Two new movies for your July 4th weekend viewing

— from SeaView Theatre — 

Celebrate your Fourth of July weekend with a new film on living American hero JOHN LEWIS and the critically acclaimed Sundance Film Festival film, “MISS JUNETEENTH.” Both films this week are by women directors.

“Miss Juneteeth”
 USA | 2020 | 99min

The debut feature from Channing Godfrey Peoples explores how black women and girls support each other in a world that often fails them. Miss Juneteenth is a very sweet and touching coming-of-age drama about a former Miss Juneteenth pageant winner and her daughter living in Texas. Turquoise Jones is a single mom who holds down a household, a rebellious teenager, and pretty much everything that goes down at Wayman’s BBQ & Lounge. Turquoise is also a bona fide beauty queen–she was once crowned Miss Juneteenth, a title commemorating the day slaves in Texas were freed–two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Life didn’t turn out as beautifully as the title promised, but Turquoise, determined to right her wrongs, is cultivating her daughter, Kai, to become Miss Juneteenth, even if Kai wants something else. Watch trailer and purchase tickets HERE.

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“John Lewis: Good Trouble”
 USA | 2020 | 96min  

Using interviews and rare archival footage, John Lewis: Good Trouble chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, Porter explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family and his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. In addition to her interviews with Lewis and his family, Porter’s primarily cinéma verité film also includes interviews with political leaders, Congressional colleagues, and other people who figure prominently in his life. Exclusive to our virtual screening the film will include a new interview between Congressman Lewis and Oprah that will play after every virtual cinema screening. Watch trailer and purchase tickets HERE.

Thank you for your support and enjoy the films!