The Hip Hop Film Fest, an event organized by the Center For Hip Hop Education, and presented by The Alarm newspaper is coming to town Oct 12 & 13.

On Sunday Oct 13th, the award winning film Dark Days will screen at 1 p.m . A moving portrait of squatters living underneath the NYC subway system, the film is notable for it's unusual subject matter and b & w cinematography.
The dwellers forge community beneath the city, and enjoy the lack of modern financial burden--no rent, utility or grocery bills. Some are addicts who feel they have no choice, forced to run from their past and never look back. The subterranean trials and tribulations of the subjects include inevitable encroachment of the law of the surface world and dealings with above ground authority.

After the film , the organizers woiuld like to feature some speakers from the community and we hope indie media participants will show up to see these awrd winning film.

www.darkdays.com
http://www.hiphopfilmfest.com

Other films include:

Poetic License screens on Saturday @ 1 p.m which takes a look at youth poetry slams and the national competitions.

Saturday night Straight Outta Hunters Point which screens on Saturday night and is a look at the daily drama of life in San Francisco's most notorious housing project. Folowing SOHP wwill be a performancce by T-Kash of the Coup, Kev Kelley, Hectic and others.

more info avaialble in the Alarm Newspaer and online at www.hiphopfilmfest.com