Haverford College

STRANGE TRUTH: Candyman

2021, 1h 31m

Directed by Nia DaCosta

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

7:00–9:00 p.m.

Bryn Mawr Film Institute

Composer Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe in person. Conversation moderated by Matt O’Hare.

**Blue Bus transportation provided from Stokes Hall (Haverford) to Bryn Mawr Film Institute (BMFI), departing Haverford at 6:30pm and leaving BMFI for Stokes at 9:30pm.

Oscar® winner JORDAN PEELE unleashes a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend: Candyman. Filmmaker NIA DACOSTA (Little Woods, next year’s The Marvels) directs this contemporary incarnation of the cult classic. For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy (Emmy winner YAHYA ABDUL-MATEEN II; Watchmen, Us) and his partner, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (TEYONAH PARRIS; WandaVision, If Beale Street Could Talk), move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials.With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini-Green old-timer exposes Anthony to the horrific true story behind Candyman…

Sponsored by VCAM’s CRAFT (CReative Arts, Fabrication, Technology) Initiative.

Organized by Visual Studies faculty John Muse and Matt O’Hare, Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities Director Gus Stadler, Spanish faculty Lina Martínez Hernández, and Haverford’s Korean Culture Club. Made possible by the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities; the VCAM Media & Makers Program; Bryn Mawr Film Institute; Lightbox Film Center; cinéSPEAK; and the Visual Studies Program at Haverford College.

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