 PM Wed, Feb 12, 2020 7:00 PM
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Screenplay Reception/Event/Panel
Panel discussion with working writers plus a live read of this year's competition winners
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Shoot The Moon Right Between The Eyes
Directly inspired by the work of James Joyce and John Prine, this shambling Texas musical follows two genial silver foxes as they con women out of ...well, not fortunes exactly. But when one of the boys falls for a mark, it might be the end of the honky-tonk road.
Fri, Feb 7, 2020 9:30 PM Wed, Feb 12, 2020 9:15 PM
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SHORTS 1: You Dropped A Bomb on Me
These short films feature strong plots that begin when life throws our heroes a curveball
Sat, Feb 1, 2020 12:30 PM Mon, Feb 3, 2020 7:00 PM
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SHORTS 2: True Colors
Despite being one of the oldest forms of the moving image, there is no shortage of innovation when it comes to animation. This program features the best of new animation from around the world.
Sat, Feb 1, 2020 2:45 PM Tue, Feb 4, 2020 7:00 PM
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SHORTS 3: Gangster of Love
These mini-movies present human emotions in intriguing setups and stylish packages. A director's showcase.
Sun, Feb 2, 2020 12:30 PM Wed, Feb 5, 2020 7:00 PM
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SHORTS 4: Safety Dance
Life is messy in the best way in these heartwarming shorts that focus on characters. An actors' showcase.
Sat, Feb 8, 2020 12:30 PM Mon, Feb 10, 2020 7:00 PM
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SHORTS 5: Give Me One Reason
Short docs with important questions, like, How do I come out as an Asian? Where's my pay equality? How do microwaves even work?
Sun, Feb 9, 2020 11:00 AM Tue, Feb 11, 2020 7:00 PM
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SHORTS 6: Super Freak
Wonderfully WTF shorts about mime sex, moms on drugs, meta mushroom murder, and mermaids ...and those are just the "M"s.
Sat, Feb 8, 2020 2:45 PM Wed, Feb 12, 2020 7:00 PM
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The Special
Ever since SNL’s Dick-in-the-box sketch, mankind has searched for boxes to put their dick in. When Jerry suspects his wife of infidelity, his buddy tells him that the best revenge is revenge, and brings him to a bordello where he is told to request "The Special."
Fri, Jan 31, 2020 7:15 PM Mon, Feb 3, 2020 9:15 PM
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Super Bowl LIV: Men In Tights
Some of SF's best local comedians live on stage for the funniest non-footballest presentation of the Big Game you'll find anywhere.
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Swing Low
A nature photographer stumbles upon a murder deep in meth country, but when she tries to report it, she soon finds herself the target of a backwoods crime family. Relentlessly brutal, Teddy Grennan’s debut twists old grave-spitting exploitation expectations and delivers a fully realized heroine less "final girl" and more feminist grit.
Sun, Feb 9, 2020 4:00 PM Mon, Feb 10, 2020 9:15 PM
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Things I Do For Money
Japanese-Canadian brothers Eli and Nick (“versaCello” duo Theodor and Maximilian Aoki – who also composed the score) have an audition with the Banff Conservatory but instead find themselves wrapped up with a crime syndicate. Now they play their complex duet with their lives hanging in the balance.
Sat, Feb 1, 2020 7:15 PM Thu, Feb 6, 2020 9:15 PM
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The Tony Alva Story
62-year-old Alva is considered to be the godfather of modern day skateboarding. His brand of bravado in the 1970s set the stage for the way skateboarding would be defined. The film is a rollercoaster ride from his ascent to superstardom to drug-induced implosion to his ultimate rise from the ashes.
Fri, Jan 31, 2020 7:00 PM
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Up The Awards Benefit Bash!
Which just-barely-interesting movie will be crowned Prom Queen this year? Come on over to the Roxie for their annual celebration, where the Little Guy strikes back by yelling stuff at the big screen.
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Vise (Manriki)
This inventively violent Japanese satire about (literally) crushing beauty standards evokes the work of Sono, Miike, and Cronenberg. A woman who wants a smaller face goes to a controversial surgeon who uses a vise to make it happen. They date. Then the surgeon goes on the run. Buckle up.
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The Wave
An insurance policy evaluator (Justin Long) on the verge of a promotion is given an unknown hallucinogenic substance by a mysterious man (Tommy Flanagan) that takes him on a time-bending discovery that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is.
Sat, Feb 1, 2020 9:30 PM Wed, Feb 5, 2020 9:15 PM
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Wild Boar
A group of Geocachers in search of a billionaire’s bounty stumble upon a community of mutant boar-men bitter with mankind since their nuclear testing-induced conception. The debut feature from Burman, an Oscar-winning makeup designer (2009's Star Trek) who counts Grimm, TV’s Teen Wolf, and Tom Cruise’s Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder among his creations.
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The Wild Goose Lake
In any film noir, there is The Moment It All Goes Wrong. But it's unlikely you'll see that moment, or any of the genre’s other staple plot points, staged and executed with quite the slick, dark dazzle of Diao Yinan’s gangster drama The Wild Goose Lake.
Sun, Feb 2, 2020 9:30 PM Tue, Feb 11, 2020 9:15 PM
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Woman in Motion - (Festival Opening Night Film)
To most of the known universe, Nichelle Nichols is Lt. Uhura, the communications officer for the Starship Enterprise. On Star Trek she broke barriers as one of the first African Americans to star on TV. Offscreen, she was also a civil rights advocate working with Martin Luther King Jr. and later challenging NASA by asking them, "Where are my people?" and embarking on a national blitz to recruit 8,000 of the nation’s best and brightest, including the trailblazing astronauts who became the first African American, Asian and Latino men and women to fly in space. Woman in Motion is Hidden Figures in documentary form, telling the story of a woman who has dedicated her entire life to boldly going where no man or woman has gone before.
Wed, Jan 29, 2020 8:00 PM
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