Medicine For Melancholy March 6, 2009

MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY, a crowd-pleasing love story set in San Francisco starts March 6, 2009...in San Francisco!
Director Barry Jenkins in person opening weekend!

Official Film Website: http://ifcfilms.com/viewFilm.htm?filmId=1336

Writer/Director Barry Jenkins' debut feature MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY concerns itself with the modern complexities of living as an African American, a declining minority in San Francisco. It is a love story of told through the eyes of Jo (Tracey Heggins) and Micah (Wyatt Cenac), two African-American twenty-something's dealing with issues of class, identity, and the issue of being a minority in San Francisco, the city with the smallest proportional black population of any major city in America. As gentrification displaces African-Americans from the cultural centers of American cities with unchecked speed, being African-American has become an increasing struggle to assert and identify oneself on one's own terms in a manner on par with historically lesser represented minorities. MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY explores the difficulties of maintaining one's identity by illustrating how the effects of gentrification make it virtually impossible for minority urbanites to just "be." Jo' and Micah represent two sides of a conversation long absent from cinema's representation of the black experience.

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER - San Francisco International Film Festival 2008
SPECIAL JURY AWARD FOR CINEMATOGRAPHY- Sarasota Film Festival 2008

Starts at Embarcadero Center Cinema March 6
Director Barry Jenkins will appear Friday 3/6 and Saturday 3/7 at both evening shows
Showtimes and tickets will be available Tuesday, March 3.

We hope to see you there!

Official Website: http://ifcfilms.com/viewFilm.htm?filmId=1336