Continuing on with my planned 2 1/2 week pre-coverage of the New York African Diaspora Film Festival, which begins on November 26th, and will run for about 2 1/2 weeks, through December 14th…
Thus far, I’ve profiled the festival opener, Africa United, which you can read Here, London River, Here, and Soul Boy, Here.
Today, it’s the uplifting and heartening Uruguayan film called Goodbye Momo, directed by Leonardo Ricagni.
Its story goes… Obdulio, a cheerful eleven-year-old Afro-Uruguayan boy lives with his devoted grandmother and two sisters. He is the self-proclaimed “man of the house” and sells newspapers on the street to make money to live and to buy needed school uniforms for his sisters. Obduilo can’t read or write and has no interest in attending school as his grandmother encourages him to do. One night he meets the charismatic night watch man at the newspaper’s office who introduces him to...
Thus far, I’ve profiled the festival opener, Africa United, which you can read Here, London River, Here, and Soul Boy, Here.
Today, it’s the uplifting and heartening Uruguayan film called Goodbye Momo, directed by Leonardo Ricagni.
Its story goes… Obdulio, a cheerful eleven-year-old Afro-Uruguayan boy lives with his devoted grandmother and two sisters. He is the self-proclaimed “man of the house” and sells newspapers on the street to make money to live and to buy needed school uniforms for his sisters. Obduilo can’t read or write and has no interest in attending school as his grandmother encourages him to do. One night he meets the charismatic night watch man at the newspaper’s office who introduces him to...
- 11/17/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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