The result of the collaboration between Nicola Mai and the TRANSgrediendo Intercultural Collective – a grassroots association defending the rights of trans Latina migrant women in Queens, New York City. Caught mixes collaborative ethno-fiction methods with an observational documentary, to involve its participants throughout its production.

Written and performed by members of the Collective, the film follows Rosa and Paloma as they face transphobic violence, persecution from the police, and fight against a hostile political environment in the US, while also expressing their identities in positive ways during a drag show that allows them to counter their marginalisation and stigmatisation.

As a community arts space, Trinity is committed to our core values of being a ‘Centre for the People’ and platforming work as part of our programme that represents and reflects our diverse communities. Please read our free speech policy for more information

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Following the film, a panel discussion will explore the issues of identity, inclusion and belonging in future cities.

This is part of a series of events with key partner organisations across the city to stimulate a discussion about civic and political participation.

The schedule for the evening will be:

Event chair: Rob Mitchell (Firstborn Studios CIC)

5.30 - 6.00pm Registration & Can Do Bristol networking

6.00 - 6:45pm Welcome, introductions and screening of '#ThereISBlackInTheUnionJack’ film

6:45 - 8.15pm Q&A with panel of local speakers

• Cllr Afzal Shah, Bristol City Council
• Abdul Ahmed, Bristol Somali Forum
• Lawrence Hoo, Poet & Local activist
• Emma Harvey, Trinity Community Arts
• Sado Jirde, BSWN

8.15pm - 8.30pm Final remarks and close of event

This is a FREE event happening at 3 different venues across Bristol, you will need to register using the ticket link on the left hand side to attend. Please ensure you choose the event happening on 12th March for the screening at the Trinity Centre.

BSWN is regional BAME Infrastructure organisation supporting BAME community organisations across the South West. As we’re approaching the upcoming mayoral & local elections, BSWN (Black South West Network) is planning a series of events with key partner organisations across the city; Inner city, Knowle West and Southmead, about Race, Class and Politics, to stimulate a discussion about civic and political participation within under-represented communities in decision making processes.

This special gala screening of To Catch A Thief includes wrap around treats: bubbly on arrival; live swing music from the South by Southwest quartet headed up by Maxwell Davies (UWE Centre for Music); Cary Grant themed cocktails and prizes for the best dressed Hollywood vintage style:

> Best Dressed Woman: Restyle, Blowdry and Luxe Treatment Clair Swinscoe Hair Couture
> Best Dressed Man: Hot Shave or VIP membership of Suave & Co Barbershop and Lounge in Clifton Village
> Best Dressed Couple or Group (of any description): Magnum of Fantinel Prosecco Extra Dry courtesy of Renato's King Street

No pressure to dress up, you can just come as you are, but if you want to go for it - get your glad rags on for a chance to win one of our amazing prizes!

#vintage #Hollywood #GraceKelly #CaryGrant

Fantastic value £10 Under 24 ticket or £20/£15 conc. (+£1.50 transaction fee)

About the film:

Infamous cat burglar, John 'The Cat' Robie (Cary Grant), claims to be on the straight and narrow after having served his time in prison. Following a series of jewellery thefts committed in his style, the police are naturally keen to question him. Determined to find the real culprit, John befriends a rich American woman and her beautiful daughter, Francie (Grace Kelly) to see if he can flush the burglar out. When their jewels are stolen, Francie immediately suspects John, threatening their blossoming romance. Will John catch the thief, clear his name and win his girl?

Sizzling chemistry between Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, sumptuous costumes by Edith Head and the glamorous backdrop of Cannes: don’t miss the opportunity to catch this Hitchcock classic on the big screen. With bubbly on arrival, live music and prizes for the best dressed vintage Hollywood style

This film is rated PG, so although there is no age limit, children must be accompanied by an adult.

Partnering with Come the Revolution, we kick off with Dancehall Queen:

“Made in Jamaica” is a powerful portrait of the leaders of a Jamaican music movement that has become a worldwide phenomenon. The film tells the story of how artists on a small island nation in the Caribbean of only three million people took their human experience and turned it into songs full of emotions that resonate around the world.” Reggae is Jamaica’s blues: a music of both desperation and hope.

Director: Jerome Laperrousaz

From: Jamaica/France/US Year: 2006

Run time: 110

Doors, food and our outside bar open from 7.00pm

Live music from 7.30pm

Film due to start around 8.00pm (after the sun sets!)

Wet weather plan: We're obviously encouraging the warm summer evenings to continue in to September - if we do get adverse wether however, don't fear. We can move all the action indoors. Fingures crossed it stays dry and bright.

Trinity brings together two weekends with double bills of classic films, food and music over two nights:

UNDER THE SKIN is the story of an alien in human form. Part road movie, part science fiction, part real, it's a film about seeing our world through alien eyes.

Director(s): Jonathan Glazer

Runtime: 108 minutes

Certificate: 15

Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Paul Brannigan, Antonia Campbell-Hughes

**Revised timings for indoors**

Doors and bar open from 7.00pm (also visit our Visible Girls: Revisited Exhibition from 7pm)

DJ set from VMO$ (Young Echo) at 7.00pm

Film to start 8.00pm

Read about the full Outdoor Cinema series here

BBFC Guidance:infrequent strong sex, frequent nudity

Wet weather plan: We're obviously encouraging the warm summer evenings to continue in to September - if we do get adverse wether however, don't fear. We can move all the action indoors. Fingures crossed it stays dry and bright.

From master story teller, Guillermo del Toro, comes 'The Shape Of Water' - an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963.

Director(s): Guillermo del Toro

Run time: 123 minutes

Certification: 15

Cast: Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins, Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer

Doors, food and our outside bar open from 7.00pm

DJ set from VMO$ (Young Echo) at 7.00pm

Film due to start around 8.00pm (after the sun sets!)

Read about the full Outdoor Cinema series here

BBFC Guidance: strong violence, language, sex, nudity

Wet weather plan: We're obviously encouraging the warm summer evenings to continue in to September - if we do get adverse wether however, don't fear. We can move all the action indoors. Fingures crossed it stays dry and bright.

Trinity brings together two weekends with double bills of classic films, food and music over two nights:

In one of the greatest road movies of all time, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon ride to everlasting fame as two women who embark on a crime spree across the American southwest.

Director(s): Ridley Scott

Runtime: 128 minutes

Certification: 15

Production Year: 1991

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Cast: Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Susan Sarandon

Doors, food and our outside bar open from 7.00pm

Live Music from 7.30pm

Film due to start around 8.00pm (after the sun sets!)

Read about the full Outdoor Cinema series here

BBFC guidance: Contains strong language and violence

Wet weather plan: We're obviously encouraging the warm summer evenings to continue in to September - if we do get adverse wether however, don't fear. We can move all the action indoors. Fingures crossed it stays dry and bright.

Partnering with Come the Revolution, we kick off with Dancehall Queen*:

Rags to riches fairytale set in the phantasmagorical world of Jamaican dancehall featuring some fab tunes and eye popping dancing.

Street vendor Marcia is scraping together a living in the ghetto section of Kingston, Jamaica. Her young daughter is being hounded by a rich sugar daddy who has been supporting the family; her brother's life is being threatened by a local thug. So, when the licentious patron threatens to abandon the family, and her brother breaks down under pressure, Marcia hits bottom. She needs to escape to a haven where she can get lost in fantasy; Marcia, don in sex-me-up clothing and outrageous glamour, finds refuge in the beats of the very dance hall outside of which she normally vends.

Directors: Rick Elgood, Don Letts

Writers: Suzanne Fenn, Don Letts

Stars: Audrey Reid, Carl Davis, Paul Campbell

From: Jamiacia / Year: 1997

Run time: 98mins

(*Please note that this film replaces Made in Jamaica which was on some earlier listings)

Doors, food and our outside bar open from 7.00pm

DJ Ngaio presents Booty Base from 7.30pm

Film due to start around 8.00pm (after the sun sets!)

Read about the full Outdoor Cinema series here

Wet weather plan: We're obviously encouraging the warm summer evenings to continue in to September - if we do get adverse wether however, don't fear. We can move all the action indoors. Fingures crossed it stays dry and bright.

Girl Power is a documentary that presents female graffiti writers from fifteen cities – from Prague to Moscow, Cape Town, Sydney, Biel, Madrid, Berlin, Toulouse, Barcelona and all the way to New York. The graffiti community is predominantly a man's world, and men often share the view that graffiti – namely the illegal kind – is not for girls. And yet women have become increasingly more emancipated in recent years; there are female graffiti shows, magazines and websites. Girl Power captures the stories of ladies who have succeeded in the male graffiti world. 
However, Girl Power is more than just a look into the graffiti microcosm; it tells the moving story of Czech writer Sany, who decided in 2009 to capture female emancipation in graffiti on film and to give other girls and women the possibility to express themselves. It took her 7 long years to complete the documentary. We follow her life with graffiti, her motivation and values that keep changing as the years go by. We will also meet her family, who are absolutely unaware of Sany's "second life". Sany sacrifices a lot for the film, but even when she's at the end of her tether, she refuses to give up on her dream – to make the very first movie depicting females in graffiti.

More info coming soon.

REVOLUTION: NEW ART FOR A NEW WORLD (2.15pm - 3.35pm)
Margy Kinmonth’s extensive study shows the impact of the Russian Revolution on the country’s artists. This is an opportunity to see much of the iconic work created by the exciting artistic movements that sprung up alongside the attempts to create a new society, as well as a study in the forces that worked to suppress it.

Runtime: 1hr 25m
Director: Margy Kinmouth
#BRFF2017

An aesthetically radical film about the ghettoisation and social entrapment of Baltimore's black population... via the medium of rats. Over the 20th century, Baltimore’s communities and housing are in a state of perennial disrepair enabled by the state. Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. Rat Film uses the rat - as well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill them - to explore the history of Baltimore.

With Q&A on housing & race hosted by Come The Revolution.

Runtime: 1hr 22m
Director: Theo Anthony
#BRFF2017

While they find themselves increasingly attracted to each other, they refuse to give in to their feelings so as not to commit similar wrongs... but the passion is so tempting.

With its exquisite colour costume, poise and tone Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love will linger in the memory like a perfect kiss.

Michael Galasso’s incredible score will be preceded by live music from Hokkett;

A trio of flute, violin and baritone sax. Skronky / wonky riffs, snippets of melodies and hints of harmonies, woven together through improvisation. Hokkett take the space between them, using it as an extra member - stretching the silence out before crushing it flat with kneejerk riffs and torn rhythms.

Tina Hitchens - Flute, Yvonna Magda - Violin, Helen Papaioannou - Baritone Sax.

Film duration: 1hr 38Min

Doors, food from Momo-Bar & our outside bar open from 7pm

Live music from 7.30pm

Film due to start at 8pm (when the sun sets!)

(Wet weather plan - screening and music will take place in Trinity's Main Hall)

Screened as part of the cinematic, music and food weekend series: Lush

Wong Kar-wai's classic was the inspiration behind our Saturday night film by Barry Jenkins - catch Moonlight Saturday 2nd September