Film Festival

3rd Annual TCC Diversity Film Festival

We’ve got a great lineup planned for this year’s Diversity Film Festival!

April 14-25, 2013

The Grand Cinema
606 S. Fawcett Ave., Tacoma, WA

$7 matinee / $9 evening
$7 military (with ID)
$2 TCC students (with TCC student ID)

Sunday	Tuesday	Thursday
April 14	April 16	April 18
2 p.m. reception to follow at Masa	2 p.m. and 6:15 p.m.	2 p.m. and 6:15 p.m.

The First Grader	Mosquita y Mari	*Waste Land*
In a small, remote mountain top primary school in the Kenyan bush, hundreds of children are jostling for a chance for the free education newly promised by the Kenyan government. One new applicant causes astonishment when he knocks on the door of the school.	A coming of age story that focuses on a tender friendship between two young Chicanas.	Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores”—self-designated pickers of recyclable materials.

Sunday	Tuesday	Thursday
April 21	April 23	April 25
2 p.m.	2 p.m. and 6:15 p.m.	2 p.m. and 6:15 p.m.

The Orator	Caesar Must Die	*Trooper*
The Orator (O Le Tulafale) is a contemporary, dramatic feature film written and directed by Tusi Tamasese and shot on the island of Upolu in Samoa. The story of the film is a universal one of love, honour and courage. This is cloaked in the language, setting & events that are authentically and uniquely Samoan.	Inmates at a high-security prison in Rome prepare for a public performance of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."	Murphy O'Shea, an Iraq Veteran, has a hard time re-adjusting to society upon his return from a long tour. His world crumbles when he discovers his father, Bill, a Vietnam Veteran, is dying. "Trooper" is a story of a father and son, two veterans from two very different Wars, helping each other to get through each day, and heal the wounds of War.

For more information about the Diversity Film Festival, please contact Tina Celentano.