Public Programming
FOR THE PEOPLE
ARRAY hosted a day of film screenings reflecting on democracy and politics through a global cinema lens on Super Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Our line-up featured work by Oscar-winner Alfonso Cuarón, Saudi Arabia’s first female director Haifaa Al-Mansour, one of the first African American women directors to emerge in the 1960s, trailblazer Madeline Anderson, and award-winning Italian documentary filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo. All showings at our creative campus in Historic Filipinotown were FREE by showing “I Voted” stickers or with advance RSVP.
FEATURED FILMS
INTEGRATION REPORT (1960)
Directed by Madeline Anderson
The struggle for Black equality is examined on the front lines of the fight for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Alabama; Brooklyn, New York; and Washington, D.C.
I AM SOMEBODY (1970)
Directed by Madeline Anderson
Nearly 400 poorly paid Black women hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina go on strike to demand union recognition and a wage increase.
CHILDREN OF MEN (2006)
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
When infertility threatens mankind with extinction, a disillusioned journalist becomes an unlikely champion in the fight for human survival.
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1965)
Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
A recreation of the events that took place in the capital city of French Algeria between November 1954 and December 1957, during the Algerian War of Independence.
THE PERFECT CANDIDATE (2019)
Directed by Haifaa al-Mansour
A determined young Saudi doctor inadvertently runs for local political office and her family and community struggle to accept their town’s first female candidate.
