Alma's Rainbow / written and directed by Ayoka Chenzira ; produced by Ayoka Chenzira, Howard Brickner, Charles Lane ; Crossgrain Pictures and Rhinoceros Productions present a Paradise Plum Productions presentation ; produced and released by Milestone Film & Video.
Publisher:
Kino Lorber,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
2 videodiscs (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Kim Weston-Moran, Mizan Nunes, Lee Dobson, Victoria Gabrielle Platt. Originally released as a motion picture in 1993.
Contents:
disc 1. [Feature film]. Special features: panel discussion after world premiere of 4K restoration at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Ayoka Chenzira on Alma's Rainbow (oral history recorded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences); Peggy Dillard Toone on Alma's Rainbow -- disc 2. Short films by Ayoka Chenzira: Syvilla: they dance to her drum -- Hairpiece: a film for nappy headed people -- The lure and the lore -- Zajota and the boogie spirit -- Pull your head to the moon: stories of Creole women -- Williamswood -- MOTV (My own TV) -- Snowfire -- In the rivers of mercy angst -- HERadventure.
Summary:
Rainbow is the daughter of Alma, the no-nonsense owner of a popular beauty parlor. Ruby, Alma's free-spirited sister, unexpectedy arrives after a ten year absence, causing Rainbow to confront her own sexual awakening and provoking Alma to reconsider her own self-inflicted repression.
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