FILM

OUR IMAGE and the Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) present a special One Night Only Free screening of PARIS IS BURNING (runtime 71 minutes).  Screening is at the Houston Museum of African American Culture -- There is a free museum parking lot and free street parking.

The award winning documentary, PARIS IS BURNING, takes an honest, humorous, and surprisingly poignant peek into one of America's overlooked subcultures: the world of the urban drag queen. It's a parallel dimension of bizarre beauty, where "houses" vie like gangs for turf and reputation ... only instead of street-fighting, contestants vogue their way down makeshift catwalks in competitive "balls." The only rule of the ballroom: be real.

In surprisingly candid interviews, you discover the grace, strength, and humor it takes to be gay, black, and poor in a straight, rich, white world.

“ It's a great watch for anyone interested in the whole range of humanity, or anyone who's ever been an outsider, desperately wanting something the world hides out of reach.” --Grant Balfour