"Reel Women" Film Screening Series presents "Solace" by Tchaiko Omawale

"Reel Women" Film Screening Series -

Join PCC Cinema Faculty for a screening series of contemporary films, followed by moderated discussions with the cast, crew, and directors.

Doors open 5:30pm (approximately)

Film screening begins 6:00pm

Discussion, Q&A immediately following film conclusion

Thursday, March 6 - "Solace", a film by Tchaiko Omawale -

A 17 year-old orphan is shipped off to her estranged grandmother and she plots her escape while navigating a foreign environment, new friendships and a hidden eating disorder.

www.solacefilm.com

"The short grew out of a feature I wrote at the Gaea Artist for Change Residency. The feature script was a semi-finalist at Sundance Writers Lab. I am rewriting in preparation for the Kickstarter Campaign for the feature film. SUPER EXCITED!

I wanted to tell a story about cutting. It was something I flirted with in high school after moving to the United States when we were evacuated from Yemen. That time I lost my best friend to appendicitis and was navigating a lot of feelings of being the outsider looking in. My desire to cut was something I kept a secret then later discovered it was not unique to me. So I needed to tell this story and later on I added the eating disorder as the manifestations of this for me was another form of self-harm. The short explores these two very secret diseases that affect several young women." ~ tchaiko.com

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Solace is a Morgan's Mark Co-Production;

Starring Hope Olaide Wilson, Chelsea Tavares, Luke Rampersad, with Glynn Turman and Lynn Whitfield featuring Sydney Bennett;

Cinematography by Bruce Francis Cole;

Music by Meshell Ndegeocello

Upcoming "Reel Women" Film Screening events (First Thursday) -

-Thursday, April 3, and

-Thursday, May 1.

This series is being funded in part by the PCC Foundation Community Excellence Grants program. 

Host or Publisher Visual Arts and Media Studies Division