Player Hating: A Love Story
Saturday January 14 (07:00 PM - 11:30 PM)
New Orleans filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West and the New Orleans Film Society present the documentary film PLAYER HATING: A LOVE STORY about Brooklyn “thug” culture. The screenings will take place Saturday, January 14, at Cafe Istanbul at 7:00 p.m. and again at 9:30 p.m. The filmmaker will be present at the first showing and will participate in a Q+A and discussion along with former City Councilman Oliver Thomas.
Player Hating follows hip-hop artist Half-a-Mill and his Brooklyn, NY crew, the Godfia Criminals, as they struggle to escape poverty and violence through music in the Albany Housing Projects. In raw, uncensored form, Player Hating delves intimately into the lives of young “thugs,” and reveals the core of human poverty. “Player Hating brings audiences into a world they might otherwise ignore, or be too frightened to enter,” says Hadleigh-West. “People watch this film and they see and feel the incredible humanity that is at risk daily of being lost to violence.” Hadleigh-West traces Player Hating’s origins back to the senseless murder of a work colleague in Harlem, which instantaneously opened her eyes to the enormous disparity of “life” in America – particularly for those in impoverished neighborhoods.
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$10 at the door.
