AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange
New Season, New Narratives
For its 16th season, AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange is presenting narrative features for the first time. The acclaimed series from Black Public Media and WORLD has brought documentaries to American audiences for fifteen seasons, and now it’s offering a unique look at community, belonging, life and death through an Afrofuturistic lens.
Episode 1: Supa Modo
Supa Modo, a narrative Kenyan film by Likarion Wainaina, tells the story of Jo, a 9-year-old girl facing terminal cancer. Jo keeps her spirits uplifted through superhero movies screened at her children’s hospital. When her mother decides to bring her home, the girl occupies herself with daydreams of becoming a superhero herself. As her illness and isolation worsen, her older sister, Mwix, joins Jo in her superhero fantasies and soon has the young girl, and their entire village, believing that she may in fact be a true superhero.
Family-Friendly and Honest Exploration
Supa Modo is a family-friendly and honest exploration of childhood illness, life and death, and the importance of family and community. The film proves that superheroes live forever. See the trailer for Supa Modo here: [insert link].
Premiere Date
Supa Modo premieres on Monday, April 8 at 8 p.m. Eastern (7 p.m. Central) on-air on WORLD and streaming.
Episode 2: Kati Kati
A reflective take on the mysteries of life, the afterlife, and the in-between arrives on Monday, April 15 in Kati Kati by Nairobi-born director Mbithi Masya. Kati Kati follows Kaleche, a woman with amnesia who wakes up in the wilderness and makes her way to a lodge called Kati Kati. There she meets a group of strangers all now living there, all now trying to process the loss and regret from their lives and wondering what’s next for them. A moody meditation on life and death, the film presents audiences with an Afrofuturistic view of loss, forgiveness, the now and the hereafter. Watch the Kati Kati trailer here: [insert link].
Premiere Date
Supa Modo and Kati Kati premiere on WORLD on April 8 and April 15 at 8 p.m. Eastern (7 p.m. Central), respectively, when each film begins streaming on the WORLD YouTube Channel, the Black Public Media YouTube Channel and the PBS App.
Other Films This Season
Other films this season of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange include the documentaries Commuted by Nailah Jefferson, following a New Orleans woman given second chance at life after her prison sentence is commuted by President Obama; and season finale Freedom Hill from Resita Cox, a profile of the residents of Princeville, North Carolina as they work to save their community from the effects of environmental injustice and the now frequent “100-year” floods that threaten to wash it away.
New Episodes Every Monday
New episodes of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange premiere every Monday through April 22 on WORLD.
Conclusion
AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange is bringing something new and exciting to American audiences this season with its first-ever narrative features. From superhero fantasies to meditations on life and death, the films in this season’s lineup offer a unique and thought-provoking look at community, belonging, and the human experience.
FAQs
* When does the new season of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange premiere?
+ The new season premieres on Monday, April 8.
* What are the two narrative films featured in this season’s lineup?
+ Supa Modo and Kati Kati are the two narrative films featured in this season’s lineup.
* When do the films begin streaming?
+ Supa Modo and Kati Kati begin streaming on the WORLD YouTube Channel, the Black Public Media YouTube Channel, and the PBS App on April 8 and April 15, respectively.