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Alma's Rainbow / a Milestone Film and Kino Lorber release ; produced by Ayoka Chenzira, Howard M. Brickner, Charles Lane ; written and directed by Ayoka Chenzira.
LIBRA BLU RAY PN1997 .A5638 2022 disc 1-2
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Milestone cinematheque
- The Milestone cinematheque
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenage girls--Drama.
- Teenage girls.
- Single mothers--Drama.
- Single mothers.
- Mothers and daughters--Drama.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Sisters--Drama.
- Sisters.
- African American women--Drama.
- African American women.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Drama.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).
- New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn.
- Genre:
- Comedy films.
- Coming-of-age films.
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- color
- Edition:
- 2-disc special edition.
- Distribution:
- New York, NY : Kino Lorber, [2022]
- Place of Publication:
- [Harrington Park, NJ} : Milestone Film & Video, [2022]
- Language Note:
- English dialogue; optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- Blu-ray disc, Regions A, B, C; widescreen (1.85:1, 1920 x 1080p) presentation; dts 5.1 surround; dts 2.0 stereo; requires a Blu-ray player.
- digital
- optical
- surround stereo
- DTS 5.1 2.0
- video file
- Blu-ray
- all regions
- Summary:
- A coming-of-age comedy-drama about three Black women living in Brooklyn. Ayoka Chenzira's feature film explores the life of teenager Rainbow Gold who is entering womanhood and navigating conversations and experiences around standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights women have over their bodies. Rainbow attends a strict parochial school, studies dance, and is just becoming aware of boys. She lives with her strait-laced mother Alma Gold, who runs a beauty parlor in the parlor of their home. When Alma's free-spirited sister Ruby arrives from Paris after a 10-year absence, the sisters clash over what constitutes the "proper" direction Rainbow's life should take. Alma has fooled herself into believing she has no need of male companionship and advises her daughter to follow her example. Ruby encourages both her niece and her sister to embrace life, and love, fully and joyfully. Alma's Rainbow highlights a multi-layered Black women's world where the characters live, love, and wrestle with what it means to exert and exercise their agency.
- Contents:
- Disc one: Alma's Rainbow
- disc two: short films by Ayoka Chenzira.
- Disc 1. Alma's rainbow.
- disc 2. Short films by Ayoka Chenzira: Syvilla: they dance to her drum
- Hairpiece: a film for nappy headed people
- The lure and the lore
- Zajota and the boogie spirit
- Pull your head to the moon: stories of Creole women
- Williamswood
- MOTV (My own TV)
- Snowfire
- In the rivers of mercy angst
- HERadventure.
- Participant:
- Kim Weston-Moran, Victoria Gabrielle Platt, Mizan Nunes, Lee Dobson, Jennifer Copeland.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Ronald K. Gray ; editor, Lillian Benson ; costume designer, Sydney Kai Inis ; choreographer, Thomas Osha Pinnock ; original music score, Jean-Paul Bourelly.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1994.
- Wide screen (1.85:1).
- Special features, Disc one: panel discussion after world premiere of 4K restoration at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Ayoka Chenzira on Alma's Rainbow (oral history recorded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences); Peggy Dillard Toone on Alma's Rainbow..
- For private home use only.
- Contains:
- Container of: Syvilla (Motion picture)
- Container of: Hairpiece (Motion picture)
- Container of: Lure and the lore (Motion picture)
- Container of: Zajota and the boogie spirit (Motion picture)
- Container of: Pull your head to the moon (Motion picture)
- Container of: Williamswood (Motion picture)
- Container of: MOTV (Motion picture)
- Container of: Snowfire (Motion picture)
- Container of: In the rivers of mercy angst (Motion picture)
- Container of: HERadventure (Motion picture)
- ISBN:
- 9786318877053
- 6318877053
- OCLC:
- 1355541843
- Publisher Number:
- 738329260453
- 00738329260453 gtin-14
- K26045 Kino Lorber
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