[Socrates] Oscar-nominated film Yesterday - TOMORROW 4:45pm, Godwin-Ternbach museum

[Larissa Swedell]

Dear all,

Please see below for information on the next film in our film series.
Please forward to all interested parties and apologies for cross-posting.

All the best,

Larissa


*Yesterday (2003)*

*Directed by *Darrell James Roodt
*Produced by *Anant Singh
*Starring* Leleti Khumalo



*Thursday October 304:45 pmGodwin-Ternbach museum*

As part of the Representations of South Africa film series, tomorrow we
will be screening Darrell Roodt's film *Yesterday* (2003), the recipient of
numerous international film festival awards including an Academy Award
nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.  *Yesterday* tells the story of
a young Zulu mother who learns she is HIV positive and whose one wish is to
stay alive long enough to see her daughter go to school.

Read more about Yesterday here:  http://southafrica.qc.cuny.edu/yesterday/

Full film series schedule:
http://southafrica.qc.cuny.edu/representations-of-south-africa-film-series/

The *Representations of South Africa* film series, part of the core
programming for the Year of South Africa at Queens College, consists of six
critically acclaimed films focusing on the social and political challenges
and rewards of life in South Africa, historically and today.  Three of
these films – *Come Back, Africa*; *Last Grave at Dimbaza*; and *Mapantsula* –
were produced clandestinely in South Africa during apartheid and helped to
expose the inhumanity of this regime to the outside world.  Three
additional films – *Amandla!*, *Yesterday*, and *District 9* – were
collaborations between South African and foreign filmmakers that reached a
global audience and became internationally known for their portrayals of
South Africa during and after apartheid.  These six screenings, from Oct.
16 through Dec. 4, will be followed by a joint discussion and critique by
Professors Noah Tsika of Queens College and Paula Massood of Brookyn
College on Thursday, December 11 at 4:45pm at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum.


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Larissa Swedell, Ph.D.
Professor, Queens College, City University of New York
Doctoral Faculty in Anthropology and Biology, City University of New York
Core Faculty, New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology
Honorary Research Associate, University of Cape Town

http://larissaswedell.org/
http://qc-cuny.academia.edu/LarissaSwedell

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