The Women’s Film Preservation Fund of NYWIFT is thrilled to announce Kavery Kaul’s celebrated documentary One Hand Don’t Clap screens at Alfreda’s Cinema as part of our 30th Anniversary screening series.
Enjoy music and film under the stars with legendary calypso musicians in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park!
Date: Saturday, September 6, 2025
Time: 7:30 – 9:30pm EDT
Location: Lefferts Historic House (452 Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11225)
Get swept away by the infectious rhythms and exhilarating irreverence of calypso and soca music in this wonderful documentary from filmmaker Kavery Kaul. Legendary artists Grandmaster Lord Kitchener — who made calypso a hit in London — and Calypso Rose—the first woman to break through in this traditionally male sphere — lead audiences from New York recording studios, and the streets of Brooklyn, to the magic of Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago.
There, the festivities culminate with the fiercely contested annual competition between top calypso singers for the title Monarch of the Year. Additional performers include David Rudder (b. 1953), Black Stalin (1941-2022), Growling Tiger (1916-1993), Lord Pretender (1917-2002), The Mighty Duke (1932-2009) and Natasha Wilson (b.1975).
One Hand Don’t Clap reflects the legacy of a vast West Indian-American population, the incredible entrepreneurial growth of their music industry in the US, and their ongoing ties to the traditions that flourish in the Caribbean. Digitally restored by the Academy Film Archive and the Women’s Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film & Television and distributed by Kino Lorber
This screening is part of a year long celebration honoring the Women’s Film Preservation Fund’s 30th year of saving and exhibiting films made by women.
Alfreda’s Cinema is a Brooklyn-based micro-cinema rooted in the belief that Black and Brown stories deserve space, care, and visibility. Founded by Melissa Lyde in 2015, we create space for films that center the lived experiences, aesthetics, and imaginations of Black and non-Black people of color. We champion historically silenced filmmakers and connect their work to local audiences through community-centered screenings that reflect the beauty, nuance, ad complexity of our histories, cultures, and truths. By anchoring our work in a historically Black neighborhood, we bridge cinema and community, offering film as a site of reflection, resistance, and joy.
30 years of saving women’s films
The Women’s Film Preservation Fund of New York Women in Film & Television is the only program in the world dedicated to preserving the cultural legacy of women in the industry through preserving films made by women. Founded in 1995 by NYWIFT in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), WFPF has preserved around 150 American films, across all genres, in which women have played key creative roles. The WFPF is rewriting the film history books, by saving one moving picture at a time.
Get involved today either as a donor or a volunteer and help us continue our important work for another 30 years.
More information: Women’s Film Preservation Fund
WFPF is funded in part by generous support from the Leon Levy Foundation, The Harnisch Foundation, and individual donors.
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