The Human Rights Watch (HRW) Chicago 2017 Film Series, in partnership with Black Cinema House, will present a showing of Kiki at Stony Island Arts Bank, 6760 S. Stony Island Ave., on Friday, March 10, at 7 p.m.
Kiki offers insight into a safe space created and governed by LGBTQ youths of color, with the result being a coming-of-age story that celebrates agency, resilience—and voguing.
Also, Zach Stafford will moderate a panel about defining and connecting three themes in which the audience can engage with the film: international/U.S. LGBT-rights issues (HRW’s Tico Almeida), the local housing and community issues (with academic/performer Julian K. Glover and community organizer Monica James) and the personal (Kiki co-writer Twiggy Pucci Garcon).
See FF.HRW.org/Chicago.