10th Annual African Diaspora INTERNATIONAL Film Festival will run in Chicago June 14-21, 2012 Facets Multimedia and the African Diaspora Film Festival will celebrate 10 years of collaboration in the production of a festival that has brought to the imagination of people films such as: The Tracker, Kirikou and The Sorceress, Gospel Hill, Massai, The Rain Warriors, Sia, The Dream of the Python, Made In Jamaica and many more. South Africa, Surinam, The United States, Brazil, Cuba and Came...
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The Jury, Audience, Festival, and other special award-winners of the 2010 PAN
AFRICAN FILM & FESTIVAL (PAFF) were announced tonight at the
Festival's Awards Ceremony hosted by actress CCH Pounder
(Avatar) at the Culver Plaza Theatres (9919 Washington Blvd. Los
Angeles). The Kenyan narrative FROM A WHISPER won for Best Narrative
Feature. A three-way tie was announced for the Audience Favorite Narrative
Award for films SOUL DIASPORA, A STING IN A TALE, and
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HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE
AFRICAN WOMEN STORIES at Anthology with US Premiere Wangari Maathai: For Our Land,< /a> about Kenyan environmental and social justice activist Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.
OPENING NIGHT - WOLE SOYINKA: CHILD OF THE FOREST by Akin Omotoso & NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH by John Kani
Fri, Nov 27 @ 8:00PM - Anthology Film Archives
Sponsored by ArtMattan Productions
"Black Nation" at The Chapel, Teachers College, a film that takes an...
Celebrating African Talent in frontof and behind the camera during the 2009 African Diaspora Film Festival
This year was FESPACO year, the festival was held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Fasofrom February 28 to March 7, 2009. The Golden Yennenga Stallion went to "Teza"by Haile Gerima and the Silver Yennenga Stallion was awarded to "Nothing butthe Truth" by internationally recognized, multiple award-winningSouth African actor/director John Kani.
In "Saturday Night in th...
Cinema in all its diversity will once again be celebrated at the 29th Durban International Film Festival which runs from 23 July to 3 August.Featuring more than 200 films from more than 95 countries, spread over more than 300 screenings at 26 venues across the city, the festival will bring together established masters of cinema and innovative new talents from around the world. Alongside the presentation of the some of the year’s finest films, the festival will run an extensive workshop and sem...
