Women Make Movies, a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization, announces the release of a new film, Africa Rising: The Grassroots Movement to End Female Genital Mutilation.
Directed by Emmy Award® winner Paula Heredia and produced by Equality Now, Africa Rising follows the story of a grassroots movement to end the 5,000 year old practice of female genital mutilation. Following poignant stories of women in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, Somalia, and Tanzania, the film shows how African women and men are putting an end to this human rights violation.
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African Movie Night in Atlanta
TOMORROW, February 27th, The WOCAF – Women of Color Arts & Film – Festival Atlanta, is celebrating Black History Month with African Male African Male Filmmakers!
Join Iyalode Productions (Producers of The WOCAF Festival) and Apinke Magazine with Filmmaker Kunle Afolayan at Hill Auditorium @ The Woodruff arts center, in Atlanta, Saturday, February 27th 2010 at 7pm for the Atlanta premier of his film “Figurine (Araromire)”
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After the screening we will be joining our dear friend DJ AUSAR of the Tuesday (2-4pm) KALAKUTA SHOW on 89.3WRFG FM at the SPREAD LOVE JUMP & FUNK Party. Details below
SPREAD LOVE + JUMP N FUNK celebrate Black History Month
Location:595 North Avenue, NW Atlanta, GA 30318
Time:10:00PM Saturday, February 27th
Francophone Film Symposium, March 1-5
The Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University Bloomington will welcome four acclaimed film directors for a week of free screenings and engagement with students, faculty and the community, starting Monday (March 1).
Most events for “From the Post Colonial to the Global Postmodern? African and Caribbean Francophone Filmmakers and Scholars in Conversation” will take place March 1-5 at the center’s new home in suite 044B of the Wells Library, 1320 E. Tenth St.
Filmmakers Gaston Kaboré, from Burkina Faso, Euzhan Palcy, from Martinique, Joseph Gaï Ramaka, from Senegal, and Jean-Marie Teno, from Cameroon, will screen and discuss their films in workshops throughout the week. Several of their films are being shown in Indiana for the first time.
BFC/A has moved!
The Black Film Center/Archive moved to a new home January 7, 2010. Our new location is in the Kent Cooper Room of the Herman B. Wells Library. The new Black Film Center/Archive has a conference/classroom room, a seminar room, a quiet reading room, office space for a visiting filmmaker/scholar, the director and archivist, work space for interns, an equipment room, and a climate controlled storage room for collections.
The BFC/A will share space just outside of the archives with the Wells Library for receptions and exhibitions. Posters from the BFC/A’s collection will be displayed throughout the archives and on the walls of the shared space outside the archives.
We are all really excited about this move! Please come by and have a look!
4th African AmericanShortsFest, February 12-13, 2011
4th African AmericanShortsFest
at the American Cinematheque
February 12-13, 2011
call for short films & animation
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 17, 2010
CHAINS
Directed by Marcus Stokes
Benjamin Ochieng and Andre Royo in CHAINS
HOLLYWOOD SHORTS African American Shortsfest – Feb. 2010
HOLLYWOOD SHORTS is currently accepting submissions for our eight annual AFRICAN AMERICAN SHORTSFEST. This marks the 4th year the American Cinematheque presents our ShortsFest tat their legendary EGYPTIAN THEATRE and we are excited to continue to present fantastic filmmakers in this storied and beautiful cinema. Our African American ShortsFest celebrates the emerging storytellers that are defining a new generation of American Cinema. The program will showcase a cross section offilm genres and styles by filmmakers who are shattering the boundaries of expectation.
Submissions can be 30 minutes or less, and must have been completed no earlier than February 1, 2009. All genres are welcome, including music video, web series, and experimental/art films.
Click here to download a pdf of our submission form or visit us online at www.hollywoodshorts.com