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Black Movies Matter: Pan African Film Festival Goes Virtual
The twenty-ninth annual film festival showcases 200-plus productions by and about Black people from forty-five countries.
American Skin, Nate Parkerâs fiction film about police brutality, and Abby Ginzbergâs
The Pan African Film Festival is all about bringing films from near and far about the global Black experience to U.S. audiences who might not otherwise have the chance to view them.
Truth to Power traces Leeâs trajectory from her 1946 birth in segregated El Paso, Texas, to her familyâs move, as part of the Great Migration, to California to escape the worst of Jim Crow. Of course, the Bay Area had its own set of problems, and Lee contended with solo motherhood of two sons, domestic abuse, and even homelessnessâscars that remain with her and inform the humanitarian policies she has championed.
Taís Araújo and Alfred Enoch / Mariana Vianna
Director/co-writer Lázaro Ramos’s award-winning
Executive Order (Medida Provisória) exemplifies what I love most about the Pan African Film Festival (PAFF): It gives movie buffs the opportunity to see films, often from far-flung destinations around the globe, that we might otherwise never have the chance to watch. Often these are worthy, well-made productions that PAFF is giving access and a foothold to in Los Angeles, arguably the world’s capital of cinema (although not necessarily the capital of “world cinema” per se).
2021’s 29th annual Pan African Virtual Film + Arts Festival is taking place Feb. 28-March 14.
Theatr Clwyd s Tamara Harvey directs stars in modern retelling of classic
Stephen Fry (Photo: Claire Newman Williams), Joanna Lumley, Alfred Enoch, Emma McDonald, Fionn Whitehead (Photo: Pip) and Russell Tovey (Photo: Jason Dimmock). The full team behind a new digital show,
The Picture of Dorian Gray, has been announced with national treasures and the UK s best actors creating the story with top Welsh talent. Produced by five UK arts organisations, including Flintshire s Theatr Clwyd, the cast includes Fionn Whitehead (
Dunkirk), Alfred Enoch (
Absolutely Fabulous), Emma McDonald, Russell Tovey (
Him & Her,
QI,
A Bit of Fry & Laurie). Behind the camera is a glittering array of Welsh and Wales-based talent, including Theatr Clwyd s artistic director Tamara Harvey directing, Llangollen s Eleri B Jones assistant directing, with original songs by Northop-based composer Jared Zeus. The production is managed by Prestatyn s Sami Wood and filmed at The Barn Theatre, led by
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