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Alma's Rainbow / written and directed by Ayoka Chenzira ; produced by Ayoka Chenzira, Howard Brickner, Charles Lane ; Crossgrain Pictures and Rhinoceros Productions present a Paradise Plum Productions presentation ; produced and released by Milestone Film & Video.

New York, NY : Kino Lorber, [2022]

©2022

2 videodiscs (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

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Rainbow is the daughter of Alma, the no-nonsense owner of a popular beauty parlor. Ruby, Alma's free-spirited sister, unexpectedy arrives after a ten year absence, causing Rainbow to confront her own sexual awakening and provoking Alma to reconsider her own self-inflicted repression.

The Milestone cinematheque

Milestone cinematheque.

African American women -- Drama.

Mothers and daughters -- Drama.

African American families -- Drama.

Comedy films.

Coming-of-age films.

Feature films.

Chenzira, Ayoka, film director, screenwriter.

Weston-Moran, Kim, actor.

Nunes, Mizan, actor.

Dobson, Lee, actor.

Platt, Victoria, 1972- actor.

Bourelly, Jean-Paul, composer (expression)

Crossgrain Pictures (Firm), production company.

Rhinoceros Productions (Firm), production company.

Paradise Plum Pictures (Firm), production company.

Milestone Film & Video, production company.

Kino Lorber, Inc., film distributor.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1993.

Director of photography, Ronald K. Gray; editor, Lillian Benson; music by Jean-Paul Bourelly.

Kim Weston-Moran, Mizan Nunes, Lee Dobson, Victoria Gabrielle Platt.

DVD (all regions); Dolby audio.

Close-captioned.

disc 1. [Feature film]. Special features: panel discussion after world premiere of 4K restoration at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Ayoka Chenzira on Alma's Rainbow (oral history recorded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences); Peggy Dillard Toone on Alma's Rainbow -- disc 2. Short films by Ayoka Chenzira: Syvilla: they dance to her drum -- Hairpiece: a film for nappy headed people -- The lure and the lore -- Zajota and the boogie spirit -- Pull your head to the moon: stories of Creole women -- Williamswood -- MOTV (My own TV) -- Snowfire -- In the rivers of mercy angst -- HERadventure.

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