E Minha Cara
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Thomas Allen Harris
Thomas Allen Harris
Thomas Allen Harris
Thomas Allen Harris
Thomas Allen Harris
Albert S Johnson
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Synopsis
His grandparents' African Methodist-Episcopal church taught Thomas as a child that Africa was a place that could only be saved by Christian missionaries. But his rebellious mother was part of the 1970s' movement that regarded Africa as home "because we knew America didn't want us" and migrated the family to Tanzania, East Africa. But when they arrived in the modern city of Dar-es-Saalam, Africa seemed more like Miami than the motherland they imagined. Thomas learned to love Africa for what it was, but when he returned to the Bronx, he was unable to express his newfound identity. Even his African Methodist-Episcopalian faith failed to provide him comfort until he learned from an Afro-Brazilian friend that beneath the patina of conventional Christian iconography is a rich double life of African ancestral spirit worship. Like his mother, Thomas embarks on a migration across the ocean, this time to Brazil, in an effort to find a sense of home and belonging.
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Thomas Allen Harris
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Released in United States January 13, 2004
Released in United States on DVD January 13, 2004
Shown at BAMcinématek (as part of the DanceAfrica festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music) May 23, 2003.
Shown at IFP Market/(IFFM) ("No Borders") in New York City September 15-22, 2000.
Shown at Sundance Film Festival (American Spectrum) in Park City, Utah January 10-20, 2002.
Shown at the IFP Market/(IFFM) in New York City September 30 - October 5, 2001.
Shown at Tribeca Film Festival, May 8-12, 2002.
Super 8mm
color and b&w
Released in United States January 13, 2004
Released in United States on DVD January 13, 2004
