Pop Up Cinema: Independent Film Series
Rocky Mountain Women’s Film is proud to present Pop Up Cinema – an independent film series. Experience the joy of film with friends and fellow cinephiles, as we share the best in independent movies, often first run and always the quality you have come to expect from Rocky Mountain Women’s Film!
Join us each month in our “pop-up” theater at the Ivywild School. In May we will be featuring CALL ME DANCER.
Tickets can be purchased in advance for $15, or $20 at the door.
Doors Open 6:30pm | Film Begins 7pm
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CALL ME DANCER
Directed by Leslie Shampaine
Manish is a young and talented street dancer from Mumbai who is struggling against his parents’ insistence that he follow a traditional path because they are counting on their only son to support them.
When he secretly attends an inner-city dance school and accidentally walks into a ballet class he meets Yehuda, a curmudgeonly 70-year-old Israeli teacher, and a hunger develops within him. Ambitious and passionate, Manish is determined to make it as a professional dancer, but the odds are stacked against him.
Call Me Dancer is a story of hope, heartache, and hard work. Together, Manish and Yehuda transform each other’s lives, searching to uncover who and what they are. Yehuda seeks a purpose and a place to call home. Manish dreams of dancing on the world-stage but struggles to break free from the confines of his own economic and social circumstances.
Filmed in India, the United Kingdom, Israel, and the United States. With two original songs by Jay Sean, music by Bangladeshi American hip-hop artist Anik Khan, and a score by award-winning, British-Indian composer Nainita Desai and Nina Humphreys
International pop icon, singer and songwriter Jay Sean executive produced Call Me Dancer because the story resonated with his own; as a British-Indian, Sean’s parents wanted him to pursue medicine rather than his dream of becoming a singer.
