Monthly
Film Series - AUGUST 2024 MOONLIGHT This month's Community Programmer: Board Member
- Kayden Rodriguez
Three
time periods - young adolescence, mid-teen and young adult -
in the life of black-American Chiron is presented. When a child,
Chiron lives with his single, crack addict mother Paula in a
crime ridden neighborhood in Miami. Chiron is a shy, withdrawn
child largely due to his small size and being neglected by his
mother, who is more concerned about getting her fixes and satisfying
her carnal needs than taking care of him. Because of these issues,
Chiron is bullied, the slurs hurled at him which he doesn't
understand beyond knowing that they are meant to be hurtful.
Besides his same aged Cuban-American friend Kevin, Chiron is
given what little guidance he has in life from a neighborhood
drug dealer named Juan, who can see that he is neglected, and
Juan's caring girlfriend Teresa, whose home acts as a sanctuary
away from the bullies and away from Paula's abuse. With this
childhood as a foundation, Chiron may have a predetermined path
in life, one that will only be magnified in terms of its problems
when he reaches his difficult teen years when peer pressure
affects what he and many of his peers do, unless he follows
Juan's advice of truly making his own decisions for himself.
- Huggo
Moonlight
| Official Trailer HD | A24
IN-PERSON
EVENT ONLY Sunday, August 18, 2024 at 3:00pm & 6:00pm
Location: Green Light Cinema, 221 2nd Ave N, St. Petersburg,
FL 33701 (Directions/Map)
Tickets: $11.77/pp includes taxes and fees
(Student and Senior Discounts Available)
Community
Programmer Board Member - Kayden Rodriguez
Raised in Texas, Kayden Rodriguez (they/them or he/him)
found his LGBTQ+ home & family in Tampa, Florida by attending
The University of Tampa in 2012. Kayden has been a board member
since 02/2020 and is co-founder of the Tampa Bay Transgender
Film Festival. With original intentions to become an animator
for Pixar, he majored in Digital Art. UTampa’s safe environment
took them for a turn, however, as they found passion in merging
his media background with LGBTQ+ advocacy during his leadership
time with UTampa Pride. Kayden now has a Masters in Social Work,
and is Registered Clinical Social Work Intern. He has worked
with multiple local LGBTQ+ organizations both as an employee
or volunteer, working to educate the LGBTQ+ community & allies
alike on the best ways to support each other through community
building & mental health advocacy.
Kayden chose Moonlight with intention to highlight
and center achievements by the black queer community. Moonlight
was released as the first LGBTQ-themed mass-marketed feature
film with an all-black cast and was, at the time of its release,
the second-lowest-grossing film domestically (behind The
Hurt Locker) to win the Oscar for Best Picture in 2017.
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