As we shashay into that time of the month where Pink Festivities are promenading around the world for varied intentions all boiling down to the celebration of one’s being-ness, it just stand to reason that we partake in such festivity.

Parading at Pelikula@TitusBrandsma are acclaimed films that give a new landscape to the meaning of being a family. As the paradigms of the world continuosly shift, no one can ever pin down what is normal and conventional. Nothing is black & white anymore, all the colors of life comes into play to different shady terrains and to the many variants of combos of relationships. The need to wade through certain biases and accept the reality that although we all don’t sing in the same hymm book, there is a brave new world/family out there different in form, substance and is all jazz up with a touch of Pink!

The marching of Pink films unveils at 1pm on June 24, culminating in a surprise film worthy of making a dent in our ever-changing education:

Madame Satã
Karim Ainouz, Argentina, 2002.
105 minutes.

A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, convict and father to seven adopted children, dos Santos--better known as Madame Satã--was also a notorious gay performer who pushed social boundaries in a volatile time.