"Millie and the Lords": A film screening and discussion with director Jennica Carmona

Millie and the Lords follows one woman's journey from isolation and helplessness to strength and empowerment. Milagros Baez struggles with the daily pressures of life in El Barrio of New York City, longing for a different life but with little hope of achieving it. When she meets Mateo, a former member of the Young Lords Party, a revolutionary barrio organization of the 1970s, she learns about their activism and is inspired to forge a new path of possibility for herself. Filmed in New York's East Harlem barrio, the film integrates historical footage of the Young Lords into a contemporary narrative, producing a creative document that revives the legacy of the Young Lords in order to share it with a new generation of Nuyorican youth.

Jennica Carmona is a New York based Puerto Rican filmmaker and activist. She graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a member of New York Women in Film and Television, Film Fatales and Moms in Film. Jennica worked with director Lee Daniels on the Academy Award winning film, Precious. This experience gave her the impetus to write, direct and produce Mille and the Lords, her first feature film. The film has received several festival awards and was sold to HBO/Cinemax shortly after its release.

This event is FREE. On-campus parking is FREE.

Occidental College
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles 90041

**This is a CSP 99 event

For information, contact Prof. Raúl Villa: rhvilla@oxy.edu; 323-259- 2695

Click here for a campus map with walking directions to Choi Auditorium.