All on a Mardi Gras Day
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- event type:WOMEX 19 Film Screening
- date:25 Oct 2019
- time:18:30 - 20:00
- city/area:Tampere
- venue:Public Screening, Arthouse Cinema Niagara
- country:Finland
- event posted by:Piranha Arts
Directed by Michal Pietrzyk
22 mins | USA, 2019 | English with English subtitles
In a gentrifying New Orleans, black artist Demond Melancon sacrifices to be Big Chief in a secret 200-year subculture known as Mardi Gras Indians: African-American men from the city’s roughest neighbourhoods who spend all year sewing feathered suits they’ll wear only once, in a battle to decide who’s ‘the prettiest’. The film is an intimate portrait of one man’s obsessive journey to honour the bond between runaway slave ancestors and the Native Americans who housed them during their escape.
Michal Pietrzyk was born in Poland and immigrated to the US after his father’s imprisonment as a member of the anti-communist movement Solidarity. He started his career as an editor of unscripted television, graduating to a producer for National Geographic, Discovery and others. 'All on a Mardi Gras Day' is his directorial debut.
Produced by: Michal Pietrzyk
Producers: Michal Pietrzyk, David Favret, Celeste Caliri, Gabriel Bienczycki
Director of Photography: Gabriel Bienczycki
Sound: Jason Devore
Edited by: Michal Pietrzyk
Music by: Kai Engel
Contact: Michal Pietrzyk
