FILM | WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 | 8:30 PM | FREE

Sanctuary Cinema presents Fire Through Dry Grass Screening

Sanctuary Cinema is bringing a free screening of Fire Through Dry Grass to FUSION on Wednesday, July 23, at 8:30 PM! The screening will be followed by a panel discussion.

Fire Through Dry Grass by Andres “Jay” Molina and Alexis Neophytides and Jennilie Brewster and Peter Yearwood and Sarah Feuquay

Wearing snapback caps and Air Jordans, the Reality Poets don’t look like typical nursing home residents. In Fire Through Dry Grass, these young, Black and brown disabled artists document their lives on lockdown during Covid, using their poetry and art to underscore the danger and imprisonment they feel. In the face of institutional neglect, they refuse to be abused, confined, and erased.  Co-produced with ITVS.

ABOUT SANCTUARY CINEMA
A brave space for transformative justice and belonging through film.

Sanctuary Cinema brings nonfiction films to New Mexicans for free through the PBS/POV program by hosting monthly screenings and panel discussions with local nonprofit and New Mexico artists and activists at venues throughout the city of Albuquerque.  Sanctuary Cinema, is a brave space for transformative justice and belonging through film. Using the power of storytelling in film to build communities committed to action on contemporary social issues, they aim to educate, inspire, and act! Email them for more information : nmsanctuarycinema@gmail.com.

MISSION STATEMENT
Screening films from POV /PBS to build Communities Committed to Action on contemporary social issues.  Sanctuary Cinema focus is to Educate, Inspire, and Act!  Using the power of storytelling in film to show nonfiction/documentary POV films (known for their intimacy, their unforgettable storytelling and their timeliness, as well as putting a human face on contemporary social issues.) with a panel discussion afterwards and in partnership with various nonprofits.