New York on Film: Pariah

Join us for a screening of Dee Rees' celebrated debut film Pariah (2011, 86 min), introduced by film critic Wilson Morales! 

Pariah follows teenager Alike (Adepero Oduye) who lives in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood with her parents (Charles Parnell, Kim Wayans) and younger sister (Sahra Mellesse). A butch lesbian, Alike quietly embraces her identity, but she wonders how much she can truly confide in her family, especially with her parents' marriage already strained. 

This screening is the 2010's installment of our year-long series New York on Film: Decade by Decade, programmed by Jessica Green. The series accompanies the Museum's centennial exhibition, This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture.

About the Speaker:
Wilson Morales is known as a deep well of information when it comes to the world of movies, and opinions reflect this knowledge. Wilson Morales is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief BlackFilmandTV.com. Prior to that he served as the website editor/ journalist and film critic for Blackfilm.com for 20 years. During the early 2000s, he served as executive producer and film critic for Audrey’s Whirl, a TV film show hosted by Audrey Bernard that featured film reviews and commentary. On WBAI Radio (99.5 FM) in New York, Wilson co-produced film segments, and was be heard on REEL WORLD. Throughout his career, he’s attended many film festivals such as Sundance, Tribeca, the American Black Film Festival, Toronto, Urbanworld and New York. He’s Co-President of the Black Film Critics Circle and a voting member of the Critics Choice Association, Online Film Critics Society, the NAACP Image Award Nomination Committee, the Latino Entertainment Journalists Association (LEJA), and Gold Derby.

About the Series Programmer:
Jessica Green is an independent film programmer currently programming film, speaker, and performance series for BAM, the Weeksville Heritage Center, and the Museum of the City of New York. Jessica served as the Artistic Director of the Houston Cinema Arts Society from 2019-2022, providing artistic leadership for year-round film programming and the Houston Cinema Arts Festival, Houston’s largest film festival. She was the Cinema Director of the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem from 2008-2018. Jessica is also a former founder, owner and Editor-In-Chief of the New York based, independent Hip-Hop magazine Stress (1994-2001), as well as the former Executive Editor of BET.com (2000-2005).

New York on Film is the centennial year edition of the Museum's ongoing Moonlight & Movies series.

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