BAMcinématek series Creatively Speaking will screen Ebony Goddess Queen of Ile Aiye as part of the Women on the Verge… aka For Colored Girls… (shorts program). This year, the Creatively Speaking series celebrates what the UN has declared “the Year of People of African Descent,” bringing together a selection of films representing the breadth and diversity… Read more »
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Kinshasa Symphony Opened the New York African Film Festival
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vTk0XsgZV4] In case you missed the Opening Night of the New York African Film Festival, here’s a trailer for the documentary Kinshasa Symphony, which examines the extraordinary musical group L’Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste (Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra) from Democratic Republic of the Congo. About the festival: The Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC) and African Film Festival,… Read more »