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MUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA AND BLACK PUBLIC MEDIA PRESENT —

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AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM CLUB AT MOAD | WE LIKE IT LIKE THAT

Join us for our monthly series, The African Diaspora Film Club. Modeled after our African Book Club, we will meet once a month to discuss a film that we have all viewed in advance of the discussion. The conversation will be moderated by Cornelius Moore, co-director of California Newsreel and film series curator at MoAD. We will be choosing a selection of films, some previously screened at MoAD. You may have already seen it, or this may be your first introduction. In either case, join us for a lively discussion of the film.

This month we will be discussing WE LIKE IT LIKE THAT: THE STORY OF LATIN BOOGALOO. You will receive instructions to join via zoom after you sign up here. Look for an email from MoAD after you sign up, if you don’t receive it in your inbox, look in your spam or junk mail.

We will not be screening the film. You can screen the film in advance on PBS's America Reframed here. It is also available on Kanopy, and to rent on Amazon, Apple, Vudu and Reelhouse. If you need access to the film with Spanish subtitles, please contact me at egessel@moadsf.org.

Writer and Director Mathew Ramirez Warren will join us for the discussion.

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ABOUT THE FILM

We Like It Like That tells the story of Latin boogaloo, a colorful expression of 1960s Latino soul, straight from the streets of New York City. From its origins to its recent resurgence, it’s the story of a sound that redefined a generation and was too funky to keep down.

Through original interviews, music recordings, live performances, dancing and rare archival footage and images, We Like It Like That explores this fascinating, though often overlooked, bridge in Latin music history, seeking to understand its context in the story of Latinos in America and its continued influence around the world today.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

Mathew Ramirez Warren is a documentary filmmaker and journalist born and raised in New York City, and now living in Oakland, California. His work has been featured on PBS, National Geographic, and The New York Times.

He was awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council of the Arts for his feature-length documentary directorial debut, We Like It Like That. The film made Rolling Stone’s “15 Must See Movies at the SXSW Film Festival 2015” list, NBC’s “10 must see Latino and Latin American films of 2015” list, and won Best Documentary at the UrbanWorld film festival. It has been broadcast repeatedly on the PBS show America ReFramed, and is available to stream on all PBS digital platforms.

Mathew directed and produced Eddie Palmieri: A Revolution on Harlem River Drive, an episode for the Red Bull TV documentary series The Note, and field produced several segments for the National Geographic documentary series Chain of Command, covering international migration through the Darien Jungle in Colombia and Panama, and ISIS recruitment among Trinidad and Tobago’s Muslim community.

His latest directorial effort, Weed Dreams, is a feature-length documentary currently in post-production about Oakland's first of its kind Cannabis Equity Program, for which he was awarded a Berkeley Film Foundation Grant, a Miller Packan Documentary Film Fund Grant, and an SFFilm Documentary Film Fund Grant.

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This program is co-sponsored by Black Public Media

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