Film Screening

Friends of Mongolia and Words Beats & Life Present:
Mongolian Bling: Discovering the Roots of Hip-Hop in the Heart of Asia

Trailer
http://vimeo.com/14454513

Thursday, May 2, 2013

6:30pm until 8:30pm in CDT

$10 admission
True Reformer Building
1200 U Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20009-4443 

‘Writer / Director, Benj Binks will be at the screening and will do a Q’n'A 

Forget about nomads and monks! It’s hip hop that’s making Mongolia move in the 21st century. Mongolian Bling jumps into the thriving music scene in the capital, Ulaanbaatar, and follows stars as they rap nationwide with their bitches, cars, and jewels. But beyond this bling lies a failed democracy, and a dying ancient culture that the elders mourn the loss of. While many artists still aspire to the West, a handful are using hip hop to try and salvage their country’s flailing democracy, and bringing Mongolia’s rich musical history into their modern beats and rhymes.

Metro accessible: 1 Block from Green Line exit at U St./African-American Civil War Memorial/Cardozo

www.friendsofmongolia.org 

http://www.wblinc.org/

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Film Screening

Date: April 2nd 

Time: 6:30pm-9pm

Location: 14th and V St Location of Busboys & Poets

The Central Park Five, a new film from award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, tells the story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park in 1989. Directed and produced by Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns, the film chronicles the Central Park Jogger case, for the first time from the perspective of the five teenagers whose lives were upended by this miscarriage of justice.

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