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2003 Films
Title: Afrique Années 60 (Africa, 1960s)
Director: Félicité Wouassi
Screenwriter: Jean Michel Humeau
Dir. of Photography: Félicité Wouassi
Music: Dalya Naim
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Sound: Damien Berger
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Country: France/Cameroon
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Duration: 8 min.
Year: 2003
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Two African immigrants in Paris spiritually transport themselves through music. A beautiful tale of return featuring the music of Manu Dibango.
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2003 Films
Title: All On a Mardi Gras Day
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Country: US
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Duration: 57 min.
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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2003 Films
Title: Beat the Drum
Director: David Hickson
Screenwriter: W. David McBrayer
Dir. of Photography: Lance Gewer
Music: Klaus Badelt & Ramin Djawadi
Editor: Mark Winitsky
Sound: Nico Louw
Costume: Ruy Filipe
Country: South Africa
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Duration: 113 min.
Year: 2003
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Young Musa is orphaned after a mysterious illness strikes his village in KwaZulu Natal. To help his grandmother, Musa sets out for Johannesburg with his drum, a gift from his father, in search of work and his uncle. The journey confronts him with the stark realities of urban life, but his indomitable spirit never waivers. |
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2003 Films
Title: Bid 'Em In
Director: Neal Sopata
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Music: Oscar Brown, Jr.
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Country: US
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Duration: 2 min.
Year: 2003
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A stark depiction of the dehumanizing cruelty of a 19th century slave auction, set against Oscar Brown Jr.'s famous poem. |
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2003 Films
Title: Black Beetle (Besouro Preto)
Director: Salim Rollins
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Dir. of Photography: joshua bee alafia
Music: Pvo da Bahia
Editor: Salim Rollins
Sound: Malik Wright
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Country: Brazil/US
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Duration: 35 min.
Year: 2003
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This history of African spirituality in Brazil focuses on the discipline of Capoeira and the mythical master Besouro Preto, who legend says had the ability to disappear and turn himself into a Black Beetle. |
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2003 Films
Title: Black Rose
Director: Brandi Smith
Screenwriter: Brandi Smith
Dir. of Photography: Los
Music: Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
Editor: Miguel Aguilar
Sound: Tim Boot
Costume: Lindiwe Suttle
Country: US
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Duration: 8 min.
Year: 2003
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Good music and great energy take over in a "mac off" between rhythm & blues, reggae, and hip-hop in a Johannesburg nightclub. |
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2003 Films
Title: Blind Shaft
Director: Yang Li
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Country: China
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Duration: 92 min.
Year: 2003
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A harsh and compelling eye on the Chinese "economic miracle" exposes the story of two depraved miners who perpetrate a scam to extort money for the deaths of fellow miners and unwittingly pit themselves against the equally depraved management class. |
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2003 Films
Title: Bongoland
Director: Josiah Kibira
Screenwriter: Josiah Kibira
Dir. of Photography: Jeff Green
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Editor: Takaaki Sato
Sound: Dawn Schot
Costume: Bethany Krause
Country: Tanzania/US
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Duration: 101 min.
Year: 2003
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Juma chases the American dream after coming to the US, but the realities of everyday life for an undocumented worker in America collide with the widely held belief in the third world that once one gets to the US or Europe, their problems of poverty are all resolved. |
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2003 Films
Title: Coming to England
Director: Keith Taylor
Screenwriter: Floella Benjamin
Dir. of Photography: Keith Taylor
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Editor: Dan Mellow
Sound: Steve Hills
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Country: Trinidad/UK
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Duration: 58 min.
Year: 2003
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A typical story for many West Indians who migrated to Britain in the 1960s, on the belief that England was a promised land of golden opportunities, is told through the eyes of a ten-year old girl. |
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2003 Films
Title: Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
Director: Peter Bate
Screenwriter: Peter Bate
Dir. of Photography: Renaat Lambeets
Music: Howard Davidson
Editor: Hugh Williams
Sound: Olivier Struye
Costume: Else Bogaerts
Country: Belgium
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Duration: 92 min.
Year: 2003
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A visually stunning docudrama revealing the true story of the terror and shocking brutality implemented by King Leopold II of Belgium as he created a wealthy empire by turning the Congo into a brutal labor camp for the harvest of rubber. Resulting in the death and maiming of over 10 million people between 1885 and 1908, there is little question that its violent past contributes to the present-day chaos in Congo. |
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2003 Films
Title: Cubamor
Director: joshua bee alafia
Screenwriter: joshua bee alafia & Abel Robainia
Dir. of Photography: Shem Sobin
Music: Pablo Herrera
Editor: joshua bee alafia
Sound: Salim Rollins
Costume: Elise Court Wilson
Country: Cuba/US
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Duration: 131 min.
Year: 2003
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Two Americans journey to Cuba. Lazaro, a devotee of Ifa, promises his fiancée and the Goddess Oshun that he won't stray with other women while studying music. Zoe, on a political solidarity brigade, falls in love with Renato, a Reggae singer and street hustler. |
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2003 Films
Title: Dense
Director: Vanessa Williams
Screenwriter: Vanessa Williams & Shari Poindexter
Dir. of Photography: John Demps
Music: Michael Bearden
Editor: Debra I. Moore
Sound: Tim Hoogenakker & Michael McDonald
Costume: Rita McGhee
Country: US
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Duration: 32 min.
Year: 2003
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Yvette Worthy a passionate artist on the verge of making her mark in the art world; finds herself entangled in a love triangle. Her fiancé, Julius Moore, a frustrated law school graduate, demands she “put down her crayons” to start a family with him or he knows someone else who will. Through a series of flashbacks Yvette journeys the history of their troubled relationship and discovers the red flags she was too DENSE to see. Starring: Lanei Chapman, Michael Ralph, Yolanda Ross, and Vondie Curtis-Hall.
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2003 Films
Title: Heritage
PAFF Salutes Nollywood!
Director: Ladi Ladebo
Screenwriter: Ladi Ladebo
Dir. of Photography: Armand Marco
Music: Heritage Collective
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Sound: Peter Hodges
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Country: Nigeria
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Duration: 92 min.
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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2003 Films
Title: Hot Chili
Director: Moabi Mogorosi
Screenwriter: Moabi Mogorosi
Dir. of Photography: Michael Wright
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Country: Botswana
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Duration: 45 min.
Year: 2003
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A modest but honorable gardener and a village princess fall in love against a background of tribal intrigue and class division. |
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2003 Films
Title: Intolerable Burden, The
Director: Chea Prince
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Country: US
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Duration: 56 min.
Year: 2003
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One black family's commitment to a quality education, from the time of segregation, through desegregation, and through the recent period of re-segregation. |
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2003 Films
Title: Le Mozart Noir
Director: Raymond Saint-Jean
Screenwriter: Siobhan Flanagan & Robert Cohen
Dir. of Photography: Arthur E. Cooper
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Editor: Craig Webster
Sound: David Rose
Costume: Joanna Syrokomla
Country: Canada
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Duration: 53 min.
Year: 2003
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The story of Joseph Boulogne, Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges, an ardent lover, renowned athlete, revolutionary and, above all, an extraordinary 18th century composer and performer whose work has been neglected due to the prejudices of history. |
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2003 Films
Title: Left Behind
Director: Christof Putzel
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Country: Kenya/US
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Duration: 34 min.
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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2003 Films
Title: Legend of the Sky Kingdom, The
Director: Roger Hawkins
Screenwriter: Phil Cunningham
Dir. of Photography: Roger Hawkins
Music: Andrew Baird
Editor: Roger Hawkins
Sound: Rodney Newman
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Country: Zimbabwe
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Duration: 74 min.
Year: 2003
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When three children make a daring escape from the underground city where they are held as slaves of the evil emperor, they go in search of the fabled Sky Kingdom and the great prince Ariel. An epic journey, fraught with danger, follows their escape, presented in a new and totally African animation technique called Junkmation. |
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2003 Films
Title: Mean Jadine*
Director: Toni Ann Johnson
Screenwriter: Toni Ann Johnson
Dir. of Photography: Carlos 'Los' Jackson
Music: Derek Lynch
Editor: Kevin Raman
Sound: Fernandel Almonar
Costume: Victoria Schaffer
Country: US
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Duration: 22 min.
Year: 2003
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After a string of awful relationships, Jadine decides to get revenge when she is insulted by a blind date. |
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2003 Films
Title: Melvin: Portrait of a Player
Director: Lawrence Coke
Screenwriter: Lawrence Coke
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Country: UK
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Duration: 15 min.
Year: 2003
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Melvin believes he is god's gift to women, but in reality nothing could be further from the truth. |
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2003 Films
Title: MOVE
Director: Benjamin Garry, Ryan McKenna
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Duration: 53 min.
Year: 2003
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A revealing examination of the confrontation in 1985 between the Philadelphia police and the radical, anti-government, anti-technology group MOVE, during which a bomb was dropped on the row house occupied by MOVE members, resulting in fires that killed 11 people (including 5 children) and left 250 people homeless. |
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2003 Films
Title: Origin of AIDS, The
Director: Peter Chappell & Catherine Peix
Screenwriter: Peter Chappell, Arnie Gelbart & Stéphane Horel
Dir. of Photography: Peter Chappell
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Editor: Catherine Peix
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Country: Canada/France
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Duration: 90 min.
Year: 2003
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Was AIDS inadvertently created in a laboratory in the Belgian Congo in the late 1950’s? 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. A MUST SEE! |
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2003 Films
Title: Origin of AIDS, The
Director: Peter Chappell & Catherine Peix
Screenwriter: Peter Chappell, Arnie Gelbart & Stéphane Horel
Dir. of Photography: Peter Chappell
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Country: Canada/France
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Duration: 90 min.
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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2003 Films
Title: Petite Lumiére (Little Light)
Director: Alain Gomis
Screenwriter: Alain Gomis
Dir. of Photography: Aurélien Devaux
Music: Patrice Gomis
Editor: Fabrice Rouaud
Sound: Alioune Mbow
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Country: France/Sénegal
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Duration: 15 min.
Year: 2003
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A lovingly told story of a small girl seeking to define her own world.
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2003 Films
Title: Quiet Storm
Director: Shango B'Sang
Screenwriter: Shango B'Sang
Dir. of Photography: Shango B'Sang
Music: Nick Saunders & King of Cosmos
Editor: Nick O'Mahoney
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Costume: Herukuti
Country: UK
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Duration: 82 min.
Year: 2003
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After meeting at a conference, four men conclude that that to change, the policies of corrupt leaders, the IMF and World Bank must be taken on. To bring about change in African social and economic conditions, four men take matters into their own very competent hands, confronting corrupt African puppet leaders and their powerful patrons who have misappropriated the continent's resources. A Suspense Thriller! |
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2003 Films
Title: Reflections on Women of Color and Hip-Hop: A Student Documentary
Director: Nuala Cabral
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Editor: Nuala Cabral
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Country: US
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Duration: 34 min.
Year: 2003
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While still embracing the Hip-Hop culture they love, young people speak critically and sometimes humorously on the controversial relationship between Black women and hip-hop music. (Community Collaborator: The Hip-Hop Association) |
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2003 Films
Title: Runt
Director: Michael Phillip Edwards
Screenwriter: Michael Edwards
Dir. of Photography: Dale Obert
Music: Phillip W. Stephens
Editor: Joyce Brand
Sound: Phillip W. Stephens
Costume: Tuesday Conner
Country: US
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Duration: 84 min.
Year: 2003
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A man discovers that he cannot avoid the demon he watched possess his father as he grew up. He discovers that as nice as he may want to be, the abuser gene he's tried to avoid all his life seems to reside in his DNA. Seeking to cleanse himself of this demon once and for all, he returns to the land of his birth, Jamaica, where he recalls a voodoo-like ceremony in which demons are exorcised. |
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2003 Films
Title: Sacrifice, The
Director: Catherine Bruhier
Screenwriter: Catherine Bruhier
Dir. of Photography: Jay Ferguson
Music: Andy Marshall
Editor: Travis Rust
Sound: Stephen Harrison
Costume: Maria LabbŽ
Country: US/Canada
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Duration: 22 min.
Year: 2003
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After a disturbing visit to a fortuneteller, a young woman allows her fears to overcome her heart and makes a life-altering choice. |
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2003 Films
Title: Scent of Oak (Roble de Olor)
Director: Rigoberto López Prego
Screenwriter: Rigoberto López Prego & Eugenio Hernández
Dir. of Photography: Livio Delgado
Music: Sergio Vitier
Editor: Nelson Rodríguez
Sound: Ricardo Iztueta
Costume: Vladimir Cuenca & Diana Fernández
Country: Cuba
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Duration: 127 min.
Year: 2003
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Set in early 19th-century Cuba, a free Black woman and her German lover challenge the taboos and power structure when they establish a coffee plantation free from the cruelty and inhumanity of the slave system. |
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2003 Films
Title: Shooter
Director: Todd Jeffery
Screenwriter: Abubakar Paul Bello
Dir. of Photography: John O'Shaugnnessy
Music: Discreet Merchants/Monica Swain
Editor: Felicia D. Moore
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Country: US
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Duration: 24 min.
Year: 2003
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A star high school basketball player's sister is implicated in an armed robbery. |
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