JERSEY CITY – The 5th installment of the festival presents “Black Orpheus,” a Brazilian classic film that is a retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Director Marcel Camus’s colorful and lyrical version of Orpheus stars Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, and Lourdes de Oliveira.
The screening will be Monday, July 27, at 5 p.m. sharp, at the Five Corners Branch Library, 78 Newark Ave. (corner of Summit Avenue), Jersey City, in the Mildred Hunke Auditorium. Discussion and Q&A will follow the screening. For more information, call (201) 547-4543. Free and open to the public.
Presented and produced by: the Jersey City Arts and Culture Council; Film Crafting Collaborative’s writer, producer, director, Zenobia Pintora; Subcontinent Peace Foundation’s Imtiaz Syed; Go Pro Radio’s CEO, Tylon Washington; and Jersey City Acting Collective’s CEO, director and actor, Erik-Anders Nilsson.
The Excellence in Global Cinema Film Festival to present ‘Black Orpheus’
