There will be two days of special events with the fabulous BeBe Zahara Benet on March 31st & April 1st in San Francisco, CA. First on Thursday March 31st there will be two in person screening of the documentary “Being BeBe” at the Roxie Cinema at 7P & 9:30P with BeBe Zahara Benet, Director Emily Branham & Producer Marc Smolowitz in attendance for a Q&A with a pre-reception at 518 Valencia Street Gallery in San Francisco presented by Frameline, BraveMaker & Rainbow Railroad. Then on Friday April 1st at 8P BeBe Zahara Benet will move over to the Soma District to perform live in concert at San Francisco’s legendary nightclub Oasis which will feature BeBe performing with a 6-person band. Marc Smolowitz, CEO of 13th Gen & producer of the documentary stated, “I am so excited to be partnering with Oasis to bring both ‘Being BeBe’ & BeBe Zahara Benet to San Francisco. BeBe is the sort of legendary global artist that San Francisco has always celebrated & this two-night offering is poised to surprise & delight both lovers of independent documentary & lovers of live music.” The film “Being BeBe” intimately charts 15 years in the life of renowned drag performer BeBe Zahara Benet (aka Marshall Ngwa) an immigrant to the United States from homophobic Cameroon who became the first winner of the wildly successful reality television franchise RuPaul’s Drag Race in 2009 & is now a leading musical artist & performer celebrating Queer & Black Excellence. The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival last June of has won two major prizes at the Provincetown International Film Festival & the Sound Unseen Film Festival in Minneapolis. For Roxie Tix… For Oasis Tix...
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