Stefon Bristol's SEE YOU YESTERDAY And Storm Saulter's SPRINTER Announced At BAM

BAM and Caribbean Film Series present two special events this June: Stefon Bristol's Spike Lee-produced sci-fi feature See You Yesterday (2019) on Tuesday, June 4 at 7pm, and Storm Saulter's Jamaican sports film Sprinter (2018), screening on Wednesday, June 26 at 7:30pm.

In Stefon Bristol's See You Yesterday, Back to the Future meets Groundhog Day meets Black Lives Matter in a Brooklyn-set time travel adventure. After her older brother is wrongfully killed by the police, science prodigy CJ (Eden Duncan-Smith) and her best friend Sebastian (Dante Crichlow), develop a makeshift time machine, desperate to use their invention to go back in time and save him. Combining genre allusions (including a supporting turn from Back to the Future star Michael J. Fox) and pressing real world issues, Bristol crafts a comedy-drama that is at once fantastical and poignantly grounded.

Sprinter, a gripping drama from director and visual artist Storm Saulter (Better Mus' Come), follows a Jamaican teen (Dale Sharp), burdened by an unstable father and an unruly older brother, who hopes a meteoric rise in track-and-field can reunite him with his mother, who has lived illegally in the United States for more than a decade. Sprinter swept the 2018 American Black Film Festival winning "Best Director," "Best Narrative Feature," and the "Audience Award."

Since 1998 BAM Rose Cinemas has been Brooklyn's home for alternative, documentary, art-house, and independent films. Combining new releases with year-round repertory program, the four-screen venue hosts new and rarely seen contemporary films, classics, work by local artists, and festivals of films from around the world, often with special appearances by directors, actors, and other guests. BAM has hosted major retrospectives of filmmakers like Spike Lee, Chantal Akerman, John Carpenter, Manoel de Oliveira, Luis Buñuel, King Hu, and Vincente Minnelli (winning a National Film Critics' Circle Award prize for the retrospective), and hosted the first US retrospectives of directors Arnaud Desplechin, Hong Sang-soo, Andrzej Zulawski, and Jiang Wen. Since 2009 the program has also produced BAMcinemaFest, New York's home for American independent film, and has championed the work of filmmakers like Janicza Bravo, Andrew Dosunmu, Lena Dunham, and Alex Ross Perry. The 12-day festival of New York premieres, now in its eleventh year, runs from June 12-23, 2019.