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Rooftop Films: New Muslim Cool (Event Over)
- When:Sat 6/20 (8PM)
- Where: El Museo del Barrio
- Address: 1230 Fifth Ave. New York, NY Map
- Cost: $9
Tickets for this Event
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General Admission - $9.00
No refunds. In the event of rain, show will go on indoors at the same location. Seating is first come, first served. Physical seats are limited. This means you may not get a chair. You are welcome to bring a blanket and picnic.
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Rooftop friend ($9 General Admission ticket + $6 donation) - $15.00
Did you know that Rooftop Films is a non-profit organization? Consider making this additional $6 donation with the purchase of your General Admission ticket, and help sustain Rooftop Films during these difficult times. Additional donation is not tax deductible.
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Rooftop patron ($9 General Admission ticket + $16 donation) - $25.00
Did you know that Rooftop Films is a non-profit organization? Consider making this additional $16 donation with the purchase of your General Admission ticket, and help sustain Rooftop Films during these difficult times. Additional donation is not tax deductible.
SATURDAY, JUNE 20
NEW MUSLIM COOL
A Puerto Rican Muslim rapper fights oppression in Pittsburgh
FREE OPEN BAR after the films
Venue: On the roof of El Museo Del Barrio
Address: 1230 Fifth Ave. @ 104th St. (East Harlem)
Directions: 6 to 103rd St. or 2/3 to 110th St.
Rain: In the event of rain, show will be indoors at the same location
8:00PM: Doors open
8:30PM: Sound Fix presents live music
9:00PM: Film
11:00PM-12:30AM: After-party on the roof: Open bar courtesy of Radeberger Pilsner
Tickets: $9-$25 at door or online
Presents in partnership with
Remezcla,
POV, Cinereach, New York magazine, El Museo Del Barrio, the New York
City Council Manhattan Delegation & City Council Member Melissa
Mark Viverito
No refunds. In the event of rain, the show will be indoors at
the same locations.
Seating is first come, first served. Physical seats are limited.
This means you may not get a chair. You are welcome to bring a
blanket and picnic.
MAP |
SOUND FIX
New Muslim Cool (Jennifer Maytorena Taylor | Pittsburgh/San
Francisco | 1:22:00)
Puerto Rican American rapper Hamza Pérez ended his life as a
drug dealer 12 years ago, and started down a new path as a young
Muslim. Now he’s moved to Pittsburgh’s tough North Side
to start a new religious community, rebuild his shattered family,
and take his message of faith to other young people through his
uncompromising music as part of the hip-hop duo M-Team. But when
the FBI raids his mosque, Hamza must confront the realities of the
post-9/11 world.
Whatever his troubles in years past, Hamza now displays an ethereal
calm in the face of conflict, and his sense of peace lends New
Muslim Cool an atmosphere uncommon in contemporary urban
documentaries. Investigated and arrested by the FBI, falsely
portrayed in the media as a terrorist, barred from his work with
prison inmates, raising his two kids as a single dad, Hamza has
ample reason to grow frustrated or to lash out at the world. But
his trust in his faith has transformed him into a strong and
patient individual, able to lead by example on the North Side and
guide his family and friends to better, more spiritual, more
peaceful and more productive lives.
Jennifer Maytorena Taylor’s New Muslim Cool takes viewers on
Hamza’s ride through the streets, projects and jail cells of
urban America, and inside the lives of a new generation of Latino
and African American Muslims who have followed the example of
Malcolm X and other converts to Islam and set out jointly on a
mission to reach out to the disenfranchised neighborhoods in
America’s inner-cities. Hamza and his community hope to reach
out to the most troubled members of their adopted city, welcoming
the drug dealers into conversation and working as spiritual
counselors in local prisons. Sharing their hip hop music and
bringing their life experiences to the table, Hamza and his crew
are able to speak to the people about their frustrations and
problems in a voice that is easy for them to relate to, allowing
them to open up and consider realistic alternatives to the
lifestyles that have landed them on the streets or in jail.
Following Hamza’s spiritual journey takes us to some
surprising places as we are reminded that spirituality and
religious communities can still play a central role in the
rejuvenation of America’s inner cities.
“As inherently complex as it is strikingly American.”
--Robert Avila, San Francisco International Film Festival
New Muslim Cool will premiere on PBS on
POV on June 23. Check local listings.
Why did this happen? What does it all mean?
These films—comedies, dramas, animations, visual
experimentations and mental games—highlight some of the wild,
weird and wonderful ways that cinema can alter your world. There
are times when freaking out is better than calming down. Times when
the madness of the world is best met by individual psychosis. Times
when the machine’s got you trapped, and you’re either
the madman running it or the wrench inside of it, because
someone’s getting sent back in time, shrunk down to snail
size, and suckered into an endless pit of pixels, and hell, it
might as well be you. Beats striking out on an alien date with a
spaceship full of dreary Canadians.
Rooftop Films is a non-profit organization whose mission is to
engage and inspire the diverse communities of New York City by
showcasing the work of emerging filmmakers and musicians. In
addition to our Summer Series – which takes place in unique
outdoor venues every weekend throughout the summer – Rooftop
provides grants to filmmakers, teaches media literacy and
filmmaking to young people, rents low-cost equipment to artists and
non-profits, and produces new independent films. At Rooftop Films,
we bring the underground outdoors. For more information and updates
please visit our website at
www.rooftopfilms.com.
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