Contact: Micah Salkind
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Department of Africana Studies
Phone: 401-441-0623
Email: Micah_Salkind@brown.edu
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Brown Film Festival Brings Filmmakers, Films of Africa and The African Diaspora to Providence
Brown’s Departments of Modern Culture and Media and Africana Studies are pleased to present The Africana Film Festival 2010, Thursday April 15th, 2010 through Sunday April 18th, 2010. The Festival is funded by Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Media and Culture, Brown University’s Creative Arts Council, The Office of Institutional Diversity, and The Focus on Africa initiative. All screenings and panels will be held at the The Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main St. Providence, RI. The Africana Film Festival is open to the public; seating is $6.00 for students with valid ID and $8.00 for the public. Packages of 8 tickets can be purchased at The Cable Car box office for $38 (students) or $50. All seating is open but limited. For more info: http://brownafricanafilmfestival.info, email Africana_Studies@brown.edu <mailto:geverandshabab@brown.edu> or call the Africana Studies Department at 401-863-3558. All are invited.
Starting April 15th, filmmakers from Jamaica, Ghana, Cameroon and Cuba will arrive on Brown’s campus to discuss their films and life’s work with Providence audiences. The 2010 Africana Film Festival features a retrospective of work by The Black Audio Film Collective. John Akomfrah (Ghana/UK) and Lina Gopaul (Jamaica/UK), founding members of the collective and current members of Smoking Dog Films, have chronicled and cross-examined Britain's new multicultural reality since 1983. Their best-known work, Handsworth Songs (1986), will screen prior to their newest work, Genome Chronicles (2008) at 6:45 p.m. on Saturday, April 17. It is regarded as emblematic of a turn towards archival and documentation in recent art. Gopaul and Akomfrah will join filmmakers Gloria Rolando, Cuba’s foremost female filmmaker, and Jean-Marie Teno (Cameroon) for a panel discussion moderated by Professor Anthony Bogues of Brown’s Africana Studies Department at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 18th.
In addition to being able to hear directly from filmmakers who rarely if ever make their way to New England, let alone the US, Africana Film Festival audiences will have unprecedented opportunities to view films that are seldom seen in North America. Screenings of Sex, Okra & Salted Butter (Mali), Wrestling Ground (Senegal) and No Time To Die (Ghana) as well other shorts and features from Kenya, Burkina-Faso, and Chad make for a diverse and exciting look at the world of Afro-Diasporic cinema.
Brown’s Departments of Africana Studies and Modern Culture and Media are pleased to present The Africana Film Festival 2010, Thursday April 15th, 2010 through Sunday April 18th, 2010. The Festival is generously funded by Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Media and Culture with funding support from Brown University’s Creative Arts Council, The Office of Institutional Diversity, and The Focus on Africa initiative. All screenings and panels will be at the The Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main St. Providence, RI. The Africana Film Festival screenings are open to the public; seating is $6.00 for students with valid ID and $8.00 for the public. Packages of 8 tickets can be purchased at The Cable Car box office for $38 (students) or $50. All seating is open but limited. For more info check http://brownafricanafilmfestival.info, email Africana_Studies@brown.edu <mailto:geverandshabab@brown.edu> or call the Africana Studies Department at 401-863-3558. All are invited.
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