All-Star Cast Includes Emmy® And Golden Globe Nominee Eriq La Salle (“ER”), Emmy And NAACP Image Award® Winner Miss Cicely Tyson (“Diary Of A Mad Black Woman”), SAG Award™ Nominee Michael Michele (“ER”) And NAACP Image Award Winner Michael Beach (“Third Watch”)
LOS ANGELES, CA – Family drama “Relative Stranger,” a Hallmark Channel Original Movie, premiered at the 17th Annual Pan African Film & Arts Festival (PAFF). The screening took place Sunday, February 15, 2009 at the Culver Plaza Theatre as part of the PAFF’s Closing Night Gala celebration. “Relative Stranger,” features an all-star cast includes Emmy® and Golden Globe nominee Eriq La Salle (“ER”), Emmy and NAACP Image Award® winner Miss Cicely Tyson (“Diary of a Mad Black Woman”), SAG Award™ nominee Michael Michele (“ER”) and NAACP Image Award winner Michael Beach (“Third Watch”).
Premiering on the Hallmark Channel Saturday, March 14 (9/8c), “Relative Stranger” tells the story of a former football star returning home to the family he left six years earlier to find some things have changed, while some have not – mostly within himself. Can a family hurt by a man who once was their hero forgive him? Can he forgive himself, or will he continue to run from his past? Difficult truths must be faced and forgiven in the engaging family drama. “Relative Stranger,” a Hallmark Channel Original Movie premiering Saturday, March 14 (9/8c).
The Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) is the largest and most prestigious flagship black film and arts festival in the country. The festival consists of more than 150 new movies by filmmakers and 100 fine artists from the United States, Africa, the Caribbean, South America, the South Pacific, Europe and Canada, showcasing the diversity and complexity of people from African descent. www.PAFF.org
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Press Contact: Jasmyne Cannick (323) 295-1706, publicity@paff.org
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LOS ANGELES – FEBRUARY 15: The cast and writer of the Hallmark Channel Original Movie “Relative Stranger,” attended the films premiere at the 17th Annual Pan African Film & Arts Festival Closing Night Gala February 15, 2009 at the Culver Plaza Theatre. (Photo by Ian Foxx/PAFF)
People: Eric Haywood (writer); Eriq La Salle; Michael Michele; Michael Beach.
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