May 31, 2019 6:45PM Film Screening: Bakosó at The Philadelphia Latino Film Festival

Bakosó Philadelphia Premiere with Q&A from director Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi and Dj Jigüe from Cuba

Caplan Center for the Performing Arts @ UArts
211 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107

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9:00PM—12AM
Party with DJ Jigüe of Bakoso!
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What does “Está Rico” by Marc Anthony, Will Smith & Bad Bunny have in common with “Made For Now” by Janet Jackson x Daddy Yankee? They both high-jacked AfroBeats and did not give the genre’s origin props. Bakosó is a film that does the opposite, following DJ Jigüe on a journey to his hometown of Santiago de Cuba as he explores Cuba’s manifestation of the global AfroBeats hype, “bakosó”, to discover where the roots of the genre come from. We know there is deep-rooted African influence in Cuba, but bakosó itself is beautiful proof that the exchange did not end with the Transatlantic slave trade.

CUBA, 2019
ELI JACOBS-FANTAUZZI, DIRECTOR
DJ JIGÜE, PROTAGONIST
DOCUMENTARY
SPANISH (WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES)
49 MIN
Tickets: $14.36 with fee