The title of A.V. Rockwell’s film, “A Thousand and One,” speaks to the many struggles 22-year-old Inez (Tenyana Taylor) faces as she tries to raise her son in New York City in the late 1990s and 2000s. The M.V. Film Center is screening this thoroughly engrossing feature on June 19 in honor of Juneteenth. Inez is fierce, speaks her mind, and is quick to anger. We meet her in 1994 at Rikers Island Correctional Facility, styling a fellow inmate’s h…
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