KIKI NYC Film Premiere - Red Bull Music Academy Festival New York

A film by Sara Jordenö and Twiggy Pucci Garçon — with performance by the ballroom community and music by Qween Beat -SOLD OUT- April 29 El Museo del Barrio 1230 5th Ave, Manhattan 7PM $15 #RBMANYC Kicking off the Red Bull Music Academy Festival New York 2016, we’re hosting the NYC premiere of KIKI, a cinematic journey into the city’s ballroom subculture known as Kiki. Created and governed by LGBTQ youth of color, the Kiki scene prides itself as a “society within a society,” and provides an activist and creative space for a community dealing with marginalization and discrimination. Directed by Swedish director Sara Jordenö and co-written by Jordenö and local Kiki gatekeeper Twiggy Pucci Garçon, KIKI premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival to much acclaim and received a Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival. KIKI will screen at a special New York event at El Museo del Barrio, attended by the very people who are shaping the ballroom scene today. The screening will be followed by a “Legends, Statements & Stars” performance, bringing out KIKI’s protagonists and other ballroom legends and icons for explosive dance and performance showcases, all backed up by Master of Ceremonies Symba McQueen and Jack Mizrahi with music by ballroom DJ extraordinaires MikeQ and Byrell The Great from the DJ collective Qween Beat, who also composed the music for the film.