newportFILM will screen the new documentary TOMORROW, TOMORROW, TOMORROW, with prolific cinematographer and filmmaker Martina Radwan on hand for a post-film talkback.
Screening in partnership with the Jamestown Arts Center and presented by Discover Newport, the event will be held on Thursday, May 30th, at 6:30 pm at the Jamestown Arts Center in Jamestown. A reception prior to the film, open to all attendees, will follow a post-film talkback with director Martina Radwan (FOOD AND COUNTRY) and producer Ruchi Mital (THIS WORLD IS NOT HER OWN).
Named by Indiewire as one of the ten must-see films at DOCNYC, TOMORROW, TOMORROW, TOMORROW starts where most films about homeless kids end: the day after they are taken in. We assume it’s a happy ending – but what really happens next?
While on assignment filming orphaned street kids in Mongolia, NYC-based cinematographer Martina Radwan feels drawn to help three of the kids escape their dead-end situations. Naive, idealistic, and thoroughly unprepared, she dives in to fix things – is this a Westerner’s savior complex, or something more? As the filmmaker and central character, Martina grapples with what it means to intervene in a meaningful way and if Baaskaa, Baani, and Nasaa truly want what she offers them. Martina questions her own intentions, identity, and abilities, and wonders what it means to look and document.
The film, told over six years, is an honest portrait of how storytellers and their central participants impact each other and addresses the messiness of love and belonging, as well as the universal experience of family and the unexpected journeys we sometimes take to find one. This won’t be Martina Radwan’s last trip to Rhode Island. newportFILM has named Radwan as a mentor at their 2024 Cinematography Lab in October.
Tickets for the screening are now available and can be purchased here.