Chocolate Babies - Screening and Benefit

636 North Broad Street,New Orleans LA 70119

19 April, 2022

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Chocolate Babies Benefit film screening Featuring Q&A with Director Stephen Winter! Tickets benefit Transcending Women & Real Name Campaign FEATURING A Q&A WITH DIRECTOR STEPHEN WINTER. Benefitting TRANSCENDING WOMEN & REAL NAME CAMPAIGN NEW ORLEANS. Suggested Ticket Price: $10. No one turned away for lack of funds. If you can, please consider donating more to support these organizations and their work! ABOUT CHOCOLATE BABIES A fierce group of genderqueer, HIV-positive, activists of color fight back against homophobic conservative politicians on the streets of New York in Stephen Winter’s wild guerrilla satire. Calling out government apathy to the AIDS crisis—particularly as it affected communities of color—Chocolate Babies blends exuberant camp and searing political anger into a radical statement of Black queer power. In 2021, this film was added to the Criterion Collection, which wrote that the film “celebrates Black queer culture and fiercely threatens cinematic and societal conventions.” ABOUT STEPHEN WINTER Stephen Winter is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and artist. He wrote, produced and directed his debut feature film Chocolate Babies, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won Honorable Mention and Audience awards at San Francisco Frameline, SXSW, Urbanworld and OutFest. Stephen’s second feature film is Jason and Shirley (2015) co-written and co-starred artist Jack Waters and playwright and journalist Sarah Schulman. Richard Brody in The New Yorker called it “one of the year’s finest” films. As producer, Stephen’s first film was Jonathan Caouette’s landmark “narci-cinema” feature documentary Tarnation. He has worked creatively with Lee Daniels (Precious, Paperboy, The Butler), John Cameron Mitchell (Shortbus), John Krokidas (Kill Your Darlings), David France (How To Survive A Plague) and Xan Cassavetes (Kiss of the Damned). In the podcast space, Stephen is directing the science fiction drama The Space Within for Topic Studios, starring and Executive Produced by Jessica Chastain with Bobby Cannavale, Michael Stahlberg, Sturgill Simpson and Jessica Wu. In 2018, with Tristan Cowen, Stephen co-wrote and directed the pioneering fiction podcast series Adventures in New America, an afro-futuristic political satire for the Night Vale Network, “The Best New Social Thriller is a Podcast,” said the New York Times, which compared the show to the work of Boots Riley and Jordan Peele. TRANSCENDING WOMEN supports and empowers all women-transgender, gender non-conforming, LGBQ, and cis-women with tools and community to become agents of change inside and outside of systems that have traditionally disempowered them. Our goal is to create a more just society that embraces and protects all women instead of criminalizing them. We envision a city, state, and country where all women can live their lives authentically without fear. Transcending Women ensures that services and programs for women are inclusive in theory and practice, centering the experiences of all women by meeting them where they are without judgement, restrictions, or discrimination. See more here. REAL NAME CAMPAIGN are activists in New Orleans fighting for accessible name and gender marker changes. See more here. This event is supported by the New Orleans Film Society.