Film Screening: Ganja & Hess @ Suns Cinema

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**Link to tickets:** [GANJA & HESS](https://sunscinema.com/movies/ganja-hess-baldwin-house-fundraiser/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAdGRleAUqSSJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mAmZkaWQWUPYDiPY0FRJgIb5Sp6OiQL50_FGP73NydGMGYXBwX2lkDzEyNDAyNDU3NDI4NzQxNAABp-c57uSYpa_5JZobGbVmGdPEnp1KLLYZgzDyJ6dGIVA8R_uuZ4y5bVaeooY7_aem_74ehS7V01hiLIzlnhW209g) We'll be co-hosting 2 Halloween-themed screenings this month! The first will be **Ganja & Hess by Bill Gunn** (one of our faves!!) at **Suns Cinema**! Tickets will be very limited to please purchase early! This is a fundraiser for The Baldwin House, presented in conjunction with DC Black Girl Film Club! Stay after in the theater for a group discussion. Catch the 2nd screening, Night of the Living Dead if you're up for a Duane Jones double feature! **Film Synopsis:** Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and horror, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent film *Ganja & Hess* is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American identity. Duane Jones (*Night of the Living Dead*) stars as anthropologist Hess Green, who is stabbed with an ancient ceremonial dagger by his unstable assistant (director Bill Gunn), bestowing upon him the blessing of immortality… and the curse of an unquenchable thirst for blood. When the assistant’s beautiful and outspoken wife Ganja (Marlene Clark) comes searching for her missing husband, she and Hess form an unexpected partnership. Together, they explore just how much power blood holds. Later recut and released in an inferior version, this edition represents the original release, restored by The Museum of Modern Art with support from The Film Foundation, and mastered in HD from a 35mm negative. **Baldwin House:** Baldwin House is a community-led affordable housing cooperative and mutual aid hub in DC dedicated to building a liberated future for working class people. **DC Black Girl Film Club:** DC Black Girl Film Club is a…