“Alma’s Rainbow” is getting a 4K restoration. A press launch introduced that Kino Lorber will launch a brand new model of Ayoka Chenzira’s 1994 characteristic, offered by “Daughters of the Mud” filmmaker Julie Sprint and restored by Milestone Movies, the Academy Movie Archive, and The Movie Basis.
The approaching-of-age story is ready in Brooklyn and focuses on a teenage woman’s (Victoria Gabrielle Platt) relationships along with her mom (Kim Weston-Moran) and aunt (Mizan Kirbyas) as she “enters womanhood and navigates requirements of magnificence, self-image, and the rights girls have over their our bodies,” per the movie’s synopsis.
Described as highlighting a “multi-layered Black girls’s world the place the characters stay, love, and wrestle with what it means to exert and train their company,” “Alma’s Rainbow” was written, directed, and produced by Chenzira, who the press launch notes was “one of many first African People to show movie manufacturing in greater training and among the many first African American lady animators.”
“Somebody as soon as instructed me that filmmakers ultimately fall out of affection with their movies as they transfer on with their careers. I’ve by no means felt this fashion about my work as a result of with every challenge, I be taught one thing new about myself as an artist and as an individual. So I’m thrilled that my impartial movie, ‘Alma’s Rainbow,’ was restored by Milestone, an organization with a protracted historical past of supporting the visions and expressions of filmmakers,” mentioned Chenzira.
The restoration of “Alma’s Rainbow” will make its world premiere at BAMCinemafest June 27 with Chenzira in attendance. The occasion will embrace a screening of a brand new 4K restoration of her quick movie “Hair Piece: A Movie For Nappy-Headed Folks.”
Kino Lorber will launch “Alma’s Rainbow” theatrically July 29 and signify its worldwide rights and launch worldwide gross sales at Cannes.
Chenzira’s different credit embrace episodes of “Queen Sugar,” “Trinkets,” and the upcoming small-screen reboot of Penny Marshall’s beloved baseball pic “A League of Their Personal.” The press launch notes that she’s at present in manufacturing on the sequence adaptation of Octavia Butler’s sci-fi traditional “Kindred.”
Supply: Women And Hollywood