NY Premiere of In My Genes at the NY African Film Festival

Co-presented with the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival

In My Genes
NEW YORK PREMIERE
Lupita Nyong'o, Kenya, 2009, 78 min. 

What is it like to be "white" in a "black" society? Agnes, a woman with albinism, overcomes the difficulties of being born with no pigment in a society that discriminates against the condition. In My Genes asks us to consider how it feels to be a member of one of the most hyper-visible and yet effectively invisible groups of people in a predominantly black society.

16TH ANNUAL NEW YORK AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL

Sunday, April 12th, 9:15 p.m.
Tuesday, April 14th, 5:00P p.m.
Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center

Through the lenses of emerging directors and veteran filmmakers, the 16th Annual New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) will take an introspective journey across the African continent, with films that create a vision of Africa's future through a deconstruction of its past. Under the banner "Africa in Transition," the festival will present a lineup of 35 films from 16 countries throughout Africa and the African Diaspora. Presented AFF and The Film Society of Lincoln Center, the 16th annual NYAFF runs at The Film Society of Lincoln Center's Water Reade Theater April 8th & 14th and continues with 'Beyond the Rainbow: 15 Years into South Africa's Democracy,' a panel discussion held at Columbia University's Institute of African Studies, April 15th.

The festival concludes with screenings at BAMCinematek from May 22nd - May 25th.