That's My Face
In 1996, the filmmaker journeyed to the city Salvador Da Bahia - the African heart and soul of Brazil - seeking the identity of the spirits who haunt his dreams. Twenty years before, his mother made a parallel journey when she migrated with the family to Tanzania, East Africa in search of a mythic motherland. Shot entirely on silent Super 8 film by three generations of an African American family, "That's My Face" creates a mythopoetic feast of self-discovery.
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Cast
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Thomas Allen Harris Director · Don Perry Writer Vernon Reid Composer
United States release May 23, 2003 · Produced in United States
Production
Chimpanzee Productions
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Canada · September 13, 2001
Premiere · Toronto International Film Festival
United States · May 23, 2003
Theatrical · New York City, New York
United States
January 1, 2002 · Premiere · Sundance Film Festival
April 4, 2002 · Premiere · Wisconsin Film Festival
April 6, 2002 · Premiere · Crossroads Film Festival
June 1, 2002 · Premiere · Los Angeles Film Festival
June 3, 2002 · Premiere · Atlanta Film Festival
August 5, 2002 · Premiere · Reeling Chicago Gay Lesbian Film Festival
February 22, 2003 · Premiere · Princeton Queer Articulations Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Brazil
September 19, 2026 · Limited theatrical · São Paulo, Sesc Vila Mariana
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