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Quality: Blu-Ray | Release date: June 30, 2017 |
Keywords: documentary | Genres: – |
Duration: 79 min | Original title: The House on Coco Road |
My girl @tzeg out drinking #bluewine. Really! Out at @melek Resturant in dalston. Fabulous good. After watching #mauricebishop #decolonisingthemind
Loving listening to the brilliant revolutionary filmmaker @damanibaker as he talks about his amazing new film fifteen years in the making #forwardeverbackwardnever!
SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT: DOC NYC + Los Angeles Film Festival alum THE HOUSE ON COCO ROAD opens in Montgomery, AL at Pure Artistry Literary Cafe for a special engagement this evening at 7pm. This event is FREE and open to the public. THE HOUSE ON COCO ROAD is an intimate documentary exploration of heritage and history against the backdrop of a brewing Afro-centric revolution as the U.S. government prepares to invade the island nation of Grenada. First hand accounts from activists Angela Davis, Fania Davis and Fannie Haughton weave together director Damani Baker's family portrait of utopian dreams, resistance and civil unrest with a film score composed by music luminary Meshell Ndegeocello. The film held its world premiere at the 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival. #paLitCafe #ARRAYNOW #TheHouseOnCocoRoad #IndieFilm #SupportTheArts #MontgomeryAL #myMontgomery #ThingsToDo #FREE #DamaniBaker
SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT: DOC NYC + Los Angeles Film Festival alum THE HOUSE ON COCO ROAD opens in Montgomery, AL at Pure Artistry Literary Cafe for a special engagement this evening at 7pm. This event is FREE and open to the public. THE HOUSE ON COCO ROAD is an intimate documentary exploration of heritage and history against the backdrop of a brewing Afro-centric revolution as the U.S. government prepares to invade the island nation of Grenada. First hand accounts from activists Angela Davis, Fania Davis and Fannie Haughton weave together director Damani Baker's family portrait of utopian dreams, resistance and civil unrest with a film score composed by music luminary Meshell Ndegeocello. The film held its world premiere at the 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival. #paLitCafe #ARRAYNOW #TheHouseOnCocoRoad #IndieFilm #SupportTheArts #MontgomeryAL #myMontgomery #ThingsToDo #FREE #DamaniBaker
"In 1979 the Grenadian people carry out the first successful revolution in the English speaking Caribbean. Maurice Bishop becomes Prime Minister. The Revolution attracts workers from around the world including my mother, Fannie Haughton. In 1982 Angela Davis, her family, and my mother visit Grenada to witness this miraculous Peoples’ Revolution. In 1983 my mother is offered a position in the Ministry of Education and we leave our home in Oakland and move to Grenada. I’d never seen her happier. Grenada was briefly our home. In 1983 the United States led a military invasion following the assassination of the young popular Prime Minister, Maurice Bishop. We hid under the bed for three days as bombs shook our new paradise, and changed its course forever. Sixteen years later, in 1999, I returned to Grenada with my mother, and began shooting a documentary film, searching for her story, one that felt not just untold, but unfinished. In 2014, I discovered a box of family super 8 footage of my great grandmother in rural Louisiana on the land our family sharecropped and my grandmother’s migration west. I started to unravel my mother’s path to activism. I started to understand why my mother, and a group of tireless women, had put their lives on the line, daring to build a better world. You may not know their names, but they have changed the course of history" UK screening and Q&A with director @damanibaker 24th June Rio Cinema