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PUFF Opening Night: Ovarian Psycos

August 4, 2017 @ 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

(Dir: Kate Trumbull LaValle, Joanna Sokolowski)
Doors: 6PM; Movie: 7PM

** CAST MEMBERS FROM THE MOVIE WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE FOR A POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION**

Ovarian Psycos – Documentary is about a new generation of fierce, unapologetic and feminist women of color from the Eastside of Los Angeles who confront injustice, build community, and redefine identity through a raucous, irreverently named bicycle crew: The Ovarian Psyco-Cycles Brigade.

Through the personal stories of the crew’s rabble-rousing founder, Xela de la X, activist, poet M.C., and single mother; street artist and original Ovarian Psyco, Andi Xoch, and a bright-eyed young woman from the neighborhood, Evelyn (Evie), the film traces how the “Ovas” emerged from the diverse, youthful, Latino, working class, immigrant neighborhoods of Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles, a community situated within the historic legacy of the Chicano/a Civil Rights Movement that emerged from L.A. in the late 1960s. Presented with Bike Pittsburgh and Black Girls Do Bike Pittsburgh.

Details

Date:
August 4, 2017
Time:
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1912624902348930

Venue

Melwood Screening Room
477 Melwood Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 United States

Organizer

Reel Q Pittsburgh LGBT Film Festival