Documentary filmmaker Yoruba Richen will visit Indiana University and speak at a screening of her new documentary, Sisters of the Good Death, according to the IU News Bureau.Sisters of the Good Death (see photo) follows the filmmaker's journey to the town of Cachoeira in northeastern Brazil to uncover the origins of a three-day Catholic festival that has taken place for more than 200 years. A celebration of emancipation from slavery in the Americas, the festival mixes Catholicism with the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomblé, freedom, women's resistance and Afro-Brazilian culture.
The film and Richen's presentation will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday (19 March) in Room 111 of Woodburn Hall, 1100 East Seventh Street, Bloomington. It is being presented by African American and African Diaspora Studies, the Black Film Center Archives and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
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