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Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2003
Contact: Michael Marshall, (808) 974-7524
For Immediate Release
University film series continues on Dec. 18
The University of Hawaii at Hilo film series, Cinema from Africa and the Diaspora, continues on Thursday, December 18, with Ça Twiste à Poponguine (1993), directed by Moussa Sene Absa, Senegal. The film begins at 6:30 p.m. in UCB 100. General admission is $3.00; there is no charge for currently registered UH Hilo/Hawai`i Community College students.
Ça Twiste à Poponguine is a charming, fast-paced and bittersweet coming of age story set during the weeks before Christmas 1964 in a Senegalese seaside village. The "Ins" (or Inseparables) have adopted the names of French pop stars Johnny Halliday, Sylvie Vartan, "Clo Clo" and Eddie Mitchell whereas the Kings style themselves after African American Rhythm and Blues legends Otis Redding, Ray Charles and James Brown. The film reveals how young Africans have created overlapping identities, blending elements of American and French pop culture into their daily lives. Chubby Checkers' Let's Twist Again, sung in French, offers a quintessentially post-modern moment. In French with English subtitles.
For additional information, please contact Professor Michael Marshall at (808) 974-7524.
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