Queer Screens: LGTBQ Film Series presents Before Night Falls Tuesday, June 28th @ 9 pm
O Cinema Wynwood | 90 NW 29th Street Wynwood, FL
Dear Friends:
In 2012, I co-founded Reading Queer to create meaningful cultural events that are also safe havens for all queer-identified people. I wanted to ensure that our community thrives and that our stories continue to be told. That's why Reading Queer has joined forces with O Cinema to create the Queer Screens: LGBTQ Film Series.
Join us for popcorn, beer and community for the inaugural screening of Before Night Falls this Tuesday, June 28th @ 9pm.Before Night Falls is a richly imagined cinematic journey that chronicles the life and writings of Cuban author, activist and exile Reinaldo Arenas. You may purchase tickets at the O Cinema Wynwood box office or online >here.
See you Tuesday! Until then, be fierce.
Neil de la Flor
Executive Director, Reading Queer
Queer Screens: LGBTQ Film Series is made possible with the support of the Miami Foundation/National LGBTQ Task Force GLBT Community Projects Fund grant. The annual series features queer films that illuminate the varied and nuanced aspects of queer lives and queer culture. To receive updates, subscribe >here.
<synopsis> Raised in the Oriente Province of Cuba in the 1940s, Arenas began his life-long love of the sea and water. Leaving home as a young adolescent, he moves to Havana where he finds himself swept up in the revolutionary spirit and joins a circle of writers and artists. His first novel, "Singing from the Well," is published in Cuba, but as Castro's oppressive regime gathers force, Arenas' homosexuality and political writing make him a target. After being falsely accused of molestation, Arenas is arrested and imprisoned at El Morro. Eventually released from prison after dehumanizing treatment, Arenas flees Cuba in the 1980 Mariel Harbor boatlift. After moving to New York...
Directed by Julian Schnabel. Starring Javier Bardem, who was nominated for the Academy Award Best Actor, and Johnny Depp.
