2010 StudentFest Programming
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PAFF ANNOUNCES 2010 STUDENTFEST PROGRAMMING
Annual Event Draws Over 18,000 Los Angeles City and County Students
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Jan. 6, 2010) — The Pan African Film and Arts Festival (PAFF), America’s largest and most prestigious Black film and arts festival, has announced its 2010 programming for its signature StudentFest taking place [...]
Actor Jimmy Jean -Louis Continues Work in Haiti
One of our favorite actors has news of his work in Haiti.
Hollywood Unites for Haiti president and founder, actor Jimmy Jean-Louis (Heroes) & Healing Hands director Antonio Kebrau and Dr Bernard Naud hosted Mayor of Port-Au-Prince Jean-Yves Jason, celebrities Olivia Wilde (actress, TV show House), Arnold Antonin (Director), David Belle (founder of Cine Institute Jacmel) [...]
PAFF Announces 2010 Volunteer Orientation Meetings
Saturday, January 9, 16, 23
2 p.m to 3:30 p.m.
Yvonne Burke Senior and Community Center
Media Conference Room
4750 W. 62nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90056
Media Conference Room
PAFF 2010 All Access Pass Kwanzaa Holiday Special
The 2010 Pan African Film & Arts Festival is getting underway and is offering for a limited time its All Access Pass for only $300. A $450 value, this Kwanzaa holiday special is only available now through January 3, 2010 and includes the following benefits:
Priority admittance to all regular screenings, panels, and workshops up [...]
16th Annual African-American Film Marketplace and S.E. Manly Short Film Showcase
The Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center (BHERC) is pleased to produce their 16th Annual African American Film Marketplace and S.E. Manly Short Film Showcase December 18 – 20, 2009 at the Nate Holden Performing Art Center, 4718 West Washington Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90016. The Opening night Ceremony will Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the 1959 groundbreaking film Imitation of Life. Save the Date: African American Film Marketplace & S.E. Manly Short Film Showcase.
PAFF Continues Free Black History Month Programming with Popular StudentFest
The Pan African Film and Arts Festival (PAFF) has announced that it will continue its popular Black History Month programming that draws over 18,000 Los Angeles City and County students annually. Known as the PAFF’s STUDENTFEST, each year Los Angeles City and County students and their teachers attend this free program featuring age-appropriate culturally [...]
L.A. Times: Charles Burnett Winner of United States Artists $50,000 Grant
Fashion designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy, architect Neil Denari, choreographer Sophiline Cheam Shapiro, filmmakers Charles Burnett and Renee Tajima-Pena, composer-musician Daniel Plonsey and photographer Anthony Hernandez are the Southern California winners of 2009 United States Artists grants, to be presented tonight at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica.
The unrestricted $50,000 grants are given each year [...]
PAFF Announces Call for Volunteers and Community Collaborators
The Pan African Film and Arts Festival (PAFF), America’s largest and most prestigious Black film and arts festival has announced its annual call for volunteers and community collaborators. Taking place February 10-15, 2010 in Los Angeles, the PAFF was established in 1992, as a non-profit corporation dedicated to the promotion of cultural and racial tolerance and understanding through the exhibition of film, art and creative expression. Each year the PAFF presents and showcases a broad spectrum of Black creative works, particularly those that reinforce positive images and help to destroy negative stereotypes of Africans and African-Americans.
Entries for the 2010 African Movie Awards
The African Movie Academy Award (AMAA) have released guidelines for the 2010 edition of the awards billed to hold in Yenagoa, the capital of the oil-rich but politically volatile Niger Delta state of Bayelsa, on 2010 April 10.
Entries can be done online (www.ama-awards.com) and submitted with the entry(ies) at the secretariat or at designated points [...]
Fela Kuti Film in the Works
Fela! the musical and Knitting Factory reissues have stirred up new interest in the legendary Afrobeat star, and now Focus Features has announced plans for a Fela movie.
Steve McQueen is signed on to direct, and the script will be written by Biyi Bandele, based on Michael Veal’s book Fela: The Life and Times of An [...]
Skin to Open at Beverly Center 13 Cinemas
2009 PAFF Best Narrative Feature and Jury and Audience Favorite “Skin” Starring Sophie Okonedo to open at Beverly Center 13 Cinemas November 25!
The End of Poverty? To Open in L.A.
2009 PAFF Best Documentary Feature Honorable Mention “The End of Poverty?” to open in Los Angeles theatres November 25.
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