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HARD TO SWALLOW: A FOOD SHOW NOT ABOUT FOOD
HARD TO SWALLOW: A FOOD SHOW NOT ABOUT FOOD Tunde Wey and Theo Schear in Conversation
Saturday, July 12th, 2025 from 7 – 9pm
Moderated by Njaimeh Njie
$5 TICKETS | HARRIS THEATER
Join us for a screening of Hard To Swallow, a poetic food docuseries chronicling the life and perspective of Nigerian chef, writer, and artist Tunde Wey. Essayistic and experimental, the series recounts Wey’s explosive career while building critique of the social structures that disenfranchise Black people globally. The 6-part docuseries premiered at CANNESERIES and SeriesFest
The screening will feature the pilot, episode 5 and the season finale (30 mins each) followed by a panel discussion with Wey and documentary filmmaker Theo Schear, moderated by multimedia artist Njaimeh Njie.
Co-presented by ALMA | LEWIS and The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust in conjunction with the exhibition ALL STARS: A Constellation of 10 Resident Artists.
Tunde Wey
Tunde Wey is a social practice artist living between Nigeria and the United States. Working at the intersection of capital and the political economy, Wey’s work engages material hierarchies and disparities, focusing particularly on how economics and finance impact working class Black people globally. He uses food, writing, film, performance, installation and finance to confront these disparities and attempts interventions in the same mediums. Wey’s work has been widely covered, including in the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, and GQ. His own writing has been featured in the Boston Globe, Oxford American, Bloomberg, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Wey has exhibited across the United States and internationally. He is a 2025 Harvard Loeb Fellow; a 2024 CANNESERIES Official Selection. Wey is also a recipient of the Monroe Fellowship from Tulane University (2023) as well as the Ford Foundation Just Films Grant (2022). Tunde Wey is currently working on a book of essays to be published with MCD (a division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Find him on Instagram: @from_lagos.
Theo Schear
Theo Schear is a documentary filmmaker from Oakland, California. He was a 2021 SFFILM FilmHouse Resident and a member of Detroit Public Television’s National Documentary Unit. His writing has appeared in SFMOMA’s Open Space, Documentary Magazine, Nieman Lab, and Film Threat. Find him on Instagram: @theoschear.
Njaimeh Njie
Njaimeh Njie is a multimedia artist. Working across photography, film, collage, and installation, her storytelling practice centers everyday Black people, narratives, and landscapes with a focus on how the past shapes the present. Njie’s work is held in permanent collections that include Pérez Art Museum Miami and Carnegie Museum of Art, and she has presented at spaces including TEDxPittsburghWomen and Harvard University. Njie earned her B.A. in Film and Media Studies in 2010 from Washington University in St. Louis.