Alma's Rainbow
[United States] : Milestone Film & Video, 2022.
Format: DVD
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Edition: Widescreen edition.
Description: 2 videodiscs (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
A coming-of-age comedy-drama about three Black women living in Brooklyn. Ayoka Chenzira's feature film explores the life of teenager Rainbow Gold who is entering womanhood and navigating conversations and experiences around standards of beauty, self-image, and the rights women have over their bodies. Rainbow attends a strict parochial school, studies dance, and is just becoming aware of boys. She lives with her strait-laced mother Alma Gold, who runs a beauty parlor in the parlor of their home. When Alma's free-spirited sister Ruby arrives from Paris after a 10-year absence, the sisters clash over what constitutes the "proper" direction Rainbow's life should take. Alma has fooled herself into believing she has no need of male companionship and advises her daughter to follow her example. Ruby encourages both her niece and her sister to embrace life, and love, fully and joyfully. Alma's Rainbow highlights a multi-layered Black women's world where the characters live, love, and wrestle with what it means to exert and exercise their agency.
Series: Milestone cinematheque.
Other Authors:
Chenzira, Ayoka, film director, screenwriter.
Weston-Moran, Kim, actor.
Nunes, Mizan, actor.
Dobson, Lee, actor.
Platt, Victoria, 1972- actor.
Bourelly, Jean-Paul, composer (expression)
Crossgrain Pictures (Firm), production company.
Rhinoceros Productions (Firm), production company.
Paradise Plum Pictures (Firm), production company.
Milestone Film & Video, production company.
Kino Lorber, Inc., film distributor.
Chenzira, Ayoka, film director, screenwriter.
Weston-Moran, Kim, actor.
Nunes, Mizan, actor.
Dobson, Lee, actor.
Platt, Victoria, 1972- actor.
Bourelly, Jean-Paul, composer (expression)
Crossgrain Pictures (Firm), production company.
Rhinoceros Productions (Firm), production company.
Paradise Plum Pictures (Firm), production company.
Milestone Film & Video, production company.
Kino Lorber, Inc., film distributor.
Subjects:
African American women -- Drama.
Mothers and daughters -- Drama.
African American families -- Drama.
African American women -- Drama.
Mothers and daughters -- Drama.
African American families -- Drama.
Target Audience: MWT rating: NR.
UPC: 738329260446
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
DVD AF AM Alma's | Northeast Indoors | DVD | In |
11/29/2022
Videorecording.
Director, Ayoka Chenzira.
Kim Weston-Moran, Victoria Gabrielle Platt, Mizan Kirby.
DVD.
English audio.
Videorecording.
Director, Ayoka Chenzira.
Kim Weston-Moran, Victoria Gabrielle Platt, Mizan Kirby.
DVD.
English audio.