Twice as Nice + Dreams of Passion

Wednesday, July 8 - Thursday, July 9, 2026

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  • Thu Jul 9 : 

    Intro by dir. Aarin Burch at 9:00

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SHOWTIMES AT IFC CENTER

Thursday, June 9 at 9:00: Introduction by director Aarin Burch

TWICE AS NICE
The second feature by pioneering director Jessie Maple is a wonderfully relaxed, comic portrait of twin sister basketball players Caren and Camilla Parker (played by real-life twins and NCAA basketball stars Pamela and Paula McGee) competing to be the first draft pick in the women’s professional league (here, the “MBA,” anticipating the future WNBA). With her keen eye for telling details honed through her documentary work, Maple explores questions of sisterhood, ambition, and what it means to succeed as a young Black woman in America.

Screening with DREAMS OF PASSION (dir. Aarin Burch, 1989, 5 min)
Through her groundbreaking cinematic lens, Bay Area-based filmmaker Aarin Burch explores Black lesbian artistic expression and desire. With “Dreams of Passion” Burch, a trained dancer, uses the intimacy of a dance studio as a playground of movement, touch, and affection between contemporary dancers Matima Hadi and Debra Floyd. Burch’s tender eye depicts the earliest known same-sex kiss between Black women on screen.

DREAMS OF PASSION has been remastered by the University of Chicago Film Studies Center in collaboration with Colorlab. Support for restoration was provided by the National Film Preservation Foundation. A Milestone Films release.



Screening as part of our series Declaration of Independents!

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  • Country USA
  • Year 1989
  • Running Time 70 minutes
  • Format DCP
  • Distributor Janus
  • Director Jessie Maple
  • Cast Pamela McGee, Paula McGee, Cynthia Cooper-Dyke
  • Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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