'Follow Me Home' to be Screened at UB

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The award-winning film "Follow Me Home" will be shown at 7 p.m. March 15 in the Screening Room in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.

Writer/director Peter Bratt will attend and will lead a discussion after the screening.

The screening, which will be free and open to the public, will be presented by the Center for the Americas in the UB College of Arts and Sciences.

"Follow Me Home" takes a non-conventional look at race and identity in the United States. Weaving together traditions of Native, African and Latin cultures, it tells the story of four artists and their journey across the American landscape.

The film, which never was released nationwide, received the Best Feature Film Audience Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1996 and was an Official Selection of the 1996 Sundance Film Festival. It earned Bratt "best director" honors at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco in 1996.