Nextwave Youth Day: Powering Up Our Youth Media Community
Young media artists and media arts lovers are invited to a free gathering and a special screening of the winners of the Nextwave Youth Filmmaking Competition. A reception follows with free food and time to socialize and learn about Twin Cities media arts programs and resources available to youth.
Tour the Capri Best Buy Teen Tech Center with a state-of-the-art music studio and videography programs for ages 13-18. Come view new works by teens, meet, connect, and power up our youth media community!
SCHEDULE:
12-1:30 pm
• Best Buy Teen Tech Center Music Videos: Trap and Grow and Good Day – Shante x M3LLO x Jana
• Nextwave Youth Shorts, Filmmaker Panel, Youth Jury Awards
1:30-2:30pm
• Open house reception with keynote speaker Daniel Bergin, executive producer, Film in the Cities: the Radical Roots of Youth Media
2:30-3pm
• Slurp, a Horror High Youth Film Camp production, presented by EDU Film Festival
3-4pm
• Networking, Tabling, and Capri Best Buy Teen Tech Center Tours
MSPIFF is Minnesota’s largest film festival and one of the longest-running film festivals in the country. The Capri is honored to partner with the MSP Film Society for this event! We hope you’ll take this opportunity to explore, experience and enjoy some of the most amazing films in the world, right here on the Northside.
MSPIFF tickets for movies, parties, panels, tributes and guest filmmaker discussions are available HERE.
Updated April 26, 2022
Masks are now optional at all indoor events at the Capri. Non-cloth masks, such as N95, KN95, KF94 and surgical masks, are recommended for those who choose to wear a mask.
Post-film discussion featuring MSPIFF Programmer and filmmaker Craig Laurence Rice.
When a Harlem mobster’s daughter is kidnapped by the Mafosi, does he turn to the cops? Not when Shaft’s in town. Thrilling, sexy, and dangerous, Gordon Parks’ action thriller ushered in the 70s Blaxploitation genre. Richard Roundtree is magnetic as Shaft and Isaac Hayes won an Oscar for the original song.
This is a movie that many long-time Northside residents may have seen when it originally played at the Capri back in the early ‘70s. The film is also a part of the MSPIFF41 Luminary Tribute to Gordon Parks which also includes screenings of The Learning Tree, Leadbelly, and Half Past Autumn.
Director Biography
When speaking of Gordon Parks, one could easily write an entire biography on his work as a pioneering Black photographer working with the New Deal government; or on his fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including The Learning Tree; or on his music, including the scores for his own movies; or on his editorial work or his oil paintings.
Photo Courtesy The Gordon Parks Foundation
MSPIFF is Minnesota’s largest film festival and one of the longest-running film festivals in the country. The Capri is honored to partner with the MSP Film Society for this event! We hope you’ll take this opportunity to explore, experience and enjoy some of the most amazing films in the world, right here on the Northside.
MSPIFF tickets for movies, parties, panels, tributes and guest filmmaker discussions are available HERE.
Updated April 26, 2022
Masks are now optional at all indoor events at the Capri. Non-cloth masks, such as N95, KN95, KF94 and surgical masks, are recommended for those who choose to wear a mask.
Director Kevin Shaw Attending
Located just south of downtown Chicago, the National Teachers Academy Elementary School (NTA) is a high-achieving public school in an African American neighborhood. When the city announces plans to phase out NTA’s curriculum and turn it into a high school drawing students from other schools, the community senses gentrification… and, soon, the fight for justice is on.
The NTA is the pride of its community, receiving numerous accolades, including Chicago’s top-ranking recognition for educational achievement and helping Black, working-class children to achieve success. In 2017, however, residents from a nearby gentrifying neighborhood urged the city to turn NTA into a high school that would benefit their children. But NTA’s parents, teachers, administrators and students, who have seen the city administration bypass their best interests for too long, will have none of it. Kevin Shaw’s documentary is at once an infuriating and hopeful look at a Chicago school that will have you on edge of your seats until the final bell rings.
Director Biography
Kevin Shaw is a director, producer and cinematographer, whose work has appeared on numerous major television networks. He directed the documentary short Jeremiah Strong (2002) and the documentary features The Street Stops Here (2010) and Goose (2012). Let the Little Light Shine (2021) is his most recent documentary.
MSPIFF is Minnesota’s largest film festival and one of the longest-running film festivals in the country. The Capri is honored to partner with the MSP Film Society for this event! We hope you’ll take this opportunity to explore, experience and enjoy some of the most amazing films in the world, right here on the Northside.
MSPIFF tickets for movies, parties, panels, tributes and guest filmmaker discussions are available HERE.
Updated April 26, 2022
Masks are now optional at all indoor events at the Capri. Non-cloth masks, such as N95, KN95, KF94 and surgical masks, are recommended for those who choose to wear a mask.
Bangui’s Hyenas are a fabled trio of mercenaries from Guinea-Bissau, who strip a drug dealer of his enormous wealth and make a beeline for Dakar. There they get trapped in a near-mythical resort… and the blood is just beginning to flow in Jean Luc Herbulot’s kinetic thriller-horror hybrid.
Amidst the chaos of a coup d’état, Bangui’s Hyenas perform an almost perfect siege of a Mexican drug lord, and flee with millions in drugs and gold. But when they find themselves stranded in the Sine-Saloum Delta, a coastal river whose archipelago is seemingly filled with unearthly creatures, the Hyenas find themselves, and their weaponry, at a distinct disadvantage. “Freely mixes and marries the cinematic languages of spaghetti Westerns, samurai dramas and classic monster movies to tell an exciting and distinctly African story.” –Richard Kuipers, Variety
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY
Jean Luc Herbulot was born in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo and studied multimedia and film editing in Paris. He is the director of the short films “Concurrence loyale” (2009), “Stabat Mater” (2011), “Sick” (2012), “Munster Cake” (2013) and the features Dealer (2014) and Saloum (2021).
MSPIFF is Minnesota’s largest film festival and one of the longest-running film festivals in the country. The Capri is honored to partner with the MSP Film Society for this event! We hope you’ll take this opportunity to explore, experience and enjoy some of the most amazing films in the world, right here on the Northside.
MSPIFF tickets for movies, parties, panels, tributes and guest filmmaker discussions are available HERE.
Updated April 26, 2022
Masks are now optional at all indoor events at the Capri. Non-cloth masks, such as N95, KN95, KF94 and surgical masks, are recommended for those who choose to wear a mask.
“Every one of us inherits the curses of our ancestors. But we may put an end to this cycle by constantly going to war with ourselves…” So says filmmaker Rebeca “Beba” Huntt in this documentary that will challenge all of your notions of filmmaking, race and class in America.
This poetic and searching autobiography, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, is a fierce examination of class, family dynamics, racial and ethnic identity and immigration. It is also a powerfully honest look at the filmmaker herself — Huntt spares no one, herself least of all. The child of a Dominican father and Venezuelan mother, immigrants who met in New York, she grew up in a one-bedroom apartment, where personalities clashed on a daily basis. As Beba is admitted into Bard College, she is suddenly thrust into a new world, as fraught with psychological trauma as the one she left. Beautiful, thought-provoking and experiential, Beba heralds the arrival of a major new voice in personal documentary filmmaking.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY
Born and raised in New York City, Rebeca Huntt is an Afro-Latina filmmaker with a BA from Bard College. She is the director of the documentary short ¡Hay Coro! (2019) and the short 1-800 Lovable. Beba (2021) is her debut documentary feature.
MSPIFF is Minnesota’s largest film festival and one of the longest-running film festivals in the country. The Capri is honored to partner with the MSP Film Society for this event! We hope you’ll take this opportunity to explore, experience and enjoy some of the most amazing films in the world, right here on the Northside.
MSPIFF tickets for movies, parties, panels, tributes and guest filmmaker discussions are available HERE.
Updated April 26, 2022
Masks are now optional at all indoor events at the Capri. Non-cloth masks, such as N95, KN95, KF94 and surgical masks, are recommended for those who choose to wear a mask.
Focusing on the growing political movement that has taken up the cause of the Green New Deal — as well as the forces determined to oppose it — To the End is both a rallying cry to meet the challenge of climate change and a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at a new generation of activist leaders.
Following four instrumental women of color in leadership roles — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Varshini Prakash, Alexandra Rojas, and Rhiana Gunn-Wright — To the End imagines the promise of the Green New Deal and what it could actually accomplish, from helping reverse runaway greenhouse emissions to creating good jobs that benefit the environment.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY
Rachel Lears is the director of the documentary features Aves de paso (2009), The Hand That Feeds (2014) and Knock Down the House (2019). To the End (2022) is her most recent documentary.
MSPIFF is Minnesota’s largest film festival and one of the longest-running film festivals in the country. The Capri is honored to partner with the MSP Film Society for this event! We hope you’ll take this opportunity to explore, experience and enjoy some of the most amazing films in the world right here in your neighborhood.
MSPIFF tickets for movies, parties, panels, tributes and guest filmmaker discussions are available HERE.
Updated April 26, 2022
Masks are now optional at all indoor events at the Capri. Non-cloth masks, such as N95, KN95, KF94 and surgical masks, are recommended for those who choose to wear a mask.
Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival
May 5 – 19, featuring 11 Films @ the Capri!
Be @ the Capri for these fabulous films:
4:00 Sunday, May 8: To the End
7:00 Sunday, May 8: Raise Your Hand, Director Jessica Rae Attending
7:00 Tuesday, May 10: Mission: Joy – Finding Happiness in Troubled Times
4:30 Wednesday, May 11: Beba
7:00 Wednesday, May 11: Saloum
4:30 Thursday, May 12: Let the Little Light Shine, Director Kevin Shaw Attending
7:00 Thursday, May 12: Shaft, post-film discussion with MSPIFF Programmer and filmmaker Craig Laurence Rice
12:00 – 4:00 Saturday, May 14: Nextwave Youth Day: Powering Up Our Youth Media Community
4:00 Sunday, May 15: Free Renty: Lanier V. Harvard , Director David Grubin Attending
7:00 Sunday, May 15: Jasmine is a Star , Director Jo Rochelle Attending
4:30 Wednesday, May 18: Buladó
7:00 Wednesday, May 18: The Gravedigger’s Wife, Director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed and Actor Omar Abdi Attending
MSPIFF is Minnesota’s largest film festival and one of the longest-running film festivals in the country. The Capri is honored to partner with the MSP Film Society for this event!
We hope you’ll take this opportunity to explore, experience and enjoy some of the most amazing films in the world right here on the Northside.
Tickets for movies, parties, panels, tributes and guest filmmaker discussions HERE.
Updated April 26, 2022
Masks are now optional at all indoor events at the Capri. Non-cloth masks, such as N95, KN95, KF94 and surgical masks, are recommended for those who choose to wear a mask.