{"id":19715,"date":"2019-12-17T14:17:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T19:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?post_type=cu-events&#038;p=19715"},"modified":"2024-07-03T20:56:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T00:56:40","slug":"film-screening-of-hero-inspired-by-the-extraordinary-life-times-of-mr-ulric-cross","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/event\/film-screening-of-hero-inspired-by-the-extraordinary-life-times-of-mr-ulric-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Screening of \u201cHERO \u2013 Inspired By The Extraordinary Life &#038; Times Of Mr. Ulric Cross\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p>Please join the Institute of African Studies and the History Department for a screening of the film &#8220;Hero &#8211; Inspired by the Extraordinary Life &amp; times of Mr. Ulric Cross.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/o\/institute-of-african-studies-and-the-history-department-carleton-university-29132837275\"><strong>Click here to register.<\/strong><\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the screening, you are also invited to join us for a talk by Dr. Michelle Moyd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Black-History-Month-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Black-History-Month-Poster-240x371.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Black-History-Month-Poster-240x371.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Black-History-Month-Poster-160x247.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Black-History-Month-Poster-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Black-History-Month-Poster-400x618.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Black-History-Month-Poster-360x556.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Black-History-Month-Poster.jpg 1056w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/caribbeantales-worldwide.com\/movies\/movies\/hero\/\">Hero<\/a>&#8221; Film Synopsis:<\/strong><br>\nIn 1941 Ulric Cross, a young man from Trinidad, leaves his island home to seek his fortune. He survives from the War as the RAF\u2019s most decorated West Indian. Then, his life takes another course and he becomes part of the movement of history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cross\u2019 long life spanned key moments of the 20th century including independence in Africa and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The film is not just about his life but about the dynamic and transformative times in which he lived. It is the hitherto untold story of those Caribbean professionals who helped to liberate Africa from colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drawing on events of his life the film recreates the inner journey of a Caribbean hero. Watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GjZkecxkAfQ\">trailer online<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shot in Trinidad, Ghana, the UK and Canada, HERO is the story of Ulric Cross, who in 1941, left his small island home to seek his fortune, and became the RAF\u2019s most decorated West Indian. His life took a dramatically different course when he followed the call of history and joined the independence movements sweeping the world in the 50\u2019s and 60\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[151],"cu_event_audience":[164],"class_list":["post-19715","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-events","cu_event_audience-anyone"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2020-02-12 16:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2020-02-12 00:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Jennifer Evans","cu_event_email":"jennifer.evans@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/19715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/19715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19764,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/19715\/revisions\/19764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=19715"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=19715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}