BAAD! - THE BRONX ACADEMY OF ARTS & DANCE PRESENTS
GET TOUGH, GET BAAD!
A FILM SERIES CELEBRATING QUEER POWER, DIVERSITY, VISIBILITY AND DEFIANCE INCLUDES THE NEW GROUNDBREAKING FILM SATURDAY CHURCH, A SHORT FILM FROM BANGLADESH
and A VIDEO DANCE PARTY
February 10-24, 2018
BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance presents GET TOUGH, GET BAAD!, an annual series of films and events celebrating queer power, diversity, defiance, strength and visibility. The series was initiated in 2010 to take a stand against violence, and to counter negative and victimized images of queer people in the media from homophobic attacks in the Bronx and New York City. GET TOUGH, GET BAAD! presents narrative films that are empowering to the LGBTQ community that feature queer, people of color as the protagonists, and also offers events that celebrate queer strength and value. This year’s installment presents seven empowering narrative films and webseries and a video dance party. GET TOUGH! GET BAAD! runs from February 10-24, 2018 at BAAD!, 2474 Westchester Avenue in the Bronx’s Westchester Square neighborhood. All events are free. For reservations, directions and further information call (718) 918-2110 or visit www.BAADBronx.org.
The events are as follows:
Saturday, February 10 at 7pm/Free
BROWN GIRLS
This new web series by Fatimah Asghar follows two friends navigating the messiness of their mid-twenties. Leila is a South Asian-American writer owning her queerness and her best friend Patricia, a sex-positive Black-American musician who struggles to commit to her job, art and relationships.
BRUJOS
Brujos is Ricardo Gamboa’s supernatural series about gay, Latino doctoral students who are also witches trying to survive the semester and a witch hunt led by a secret society of the straight, wealthy, white male descendants of the first New World colonizers.
Saturday, February 10 at 9pm/Free
THE HANDMAIDEN
This erotic psychological thriller is set in 1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation. A new girl (Sookee) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Hideko) who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle (Kouzuki). But the maid is part of a sinister plan until Sookee and Hideko discover some unexpected emotions. Directed by Park Chan-wook.
Friday, February 16 at 9pm-1am/Free
MIGHTY REEL DANCE PARTY
This year’s series includes a dance party with streaming music videos featuring QTPOC. The music videos are by mainstream popular artists, independent artists, and local artists who produce danceable songs and music videos that highlights QTPOC in an empowering light.
Saturday, February 17 at 7pm/Free
SATURDAY CHURCH
Saturday Church tells the story of 14-year-old Ulysses, a shy and effeminate boy, who finds himself coping with new responsibilities as “man of the house” after the death of his father, struggling with questions about his gender identity and discovering his passion for the NYC ball scene, and voguing. Director Damon Cardasis creates a world of fantasy filled with dance, music and a vibrant transgender community.
Saturday, February 24 at 7pm/Free
SIGNATURE MOVE
Fawzia Mirza plays Zaynab, a Pakistani Muslim lawyer who finds inspiration in Lucha Libre wrestling and romance with Alma (Sari Sanchez), the sassy, confident Mexican-American woman who’s winning her heart. Zaynab’s newfound passions challenge her soap-opera—loving mother’s expectations of finding her a husband. This comedic and sexy film is directed by Jennifer Reeder.
PERFECT IDEA
Made in Bangladesh, K D Islam’s short film is a romantic comedy about a gay couple preparing for a visit by one of the partners' father.
Saturday, February 24 at 7pm/Free
BODY ELECTRIC
This fun and racy movie, directed by Marcelo Caetano, follows carefree Elias who works at a textile factory, juggles long shifts, dreams of the sea, and has animated nights-out with no-strings sexual encounters. After another night of working overtime, he and his coworkers go out for a bit of fun that ultimately leads to new encounters and unexpected desires.
Crowned “a funky and welcoming performance space” by The New York Times, BAAD! is a performance and workshop space that presents cutting-edge works in dance and all creative disciplines empowering to women, people of color and the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community. BAAD! is home to Arthur Aviles Typical Theatre (AATT), the Bronx Dance Coalition and the AATT Academy, and was founded by Arthur Aviles and Charles Rice-Gonzalez in 1998 in Hunts Point. BAAD! moved to Westchester Square in October 2013 to a gothic revivalist building on the grounds of St. Peter’s Church.
