BRUK OUT! A DANCEHALL QUEEN DOCUMENTARY
BRUK OUT! looks deep inside the raw, energetic world of Jamaican dancehall culture through the eyes of the powerful women at its heart — dancehall queens. Often criticized as lewd and aggressively sexual, these daring performers turned Jamaican street dance into a massive global phenomenon. BRUK OUT! follows six of the boldest and bravest dancehall queens from around the world — Japan, Italy, America, Poland, Spain and, of course, Jamaica — as they prepare to battle for the biggest trophy (and cash prize) in all of dancehall. Combining explosive underground dance visuals with emotionally intimate vérité scenes, this is a never-before-seen window into the life of the dancehall queen. With determination, humor and hope, the six resilient dancers converge at the biggest dancehall queen competition in the world, where some dreams come to an end, and one woman is crowned the queen. (Note courtesy of Gunpowder & Sky.) Official Selection, 2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam and Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema. DIR/PROD Cori Wapnowska; PROD Janet Ginsburg, Jay Will, Stacy Frankel. U.S., 2017, color, 69 min. In English. NOT RATED
No AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 69 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, June 07, 2019
Genre: Documentary