About this Event
Act 3 (Revisited): To Be Seen presents a screening of Sugar Island (Johanné Gómez Terrero, 2024), a powerful Afro-diasporic film exploring Black womanhood, migration, labor, and belonging in the Dominican Republic.
The film follows Makenya, a young Haitian-Dominican woman whose unexpected pregnancy reveals how law, labor, and nationality shape who is allowed to belong. As her grandfather protests the exploitation of sugar plantation workers, Makenya’s journey into womanhood becomes a site of resistance, desire, and self-determination.
Blending realism with spiritual and communal ceremony, Sugar Island reflects on displacement, undocumented life, and the legacy of extraction across generations.
Curated as part of Act 3 (Revisited): To Be Seen by Gallery Gachet in collaboration with Akojo Film Collective, this screening situates Sugar Island within a broader inquiry into how Black femme bodies are framed, consumed, and controlled, and how women rewrite the conditions of their becoming through care, refusal, and collective imagination.
CONTENT ADVISORY:
AGE 16+
This film contains mature themes, including pregnancy, sexuality, displacement, and labor exploitation. Some viewers may find certain scenes emotionally intense.
This is a free, ticketed event. Please RSVP in order to reserve your spot.
Doors open at 5:30 pm.
Programming starts at 6:00 pm with an extended introduction by Akojo Film Collective.
The film will screen promptly at 6:30 pm.
For purposes of documentation this event may be photographed, audio recorded, and/or filmed. By attending this event, you consent to such recording media and its release, publication, exhibition or reproduction.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, Canada
CAD 0.00
