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2007
Title: 1802: Freedom Now
Director: Christian Lara
Producer: Albert Pigot
Country: Guadeloupe
Duration: 90
Year: 2004
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After its abolition in 1794 during the French Revolution, Napoléon sends a young, ruthless general to reinstate slavery on the island of Guadeloupe. This is the story of the valiant fight fought by Guadeloupe's Black inhabitants to maintain their freedom. |
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2007
Title: 23rd Psalm, The
Director: Christopher C. Odom
Producer: Cornelius Booker III
Screenwriter: Christopher C. Odom
Dir. of Photography: Christopher C. Odom
Editor: Christopher C. Odom
Country: US
Duration: 89
Year: 2006
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Set amidst the urban decay and unfettered angst of Los Angeles, Police Detective John Smith battles alcoholism and cynicism. Going about his daily routine, he initially remains complacent about a seemingly ordinary prostitute murder. But when his intuition awakens, he experiences revealing visions about the victim and her murder. John must conquer his vices and overcome his skepticism to embrace intuition, question the usual suspects, and allow his visions to illuminate the truth. A metaphysical tale with a surprise ending. |
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2007
Title: 9/11 Fear in Silence: The Forgotten Underdogs
Director: Jade
Producer: Jade
Dir. of Photography: Maleni Chaitoo
Music: Mark Taylor
Editor: Adrean Mangiardi & Jade
Sound: Corey Folta
Country: US
Duration: 88
Year: 2006
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The viewer is taken on a personal journey into the lives of the World Trade Center survivors and witnesses who were among the last to receive access to critical information on September 11, 2001. This is a chilling and somber documentary that provides an in-depth look at what it was like for deaf and hard-of-hearing people in the city that day. The film also focuses on the quest to improve safety measures, equal access for public information in response to 911 emergencies within the law enforcement, hospital and fire department within city, state and federal agencies. |
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2007
Title: 90404 Changing
Director: Michael W. Barnard
Producer: Michael W. Barnard, Paulina Sahagun, Barry Shabaka Henley
Screenwriter: Michael W. Barnard
Dir. of Photography: Michael W. Barnard
Music: Walker Barnard
Editor: Michael W. Barnard
Sound: Lori Weimore & Larry Scharf
Country: US
Duration: 118
Year: 2006
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A blend of narrative and documentary storytelling follows two neighborhood locals, a Latina teacher and an African-American poet, as they join together to excavate a wide range of personal stories that make up the unique history of this threatened, culturally diverse Santa Monica neighborhood. A captivating segment also explores the presence of the indigenous people in the area both centuries ago and presently. |
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2007
Title: A Lucy
Director: Radhaa-Rajen Jaganathen
Country: Mauritius
Duration: 6
Year: 1993
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A Masai herdsman hears the call of a woman who lived 3 million years ago, begging him to bring her home. From the plains of Kenya to Paris, three herdsmen follow signs and symbols until they arrive at the museum where Lucy's bones are kept. |
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2007
Title: Abeni
Director: Tunde Kelani
Producer: Tunde Kelani
Screenwriter: Francois Okioh
Dir. of Photography: Tunde Kelani
Music: Hakim Amzat
Editor: Wale Kelani
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 105
Year: 2006
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Abeni is a beautiful, ambitious young woman born to a rich father. Akanni is a handsome young man who has pulled himself up from poverty. When he was a child, his father worked for Abeni's father and the children were sweethearts, but Akanni's recklessness led to his whole family relocating across the Nigerian border in Benin. When Abeni and Akanni meet by chance as adults, their romantic fate is sealed. He is already engaged and she is set to be married off by her father, but the couple has other plans. |
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2007
Title: Ada ORA (Bloodhunt)
Director: Danie Bester
Producer: Bongi Ogoke
Screenwriter: Danie Bester
Dir. of Photography: David Pienaar
Music: Claude King
Costume: Jenny Vlilietsra
Country: Nigeria/South Africa
Duration: 85
Year: 2006
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The first-born daughter of a king's loyal advisor is to marry the prince, but an evil witch casts a spell to prevent the union. A romantic fantasy based on African mythology. |
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2007
Title: Africanias
Director: Rafael Rebollor
Screenwriter: Jose Manuel Pintado & Rafael Rebollor
Dir. of Photography: Rafael Rebollor
Music: Banda Elastica
Editor: Rafael Rebollor
Sound: Jesus Sanchez & Luis Schroeder
Country: Mexico
Duration: 28
Year: 2007
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Using the same videographic materials that were filmed for The Third Root (see below), this updated and re-edited film gives much more importance to the personal experience of the director. The results are surprising, since coming from a subjective point of view and leaving out anthropological issues we may be closer to the experience of Afromexicans. The Director will discuss the two versions in the context of documentary approaches. |
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2007
Title: Afrikan World Masters
Director: Kwaku Person-Lynn
Producer: Kwaku Person-Lynn
Country: US
Duration: 99
Year: 2007
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See inside the mind of Dr. John Henrik Clarke. Discover a whole new American history with Professor Ivan Van Sertima. Explore the variables of racism/white supremacy with Dr. Frances Cress Welsing. For the first time, observe the musical, spiritual and Pan Afrikan development of Fela Anikulapo Kuti. |
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2007
Title: All About Darfur
Director: Taghreed Elsanhouri
Screenwriter: Taghreed Elsanhouri
Dir. of Photography: Fattih El Aleem Dafallah
Music: Omar Ihsas
Editor: Zan Barberton & Hugh Lewis
Sound: Tim Barker
Country: Sudan/UK
Duration: 82
Year: 2005
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As opposed to the recently settled 20-year conflict between North and South Sudan, the conflict in Darfur is not primarily about race or religion. Rather, it is between cultural groups, one agricultural and the other nomadic. A different view of the conflict occurring in the Darfur region of Sudan, interpreted by a woman originally from the Sudan, now living in London. Community Collaborator: Ivorian Community of Southern California |
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2007
Title: All On a Mardi Gras Day
Producer: Royce Osborn
Country: US
Duration: 57
Year: 2003
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Celebrates Black Carnival in New Orleans in all its riotous, colorful and spiritual glory. Incorporating classic New Orleans music, previously-unseen photographs and film footage, and interviews with major Carnival players, the program will explore African-Creole Carnival traditions. These celebrations date from colonial times, through Reconstruction and Jim Crow – and into the 21st century. |
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2007
Title: Almost Related.
Director: Marcus Aurelius
Producer: Bahram Haddadzadeh
Screenwriter: Marcus Aurelius, Steve Montoya & Lonnie Schuyler
Dir. of Photography: Shawn Landis
Music: Michael Patterson
Editor: John Gilbert
Sound: Ian Herzon
Country: US/Thailand
Duration: 98
Year: 2006
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An action packed, erotic comedy thriller that profiles the obscure intricacies of ancestral Japanese assassins. A series of bizarre murders occur in the pursuit to acquire the Kuji Denjo Scrolls, the legacy of an ancient civilization known as the Weirding Clan, set in the backdrop of erotic settings and exotic vistas, offering a visual and psychological jolt. Three cops and a lady-reporter are bound by distrust, suspicion, love, hate, and three pairs of handcuffs. Its strange romance develops and sizzles in an incessant array of murders which culminate in consummate passion. |
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2007
Title: Ama PAFF CLASSIC
Director: Kwate Nee-Owoo & Kwesi Owusu
Producer: Kwate Nee-Owoo & Kwesi Owusu
Screenwriter: Kwesi Owusu
Dir. of Photography: Jonathan Collinson & Roy Cornwall
Music: Vico Mensah & Kwesi Owusu
Editor: Justin Krish
Costume: Farouk Abdillah
Country: Ghana/UK
Duration: 100
Year: 1991
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On a Sunday outing in the park, 12-year-old Ama finds a computer disc which contains a message from her ancestors. They warn of tragedy unless their instructions are heeded. |
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2007
Title: Amazing Grace (Nigeria)
Director: Jeta Amata
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 135
Year: 2006
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An illuminating story of the origins of the famous hymn AMAZING GRACE, "written" by a slave ship captain after hearing it sung by the people captured, enslaved and transported in his ship. |
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2007
Title: Amazing Grace (US) SPECIAL SCREENING
Director: Michael Apted
Screenwriter: Steven Knight
Dir. of Photography: Remi Adefarasin
Music: David Arnold
Editor: Rick Shaine
Sound: Jon Johnson
Costume: Jenny Beavan
Country: US
Duration: 116
Year: 2007
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The inspiring story of how one man’s passion and perseverance changed the world. Based on the true life story of William Wilberforce, a leader of the British abolition movement, the film chronicles his epic struggle to pass a law to end the slave trade in the late 18th century. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition from members of Parliament who feel the slave trade is tied to the stability of the British Empire. Several friends, including Wilberforce’s minister, John Newton, a reformed slave ship captain who penned the beloved hymn Amazing Grace, urge him to see the cause through. Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Benedict Cumberbatch, Romula Garai, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon, Ciarin Hinds, Toby Jones and Youssour N’Dour. |
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2007
Title: American Red and Black
Director: Alicia Woods
Producer: Alicia Woods
Dir. of Photography: Alicia Woods
Music: Mark Sampson
Editor: Alicia Woods
Sound: Nick Holman
Country: US
Duration: 39
Year: 2006
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Six African-Native Americans from all over the U.S. reflect upon the personal and complex issues of Native and African heritage, ethnic identity and racism within communities of color. |
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2007
Title: Angels Can't Help But Laugh
Director: Thomas S. Burns, Jr.
Producer: Cas Sigers & Terri J. Vaughn
Dir. of Photography: Sean Cokes
Editor: Bezu Haliwell & Cas Sigers
Sound: Sean Cokes & Miko DeFoor
Country: US
Duration: 105
Year: 2006
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A serious quandary in which actresses open up to talk about their fears, disappointments, successes, families and careers. A star-studded glimpse of the reality beneath the illusion of Hollywood. |
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2007
Title: Arrou (Prevention)
Director: Segun Oguntola
Producer: Nana Ana Ofori-Atta Oguntola
Screenwriter: Segun Oguntola
Dir. of Photography: Ebrima Laye
Music: Segun Oguntola
Editor: Nana Ana Ofori-Atta Oguntola, Nana Ana Ofori-Atta Oguntola & Amadou Sillah
Country: Gambia
Duration: 85
Year: 2005
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Thinking that using a condom will protect him, a wealthy businessman with all the trappings of success and a beautiful wife is a serial adulterer. |
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2007
Title: At the Water (Pamvura)
Director: Women Filmmakers of Zimbabwe Production Skills Workshop
Producer: Tsitsi Dangarembga
Screenwriter: Blessing Musariri
Dir. of Photography: Michele Mathison
Editor: Olaf Koschke
Sound: Ruvimba Musariri & Musa Ally
Costume: Glen Cable
Country: Zimbabwe
Duration: 14
Year: 2005
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A story about beliefs and unknown forces. Netsai, a devout young Christian woman, loses her child while doing laundry at the river. She doesn't know the cause behind her child's disappearance and consults a spirit medium for help. He demands that she make a sacrifice that shakes her Christian faith. |
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2007
Title: Bab' Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Own Soul
Director: Nacer Khemir
Producer: Cyriac Auriol & Alizera Shojanoori
Screenwriter: Nacer Khemir & Tonino Guerra
Dir. of Photography: Mahmoud Kalari
Music: Armand Amar
Editor: Isabelle Rathery
Sound: Stuart Wilson
Costume: Maud Perl
Country: France/Germany/Iran/Tunisia/UK
Duration: 98
Year: 2005
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Two figures, lost in an ocean of sand. Ishtar, a lively little girl, and her grandfather, Bab´Aziz, a blind dervish. Their goal is the great reunion of dervishes that takes place every thirty years. But to find out where it is held, one must have faith. One must listen to the infinite silence of the desert with one's heart. As they cross the endless expanse of burning-freezing sand, they encounter other people. Osman, aching for the beautiful young women he found at the bottom of a well... Zaid, whose singing seduced a ravishing beauty he has lost... There is also the Prince, who gives up his realm to become a dervish - an ancient tale that Bab´Aziz relates to Ishtar as they struggle onward. The desert is the dervish's friend, however, and in due time it unlocks its secret to Bab´Aziz: the gathering place. The elderly man kisses his granddaughter one last time before sending her off with Zaid into the wild colors and bewitching sounds of the gathering. Because for Bab´Aziz, the time has come to fuse with the sand, to become part of the many stories and legends that swirl through the desert like a dream within another dream and so on, as infinite as the grains of sand....
A beautifully told story, revealing a side of Islam rarely seen in the United States. Philosophical and compelling, the beauty of the desert and the incredibly wonderful soundtrack become characters in this unforgettable spectacle.
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2007
Title: Baba Mandela
Director: Riccardo Milani
Producer: AMREF USA
Country: Kenya/Italy
Duration: 55
Year: 2002
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Kevin Kariuki is a 10-year-old boy who lives on the streets of Kibera, East Africa's biggest slum. He has never left the city, but in this movie he narrates his experience as he visits communities whose livelihood are destroying the very resources on which they depend for survival. In his travels through Kenya, Kevin also meets some people who are trying to reverse the cycle of poor health and environmental damage. Kevin's experience is crystallized into a letter that he writes to Nelson Mandela. Baba Mandela will take you through the Nairobi Slums, rural Kibwezi, Mt. Kenya, Lake Victoria and through the burning issues affecting Kenya.
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2007
Title: Bamako
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
Producer: Denis Freyd
Screenwriter: Abderrahmane Sissako
Dir. of Photography: Jacques Besse
Editor: Nadia Ben Rachid
Sound: Dana Farzanehpour
Costume: Maji-da Abdi
Country: Mali/US/France
Duration: 115
Year: 2006
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Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up... In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court has been set up. African civil society spokesmen have taken proceedings against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) whom they blame for Africa's woes... Amidst the pleas and the testimonies, life goes on in the courtyard. Chaka does not seem to be concerned by this novel Africa's desire to fight for its rights... Produced by and featuring Danny Glover. Community Collaborators: Africa Project Global and Christ Unity Church |
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2007
Title: Banished
Director: Marco Williams
Producer: Marco Williams
Dir. of Photography: Steve McCarthy
Editor: Kathryn Barnier & Sandra Christie
Country: US
Duration: 86
Year: 2006
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Leave or die: this was the choice white majority residents in various cities around the United States gave African Americans between the end of the Civil War and the Great Depression. Banished examines this shameful, hidden chapter in the history of American race relations by revisiting three of the communities that forcibly expelled their entire African American populations and interviewing the descendants of families who left their communities and property behind as they fled for their lives. In the still all-white communities of Pierce City, Missouri; Harrison, Arkansas; and Forsyth County, Georgia; the echoes of racial injustice during the past century still reverberate.
Filmmaker Marco Williams (Two Towns of Jasper, Sundance 2002 and Pan African Film Festival 2002) travels to each town, conspicuous as the only African American, and meets with historians, civic leaders, and residents. While his conversations sharply highlight the way these towns confront or ignore their legacy, the institutionalization of racism becomes most tangible through the stories of the descendants of Morgan Strickland and James Cobb. Strickland's relatives search for proof that he really sold off his land before leaving Forsyth County, while Cobb's family seeks his remains in an unmarked Pierce City cemetery plot. The roadblocks they encounter point to the difficulties facing reconciliation and reparation.
Banished shines light on a compelling story largely unacknowledged by history, a story that must be illuminated so we can better understand race relations and move forward.— Basil Tsiokos --SUNDANCE
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2007
Title: Bathroom Break
Director: Michelle Baxter
Producer: Nkechi Okoro
Screenwriter: Nkechi Okoro
Dir. of Photography: Eric Steelberg
Music: Rob Murat
Editor: Jessica Rubin
Sound: Steven Carthy
Country: US
Duration: 13
Year: 2005
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Sierra's day goes from bad to worse as she suffers public humiliation at the hands of her husband and is forced to spend hours locked in a bathroom with a woman who represents everything she hates. However, Sierra soon realizes that sometimes help and friendship come in the most unlikely packages. |
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2007
Title: Beloved No More: The Story of Margaret Garner
Director: Mustapha Hasnaoui
Producer: Laurence Uebersfeld
Dir. of Photography: GillesPicard, Eric Longs, Beth Flowler, Thomas Sady
Music: Toni Morrison & Richard Danielpour
Editor: Stephane Huter
Sound: Julien Ngo Trong
Country: France
Duration: 52
Year: 2006
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Through the creation of a modern, popular opera, based on the true story of a slave woman who killed her children to prevent them from becoming slaves, this film explores everyday attitudes about race relations in America and shows how vital it is to reconcile past and present in order to create a harmonious future. Beloved, by Toni Morrison, was based upon the same story. |
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2007
Title: Best Kept Secret
Director: Malik Booth
Producer: Karimah Westbrook
Screenwriter: Karimah Westbrook & Erin Norman
Dir. of Photography: Nelson Cragg
Music: Jeffery Alan Jones
Editor: Arik Lewis
Sound: Jeffery Alan Jones
Costume: Erin Norman
Country: US
Duration: 14
Year: 2006
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From the outside looking in, it seems as though Cassandra and Dwayne have the perfect relationship until she discovers a secret that will change their lives forever. |
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2007
Title: Beyond the Pretty Door
Director: Bobby Boermans
Producer: Khadija Brockington
Screenwriter: Renee McClellan
Dir. of Photography: Henry Dhuy
Music: David Wood
Editor: Paul Petrissans
Sound: Private Island Trax
Costume: Michele DeGroseillers & Kathryn Coldiron
Country: US
Duration: 18
Year: 2006
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Three children try to survive under the cruel conditions created by their violent mother. |
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2007
Title: Big Sugar: White, Sweet and Deadly
Director: Brian McKenna
Screenwriter: Brian McKenna
Dir. of Photography: Stefan Nitoslawski
Music: Lance Neveu
Editor: Susan Shanks
Country: Canada
Duration: 120
Year: 2005
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Big Sugar explores the dark history and modern power of the world's reigning sugar cartels. Using dramatic reenactments, it reveals how sugar was at the heart of slavery in the West Indies in the 18th century, while showing how present-day consumers are slaves to a sugar-based diet. A lost chapter of North American history is discovered, illustrating how 18th century sugar lobbyists in England used blackmail and bribes to determine the fate of Canada and Martinique. |
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2007
Title: Black Gold
Director: Marc Francis & Nick Francis
Producer: Marc Francis & Nick Francis
Music: Andreas Kapsalis
Editor: Hugh Williams
Sound: Gerard Abeille
Country: UK/US
Duration: 78
Year: 2006
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Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil. But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields. Nowhere is this paradox more evident than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to save his 74,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair price. Against the backdrop of Tadesse's journey to London and Seattle, the enormous power of the multinational players that dominate the world's coffee trade becomes apparent. New York commodity traders, the international coffee exchanges, and the double dealings of trade ministers at the World Trade Organisation reveal the many challenges Tadesse faces in his quest for a long term solution for his farmers.
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2007
Title: Brother Gordon
Director: Fredrick Johnson
Producer: Fredrick Johnson
Country: Thailand/US
Duration: 27
Year: 2006
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A Black man's spiritual journey from the US Special Forces during the Vietnam War to the unlikely life of a monk in present-day Thailand. |
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2007
Title: Bushman's Secret
Director: Rehad Desai
Producer: "Zivia Desai Keiper, Rehad Desai, Hartmut Keiper, Anita Khanna"
Screenwriter: Anita Khanna & Rehad Desai
Dir. of Photography: Richard Wicksteed
Music: Philip Miller
Editor: Catherine Meyburgh & Menno Boerema
Sound: Robin Harris
Country: South Africa
Duration: 65
Year: 2006
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Hoodia, a cactus used by the San for centuries, has caught the attention of a giant pharmaceutical company as a weight control drug. It now stands to decide the fate of the Khomani San. |
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2007
Title: Carmen & Geoffrey
Director: Linda Atkinson & Nick Doob
Producer: Linda Atkinson & Nick Doob
Dir. of Photography: Nick Doob
Editor: Nick Doob
Sound: Linda Atkinson
Country: US
Duration: 79
Year: 2005
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Archival footage traces the careers of Carmen de Lavallade, a Horton-trained dancer from California who moved to New York with Alvin Ailey and began a legacy of modern dance in America, and Geoffrey Holder, a Trinidad-born choreographer who set New York on fire as set and costume designer, painter and man-about-town with productions such as The Wiz. With Carmen de Lavallade, Geoffrey Holder, Judith Jamison, Alvin Ailey and Gus Solomon, Jr. |
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2007
Title: Catch a Fire
Director: Phillip Noyce
Screenwriter: Shawn Slovo
Dir. of Photography: Ron Fortunato
Music: Philip Miller
Editor: Jill Bilcock
Sound: Andrew Plain
Costume: Reza Levy
Country: France/UK/South Africa/US
Duration: 101
Year: 2006
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A political thriller that powerfully tells the real-life story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives. Starring Derek Luke, Bonnie Henna and Tim Robbins. |
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2007
Title: City Teacher
Director: Juney Smith
Producer: Juney Smith
Screenwriter: Juney Smith
Dir. of Photography: Ron Wolf
Editor: Liette Pedraza
Sound: Deborah Roth
Costume: Alisha Crutchfield
Country: US
Duration: 99
Year: 2006
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A Jewish parole officer, raised by a Black family, is assigned to teach reading to an all-Black class of illiterate teens in a New York high school. Starring Glynn Turman, Ella Joyce, Tommy Ford and Chuck D. |
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2007
Title: Clandestine
Director: Ty Walker & Condra Magee
Producer: Ty Walker & Catina Jones
Screenwriter: Condra Magee
Dir. of Photography: Daryl Mayfield
Music: Braxx
Editor: Scott Hauser
Sound: Ken Westbrook
Costume: Nina Gray
Country: US
Duration: 33
Year: 2006
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An account of true friendship, envy and insecurity. An adulteress' jealousy leads her to betray her most loyal friend, a move that sets in motion an awful and covert sequence of events harming everyone involved. The truth is revealed--possibly too late. |
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2007
Title: Cole Nobody Knows, The
Director: Clay Walker
Producer: Clay Walker & Maxine Harvard
Dir. of Photography: Clay Walker
Music: Freddy Cole
Editor: Clay Walker
Sound: Clay Walker
Country: US/Switzerland
Duration: 21
Year: 2006
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The amazing musical talent of Freddy Cole, the lesser-known, yet equally talented younger brother of Nat ""King"" Cole, is profiled. |
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2007
Title: Congressman Robert Smalls: A Patriot's Journey from Slavery to Capitol Hill
Director: Adrena Ifill
Producer: Adrena Ifill
Editor: Sekou Frye & Rich Gray
Country: US
Duration: 51
Year: 2005
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Robert Smalls went from being a slave to a Civil War hero to a master politician in South Carolina. His rags-to-riches story, embodying a strong work ethic and patriotism, demonstrates personal commitment and strength, foreshadowing the modern-day civil rights movement. Narrated by Sean Patrick Thomas. |
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2007
Title: Conquistadors of Cuba (Kuuban Valloittajat)
Director: Arto Halonen
Producer: Arto Halonen
Screenwriter: Arto Halonen
Dir. of Photography: Jari Pollari
Music: Thomas Kantelinen
Editor: Jukka Nykänen
Sound: Heikki Innanen
Country: Finland/Cuba
Duration: 88
Year: 2005
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Cuba is known for its vintage American cars. Maximiliano is an old man, going blind, who gets an important job--try to repair Che Guevara's old car and bring it back to life. Maximiliano himself owns an old American car with a motor taken from former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista's car. Furthermore, a good friend of Maximiliano's owns a car that used to belong to Mafioso Meyer Lansky and whose destiny intertwines with both Batista and Che. Through the discussion of vintage cars and their former owners, the viewer gets a unique incite into the Cuban experience. |
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2007
Title: Cousines
Director: Richard Senecal
Producer: Wilkenson Bruna & Jimmy Jean-Louis
Screenwriter: Richard Senecal
Dir. of Photography: Richard Senecal
Editor: Richard Senecal
Sound: John Mogene
Country: Haiti
Duration: 106
Year: 2006
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Jessica is a young Haitian girl. She lives a quiet life in Port-au-Prince with her father’s friends Margareth and Gasner. Everything changes when her father, who is in the US, dies. She’s soon homeless and must go to her friend’s home. Johanne is a girl without resources who to survive must deal with her too many lovers. Will Jessica be able to resist the temptation? Will she resist the sincere love of the young Bobby, the sex appeal of the dangerous Ralph or the sexual appetite of the millionaire Félix? Starring Jessica Généus and Jimmy Jean-Louis. |
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2007
Title: Cuttin' Da Mustard CLOSING NIGHT
Director: Reed McCants
Producer: Kimberly L. Ogletree
Screenwriter: Reed McCants
Dir. of Photography: Joseph Calloway
Music: Brian Holt
Editor: George Artope
Sound: Jack Hutson
Costume: Fontella Boone
Country: US
Duration: 110
Year: 2006
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An urban comedy with a serious take. The film chronicles the lives of a group of aspiring young community theater actors in Queens, New York, who perfect their craft while grappling with personal problems. Spirits sour and soar in the face of obstacles like puppy love and its heartbreak, illiteracy, and low-self esteem. We follow this young, rag tag group of actors as they sharpen their skills and change their lives…
The cast includes: Brandon T. Jackson, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Adrienne Bailon, Chico Benymon, Lil' Zane, Shaun Baker, Lorenzo Eduardo, Paige Bryan, Lauren Karl, Brenda Vivian, Taylor Tan, Chioke Dmachi, Tangie Ambrose, Bonita Brisker, Charles S. Dutton, Debra Wilson, Sinbad. |
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2007
Title: Daratt (Dry Season)
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Producer: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun & Abderrahmane Sissako
Screenwriter: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Dir. of Photography: Abraham Haile Biru
Music: Wasis Diop
Editor: Marie-Hélène Dozo
Sound: Dana Farzanehpour
Costume: Fatime Lamana & Valerie Wadar
Country: Chad/France/Belgium/Austria
Duration: 96
Year: 2006
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Chad, 2006. The government has granted amnesty to all war criminals. Atim, 16 years old, is given a revolver by his grandfather so that he can kill the man who killed his father. Atim leaves his village for N’djamena, the capital, seeking a man he does not know. He quickly locates the former war criminal Nassara, who is now married and settled down as the owner of a small bakery. With the firm intention of killing him, Atim gets closer to Nassara under the guise of looking for work, and is hired as an apprentice baker… Intrigued by Atim's attitude toward him, Nassara takes him under his wing and teaches him the secrets of making bread. Over the weeks, a strange relationship evolves between the two. Despite his disgust, Atim begins to recognize in Nassara the father figure he has always needed, while Nassara sees the teenager as a potential son. One day, he suggests adoption. A beautifully developed, powerful film juxtaposing the human urge for revenge against perhaps the human need for forgiveness and reconciliation. |
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2007
Title: Dark Secrets*
Director: Robinson Vil
Producer: Robinson Vil
Screenwriter: Robinson Vil
Dir. of Photography: Alex Orr
Music: Misha Stefanuk
Editor: Chris Campbell
Sound: Aron Siegel
Costume: B2Artistry
Country: US
Duration: 25
Year: 2005
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Loved by most and envied by all, successful attorneys Leo and Rachel seem to have everything going for them, but things are not always what they appear to be. Six years of dedication and love on the verge of disaster as infidelity slithers in. A compelling story of temptation, lies, deception and dire consequences. |
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2007
Title: Day in L.A., A
Director: Curtis Arsenal
Producer: Curtis Arsenal
Screenwriter: Curtis Arsenal
Dir. of Photography: Curtis Arsenal & Vinny Threats
Editor: Vinny Threats
Sound: Vinny Threats
Country: US
Duration: 82
Year: 2005
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An insurance salesman by day and a comedian at night, Curtis dreams of opening his own comedy club and quitting his day job. Appearances by Alex Thomas, Guy Torry, Chris Spencer, Sandy Brown, Cam Jones, Bobby Lee, Eric Edwards, to name a few. |
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2007
Title: Days of Glory (Indigènes)
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
Producer: Jean Bréhat
Screenwriter: Rachid Bouchareb & Olivier Lorelle
Dir. of Photography: Patrick Blossier
Music: Armand Amar & Cheb Khaled
Editor: Yannick Kergoat
Country: Morocco/Algeria/Belgium/France
Duration: 120
Year: 2006
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During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from The WWII tale of a group of African soldiers who join the French in their fight against the Nazis. Although they passionately battle to defend the “fatherland”, a place they’ve never been, they face inequality and daily humiliation within the French army. Winner of the Best Actor (Ensemble) Award at Cannes and nominated for the 2006 Oscar in the “Best Foreign Language” feature category. Community Collaborator: NAACP Image Awards |
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2007
Title: Death of Two Sons
Director: Micah Schaffer
Producer: Alrick Brown
Dir. of Photography: Cary Fukunaga
Music: John Jennings Boyd
Editor: Dena Mermelstein & Martha Skolnik
Sound: Alrick Brown
Country: US/Guinea
Duration: 63
Year: 2006
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Story of Amadou Diallo, killed by NYPD and a white Peace Corps worker, adopted by the Diallo family in Guinea, who was killed shortly after in a road accident in Guinea. An interesting contrast between how both countries dealt with the deaths and justice systems. |
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2007
Title: Derek & Delila*
Director: Joseph May
Producer: Kathryn Melton
Screenwriter: Joseph May
Dir. of Photography: Winston Reid
Editor: Joseph May
Sound: Peter Cassadine & Kyle Ellison
Costume: Linda Borcojo
Country: US
Duration: 85
Year: 2006
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When Derek and Lisa Williams start having trouble in their nine-year marriage, Derek decides to purchase a blow-up doll (Delila) to keep as a companion. He becomes engrossed with his new "girlfriend" who actually comes to life in his mind…or does she really? |
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2007
Title: Diary of a Tired Black Man
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Director: Tim Alexander
Producer: Tim Alexander
Screenwriter: Tim Alexander
Duration: 100
Year: 2007
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A story about complex relationships between Black Men and Black Women. It follows the life and relationships of a successful Black man looking for love. Starring Jimmy Jean-Louis, Paula Lima, Natasha M. Dixon, Shavsha Israel, and Little Cierra Lockett
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2007
Title: Dirty Laundry
Director: Maurice Jamal
Producer: Crystal McCrary Anthony
Screenwriter: Maurice Jamal
Dir. of Photography: Rory King & Liz Rubin
Editor: Gene Graham
Sound: Antonio Moncada
Costume: Lawrence Roach & Nicholaus Stansberry
Country: US
Duration: 100
Year: 2006
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A modern-day prodigal son story with a twist. It follows Patrick, a magazine writer who seems to have the "perfect life" until one day there is a knock at the door. On the other side stands a secret that brings him face to face with the traditional southern family he hasn't seen in over 10 years. Stars Rockmond Dunbar, Loretta Devine, Jenifer Lewis, Terri J. Vaughn and Sommore
Community Collaborator: National Black Justice Coalition |
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2007
Title: DL Chronicles: Robert, The*
Director: Deondray Gossett & Quincy LeNear
Producer: Quincy Le Near & Deondray Gossett
Screenwriter: Deondray Gossett
Dir. of Photography: Mark Cadeux
Music: Jody Watley, Rahsaan Patterson, Steph Jones, Cha'n Andre
Editor: Deondray Gossett
Sound: Peter Navarro
Costume: Arlene Flores, Moonglow & Walter J. Vine III
Country: US
Duration: 38
Year: 2006
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A romantic dramedy which introduces us to Robert Hall, a closeted talent agent who falls for a hot health food store manager 20 years his junior. What Robert fails to share is that there is a very special lady in his life. When Robert's new lover grows suspicious about his many secrets, a game of cat and mouse ensues amongst a humorous love triangle with a surprising twist of events. Community Collaborator: In the Meantime Men’s Group, Inc. |
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2007
Title: DL Chronicles: Wes, The*
Director: Quincy LeNear & Deondray Gossett
Producer: Deondray Gossett & Quincy Le Near
Screenwriter: Quincy LeNear
Dir. of Photography: Ed Button
Music: Nina Cimone
Editor: Deondray Gossett
Sound: Mike Williams
Costume: Arlene Flores & Moonglow
Country: US
Duration: 30
Year: 2005
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Wes, an upwardly mobile real estate banker, is overwhelmed by the demands of his marriage, career, and closeted attraction to men. When Wes' sexy but ambivalent brother-in-law stops in for an unexpected stay, he is directly faced with temptation and ultimately falls for the forbidden fruit. Community Collaborator: In the Meantime Men’s Group, Inc. |
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2007
Title: Don't Touch
Director: Zulfah Otto-Sallies
Screenwriter: Zulfah Otto-Sallies
Dir. of Photography: Shahied Sallies
Music: Adriaan Hellenberg
Editor: Zulfah Otto-Sallies
Sound: Reza Williams
Costume: Nadia Booley
Country: South Africa
Duration: 101
Year: 2006
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All hell breaks loose when 16-year-old Layla finds out that her father has married a second wife under Muslim law. Feeling betrayed by his actions, Layla rebels against authority figures, particularly her parents. An emotional rollercoaster that embraces the concerns of contemporary South African youth, presenting a fascinating world that encompasses adolescent loneliness, drugs and friendship. Framed by a global melting pot defined by generational disjuncture. |
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2007
Title: Dreamer's Dream
Director: Chester Yang
Producer: Chester Yang
Screenwriter: Chester Yang
Dir. of Photography: Michael Kinirons & Suzie Lavelle
Music: Mathew Davidson
Editor: Chester Yang
Sound: Guy Hake & Chris Pow
Country: UK
Duration: 57
Year: 2006
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Ray is a family man who is struggling to find himself in the rhythm of poetic words while discovering the true nature of today's world. |
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2007
Title: Echoes of My Past
Director: Thabang Molibeli
Producer: Thabang Molibeli
Screenwriter: Thabang Molibeli
Editor: M. Symms
Sound: Nami Mhlongo
Country: South Africa
Duration: 48
Year: 2005
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An emotional documentary about the Sharpeville massacre where many innocent people were shot by the apartheid police on March 21, 1960. Malehola Malindi meets with the organizers of the march, survivors and journalists who give a personal view of the horrific day. |
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2007
Title: El Cimarrón
Director: Ivan Dariel Ortiz
Producer: Ivan Gonzalo Ortiz
Screenwriter: Ivan Gonzalo Ortiz
Dir. of Photography: Jaime Costa Latoni
Music: José Ojeda
Editor: Ivan Dariel Ortiz
Sound: Jamil Martínez
Costume: Vilma Martínez
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 111
Year: 2006
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A love story about a young African couple, Marcos and Carolina, that takes place during the era of slavery at the turn of the nineteenth century on a Caribbean island. Eventually, they are both acquired by a malevolent Spanish landholder. After several futile attempts to escape, Marcos finally wins his freedom and returns to liberate his beloved Carolina and many other slaves. |
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2007
Title: Enough is Enough (Reke Tumanwo)
Director: kibAara
Producer: kibAara
Screenwriter: kibAara
Dir. of Photography: Gad Waweru
Music: Mburu Kimani
Editor: Ben Okeyo
Sound: James Wachira
Costume: Paul Gatonye
Country: Kenya
Duration: 113
Year: 2005
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An episode in the Mau Mau resistance against British colonial rule focusing on a young woman who decides to join the army. While some fight bravely, others collaborate with the British and betray their follow freedom fighters. To escape certain death at the hands of the British Colonial Forces, Njeir flees to the Mt. Kenya Forest to join the Mau Mau liberation forces. |
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2007
Title: Faces of Change
Director: Michèle Stephenson
Producer: Michèle Stephenson
Dir. of Photography: Wolfgang Held, Martina Radwan & Lloyd Handwerker
Music: Jay Rodriguez
Editor: Jane Abramowitz
Sound: Margaret Crimmons
Country: US
Duration: 80
Year: 2005
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Five activists from five different continents relay unique video dispatches from their respective corners of the world. From their communities in Brazil, India, Mauritania, Bulgaria and the United States, these activists go behind the camera to find a common voice denied them because of their social, racial, gender or ethnic background. They walk us through their lives, experiences and societies as we see the world through their eyes. Their intimate videos capture their hopes and dreams, echoing the nature of our common humanity. The result is a gripping tapestry of personal stories unlike anything you have ever seen. |
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2007
Title: Fat Girl's Guide To Yoga, A
Director: Gregory Colleton & Tajamika Paxton
Screenwriter: Gregory Colleton & Tajamika Paxton
Country: US
Duration: 12
Year: 2007
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Oversized and with a knack for wise cracks, Wendy turns to yoga to lose weight. Insecure about whether she’s cut out for yoga, in the beginning she's a disastrous combination of self-consciousness and overly enthusiastic. She undergoes a series of new challenges, giving audiences a comical glimpse into the skewed mind of a woman trying to find her "Om." Gregory Colleton and Tajamika Paxton wrote and directed this irreverent take on the world of crossed legs and incense, inspired by Paxton's experiences as a Los Angeles yoga instructor. The film features Lalanya Masters and Joy Osmanski and introduces new talents Mecca and Wendy McKinney. |
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2007
Title: Fidel
Director: Estela Brava
Country: Cuba
Duration: 91
Year: 2000
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Revered by some as a great revolutionary and bulwark of the progressive world movement and despised by others as a vengeful dictator, the Cuban president stands as one of the great political figures of modern times. This landmark documentary illuminates the life of Fidel Castro from his teenage years through the present. |
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2007
Title: Fly Like Mercury
Director: Harry J. Lennix
Producer: Tom Hodges, David Schwimmer & Jennifer Blair
Screenwriter: Reginald Nelson
Dir. of Photography: Jesse M. Feldman
Music: Ryan Beveridge
Editor: Andrew Charlton & Linda DiFranco
Sound: Chris Adams, Tina Gradilone & Justin Ipock
Costume: Ashley Yoder
Country: US
Duration: 18
Year: 2006
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A world-class sprinter tragically discovers the difference between a winner and a champion. |
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2007
Title: Forbidden
Director: Lisa Acrond
Producer: Lisa Acrond, Leyanys Escobar, Kandyce Evans, Dave Kessinger
Screenwriter: Lisa Acrond & Darren Bailey
Dir. of Photography: Dave Kessinger
Music: Facette Jones
Editor: Lisa Acrond, Leyanys Escobar, Kandyce Evans, Dave Kessinger
Country: US
Duration: 14
Year: 2005
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Nina Ross spent the greater part of her childhood in church, consuming principles of purity. As an adult, Nina begins to question her religious upbringing and eventually decides to surrender to the advances of a devilishly handsome gentleman. Their encounter sends Nina on a psychological sea of religious conviction and contradiction as her dreams reveal the Bible awakening of an unholy truth. |
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2007
Title: Forgiven
Director: Paul Fitzgerald
Producer: Kelly Miller
Screenwriter: Paul Fitzgerald
Dir. of Photography: Vanja Cernjul
Editor: Shelby Siegel
Sound: Tom Paul
Country: US
Duration: 81
Year: 2006
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On the eve of his campaign launch for a seat in the US Senate, Peter Miles, a small town District Attorney, receives word that the governor has exonerated Ronald Bradler, a death row inmate whom Peter prosecuted five years earlier for the murder of a local police officer. In the wake of Bradler's release and through the prism of the media frenzy surrounding the high profile case, a public vetting of Peter's record unfolds. When hard evidence of actual impropriety on Peter's part finds it way into his possession, Bradler seeks out Peter for answers. Starring Russell Hornsby, Paul Fitzgerald. |
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2007
Title: Found Sounds Bahia
Director: David Zucker
Screenwriter: David Zucker
Dir. of Photography: David Zucker
Music: Lactomia
Editor: Walter Bernacca
Sound: Alan Audio Works
Costume: Jair Rezende
Country: Brazil
Duration: 28
Year: 2006
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Since the beginning of time, music has been a major social influence, affecting tradition and cultures around the world. Music, like most art, has the ability to transcend the barriers of race, religion, class and poverty. But more importantly, music has the ability to bring people together to share in a common experience. Historically, in countries where there is a lack of material resources, people have invented a style of playing: rhythm on found objects. In Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, exhilarating music is created out of material that would otherwise be thrown away. Jair Rezende has taken it upon himself to transform not only his community, but also the entire world through his band, Lactomia. The tremendous social chord this band is striking within the community of Candeal has kids flocking to Rezende as if he were the Pied Piper. Whereas children in more developed countries might have access to musical instruments and education, the children of Candeal are focused on exploring the creation of sound through recycled materials. |
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2007
Title: Frantz Fanon, His Life, His Struggle, His Work
Director: Cheikh Djemai
Country: France/Martinique/Algeria/Tunisia
Duration: 52
Year: 2006
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Frantz Fanon, one of the great thinkers of the 20th century, was a psychiatrist and a critic of French colonialism. Embittered by his experience with racism in the French Army during WWII, he gravitated to radical politics and Black consciousness. His landmark book Black Skin, White Masks offers a penetrating analysis of racism and how it manifests internally in its victims. |
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2007
Title: From Palace to Plantation
Director: Soji Oyinsan
Producer: Joseph Olusoji Agunloye
Dir. of Photography: Monsieur Macaulay
Editor: Charlotte Rade Mackers
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 45
Year: 2006
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This is a story of the ancestors of Blacks in the Diaspora that has been so long overshadowed by the degradation of slavery. What most people learn and know about the roots of Blacks in the Diaspora is of people whose origin started from slavery. A prince of one of the oldest kingdoms went home to set the record straight. |
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2007
Title: Goat's Tail, A
Director: Julius Amedume
Producer: Julius Amedume
Screenwriter: Julius Amedume
Dir. of Photography: Julius Amedume
Music: Neil Clements
Editor: Julius Amedume & Anthony Redman
Sound: Anslem Herelle & Oliver Oguwtade
Country: UK/Ghana
Duration: 130
Year: 2006
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Kojo is a taxi driver living and working in Ghana. Sleeping on his break he is awakened by Cynthia, a beautiful young traveling actress. She's in Ghana for the day and hires Kojo to show her some tourist attractions. The day ends with a sexual encounter and a reluctant promise from Cynthia to invite Kojo to England. Four months later Kojo arrives on Cynthia's doorstep. Filled with ambitions of making money and fulfilling his dreams of succeeding as a poet, he soon finds out that the grass isn't greener on the other side and people are not what they seem. |
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2007
Title: Going into Exile
Director: Peter Se-Puma
Producer: Jeanette Ndhlovu
Country: South Africa
Duration: 48
Year: 0000
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One of the most memorable photos of the 20th Century was the body of young Hector Peterson being carried after the Soweto Uprising. Unknown to many, the first to die in that history-altering event was Hastings Ndhlovu, brother of current Los Angeles South African Consul General Jeanette Ndhlovu. She and her two sisters discuss their brother’s death and their decisions to leave the country due to government harassment. |
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2007
Title: Halim
Director: Sherif Arafa
Producer: Good News Group
Screenwriter: Mahfouz Abdel Rahman
Dir. of Photography: Ayman Abou El Makarem
Music: Ammar El Shereii
Editor: Dalia El Naser
Sound: Empire
Country: Egypt
Duration: 148
Year: 2006
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A lavishly produced rags-to-riches biopic on the life of the late Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez, laid out in a radio interview during which the dying superstar recounts the main events in his life, from his childhood in an orphanage to performing for Egyptian Presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat. |
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2007
Title: Harlem's Blues
Director: Randy Wilkins
Producer: Mario Lathan
Screenwriter: Randy Wilkins
Dir. of Photography: Christina Voros
Music: Jonathan Altman
Editor: Randy Wilkins
Sound: Darius Monroe
Country: US
Duration: 12
Year: 2006
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The world of the Harlem jazz scene serves as the backdrop for a story of reconciliation and understanding between a brother and sister. As the musically talented Sunny continues to adjust to life outside of jail, her brother begins his journey in exorcising the demons that put Sunny there. It is here, in a tiny jazz club in Harlem, that Sunny's brother begins to understand her pure love for self, music, and family. |
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2007
Title: Hasta Siempre (Until Forever)*
Director: Ishmahil Blagrove Jr.
Producer: Yannis Mendez
Music: Kevin Haynes & Niles Harstones
Editor: Catherine Arend
Country: UK/Cuba
Duration: 57
Year: 2005
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Cuba embraced tourism in the early 1990s as a means of surviving the collapse of the Soviet Union. As a result, the island has begun to witness many changes which now threaten the integrity of the revolution: racial discrimination, prostitution, consumerism and the re-emergence of class divisions. Hasta Siempre takes the viewer on a journey through the lives of ordinary Cubans, examining the results of the Cuban revolution from the perspective of the Cuban people and asks the question: Can the revolution survive after the death of Fidel Castro? |
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2007
Title: Have You Heard From Johannesburg?
Director: Connie Field
Producer: Connie Field
Screenwriter: Ken Chowder, Connie Field & Gregory Scharpen
Dir. of Photography: Tom Hurwitz
Editor: Gregory Scharpen & Jeffrey Stephens
Country: US
Duration: 89
Year: 2006
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An illuminating look at the complex and fascinating drama of the anti-apartheid movement in the United States when the US was one of apartheid South Africa's most important allies. African Americans, for the first time in history, turn the tide and alter the direction of US foreign policy. With Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Ron Dellums and Walter Fauntroy. |
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2007
Title: Hazel's Hips
Director: Kobina Yankeh
Producer: Franklin Lett & Brandon Schultz
Music: Oscar Brown Jr.
Country: US
Duration: 3
Year: 2006
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A witty animation of the Oscar Brown, Jr. favorite. |
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2007
Title: Heartlines
Director: Angus Gibson
Producer: Mariki Pretorius
Screenwriter: Angus Gibson
Dir. of Photography: Dewald Aukema
Music: Philip Miller
Editor: Catherine Meyburgh
Sound: JJ Le Roux
Costume: Nadia Kruger
Country: South Africa
Duration: 95
Year: 2006
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After serving a jail sentence for theft, Manyisa, a young man with a cruel past and an uncertain future, is released. He is offered a new chance at life by a well-meaning pastor, Jacob Musi. Manyisa, firm in the belief that no one ever gives without expecting something in return, is suspicious of Jacob's generosity. Life has taught Manyisa not to trust anyone… |
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2007
Title: Heritage
PAFF Salutes Nollywood!
Director: Ladi Ladebo
Producer: Irene Kehinde Ladebo
Screenwriter: Ladi Ladebo
Dir. of Photography: Armand Marco
Music: Heritage Collective
Sound: Peter Hodges
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 92
Year: 2003
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Drawn in part by his dogged interest in Yoruba culture and traditions as well as his friendship with a young woman named Kofo, David, a young man of mixed parentage and heritage, comes to do research at the University of Ibadan. Kofo, who now runs a community education center, introduces him to a local art specialist, Yomi, who shares David’s interest in Yoruba culture and believes that the present lack of balance and ethical integrity in society has been caused by the ongoing looting of spiritual artifacts for sale to the West. Yomi, who is a member of the Ife clan, known for its traditional spirituality and magical power, facilitates David’s meeting with Professor Fatu, who has been imprisoned for the last fifteen years, and repeatedly tortured His crime: he has refused to reveal to the authorities the location of the Oduduwa artifacts believing that they will surely be sold to the highest bidder should they be found. |
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2007
Title: Homecoming
Director: Norman Maake
Producer: David Max Brown & Dumisani Dlamini
Screenwriter: Zola Maseko
Dir. of Photography: Merlin Van Staden
Music: Benjamin Willem
Editor: Tongaii Ferusa & Thaven Naidoo
Sound: Basiami Segoza
Costume: Gladys Machava
Country: South Africa
Duration: 90
Year: 2005
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Charlie comes home to South Africa in 1996, after twenty years in exile. He is welcomed by his family and friends, Peter and Thabo. All seems well until the past starts to catch up with him. Charlie meets the family of his comrade in arms, Boetie, who died on the front line and his relationship with Boetie's widow and her child blossoms. Meanwhile, Peter's investigations are leading him to implicate Charlie in Boetie's death. |
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2007
Title: Hurricane in the Rose Garden
Director: Ime Etuk
Producer: Pascal Atuma, Jeremy Scroggins & Ime Etuk
Screenwriter: Kamafi Adio & Pascal Atuma
Dir. of Photography: Matt Alcorn
Music: Keith Lewis
Editor: Dan O'Brien
Sound: Peter Navarro
Costume: Liuba Belyansky
Country: Nigeria/US
Duration: 87
Year: 2006
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One marriage, two sets of customs. After five years of marriage, Sade never knew that it was a taboo in African culture to still be without a child. She'll find out when Joseph's mother and younger brother come from Africa and demand not to leave until Sade is pregnant or gives Joseph a divorce so he can marry another woman. Starring Tangi Miller, Pascal Atuma, Aloma Wright, Oris Erhuero, Tanjareen Martin, Karri Turner and Hakeem Kae-Kazim.
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2007
Title: Idea, The
Director: Owen 'Alik Shahadah
Producer: Sunara Begum & Tunde Jegede
Screenwriter: Owen 'Alik Shahadah & Tunde Jegede
Dir. of Photography: Owen 'Alik Shahadah
Music: Tunde Jegede & HKB Finn
Editor: Sona Diabate
Sound: Jeff John
Costume: Shahanara Begum
Country: UK
Duration: 10
Year: 2006
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A comical satire on modern society and our inability to listen. It is also a study of contemporary society's insensitivity towards expression of new ideas and not being willing to give them the appropriate space to grow and form. |
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2007
Title: In the Land of the Black Pharaohs (Sur Les Traces des Pharaons Noirs)
Director: Stéphane Goël
Producer: Stéphane Goël
Screenwriter: Stéphane Goël & Sylvie Rossel
Dir. of Photography: Camille Cottagnoud
Music: Jean-Philippe Zwahlen
Editor: Bruno Sapparelli
Sound: Beat Lambert
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 53
Year: 2005
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Swiss archaeologist Charles Bonnet and his team have been excavating in northern Sudan since 1965. Their work has brought to light the importance of the Nubian civilization (that of the famous "Black Pharaohs") and of the site of Kerma, the first great African kingdom. After 40 years of work, they have made an exceptional discovery. |
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2007
Title: Inevitable Undoing of Jay Brooks, The
Director: Jennifer Sharp
Producer: Lia Johnson, Chris Adams & Camilla Rantsen
Screenwriter: Courtney Lilly
Dir. of Photography: Jacob Pinger
Editor: Tom Huang
Country: US
Duration: 90
Year: 2007
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Jay Brooks is that Black guy who digs indie rock, graphic novels and dates white chicks. After a slew of break-ups, Jay goes on a mission: "Operation Brown Sugar." While failing miserably, he meets Catherine, a misunderstood "Half-rican Canadian" and budding novelist who is as righteously quirky as he is. Jay struggles to accept their growing relationship as he realizes commitment is a bigger issue than race. A work in progress. |
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2007
Title: Irapada (Redemption)
PAFF Salutes Nollywood!
Director: Afolayan Kunle & Biodun Aleja
Producer: Kunle Afolayan
Screenwriter: John Izuchukwu
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 120
Year: 2006
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A young successful builder/contractor is living happily with his wife when his foster-mother pays him an unexpected visit from the village. She has been having recurring nightmares in which a mysterious mishap befalls him. She tries to convince her civilized and Western-educated son to perform a traditional ceremony to ward off the evil, but he refuses. When the unexplainable befalls him, tearing his world apart, he searches for an answer. Unfortunately, his foster-mother has died. Determined to get to the bottom of this presumed “spell,” he solicits the support of a lawyer friend. |
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2007
Title: Jazz in Us, The (Nosotros y el Jazz)
Director: Gloria Rolando
Country: Cuba
Duration: 43
Year: 2004
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The story of a group of black Havana youths in the 1940's and 50's who hung out around jazz. In private houses, black societies, and some bars in the cities, they enjoyed what were then called "Jam Sessions," using the English term. Movies such as Stormy Weather and Cabin in the Sky made these young men and women dream as they discovered the art of African American musicians, singers, and dancers. Today, these lovers of traditional jazz who are in their 60's and 70's maintain a special vitality. Their memories of their youth and their stories of today express a magical complicity between jazz and friendship. |
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2007
Title: Johnny Was*
Director: Mark Hammond
Producer: Ben Katz
Screenwriter: Brendan Foley
Dir. of Photography: Mark Moriarty
Music: Adrian Sherwood
Editor: Leif Axel Kjeldsen
Sound: Nalle Hansen
Costume: Maggie Donnelly
Country: UK
Duration: 93
Year: 2006
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Johnny, trying to escape a violent past, hides out in the world’s least-safe safe house, sandwiched between a crime den run by a Jamaican gangster and a pirate station belonging to Rasta DJ. When Johnny’s former comrade escapes from prison, Johnny faces being dragged back into violence and away from his new love. His actions ignite a simmering war on two fronts with his drug-dealing neighbor and his former boss. Johnny faces questions of race, morality, loyalty, and ultimately survival. Starring Eriq LaSalle, Vinnie Jones, Lennox Lewis, Roger Daltry, Samantha Mumba, Patrick Bergin and Wilson Jermaine Heredia. Sound track by Adrian Sherwood. |
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2007
Title: Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Director: Stanley Nelson
Producer: Stanley Nelson
Screenwriter: Noland Walker & Marcia Smith
Dir. of Photography: Michael Chin
Editor: Lewis Erskine
Country: US
Duration: 86
Year: 2006
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Using never before seen archival footage and survivor interviews, the film tells the story of the people who followed Jim Jones from Indiana to California and finally to the remote jungles of Guyana, South America, where over 900 members of Peoples Temple died in the largest mass suicide/murder in modern history. |
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2007
Title: Kibera Kid
Director: Nathan Collett
Producer: Nathan Collett & Leslie Khadondi
Screenwriter: Nathan Collett
Dir. of Photography: Collin Brink
Music: Jermaine Stegall
Editor: Jesse Ellis
Sound: Brian Long
Country: Kenya/US
Duration: 11
Year: 2006
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Only 12 years old and an orphan living in Kibera, one of the world's largest slums, Otieno steals to survive. The Razors gang is his substitute family. Enraged by his theft of a cell phone, a mob tries to kill Otieno. Wamatope drags him away from the mob. But Wamatope is the sworn enemy of the Razors and all gangs in Kibera. Will Otieno follow the Razors and attack the man who saved his life? Does he have an choice? |
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2007
Title: Last Adam, The
Director: Edford Banuel Jr.
Producer: Erroll Bailey & Shandra McDonald
Screenwriter: Erroll Bailey & Shandra L. McDonald
Dir. of Photography: Parrish Smith
Music: Huston Singletary
Editor: Florent Retz
Sound: Mike Filosa
Costume: Zenita Carswell
Country: US
Duration: 104
Year: 2006
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When middle-aged Bobby Jackson returns home to Lake City, Alabama he wonders about the lives of 'the Bama Rascals,' a band of misfits he led in the seventies. Have the last 20 years been difficult for them as well? Thankfully, when they were growing up as the most diverse bunch in a military, mostly white town, Coach Billy Adams and his wife Betty rescued them with the all-American pastime of baseball. But its been years since they've been together and now that Coach Billy has died from a massive heart attack, the Rascals must face their past serving as pallbearers for his funeral. Tormented by their current life situations and haunted by troubled pasts, will their homecoming be more bitter than sweet? Starring Carl Lewis and Anita Gillette. |
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2007
Title: Lay My Burden Down
Director: Jack Willis
Producer: Jack Willis
Screenwriter: Jack Willis
Dir. of Photography: Robert Elfstrom
Editor: Howard Mickin
Sound: Fred Wardenburg
Country: US
Duration: 58
Year: 1966
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A hard look at how much progress had been made by rural Blacks a year after the Selma march and the passage of the Voting Rights Act. It focuses on the plight of Black sharecroppers and tenant farmers, many of whom had been forced off the land and into tent cities in Alabama and Mississippi, and shows the beginnings of the Black Power Movement in Lowndes County. |
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2007
Title: Lay to Rest
Director: Adaora Nwandu
Producer: Adaora Nwandu
Screenwriter: Adaora Nwandu
Dir. of Photography: Jonathan Hance & Ashley Hasz
Editor: Adaora Nwandu
Sound: Adaora Nwandu
Country: UK/US
Duration: 15
Year: 2004
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By helping a woman who loved her children too much, a gay priest comes to terms with a mother who doesn't love him enough. |
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2007
Title: Left Behind
Director: Christof Putzel
Producer: Christof Putzel
Dir. of Photography: Christof Putzel
Editor: David Tetzlaff
Country: Kenya/US
Duration: 34
Year: 2003
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A view of the impact of AIDS on Africa's children. Community Collaborator: Coalition for a Sustainable Africa |
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2007
Title: Legacy of Service
Director: Albert Edmund Lord III
Producer: Albert Edmund Lord III
Screenwriter: Ed Johnson & Albert Edmund Lord III
Dir. of Photography: Patrick Cella & Phil Wright
Editor: Glenn Darby
Sound: Lauren Devin
Country: US
Duration: 52
Year: 0000
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A tribute to Los Angeles' Black city councilmembers and their achievements. |
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2007
Title: Leimert Park: The Story of A Village in South Central
Director: Jeannette Lindsay
Producer: Jeannette Lindsay
Dir. of Photography: Zan Zetina
Music: Horace Tapscott, Derf Reklaw-Raheem, Fuas & Abdul-Khaliq
Editor: Beth Spiegel & Jeannette Lindsay
Sound: Scott Rader
Country: US
Duration: 88
Year: 2005
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An extraordinary group of artists and musicians, in the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles upheavals, create an underground arts movement and transform a community. Filmed over a period of 7 years, the film features extensive performance footage interwoven with interviews and old home movies from the area. |
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2007
Title: Lil Red in da Hood
Director: Joie Botkin
Producer: Ryann Lauchner
Screenwriter: Joie Botkin
Dir. of Photography: Michael Vacha & Kelly Feeq
Music: Ben Stanton
Editor: Vicky Luu & Derek Stricker
Sound: Hyolin Koh & Hanae Rivera
Costume: Allessandra Rizzotti & Lanaria Johnson
Country: US
Duration: 14
Year: 2006
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A modern, action-packed re-telling of Little Red Riding Hood. After ten years in prison, Thomas Wolf has unfinished business with his daughter, basketball superstar Lillian "Lil Red" Wolf. But when Wolf drops the ball and the stakes rise, no one is playing by the rules in this game of one-on-one. |
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2007
Title: Lion Mountains: A Journey Through Sierra Leone, The
Director: Louis Buckley
Producer: Chester Yang
Screenwriter: Louis Buckley
Dir. of Photography: Chester Yang
Editor: Louis Buckley
Sound: Louis Buckley & Chester Yang
Country: UK
Duration: 54
Year: 2006
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Learn the real story behind “Blood Diamonds” as a man returns to his ancestral home to explore its current condition. Louis arrives in Sierra Leone while it is recovering from the 11-year civil war which devastated the country. With an urban hip-hop and reggae-infused soundtrack, here is a look at pre-colonial Sierra Leone, the beginning of European and African trade, and the effect of western imperialism and colonial rule. |
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2007
Title: List, The
CENTERPIECE
Director: Brandon Sonnier
Producer: Alex Ross
Screenwriter: Marcus Folmar
Dir. of Photography: Graham Futerfas
Music: Adrian Williams
Editor: Tracey Wadmore-Smith
Sound: Steve Morantz
Costume: Erin Farrell
Country: US
Duration: 92
Year: 2006
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When his marriage proposal is heartbreakingly rejected, Lewis attempts to eliminate love's margin of error by refusing to date anyone lacking any of the characteristics on his perfect woman list. He thinks his plan has worked when he finds Cecile, but soon learns she's not exactly who she appears to be. Starring Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Tatyana Ali, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Wayne Brady. |
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2007
Title: Little Girl Who Sold the Sun, The (La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil
Director: Djibril Diop Mambety
Country: Senegal/Switzerland
Duration: 45
Year: 1999
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Masterful for its simplicity and powerful in its content, a multi-layered vignette of a handicapped girl who is determined to earn money by selling newspapers, a job reserved for boys. The last film made by the late film master Djibril. |
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2007
Title: Live & Become (Va, Vies et Deviens)
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Producer: "Denis Carot, Marie Masmonteil & Radu Mihaileanu"
Screenwriter: Radu Mihaileanu & Alain-Michel Blanc
Country: France/Belgium/Italy/Israel
Duration: 142
Year: 2005
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A magnificent, epic story of an Ethiopian boy who is airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel. His life is defined by two secrets: He is neither a Jew nor an orphan. |
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2007
Title: Lord Help Us
Director: Shavar Ross
Producer: Shavar Ross
Screenwriter: Shavar Ross
Dir. of Photography: Foster Corder
Music: Sean Dunson & John Dunson
Editor: Shavar Ross
Sound: Umbe Abduraman Adan
Costume: H. Pamela Kennedy Dismond
Country: US
Duration: 95
Year: 2006
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Sometimes you find romance in places you'd never imagine! In this hilarious romp, unlucky-at-love Kayla and her best buddy, Jewels, help a recently widowed Baptist minister regain his flock and his life as they battle a scandalous rumor. Starring newcomer Bill Toliver, Ndia Turner, Joe Clair, Debra Wilson, and Margaret Avery, with appearances by Omar Gooding, Al Jarreau, Tico Wells, Sam Sarpong and more, this delicious taste of love, family and friendship will leave you wanting more! |
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2007
Title: Lost Heritage
Director: Christian Lara
Producer: Christine Allen
Screenwriter: Christian Lara
Dir. of Photography: Jean Yves Bourgeois
Music: Hélène Blazy
Editor: Catherine Trouillet-Shorr
Sound: Andre Pierre Bekalé
Country: Guadeloupe/Gabon
Duration: 105
Year: 2006
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A native of Guadeloupe receives a letter asking him to come and visit his heretofore-unknown family in Africa. When he arrives, he discovers that he is the last male heir of the royal family and he is the only one who can remove an age-old curse that threatens to destroy the entire kingdom. |
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2007
Title: Love...& Other 4 Letter Words*
Director: Steven Ayromlooi
Producer: Tangi Miller, Reginald Brown, Mekita Faiye
Associate Producer: Hurriyyah Muhammad
Screenwriter: Mandel Holland
Dir. of Photography: David Daniel
Music: Nikki Campbell
Editor: Neguine Sanani
Sound: Jesse Felt
Costume: Arlene Flores & Sheryl Kerr
Country: US
Duration: 90
Year: 2006
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This warm-hearted comedy tells the story of Stormy La Rue, a Chicago TV talk show host and "Oprah Wannabe." The only thing she loves as much as her pursuit of television greatness is her grandmother, who raised her in the deep South. Stormy would do anything to please her Nana, even if it means lying to her on her deathbed! Stormy tries to pull off the biggest show of her life…by faking her own wedding! Starring Tangi Alexander, Flex Alexander, Essence Atkins, and Aloma Wright. |
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2007
Title: Lucky
Director: Avie Luthra
Producer: Bex Hopkins & Junaid Ahmed
Screenwriter: Avie Luthra
Dir. of Photography: John Pardue
Music: Bradley Miles
Editor: Liz Roe
Country: South Africa
Duration: 20
Year: 2005
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Lucky is a South African AIDS orphan who learns about life through an unlikely bond with a racist Indian woman. |
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2007
Title: Mamtsotsi Bird, The
Director: Jo Horn
Producer: Mpotseng Mdakane & Jo Horn
Screenwriter: Mpotseng Mdakane
Dir. of Photography: Willem Viljoen
Music: Adam Lomas
Editor: Walter Green
Sound: Leon Rivas
Costume: Kirsten Cheetham
Country: South Africa
Duration: 12
Year: 2006
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The mythological "mamtsotsi bird" is called down from the thunder by witches to carry out malevolent missions. A greedy, adulterous husband gets more than he bargained for when he uses supernatural forces to help get rid of his rich wife. |
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2007
Title: Man Dem Nor Glady'O (The People Are Not Happy)
Director: Ishmahil Blagrove Jr.
Producer: Ishmahil Blagrove Jr.
Country: Sierra Leone/UK
Duration: 57
Year: 2007
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A graphic view of Sierra Leone exposes how the mineral wealth of this poor West African country is being exploited by foreigners and corrupt politicians. |
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2007
Title: Married to the Game
Director: Lydia Harris & Bo P
Producer: Brian Holt
Screenwriter: Venice Ventresca
Dir. of Photography: Barry Conrad
Music: Brian Holt
Editor: Aleem Hossain & Scott Veach
Sound: Kathryn Korniloff
Costume: Crystal Burdette
Country: US
Duration: 87
Year: 2006
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The story of Lydia Harris, the wife of the original financier of ""Death Row Records,"" follows her exploits over the life of the company and her interactions with the major players: Suge Knight, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, and the late Tupac Shakur. |
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2007
Title: Masizakhe: Let Us Build Together
Director: Scott Macklin
Producer: Angelica Macklin
Dir. of Photography: Scott Macklin
Editor: Angelica Macklin
Country: South Africa
Duration: 72
Year: 2006
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Education and cultural activism are playing a role in shaping the future of South African society. Students, artists, teachers and principals use their work and talent to build one another up and re-establish individual and cultural identities. Spoken word, hip-hop and music showcase the soul of South Africa and its people. |
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2007
Title: Meokgo and the Stickfighter
Director: Teboho Mahlatsi
Producer: Desireé Markgraaff
Screenwriter: Teboho Mahlatsi
Dir. of Photography: Robert Malpage
Music: Philip Miller
Editor: Andrew Traill
Sound: J.J. Le Roux
Country: South Africa
Duration: 19
Year: 2006
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One day while playing his flute, a reclusive stickfighter who lives a solitary life high up in the Mountains sees a beautiful and mysterious woman staring at him dreamily from the water. He is captivated but she disappears. The next day she returns, drawn by his beautiful music. As he plays for her, Mokgodutswane, a sinister and evil horseman, ambushes them, badly wounding Kgotso and riding off with the woman. Kgotso is found by the villagers and nursed back to life. He discovers the woman in the village, but she exists only as a motionless body known as Meokgo. A story of unrequited love, and sacrifice infused with both the cruelty and the beauty of African magic. |
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2007
Title: Minority, The
Director: Dwayne Buckle
Producer: Josh Norton
Screenwriter: Dwayne Buckle
Dir. of Photography: Steve Koh
Editor: Josh Norton & Dwayne Buckle
Sound: Dwayne Buckle
Costume: Kiki
Country: US
Duration: 90
Year: 2006
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An honest hardworking man is mysteriously fired from his office job. In his quest to find a new job, he discovers the tribulations and hardships of being stereotyped as a Black man in America. |
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2007
Title: Missing Miles
Director: Kim Bass
Producer: Dennis Johnson
Screenwriter: Kim Bass
Dir. of Photography: Dean S. Hamilton
Music: Todd Cochran
Editor: Scott Hurd-Newport Production Co.
Sound: Scott Hurd-Newport Production Co.
Costume: Jeri-Lynn Felps
Country: US
Duration: 13
Year: 2006
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Robert L. Watt, Assistant Principal French horn with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, commissioned Todd Cochran to write a musical composition in memory of Miles Davis. This film chronicles the creation of the composition and a performance of the work. |
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2007
Title: Mo & Me
Director: Roger Mills & Murad Rayani
Producer: Salim Amin
Screenwriter: Roger Mills & Murad Rayani
Dir. of Photography: Colin Angell
Editor: Alex Richardson
Sound: Mark Muthee
Country: Kenya
Duration: 96
Year: 2006
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Salim Amin, son and only child of Mohamed "Mo" Amin, undertakes a journey of recollection and reflection into the life of the frequently absent, globe-trotting father he loved, revered and feared. In his late teens, Mohamed Amin abandons his studies to pursue a career in photography which, over the course of thirty years, will turn him into a front-line cameraman extraordinaire - and, arguably, the most renowned photojournalist of his era. Training his candid lens across continents, Mo Amin's thirst for breaking news puts him repeatedly in harm's way - enduring weeks of torture, automatic arms fire, explosives and, ultimately, the amputation of his left arm - to become one of the most decorated news camera-man of all time. The documentary depicts Mo as an unbending, unforgiving and unapologetically rambunctious paterfamilias whose hunger for "the story" propels him to ever greater professional heights - often at the expense of those he cherishes. The 96-minute film is underpinned by extraordinary images from the vast Amin archive - currently available at World Picture Network in New York. The stills mark and frame Mo's life as it unfolds in a vivid and, at times, grisly tableau of international politics. Fuelled by a potent mixture of talent and ambition, Mo's stubborn courage, innate resilience and wily perseverance loom large as he encounters horror and brutality in the course of his indefatigable quest to inform, alert and chronicle. |
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2007
Title: Mokili
Director: Berni Goldblat
Producer: Les Films du Djabadjah
Screenwriter: Moumouni Sanou
Dir. of Photography: Michel K. Zongo
Music: Dhudn J
Editor: Bertin Florent Bado
Sound: Moumouni Sodré Jupiter
Costume: Yolande Ilboudo
Country: Burkina Faso
Duration: 83
Year: 2006
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The chronicle of a few crucial weeks in the lives of two adolescents in modern-day Burkina Faso: Papou and Goumbé are worlds apart, reacting in opposite ways to their approaching A-level exams. The contrasting way they deal with family and peer relations as well as with the choices they opt for on drugs and sex, easy money, forced marriage and corruption, are revealing of the throes of life faced by young people everywhere, but perhaps even more particularly in contemporary African society today. |
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2007
Title: My Brother
Director: Anthony Lover
Producer: Gingi Rochelle, Gregory Segal & Leslieanne Fouche
Screenwriter: Anthony Lover
Dir. of Photography: John Sawyer
Music: John Califra
Editor: Christian Baker
Sound: Gautam Choudhury
Costume: Ayinde Castro
Country: US
Duration: 103
Year: 2006
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A heartwarming story of a mother who must make life-altering choices affecting her two sons, one of whom is developmentally disabled. But will the bond of love she nurtured between the boys as children be shattered as adults? Starring Vanessa Williams, Nashawn Kearse, and Tatum O'Neal. |
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2007
Title: My Letter to Hip Hop
Director: Malik Booth
Producer: Sheldon Candis
Screenwriter: Bridget Gray
Dir. of Photography: Malik Booth
Music: Mike Witting & Itai Shapira
Editor: Mike Witting
Sound: Demarco Ray
Costume: Barbie Hatch
Country: US
Duration: 6
Year: 2006
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The essence of Bridget Gray's original poem "My Letter to Hip Hop" has morphed into this short film where she offers her views on the current state of hip hop and its effect on youth culture. |
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2007
Title: My Nappy ROOTS: A Journey Through Black Hair-itage
Director: Regina Kimbell & Jay Bluemke
Producer: Regina Kimbell
Dir. of Photography: Regi Kimbell
Music: Wendell Kimbell
Editor: Jay Bluemke & Morgan Kassel
Country: US
Duration: 78
Year: 2006
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An edutainment documentary placing black hair under a magnifying glass and examining the social and psychological roots of African Americans. African hair traditions play a role in the cultural and social struggle of Black people in the United States, creating the rise of the first great Black entrepreneurs and the billion-dollar ethnic hair care industry that exists today. The story is told through the voices of stars, historians, hair stylists and business leaders who shape the hair care industry, including Kim Fields, Patti LaBelle, Vivica A. Fox, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Elise Neal, and Ella Joyce. |
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2007
Title: Nailed*
Director: Adrian O'Connell
Country: UK
Duration: 84
Year: 2007
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Nailed is a psycho-thriller about two criminals, fleeing from a drug sting, who break into a dilapidated home. Within the apparently empty home they find instead a man laying on a bed, covered in bandages, whose caretaker may have intentions that are less than honorable. All is not as it seems as things begin to go wrong for the thieves, bringing the supernatural and the horrific into play. |
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2007
Title: Narrow Path, The
Director: Tunde Kelani
Producer: Tunde Kelani
Screenwriter: Niji Akanni
Dir. of Photography: Tunde Kelani
Music: Beautiful Nubia & Seun Owoaje
Editor: Frank Anore
Sound: Bimbo Ogunsanya
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 95
Year: 2006
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Awero chooses between suitors but a haunting experience, expectations of family and culture turn her wedding night into a nightmare. Storm clouds gather as she is forced to walk a think line between honor and shame, carrying the resourcefulness of African womanhood and the fate of communities in a fragile balance. |
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2007
Title: New Los Angeles, The
Director: Lyn Goldfarb
Producer: Lyn Goldfarb
Dir. of Photography: Sandra Chandler
Music: Miriam Cutler
Editor: Gail Yasunaga
Sound: E. Larry Oatfield
Country: US
Duration: 55
Year: 2005
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An exploration of the complexities of inclusion in America's largest majority minority city, with the greatest divide between rich and poor. A powerful portrait of a city in transition, a profile pf the political empowerment of Latinos and immigrants, working in multi-ethnic coalitions to transform their lives. |
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2007
Title: No. 2
Director: Toa Fraser
Producer: Philippa Campbell & Lydia Livingstone
Screenwriter: Toa Fraser
Dir. of Photography: Leon Narbey
Music: Don McGlashan
Editor: Chris Plummer
Sound: Tim Prebble
Costume: Kristy Cameron
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 94
Year: 2006
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The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria's large Fijian family. They have forgotten how to party - they don't even fight any more. Inspired by a dream of her childhood, Nanna demands that her grandchildren put on a big feast at which she will name her successor. A big-hearted, exuberant story about bringing a family together. Stars Ruby Dee. |
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2007
Title: Noah's Arc Marathon*
Country: US
Duration: 176
Year: 0000
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Noah and his friends navigate life and love in L.A. The complete second season of LOGO's groundbreaking, one-of-a-kind series follows the friends as they chart an uncertain course through the city of angels, where laughter and drama are never in short supply. |
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2007
Title: None But That! (Mafesh Gher Kedaa)
Director: Khaled El Hagar
Screenwriter: Azaa Shalabi
Dir. of Photography: Mohsen Nasr
Music: Omar Khayrat
Editor: Khaled Merhi
Sound: Gomaa Abdel Latef
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105
Year: 2006
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After being abandoned by her husband, a woman dedicates her life to her three children. Dreaming of moving up the social and economic ladder, she pushes her youngest and prettiest daughter to be a singer and star of music videos. |
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2007
Title: One Day at a Time
Director: Lawrence Coke
Producer: Lawrence Coke
Screenwriter: Lawrence Coke
Dir. of Photography: Chris Storrar
Music: Mike Notes
Editor: Lawrence Coke
Country: UK
Duration: 15
Year: 2006
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When a tragedy occurs, it paints every day that follows with an inescapable sadness. The pain of loss, the frustration of helplessness--ultimately the price of love. In the blink of an eye everything can change, but life still goes on--one day at a time. Dionne had everything to live for, but one random act of violence changed her life forever. Despite her desperate attempts to maintain some semblance of a normal existence, the profound sorrow she feels is in danger of swallowing her whole. |
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2007
Title: Origin of AIDS, The
Director: Peter Chappell & Catherine Peix
Screenwriter: Peter Chappell, Arnie Gelbart & Stéphane Horel
Dir. of Photography: Peter Chappell
Editor: Catherine Peix
Country: Canada/France
Duration: 90
Year: 2003
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Was AIDS inadvertently created in a laboratory in the Belgian Congo in the late 1960s? Blending archival film and photos with interviews with scientists, specialists and journalists, the filmmakers fearlessly connect the origin of AIDS with the injection of nearly a million Africans with an experimental polio vaccine.
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2007
Title: Our Story, Our Voice
Director: Owen 'Alik Shahadah
Screenwriter: Alif Kaba Khan
Dir. of Photography: Owen 'Alik Shahadah
Music: Tunde Jegede & Ocacia
Editor: Betelihem Zelealem
Sound: Ocacia
Country: UK
Duration: 85
Year: 2007
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From the director of 500 Years, an explosive, unapologetic and unflinching look into the new global crisis and its impact upon the Muslim and oppressed world. In an age where multinational companies and states sponsor terrorism, democracy is imposed, and mono-culturalism functions as unwritten law, Our Story, Our Voice is an essential film of resistance. With Bishop Desmond Tutu and George Galloway. |
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2007
Title: Paroled*
Director: Sal Martino
Producer: Sal Martino, Dino Allen & Dawn Martino
Screenwriter: Sal Martino
Dir. of Photography: Carl Bartels
Music: Dan McNamara
Editor: Sal Martino
Sound: Lionel Ball
Country: US
Duration: 90
Year: 2006
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Parole may be a death sentence for a 2-strike felon who moves in with a disturbed elderly couple who seem determined to destroy him. Starring Spider Loc (G-Unit), Candy Brown Houston, Ernest Thomas, and Master P. |
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2007
Title: Paved With Good Intentions
Director: J.D. Cochran
Producer: Yolanda T. Cochran
Screenwriter: J.D. Cochran & Yolanda T. Cochran
Dir. of Photography: J.D. Cochran
Music: Jeff Marsh
Editor: J.D. Cochran
Sound: Ted Phillips
Costume: Shannon Jett
Country: US
Duration: 118
Year: 2006
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After a corporate scandal provokes a murder/suicide, a repo man vows to prove to his family that his estranged brother wasn't the golden boy they always thought he was. |
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2007
Title: Period Piece, A
Director: Camille Holder-Brown
Producer: Camille Holder-Brown
Screenwriter: Camille Holder-Brown
Dir. of Photography: Mike Wilson
Music: Justin Matthews
Editor: Dave Singh
Sound: H. Williams
Costume: Allison Caviness & Camille Holder-Brown
Country: US
Duration: 20
Year: 2005
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If only Sionne could beam herself away to a world where young girls never got their periods, then she would be happy. Fat chance, defying the laws of nature is virtually impossible. Sionne will get her period, it's just a matter of when, where, and in front of whom. What will she do? |
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2007
Title: Pièces d'Identités
Director: Mweze Ngangura
Producer: Mweze Ngangura
Screenwriter: Mweze Ngangura
Dir. of Photography: Jacques Besse
Music: Jean-Louis Daulne & Papa Wemba
Editor: France Duez & Ingrid Ralet
Sound: Ingrid Ralet
Country: Congo/Belgium
Duration: 93
Year: 1998
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Mani Kongo, former king of Bakongo, leaves for Belgium in search of his daughter. Secure in his traditional authority, he arrives in Belgium only to find that African tradition is merely folkloric in Europe. His daughter, the princess, has a job as a nightclub dancer. Other Bakongo people have lost sense of their culture and live on the fringes of European society. With a view of Europe from the African perspective, identity, disillusionment and separation are the themes of this sobering detective comedy. |
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2007
Title: Portraits of Poets
Director: B Board
Producer: Bryan Boardley
Dir. of Photography: Jesse Brunt
Music: Riel Phillips
Editor: Riel Phillips
Sound: Mayumi Maruyama
Country: US
Duration: 4
Year: 2006
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An artistic depiction of images through poetry. |
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2007
Title: Premium
Director: Pete Chatmon
Producer: Kevin Frakes
Screenwriter: Pete Chatmon
Dir. of Photography: Brian Przypek
Music: Eric Lewis
Editor: K.A. Chisholm
Sound: Anthony Viera
Costume: Tere Duncan
Country: US
Duration: 97
Year: 2006
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Cool, a struggling actor, is fed up with stereotypical African American roles. While pumping gas to make ends meet, he collides with his ex-fiancée after 3 years of silence. She is getting married in 36 hours. Stars Zoë Saldana, Hill Harper and Dorian Missick. |
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2007
Title: President Has AIDS?*, The
Director: Arnold Antonin
Producer: Arnold Antonin & Jimmy Jean-Louis
Screenwriter: Gary Victor
Dir. of Photography: Camilo Widmaïer
Music: John Mogène & Boulet Valcourt
Editor: Lazaro Montero Rosales
Sound: Lazaro Montero Rosales
Country: Haiti
Duration: 100
Year: 2006
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Dao is the biggest movie star in Haiti, the self-proclaimed "President of Compas." He has women falling at his feet and men emulating him. He feels invincible-living the life of a rock star--sex, drugs and alcohol--except that he can no longer hide his illness which is threatening to derail his career. Despite pressure from his manager, he refuses to get tested for AIDS, turning instead to rituals, spells, and the church in denial. At one of his concerts, he rescues Nina from the leery advances of Larieux, a wealthy and powerful businessman, who Nina's mother wants her to marry. As romance blossoms between Dao and Nina, who likes Dao despite his fame, not because of it, Larieux plots his revenge. Starring Jimmy Jean-Louis, Riccardo Lefeuvre and Jessica Geneus. |
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2007
Title: Privacy Policy
Director: J. August Richards
Country: US
Duration: 19
Year: 2006
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A man gets mysterious phone calls from a private number despite a private call block. He enlists the aid of a detective friend who finds out the number belongs to no one. The calls always come at 12:47am, numbers that have a special meaning. Is this identity theft, techno-stalking or an even more sinister plot? Stars Sharif Atkins. |
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2007
Title: Queens of Sound: A Herstory of Reggae and Dancehall
Director: Sandra Krampelhuber
Producer: Dieter Strauch
Screenwriter: Sandra Krampelhuber
Dir. of Photography: Philipp Kroll
Editor: Dieter Strauch
Sound: Philipp Kroll
Country: Austria/Jamaica
Duration: 74
Year: 2006
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Three generations of women talk about their role in the long-neglected female side of reggae and dancehall music in Jamaica: their first steps into the career, their struggle for acceptance in a male-dominated business, their life paths and successes. World-famous musicians such as Marcia Griffiths, Tanya Stephens, Sasha and Lady G, among others, as well as women behind the scenes such as Dr. Carolyn Cooper (University of the West Indies) or Sandra Joy Alcott (founder of JAFA-Jamaican Association of Female Artists) give an understanding of reggae and dancehall from a female point of view. |
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2007
Title: Quilombo Country
Director: Leonard Abrams
Producer: Leonard Abrams
Dir. of Photography: Leonard Abrams
Editor: Leonard Abrams
Country: US
Duration: 73
Year: 2006
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Brazil started as a gulag of deadly slave camps, but thousands escaped while others forced plantation owners out. Many of their communities, known as quilombos, survive today. Rare footage of Umbanda and Pajé ceremonies and festivals of the Mast and Boi Bumba. Narrated by Chuck D of Public Enemy. |
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2007
Title: Rag Tag*
Director: Adaora Nwandu
Screenwriter: Adaora Nwandu
Music: Heather Andrews
Costume: Adaora Nwandu
Country: UK/Nigeria
Duration: 99
Year: 2006
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Rag and Tag were inseparable until Social Services sends Rag away. A decade later Tag is finishing law school but is having difficulty finding a job. Meanwhile, Rag returns to London and finds his old friend. Their lives have changed, but their friendship is more intense, complex and confusing. Community Collaborator: National Black Justice Coalition |
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2007
Title: Rain in a Dry Land
Director: Anne Makepeace
Producer: Anne Makepeace
Dir. of Photography: Joan Churchill
Music: Joel Goodman
Editor: Mary Lampson
Sound: Alan Barker
Country: Kenya/US
Duration: 83
Year: 2006
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A chronicle of two years in the lives of two extended Somali Bantu families as they leave behind a 200-year legacy of oppression in Somalia to face new challenges in the United States. |
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2007
Title: Rebel, The (La Rebelle)
Director: Sacha Parisot
Producer: Sacha Parisot, Reginal Chevalier & Ken Karn
Screenwriter: Dominique A. Jean & Sacha Parisot
Dir. of Photography: Aitor Mantxola
Editor: Sacha Parisot
Costume: Gerthie David
Country: Haiti
Duration: 93
Year: 2006
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A coming of age story about a Haitian teenage girl who turns to alcohol, drugs and sex when she finds her single dad with a new girlfriend. Just how far will she take her personal rebellion? |
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2007
Title: Red Pill Blue Pill*
Director: Charles R. Brown
Producer: Charles R. Brown
Screenwriter: Emill Shavoz
Dir. of Photography: Charles R. Brown
Music: Charles R. Brown
Editor: Charles R. Brown
Sound: Sharron L. Brown
Costume: Sharron L. Brown
Country: US
Duration: 20
Year: 2006
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A hilarious tale of a lady's man who meets a "different" kind of lady. |
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2007
Title: Return
Director: Damani Baker
Producer: Susan James
Editor: Damani Baker
Country: US
Duration: 56
Year: 2006
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Through visits with traditional healers across Africa, the unseen world of African traditional medicine is revealed. Appearance and narration by Malidoma Somé. |
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2007
Title: Roots of My Heart (Las Raíces de mi Corazón)
Director: Gloria Rolando
Screenwriter: Gloria Rolando & Georgina Herrera
Music: Jorge Maletá, Grupo "Vocal Baobab" & Junius Williams
Editor: Gisela Ramos, Melvin Díaz
Sound: Juan Demosthene
Country: Cuba
Duration: 51
Year: 2001
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Merecedes, a Cuban woman from Havana, begins to decipher her family secrets through the photo of her great-grandparents, María Victoria y José Julián. Between reality and the world of her dreams, she learns about the ties the couple had with the Independents of Color, a political party formed in 1908. The struggle of these men and women to create a space for Black people in Cuban society at the beginning of the 20th century ended tragically in 1912 when over 6,000 members of the first Black political party outside of Haiti were massacred by the Cuban Army. The event, largely wiped out of history, is resurrected by the young woman’s search for her family’s roots. |
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2007
Title: Rwanda Rising OPENING NIGHT
Director: C.B. Hackworth
Country: US
Duration: 90
Year: 2007
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An uplifting look at the reconciliation and rebuilding of Rwanda, 12 years after one of the worst genocides in modern history. With the building of new middle-class housing, free education to tenth grade, foreign investment and plans to build modern shopping centers and amusement parks, the miracle transformation is well underway. A testament to the resilience of the human spirit spurred on by the determination to overcome the adversities of the past. |
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2007
Title: Salon, The
Director: Mark Brown
Producer: Mark Brown
Screenwriter: Mark Brown
Dir. of Photography: Brandon Trost
Editor: Earl Watson
Costume: Sarah Trost
Country: US
Duration: 93
Year: 2005
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Jenny is being forced to sell her shop to the Department of Water and Power (DWP) due to eminent domain, and must accept the money she is offered for her property. Regardless of the legal advice Jenny receives, she refuses to let the corporate giant take the one remaining pillar of her inner city neighborhood. She declines the money and decides to take on the DWP in court, all the while keeping it from her salon’s outrageously funny and colorful employees and clientele. A classic tale of the underdog, THE SALON is a fresh look on the inside of a salon and inner city neighborhood where the unexpected happens and the “mom and pop” shop prevails. Hear what women talk about behind closed doors, enjoy the ride at… The Salon, where you go to get more than just a hair cut. Starring Vivica A. Fox, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Monica Calhoun, Terrence Howard and Dondre Whitfield. |
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2007
Title: Salud! SPECIAL SCREENING
Director: Connie Field
Producer: Connie Field & Gail Reed
Dir. of Photography: Vicente Franco
Music: Arturo O'Farrill
Editor: Rhonda Collins
Sound: Gregory Sharpen
Country: US
Duration: 93
Year: 2006
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Engulfed by health care crises, South Africa, the Gambia, Honduras, and Venezuela work with Cuba in an effort to overcome the frightening scarcities and inequities in their health care systems. In addition to traveling to poor rural and urban areas to provide medical care to people, many of whom have never seen a doctor, Cuban doctors train would-be health professionals from the very populations in need of medical care. Hosted by Actor Danny Glover. Community Collaborator: Black Women For Wellness |
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2007
Title: Sarang Song (Love Song)
Director: Tamika Miller
Producer: Tamika Miller & Adisa Khepra
Screenwriter: Tamika Miller
Dir. of Photography: Danny Toback
Music: Jacob Shea
Editor: Frances DeLoach
Sound: Michele Garvik
Costume: Anete Cseri
Country: US
Duration: 24
Year: 2006
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A love story of two women set amidst the politically and socially turbulent times of the early 1970s. The couple's love is tested when one is thrust into the student protest movement and is forced to make a choice--will she choose her love or the Movement?Community Collaborators: United Lesbians of African Heritage and Out&About |
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2007
Title: Shogun Khumalo is Dying!
Director: Daron Chatz & Jahmil X.T. Qubeka
Screenwriter: Daron Chatz & Jahmil X.T. Qubeka
Country: South Africa
Duration: 41
Year: 2006
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A man lies in the front seat of a car, dying. His chest has been ripped open by the savage onslaught of a bullet. A gaping hole in the back windscreen bears testimony to the fatal attack. Paralyzed by his own mortality, Shogun Khumalo cannot move. In his last moments of life he finds himself romancing with reflection. With his outer reality rapidly slowing down, he starts running towards his own labyrinth of contemplation. |
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2007
Title: Shoot the Messenger
Director: Ngozi Onwurah
Producer: Anne Pivcevic
Screenwriter: Sharon Foster
Dir. of Photography: David Katznelson
Music: Julian Nott
Editor: Liz Webber
Sound: Richard Dyer
Costume: Jane Petrie
Country: UK
Duration: 100
Year: 2006
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A highly provocative comedy about a young Black man's feelings on what it's like to be black. Shocking, disturbing and funny, this film throws a spotlight on many perceived views about racial attitudes in our world today in a way that is anything other than "politically correct!" Joe, a Black teacher in inner-London, is accused of assaulting one of his Black pupils. Convicted of a crime he did not commit, Joe loses his job and his sanity as the Black community turns on him, branding him a racist. Destitute, Joe must confront his fear and hatred of his fear and hatred of his own community to reclaim his life. |
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2007
Title: Silent Fall, The
Director: Roger Hawkins
Producer: Phil Cunningham
Screenwriter: Roger Hawkins
Dir. of Photography: Richard Kruger
Music: Rodney Newman
Editor: Roger Hawkins
Sound: Wayne Dodd
Costume: Nawaal Hendricks
Country: South Africa
Duration: 86
Year: 2006
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In Africa, a continent ravaged by the AIDS epidemic, millions fight for survival in the wake of this gigantic enemy. Circling the carnage, ruthless corporations and individuals watch for opportunities to exploit the agony of others to their advantage. Far from the corridors of corporate power a doctor is brutally murdered at a rural hospital in South Africa. Is this a random murder or is there more to it? A who-done-it thriller that will keep you guessing to the end! |
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2007
Title: SistaGod*
Director: Yao Ramesar
Producer: Robert Ramesar
Screenwriter: Yao Ramesar
Dir. of Photography: Edmund Attong & Yao Ramesar
Music: Ella Andall & Anderson Cave
Editor: Edmund Attong
Sound: Debra Lezama & Sheldon Buckmire
Costume: Gillian Moor
Country: Trinidad & Tobago
Duration: 72
Year: 2006
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The first feature of a trilogy that tells the story of the coming of a black female messiah in the future, during a period known as the Apocalypso – a global holocaust that she alone survives.
The main character, Mari, emerges on a Caribbean island, the child of a black West Indian woman and an American Marine sniper, wounded in the first Gulf War. When she is born a “throwblack” (i.e. she comes out darker than expected), her father abandons her, believing that she is not his child. Her mother goes mad and spends most of life in an asylum, having no more children for fear of the outcome. She blames Mari for the loss of her man and is convinced that she is possessed by the devil.
When Mari becomes pregnant by an unknown suitor, her mother sews a Baby Doll Carnival costume for her, to hide her “shame” and “ugliness.” In costume (complete with mask, gloves & cape), Mari assumes a supershero persona, SISTAGOD and is able to re-seed the human race after the destruction - echoing Eve, Apocryphally a Bantu woman – ancestor of all. “As it was in the beginning, so shall it be in the end.”
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2007
Title: Snapping Pieces
Director: Jon Moberg
Producer: Kevin Hughes & Shon Lindsey
Dir. of Photography: Shon Lindsey
Editor: Kevin Hughes
Sound: Irena Coleman
Country: US
Duration: 45
Year: 2006
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A chronicle of the "Blitz Chess" scene at Magic Johnson's Starbucks in Los Angeles. Competing for cash and prestige in a climactic tournament, players describe their curious relationships with each other and their obsession with the "game of life." Dr. Frances Cress Welsing and Prof. Hal Fairchild offer insightful commentary. |
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2007
Title: Soldiers of the Rock
Director: Norman Maake
Screenwriter: Norman Maake
Dir. of Photography: Natalie Haarhof
Music: Benjamin Willen
Editor: Bata Passchier
Country: South Africa
Duration: 98
Year: 2003
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In the spirit of South Africa’s Black Empowerment policy, a student working in the mines during the summer tries to convince his fellow miners to combine their pay and buy the mine. But some of the miners, who have been unable to achieve liberation mentally, fiercely oppose the plan. A powerful statement on the fear of the vulnerability of freedom. Community Collaborator: Southern California Association of Black Psychologists. Discussion led by Dr. Shikana Porter (Whittier College) following February 16 screening |
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2007
Title: Somebodies
Director: Hadjii
Producer: Pamela Kohn & Nathaniel Kohn
Screenwriter: Hadjii
Dir. of Photography: Ousama Rawi
Music: Paul Grabowsky
Editor: Eric O. Schusterman
Country: US
Duration: 89
Year: 2006
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Scottie, an everyday, church-going, party-hopping college student, is looking for a good time with his friends and a little luck with the ladies. Unfortunately for Scottie, his path to peace of mind is fraught with a demanding fire-and-brimstone preacher, fun-loving friends, an eccentric Southern family and a sexy young woman who, like everyone else in his life, might have a screw or two loose. |
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2007
Title: SoulMate
Director: Andrea Wiley
Producer: Andrea Wiley
Screenwriter: Andrea Wiley
Dir. of Photography: Varee
Music: Mark Cargill & Chazzy Green
Editor: Regina Rene
Sound: Ken Johnson
Country: US
Duration: 83
Year: 2006
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A gripping cinematic journey into the realities facing today's successful, saved and single African American women. This deeply personal portrait reveals the trials and triumphs of unforgettable women while offering hope and practical advice on such issues as loneliness, the desire for sexual intimacy, men on the down low, the ticking biological clock and the uncertainty of the future. |
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2007
Title: Souls of Black Girls, The
Director: Daphne Valerius
Producer: Daphne Valerius
Music: Marcos Morales
Editor: Daphne Valerius
Sound: Ben Chang
Country: US
Duration: 49
Year: 2006
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A provocative news documentary with social commentary from Chuck D, Regina King, Jada Pinkett Smith, Gwen Ifill and Michaela Angela Davis that raises the question of whether or not women of color may be suffering from a self-image disorder as a result of media images. |
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2007
Title: Spell My Name (Peretera Maneta)
Director: Tawanda Gunda Mupengo
Producer: Tsitsi Dangarembga
Screenwriter: Owen Muzambi & Tsitsi Dangarembga
Dir. of Photography: Farah Muganhu
Music: Tonderai Koschke
Editor: Olaf Koschke
Sound: Ruvimba Muzamiri & Musa Ally
Costume: Glen Cable
Country: Zimbabwe
Duration: 24
Year: 2005
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At a remote rural school, a young university graduate Miss Chipunza, is to start work as an advanced level literature teacher. She discovers she will instead be teaching the class of students with special needs. Her city upbringing contrasts greatly with her new environment. A mutual relationship with one of her special class mute students, Maneta, leads to her discovery of something sinister going on at the school. |
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2007
Title: Standing on Common Ground: My Spring Break in New Orleans
Director: Evan Allen-Gessesse
Producer: Evan Allen-Gessesse
Editor: Barbara E. Allen
Country: US
Duration: 30
Year: 2006
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A unique perspective on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, through the personal journey of an African American college student who travels to New Orleans as a volunteer during Spring Break. Community Collaborator: Katrina Support Council |
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2007
Title: Streets of Greenwood, The
Director: Jack Willis, John Reavis & Fred Wardenburg
Producer: Jack Willis, John Reavis & Fred Wardenburg
Editor: Fred Wardenburg
Sound: John Reavis
Country: US
Duration: 21
Year: 1964
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In 1963, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) undertook a voter registration drive in Greenwood, Mississippi. One of the first films made about the Southern civil rights movement, described by the NY Herald Tribune as a "slice of life that makes gripping viewing of gripping reality." |
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2007
Title: Sunday in Kigali, A (Un Dimanche à Kigali)
Director: Robert Favreau
Producer: Michael Mosca & Lyse Lafontaine
Screenwriter: Robert Favreau
Dir. of Photography: Pierre Mignot
Music: Jorane
Editor: Hélène Girard
Sound: Marie-Claude Gagné, Claude Lahaye & Hans Peter Strobl
Costume: Michèle Hamel
Country: Canada
Duration: 118
Year: 2006
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During the Rwandan genocide, a dissolute French journalist, Bernard Valcourt, meets Gentille, a beautiful young waitress, who is tragically mistaken for a Tutsi. The swimming pool at the luxury hotel in Kigali where Gentille works is a gathering spot for expatriates, aid workers, Rwandan officials, businessmen, prostitutes, and hotel employees, and is, in many ways, a microcosm of life in war-ravaged Rwanda. As the love between Valcourt and Gentille becomes stronger, so does the onslaught of civil anarchy and rumors of war. After the genocide has exhausted itself, leaving that country silent and decimated, Bernard returns to once-familiar places, now recognizable only by a few remaining landmarks. He is desperate to find his former lover but fragments of information prove inconclusive and frustrating. Nominated for the Canadian Genie Awards (the equivalent of the US Oscars) in 7 categories, this film provides an emotionally powerful and tense tale of love and loss. |
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2007
Title: Tambourine Man
Director: J. Anthony Brown
Producer: Dominique DiPrima
Screenwriter: J. Anthony Brown
Dir. of Photography: Guillermo Céspedes
Editor: Guillermo Céspedes & Dominique DiPrima
Country: US
Duration: 7
Year: 2005
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A comedy about a man who likes to play his tambourine. Starring J. Anthony Brown. |
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2007
Title: Tanyaradzwa
Director: Tawanda Gunda Mupengo
Producer: Dorothy Meck
Screenwriter: Tawanda Gunda Mupengo
Dir. of Photography: Herbert Mhlanga
Editor: Jaqui Jojo
Sound: Temba Nyamweda
Costume: Plaxcedess Gambe
Country: Zimbabwe
Duration: 70
Year: 2005
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Everything seems to be going perfectly for 18-year-old Tanyaradzwa, an intelligent and confident girl from a well-to-do family, but she is carefully concealing a secret. When her secret is discovered by her parents she is compelled to leave. With her baby at her side, she seeks out the child's father. She finds herself abandoned and desperate and her estranged parents are forced to reconsider their actions. Tanyaradzwa is forced to walk through a thorny path of self-discovery and survival. |
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2007
Title: Tested, The
Director: Russell Costanzo
Producer: Melissa Miller
Screenwriter: Russell Costanzo
Dir. of Photography: Chris Scarafile
Music: Mike Damon & Lamont "Preach" Wilkerson
Editor: Russell Costanzo
Sound: Doug Johnson
Costume: Cecilia Traini
Country: US
Duration: 30
Year: 2006
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A Black teen struggles with schoolwork in a hostile environment and his home life, which is equally disturbing. During the days before his gang initiation he attempts to make peace with his negligent mother, console his younger sister, and accept what he's about to do--shoot a stranger in broad daylight. |
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2007
Title: Testify
Director: Darius C. Monroe
Producer: Tiffany Achane
Screenwriter: Darius Monroe
Dir. of Photography: Daniel Patterson
Music: Jeremy Schrepple
Editor: Dave Anderson
Sound: Hakim Robinson
Costume: Karen Waller
Country: US
Duration: 12
Year: 2006
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After Sunday’s service, Pastor Biggs is informed by a familiar, yet unannounced visitor, that it is imperative that he goes to visit his son. The Pastor and son meet and a new revelation is revealed. How long will Pastor Biggs hide behind the Church, the Word, and the rumors? Stars Art Evans. Community Collaborator: Gentlemen's Gentlmen |
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2007
Title: Thieves and Liars (Ladrones y Mentirosos)
Director: Ricardo Méndez Matta
Producer: Poli Marichal & Ricardo Méndez Matta
Screenwriter: Poli Marichal & Ricardo Méndez Matta
Dir. of Photography: Jaime Costas & Willie Berrios
Music: Superaquello
Editor: Martín Singer
Sound: Antonio Betancourt
Costume: Gladyris Silva
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 114
Year: 2005
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Three Puerto Rican families are each affected in their own way by the giant wave of corruption that has overwhelmed the island ever since it became the main port of entry for cocaine into the East Coast of the United States in the 1990s. |
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2007
Title: Third Root, The
Director: Rafael Rebollar
Country: Mexico
Duration: 26
Year: 0000
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The population of African descent now living in Mexico is concentrated in the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca, where people celebrate civic and religious festivals permeated by their African origins. The material used in this film has been updated and re-edited into a new documentary, Africanias (see above.) |
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2007
Title: Trials of Darryl Hunt, The
Director: Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg
Producer: Katie Brown, William Rexer II, Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg
Screenwriter: Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg
Dir. of Photography: William Rexer II & John Foster
Music: Paul Brill
Editor: Shannon Kennedy
Sound: Brad Bergbom
Country: US
Duration: 106
Year: 2006
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A deeply personal story of a wrongfully convicted man, Darryl Hunt, who spent twenty years in prison for a crime he did not commit. In 1984, a young white newspaper reporter, Deborah Sykes, was raped, sodomized and stabbed to death just blocks from where she worked in Winston-Salem, NC. Based on an ID by a former Klan member, a 19-year-old black man, Darryl Hunt, was charged. No physical evidence linked Hunt to the crime. Hunt was convicted by an all white jury, and sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1994, DNA testing cleared Hunt, yet he would spend another ten years behind bars.
The film chronicles this capital case from 1984 through 2004. With personal narratives and exclusive footage from two decades, the film frames the judicial and emotional responses to this chilling crime - and the implications surrounding Hunt’s conviction - against a backdrop of class and racial bias in America. This unique look at one man’s loss and redemption challenges the assumption that all Americans have the right to unbiased justice.
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2007
Title: Tupac Is Not Dead
Director: Chad Doreck
Producer: Tracey Ali
Screenwriter: Tracey Ali
Dir. of Photography: Jon Hill
Music: Mark T. Williams & Tupac Shakur
Editor: Paul Morrell
Sound: Jimmy Jernigan
Country: US
Duration: 11
Year: 2006
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A humorous story about friendship, love and an homage to the modern day icon, rapper Tupac Shakur. |
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2007
Title: Unfinished
Director: Arun Vir
Producer: Reena Dutt & Arun Vir
Screenwriter: Arun Vir
Dir. of Photography: Todd Heater
Music: Samrat Chakrabarti
Editor: Dave Bergan
Country: US
Duration: 17
Year: 2006
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Upon the death of her East Indian mother, a woman finds out that her father is an African American. She must now come to terms with her bi-racial identity. |
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2007
Title: Urban Romance
Director: Wayne Campbell
Producer: Aubrey Fagon
Screenwriter: Wayne Campbell
Dir. of Photography: Aubrey Fagon
Music: Damo
Editor: Jay Dunstan
Sound: Gary Cumminus
Country: UK
Duration: 9
Year: 2005
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A modern version of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Set against the urban backdrop of the inner cities, this time-honored tale tells the tragic story of these star-crossed lovers. Romeo is a drummer and communicates with his love Juliet through the medium of music. |
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2007
Title: Voices of the Sidis: Ancestral Links
Director: Beheroze Shroff
Producer: Beheroze Shroff
Dir. of Photography: Naren Kondra
Editor: Beheroze Shroff, Arun Benegal & Iain Grainger
Sound: Jagdish Patil
Country: India
Duration: 26
Year: 2006
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In this portrait of an urban Afro-Indian Sidi family in Bombay, India, the father Babu traces his ancestry to Zanzibar, Tanzania. Babu's wife, Fatima, talks about her grandmother who worked in a Hindu royal household. Heena, their daughter, reflects of identity. Babu also discusses his past work as a Bollywood stuntman. |
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2007
Title: Water First
Director: Amy Hart
Producer: Amy Hart
Screenwriter: Amy Hart
Dir. of Photography: Steve Nealey & Jonathan Kovel
Country: US
Duration: 35
Year: 2006
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The magnitude of the global water crisis and the reality of living without water is revealed in the rural villages of Malawi and urban townships of South Africa. The global water crisis leaves over one billion people without water and kills 6,000 children every day. Beautiful cinematography and succinct, dramatic storytelling make this film well worth watching. |
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2007
Title: Well of Fate
PAFF Salutes Nollywood!
Director: Mike Steve Adeleye
Producer: Mike Steve Adeleye
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 87
Year: 2006
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In order to gain freedom for his wife, the hunter Abija reluctantly sets out on a perilous quest with three companions to save Ilu Le kingdom from the curse of a mysterious spirit from the past, Filled with giants, gods, and spirits from the past. Filled with oldest of Nigerian folklores, the true purpose of the quest remains a daunting mystery known only to the gods of fate. |
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2007
Title: White Wave, The (La Vague Blanche)
Director: Mohamed Ali El Mejboud
Producer: Nabil Ayouch
Screenwriter: Mohamed Ali El Mejboud
Dir. of Photography: Areski Ferhat
Sound: Mustapha Moussaoui
Country: Morocco
Duration: 90
Year: 2006
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Mostafa Adib, 30, has just finished a prison sentence of five years or drug smuggling. One night on the beach he meets Nasser, who comes from a good family. Nasser asks him for help in getting out a package he found in the water. They discover that it contains dozens of kilograms of cocaine and they decide to sell it. Mostafa contributes with his connections in the drug dealing business, while Nasser puts his car and apartment in the service of the transaction. Eventually they find an interested buyer, but he turns out to be a peril to both men. Based on true events which took place in the summer of 1996 in Casablanca. |
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2007
Title: Who's Afraid of Ngugi?
Director: Manthia Diawara
Producer: Lydie Diakhaté
Dir. of Photography: Petna Katilondo, Arthur Jafa & Yahaya Alpha Suberu
Editor: Harry Kafka
Country: Mali
Duration: 83
Year: 2006
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Ngugi Wa Thiongo journeys back to Kenya with his wife, Njeeri, after a prolonged exile. The couple are faced with crowds of the hopeful, welcoming the now legendary author's homecoming. Also present is the persistent question of exile, as well as the looming threat of those who still find Ngugi's words a threat to their existence. The film also captures the aftermath of a vicious attack on Njeeri and Ngugi during their time in Kenya and Njeeri's courage as she and the country face her rape and its repercussions. |
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2007
Title: Why Do Black Men Date White Women?
Director: Erik Gordon
Producer: Erik Gordon
Music: Rico & Prez
Editor: Erik Gordon & Charlie McBride
Country: US
Duration: 72
Year: 2006
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Follow Erik Gordon on his quest as he asks the question "Why do Black men date White women?" Do Black women have attitudes? Are White women submissive? Are Black men who date White women weak? A humorous yet thought-provoking attempt to answer this proverbial question results in interesting theories, humor and a controversial issue that provokes discussions between the sexes. |
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2007
Title: Will the Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up!
Director: E. Raymond Brown & Sayael Noram
Producer: E. Raymond Brown & Cedra Stokes
Screenwriter: E. Raymond Brown & Just Love
Dir. of Photography: Sayael Noram
Music: E. Raymond Brown & Jamal Harris
Editor: Sayael Noram
Sound: Ken Johnson
Costume: Just Love & Sayael Noram
Country: US
Duration: 105
Year: 2005
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Don't let the title fool you. Newcomer E. Raymond Brown breaks the game down from the streets to the White House to Iraq to Halliburton to the preacher with the Rolls Royce. Through exploring politics, economics, psychology and theology the message is brought forth to evolve or get manipulated. Starring Cornel West, KRS-One, Ice T, Just Love, Shang.
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2007
Title: Winnie and the Duppy Bat
Director: Annetta Laufer
Producer: Karlene Page
Country: UK
Duration: 12
Year: 2006
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The bittersweet comedy of a young Jamaican girl. In the guise of her alter-ego, Danger Girl, she sets out to catch the infamous Duppy Bat--a creature within Jamaican mythology symbolizing the imminent death of someone close--and thereby save her dying mother. |
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2007
Title: Wu: The Story Of The Wu-Tang Clan
Director: Gerald K. Barclay
Producer: Gerald K. Barclay
Screenwriter: Gerald K. Barclay
Dir. of Photography: Sergei Franklin
Music: Yumika Parsley
Editor: Gerald K. Barclay & David Bruce
Sound: Napoleon X
Country: US
Duration: 90
Year: 2006
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In the summer of 1993, the Wu-Tang Clan emerged from the slums of Staten Island and took the hip-hop world by storm. Selling more than twenty million albums, their talents brought them success and their music made them legends. |
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2007
Title: Zaïna: Rider of the Atlas
Director: Bourlem Guerdjou
Producer: Philippe Liégeois & Jean-Michel Rey
Screenwriter: Bourlem Guerdjou & Juliette Sales
Dir. of Photography: Bruno de Keyzer
Music: Cyril Morin
Sound: Mourad Louanchi
Costume: Emma Bellocq & Anaïs Romand
Country: Morocco/France/Germany
Duration: 100
Year: 2005
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An 11-year-old girl meets her real father for the first time after her mother’s death. Fleeing from her obsessed stepfather, whom she believes caused her mother’s death, the girl and her father travel to Marrakech where her father, a horseman, plans to participate in the most prestigious horse-race of North Africa. Pursued by the wealthy and powerful stepfather, the girl and her father slowly begin to create a bond that will get them through the hardships that lay both ahead and behind them. A beautifully told adventure film sure to become a family favorite. |
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