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Name: 500 Years Later
Director: Owen 'Alik Shahadah
Screenwriter: M K Asante, Jr.
Dir. of Photography: Owen Shahadah
Music: Tunde Jegede & Ocacia
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Country: US/UK
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 142
Year: 2005
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Synopsis: An epic documentary, infused with the spirit and music of liberation, explores the collective atrocities that uprooted Africans from their culture and homeland 500 years ago and chronicles the struggle of Black people who continue to fight for freedom. |
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Name: Accused #1: Nelson Mandela
Director: Pascale Lamche
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Dir. of Photography: Dominic Black
Music: Paul Hanmer
Editor: James Rose
Sound: President Kapa
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Country: South Africa
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 60
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: June, 1964 heralded the culmination of one of the most significant political trials of the 20th century. Featuring interviews with the defendants, this is the untold story of the Rivonia trial that sentenced Nelson Mandela and six others to life imprisonment for planning to overthrow the rule of the apartheid government. |
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Name: African Blood
Director: Roberto Olivares
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Country: Mexico
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 25
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Mexican identity is assumed as the fusion between Indigenous and European cultures. The forgotten element of Mexican identity, African Blood, is explored through testimonies, reflections and powerful cultural expressions made by our brothers and sisters who live in the Costa Chica region, in the states of Oaxaca and Guerrero. |
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Name: Control Room
Director: Jehane Noujaim
Screenwriter: Julia Bacha & Jehane Noujaim
Dir. of Photography: Jehane Noujaim
Music: Thomas DeRenzo & Hani Salama
Editor: Julia Bacha, Lilah Bankier, Charles Marquardt & Alan Oxman
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 86
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: A chronicle providing a rare window into the international perception of the Iraq War, courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news outlet. Roundly criticized by the Bush administration for reporting with an alleged pro-Iraqi bias, the station has revealed everything about the Iraq War that the Bush administration did not want seen. |
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Name: Convert, Black Muslims in America
Director: Samir Muqaddin
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 60
Year: 2001 |
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Synopsis: A historical look at the introduction and growth of Islam in the African American community, emphasizing the roles played by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam. |
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Name: Donnie McClurkin Story: From Darkness To Light, The
Director: Stephanie Frederic
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 95
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: From the White House to Oprah the music of world-famous gospel singer Donnie McClurkin has touched the hearts, minds and souls of people everywhere. Now hear the Grammy Award winning singer's inspiring personal story--from the child who endured a horrendous tragedy that changed his life to the polished artist whose exuberant music and longtime faith in God helped him to heal. |
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Name: Forgotten Roots, The (La Raiz Olvidada)
Director: Rafael Rebollar Corona
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Country: Mexico
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 50
Year: 2001 |
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Synopsis: An historical survey of Mexico's often overlooked African population takes us from the slavery era to today's Afro-Mexican communities in Guerrero, Oaxaca, Campeche, Morelos, and Veracruz. Back by popular request! |
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Name: Former Nationality
Director: May Lugemwa
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Country: US/Uganda
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 23
Year: 2004 |
Synopsis: What does it mean to be a "former Ugandan"? A poetic voiceover addressed from daughter to mother sets the tone of this film that tracks their journey back to Uganda from America. Along the way, the daughter, the filmmaker, makes some disturbing discoveries and reveals her relationship to her mother, her subject. Ultimately she finds that the fragments of her mother's past shape her identity and destiny as well.
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Name: Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore
Director: Sandra Dickson & Churchill Roberts
Screenwriter: Sandra Dickson
Dir. of Photography: Cynthia Hill
Music: Roger Hunt
Editor: Dan Spiess
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 90
Year: 2000 |
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Synopsis: An unsung hero of American history, Henry T. Moore was a passionate crusader for equal rights whose struggle to increase Black voter registration in segregated Florida left a legacy in that State to the present day. Almost forgotten by history, he and his wife were assassinated by a bomb planted under their home on Christmas Day in 1951. Soundtrack by Sweet Honey in the Rock. |
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Name: Girl Beat-Power of the Drum
Director: Suzanne Girot
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Country: US/Brazil
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 47
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Proudly embracing their African heritage and empowering themselves through music, the Banda Dida, an all female drumming and vocal group, grew out of the culture of the Pelourinho, a former slave market in the colonial district of Salvador, the principal drop-off point for the slaves. |
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Name: Hali Halisi
Director: Martin Meulenberg
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Country: Tanzania/Netherlands
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 30
Year: 2000 |
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Synopsis: Rappers and local experts give their views on the emerging hip-hop scene in Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar and their thoughts on the importance of rap as a medium of communication. |
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Name: Healing Passage/Voices from the Water, The
Director: S. Pearl Sharp
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 90
Year: 2004 |
Synopsis: How do we heal from the residuals of The Middle Passage? Cultural artists look at present day behavior connected to the psychological trauma of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and use their tools -- dolls, altars, spoken word, music, dance, visual art, ritual and memory -- to create paths to healing the mind, spirit and community.
Features Oscar Brown, Jr., Tom Feelings, Ysaye M. Barnwell, Chester Higgins Jr., Babatunde Olatunji, Riua Akinshegun, Haile Gerima, John Outterbridge, Katrina Browne, Gil Noble, Dadisi Sanyika, S. Pearl Sharp, Brother Yusef and CCH Pounder as the Voice of the Ancestors. With commentary by Dr. Yosef ben Jochannan, Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood, Dr. Olivia Cousins and others.
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Name: I Build the Tower
Director: Edward Landler & Brad Byer
Screenwriter: Edward Landler & Brad Byer
Dir. of Photography: Ben Caldwell, Stacey Cohen-Maitre, Edward Landler, Victor Nunez, Bagir Rafiev, Bruce Ready, Geza Sinkovics
Music: Robert Israel, Nate Morgan, Michael Abels
Editor: Glen P. Rose & Edward Landler
Sound: Kip Gynn, Mark Ulano, Bjorn Schaller
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 87
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Story of Simon Rodia, creator of the Watts Towers. Historical footage gives new insights into the tower and its creator. |
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Name: Intolerable Burden, The
Director: Chea Prince
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 56
Year: 2003 |
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Synopsis: 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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Name: Keepers of Memory
Director: Eric Kabera
Screenwriter: Eric Kabera
Dir. of Photography: Eric Kabera
Music: Albert R. Bryon
Editor: Kavila Matu
Sound: Kalisa Rayomond
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Country: Rwanda
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 54
Year: 2004 |
Synopsis: An exploration of the tragic events in Rwanda ten years later, focusing on how the tragedy still plagues the whole nation. Winner of several prizes at the Zanzibar Film Festival.
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Name: Last of the First, The
Director: Anja Baron
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Dir. of Photography: Anja Baron & Kate Compel
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 88
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Cinema-verité, behind-the-scenes story of the Harlem Blues & Jazz Band comprised of some of the under-appreciated last living jazz pioneers from the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to an engrossing history lesson, we witness a loving look at the band members' everyday lives and the music that has kept them going well into their golden years. |
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Name: Letter to the President
Director: Thomas Gibson
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Genre: Documentary
Duration: 90
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Fast-paced, entertaining and informative. Hip-hop artists become politically involved in order to let the world know about America's institutional racism and socially unjust system, illuminating Reaganomics' adverse affect on minority communities, racial profiling and how the U.S. government may have played a role in the proliferation of drugs in urban communities. Russell Simmons' struggle to rally the Hip-hop nation to impact the Presidential election is also examined. |
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Name: MOVE
Director: Benjamin Garry, Ryan McKenna
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Genre: Documentary
Duration: 53
Year: 2003 |
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Synopsis: 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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Name: Music is My Life, Politics My Mistress: the Oscar Brown Jr. Story
Director: donnie l. betts
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Dir. of Photography: Mark Alston & Charles Gary
Music: Oscar Brown Jr. & others
Editor: Dave Wruck
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 110
Year: 2005
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Synopsis: A rich, intimate biography of Oscar Brown Jr., a cultural icon whose many accomplishments as a musician, writer, playwright, and civil rights activist have left a lasting mark on a generation. |
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Name: Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power
Director: Sandra Dickson & Churchill Roberts
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Dir. of Photography: Cynthia Hill
Music: Terence Blanchard
Editor: Dan Spiess
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 68
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: The story of a forgotten civil rights figure and forefather of the Black Power Movement who dared to advocate armed resistance to the violence of the Jim Crow South is told through a combination of modern-day interviews and rare archival news footage. Featuring a score by Terence Blanchard. |
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Name: Serpents Rising
Director: Thomas H. Johnson
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Genre: Documentary
Duration: 68
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: An examination of an unpublicized angle of the infamous O.J. Simpson murder trial reaches fever pitch as members of the media and governmental power structure resist the efforts of an independent group of African-American investigators to reveal potentially exculpatory evidence favoring Simpson's innocence, evidence which was surrepticiously removed from Simpson's case file. |
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Name: Silence: In Search of Black Female Sexuality in America*
Director: Mya B
Screenwriter: Mya B.
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 74
Year: 2004
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Synopsis: A four-part documentary that dares to deal with some of the sexual taboos in American society from a woman's perspective. Fifteen black women in Chicago, from all ages, backgrounds, and professions, speak out about their sexual needs and desires, aiming to destroy historical sexual misconceptions about black women. |
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Name: Silent Footsteps
Director: Leigh Reagan
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Country: Tanzania/US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 30
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Ever think about climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro? Perhaps it's one of your lifelong fantasies? An eye-opening exposé of the working conditions of Tanzanian porters who accompany tourists trekking to the top of Africa's highest peak. |
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Name: Trumpetistically Clora Bryant
Director: Zeinabu irene Davis
Screenwriter: Zeinabu irene Davis & Lillian Benson
Dir. of Photography: Kathryn Engstrom, Willie Dawkins & Charles Burnett
Music: Kamau Kenyatta
Editor: Lillian Benson
Sound: Todd Lehr & Biya Ababulga
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 57
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: The story of 76-year old trumpet player Clora Bryant who throughout her 60-year career was never afraid to play in a man's world. A veteran of the Central Avenue Jazz scene, Clora played with the likes of Dexter Gordon, Frank Morgan, Teddy Edwards and the great Charlie Parker. |
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Name: Unsung Heroes of Soul
Director: Garth Newberry Ar-Raqeeb
Screenwriter: Garth Newberry Ar-Raqeeb
Dir. of Photography: Adam Ballard
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 60
Year: 2005 |
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Synopsis: Move over Motown here comes Philly! The interpersonal dynamics of the diverse people who produced some of the greatest music in America, "The Sound of Philadelphia," is explored. |
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Name: Walking Backwards
Director: Caroline Deeds
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Dir. of Photography: Caroline Deeds
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Editor: Luke Quinn
Sound: Emma Meaden
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Country: UK
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 26
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Returning to Ghana after 15 years, the filmmaker unravels a story her mother told her about the Apollo 11 moon landing and what it meant in Ghana. Allegorical with keen insight into the meaning of real independent, we set out on a journey through modern Ghana. |
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Name: Warming by the Devil's Fire
Director: Charles Burnett
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 120
Year: 2003 |
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Synopsis: A tale about a young boy's encounter with his family in Mississippi in the 1950s, and intergenerational tensions between the heavenly strains of gospel and the devilish moans of the blues. |
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Name: We're Indian and African: Voices of the Sidis
Director: Beheroze Shroff
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Dir. of Photography: Naren Kondra
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Editor: Beheroze Shroff & Iain Grainger
Sound: Gissy Michael
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Country: India
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 22
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: An examination of the Sidis, descendents of Africans living in modern-day India. |
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Name: 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
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 92
Year: 2003 |
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Synopsis: 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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Name: Johnson Chronicles*
Director: David Moragne
Screenwriter: Peter Harris
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 30
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: A man humorously looks at his private parts. |
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Name: Filmmakers in Black and White
Director: Jimmy N. Ngokwey
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 54
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Black filmmakers discuss what it means to be a Black filmmaker and their responsibility to express the stories of their community on the big screen. |
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Name: Journey of Cape Verde, The
Director: GuennyK. Pires
Screenwriter: GuennyK. Pires
Dir. of Photography: GuennyK. Pires
Music: MB Records, Inc.
Editor: Rui A. Lopes da Silva
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Country: Cape Verde
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 83
Year: 2004
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Synopsis: The question of identity is addressed through a series of journeys to the islands of Cape Verde, the first slave port of West Africa, and whose many mixed race inhabitants have migrated and formed communities in the US and Europe. |
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Name: Panther in Africa, A
Director: Aaron Matthews
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 71
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: The story of Peter O'Neal, who as a young Black Panther, was arrested on false charges thirty years ago. He fled the US, ultimately to settle in Tanzania, where he continues his life of social activism and community service. Intertwined with O'Neal's story is that of Geronimo Pratt, another falsely-accused Black Panther, now also living in Tanzania and O’Neal’s neighbor. |
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Name: The Powerful Voice (also known as The New Stentorians)
Director: Chin Thammasaengsri
Screenwriter: Chin Thammasaengsri
Dir. of Photography: Chin Thammasaengsri
Music: Brent Laidler & Keith Edwards
Editor: Alex P. Chu
Sound: Andrea Beckum & Jesus Sanchez
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 90
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: The struggles of Black L.A. city and county firefighters and county lifeguards against discriminatory practices within their departments from the early 20th century to the present day are recounted. |
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Name: Passion of Words Turning into Action: A Black Deaf Filmmaker's Journey
Director: Ann Marie "Jade" Bryan
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 120
Year: 2004
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Synopsis: A documentary that takes you on a journey into the world of a struggling black deaf filmmaker, her work, personal video diaries and production experiences. |
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Name: Raise Your Voice: Sweet Honey in the Rock
Director: Stanley Nelson
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Genre: Documentary
Duration: 84
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: An inspiring, intimate portrait of the African-American female a cappella ensemble, with its extraordinary sound and unwavering message of social justice over the last 30 years. |
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Name: Rwanda: History of a Genocide (Tuez-les tous! )
Director: Raphaël Glucksmann, David Hazan & Pierre Mezerette
Screenwriter: Raphaël Glucksmann, David Hazan & Pierre Mezerette
Dir. of Photography: Raphaël Glucksmann, David Hazan & Pierre Mezerette
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Country: France
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 100
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: If you haven’t seen "Hotel Rwanda", see it! Why did Hutus kill Tutsis after peacefully, living together for hundreds of years? If you want to understand what caused the tragic turn of events during which over 800,000 people were killed in 100 days, this clearly laid out and thoughtful documentary explores the historical and modern-day forces that sparked the last great genocide of the 20th Century. |
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Name: Still Black, At Yale
Director: Monique Walton & Andia Winslow
Screenwriter: Andia Winslow & Monique Walton
Dir. of Photography: Andia Winslow & Monique Walton
Music: Monique Walton
Editor: Monique Walton & Andia Winslow
Sound: Monique Walton & Andia Winslow
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 34
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: They are "young, gifted and BLACK" and students at one of the world’s most prestigious universities however discrimination and race remains an issue. |
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Name: Transparent
Director: Bryan Michael
Screenwriter: Bryan Michael
Dir. of Photography: Bryan Michael
Music: Ty Maximus
Editor: Bryan Michael & Ty Maxx
Sound: Bryan Michael & Ty Maxx
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Country: US
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 30
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Go beyond the surface into the world of Bishop Noel Jones. |
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Name: Hardwood
Director: Hubert Davis
Screenwriter: Hubert Davis
Dir. of Photography: David Tennant
Music: Fraser MacDougall & Dave Palmer
Editor: Hubert Davis
Sound: David Hechenberger & Curt Frisk
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Country: Canada
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 29
Year: 2004
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Synopsis: Hardwood is a personal journey by director Hubert Davis, the son of former Harlem Globetrotter Mel Davis, which explores how his father’s decisions affected his life.
Now a coach for young basketball players in Vancouver, Mel recalls falling in love at first sight with Hubert's mother, a white woman, at a time when racism made their union impossible, and then his subsequent marriage to a black woman and the birth of their son. Both women in Mel's life, the mothers of his two sons, speak movingly about love and betrayal, and both sons speak of the pain of their absent father and its effect on their mothers.
Elegantly structured into three chapters entitled "love," "recollection" and "redemption," Davis uses personal interviews, archival footage and home movies to delve into his father’s past in the hope of finding a new direction of his own.
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"Hardwood" will be a part of the Night of Tribute on February 12 at 7pm. It will screen again on February 13 at 4:30pm with other films by Afro-Canadian filmmakers. |
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Name: Lumumba
Director: Raoul Peck
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Country: Haiti/France/Belgium/Germany
Genre: Feature
Duration: 115
Year: 2000 |
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Synopsis: The true story of the African hero and leader of the Congo at its independence from Belgium in 1961. Branding into the conscience and using the bare facts, Lumumba's story is woven into a mesmerizing, grand drama told in flashback as the hero awaits his execution. With a captivating central performance by Eriq Ebouaney as Lumumba, this is a timeless story of struggle and injustice, of hope and the search for freedom. |
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Name: 34 South
Director: Maganthrie Pillay
Screenwriter: Dingilizwe Ntuli, Beverly Mitchell & Weaam Williams
Dir. of Photography: Keith Shirlaw
Music: Alex Van Hernden & Dingilizwe Ntuli
Editor: Jackie le Cordeur & Matthew Brown
Sound: Albert Edmund Lord III
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Country: South Africa
Genre: Feature
Duration: 104
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Frank September and his roommates set out on the road from Cape Town to Jozie (Johannesburg) and end up getting taken for the ride of their lives in this captivating road movie about youth, identity and life in the New South Africa. 34 South is the first feature film directed by a Black South African woman in over 100 years of South African Cinema. |
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Name: Au Pair Chocolat
Director: Benson McGrath
Screenwriter: Abigail McGrath
Dir. of Photography: Abe Schrager
Music: Jason Rosen
Editor: Lillian Benson
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Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 87
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: A warm comedy about a Harlem girl who is hired as an au pair by a wealthy Black family on the posh island of Martha's Vineyard and brings more baggage than her suitcase to the job. |
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Name: 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
Genre: Feature
Duration: 113
Year: 2003
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Synopsis: 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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Name: Beauty Shop
Director: Bille Woodruff
Screenwriter: Elizabeth Hunter, Kate Lanier & Norman Vance Jr.
Dir. of Photography: Theo van de Sande
Music: Christopher Young
Editor: Michael Jablow
Sound: Tim Cooney
Costume: Sharen Davis
Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 105
Year: 2005 |
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Synopsis: Gina Norris is a long way from the Barbershop – now she’s in Atlanta making a name for herself at a posh Southern salon with her cutting-edge hairstyles. But when her flamboyant, egotistical boss takes it one criticism too far, she leaves his salon to open a shop of her own, taking the shampoo girl and a few key clients with her. Gina buys a rundown salon and inherits an opinionated group of headstrong stylists, a colorful clientele, and a sexy upstairs neighbor. It’s a rocky road to fulfilling her dreams, but you can’t keep a good woman down…and you can’t keep a shopful of outrageous women from speaking their minds! Stars Queen Latifah,Alicia Silverstone, Andie MacDowell, Alfre Woodard, Mena Suvari, Kevin Bacon, Djimon Hounsou. |
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Name: Black Aura on an Angel*
Director: Faith Trimel
Screenwriter: Faith Trimel
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Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 64
Year: 2004
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Synopsis: Based on the true story of Angel and Phaedra, two African-American women who fall madly in love. |
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Name: Blind Shaft
Director: Yang Li
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Country: China
Genre: Feature
Duration: 92
Year: 2003 |
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Synopsis: 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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Name: Brass Tacks*
Director: Gavin Dougan
Screenwriter: Gavin Dougan
Dir. of Photography: Ed Myers
Music: Michael Semanick
Editor: Jeff Cooper & Todd Sali
Sound: Mark Berger
Costume: Maurice White
Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 96
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Exciting live musical performances wrap around a love story set in the intense world of a group of young, hungry and talented jazz musicians struggling to get a record deal. |
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Name: Brother to Brother*
Director: Rodney Evans
Screenwriter: Rodney Evans
Dir. of Photography: Harlan Bosmajian
Music: Marc Anthony Thompson
Editor: Sabine Hoffman
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Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 90
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: A young gay artist, rejected by his family, discovers the hidden legacies of the gay subculture of the Harlem Renaissance through his friendship with a mysterious elderly poet whom he meets at the homeless shelter where he works. After hearing the old man's tales of being Black, gay and unashamed he gains a stronger sense of his own identity. |
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Name: Bullet Boy*
Director: Saul Dibb
Screenwriter: Saul Dibb, Catherine Johnson
Dir. of Photography: Marcel Zyskind
Music: Neil Davidge & Robert del Naja
Editor: Masahiro Hirakubo & John Mister
Sound: Albert Bailey Amps
Costume: James Keast
Country: UK
Genre: Feature
Duration: 89
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: A minor incident escalates into a cycle of violence with tragic repercussions in this powerful and moving tale of two brothers growing up in one of East London's most volatile neighborhoods. |
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Name: Cape of Good Hope
Director: Mark Bamford
Screenwriter: Suzanne Kay & Mark Bamford
Dir. of Photography: Larry Fong
Music: J B Eckl
Editor: Frank Reynolds & Tanya Hagen
Sound: Ivan Milborrow
Costume: Reza Levy
Country: South Africa
Genre: Feature
Duration: 107
Year: 2004
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Synopsis: Centered around the Good Hope animal shelter, three women look for romance and fulfillment of their dreams. The painful reminders of South Africa's past - such as a dog trained to attack only Black people - lie just below the surface and provide the dramatic edge to this layered, romantic, sometimes funny and allegorical film set in the new multi-racial South Africa. Stars Eriq Ebouaney, star of Lumumba, as a Congolese refugee and former astronomy professor who works with the animals at the shelter. |
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Name: Constellation
Director: Jordan Walker-Pearlman
Screenwriter: Jordan Walker-Pearlman
Dir. of Photography: John Njaga Demps
Music: Michael Bearden, Stanley Smith, Stefan Dickerson, and Ernie Lake
Editor: Allison Learned Wolfe
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Costume: Jeanette Guillermo
Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 103
Year: 2005 |
Synopsis: Returning to the Deep South to a town that once held back their opportunities but now glistens as a modern, sexy city, the Boxer family and its extended members discover in the memory of a loved one what binds them together. Starring Billy Dee Williams, Gabrielle Union, Hill Harper, Melissa De Sousa, Zoe Saldana, Clarence Williams III, Lesley Ann Warren, Rae Dawn Chong.
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Name: Cracking Up
Director: Christian Lara
Screenwriter: Christian Lara
Dir. of Photography: John Bourgeois
Music: Hélène Blazy
Editor: Barthélémy S. Rolland & Catherine Trouillet
Sound: Luc Bastaraud
Costume: Josy Makoko
Country: Guadeloupe
Genre: Feature
Duration: 85
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: A female lawyer is committed to rid her Caribbean island of drug traffikers. |
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Name: Critical Assignment
Director: Jason Xenopoulos
Screenwriter: Tunde Babalola
Dir. of Photography: Michael Brierley
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Country: South Africa/UK/Nigeria/Cameroon
Genre: Feature
Duration: 110
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Africa's first stunt-filled, adventure, thriller! With a new assignment to report on the global water crisis, handsome, dashing, international journalist Michael Power returns to Africa from reporting on the Eastern European battlefront. In his home country, the new president has just announced his plans to divert the military budget to fund a Clean Water for All project. Intrigues, adventure and lots of action set against the lush backdrop of modern Africa ensue as Michael gets the scoop on those opposed to the new plan. |
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Name: Devotion
Director: Dawn Wilkinson
Screenwriter: Dawn Wilkinson
Dir. of Photography: Dennis Dulguime
Music: Derek Madison
Editor: Barry Gibson
Sound: Kathy Choi
Costume: Dawn Wilkinson
Country: Canada
Genre: Feature
Duration: 80
Year: 2005
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Synopsis: An evocative coming-of-age story of a bi-racial 11-year-old girl who has recently lost her mother in a car accident due to her father's drunk driving. As father and daughter begin a new life, Alice is haunted by nightmares and memories of her mother's death and the new woman in her father's life. |
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Name: Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Director: Darren Grant
Screenwriter: Tyler Perry
Dir. of Photography: David Claessen
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Editor: Terilyn A. Shropshire
Sound: Jay Nierenberg
Costume: Keith G. Lewis
Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 90
Year: 2005 |
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Synopsis: Set in an affluent community on the eve of her 20th wedding anniversary, Helen, a devoted and loving wife is rudely surprised to find that her husband wants to divorce her so he can be with her best friend. Struggling with this sudden change, Helen is forced to deal with many new and upsetting feelings, sending her into a comedic barrage of confrontations. After struggling with anger, bitterness, jealousy, denial, revenge, and selfishness, she realizes that if she is to recover from the changes in her life, she must rely upon the strength of her faith, lifelong values and the compassion and forgiveness required to heal the hurt. Stars Kimberly Elise, Steve Harris, Shemar Moore, Tamara Taylor, Tyler Perry and Cicely Tyson. |
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Name: Dying to Make a Change
Director: Cliff Scott
Screenwriter: Cliff Scott
Dir. of Photography: Michael Williams
Music: Chris Archer
Editor: Reginald Smith
Sound: Michael Williams
Costume:
Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 118
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Ripped from today's headlines, the lives of young college students are permanently altered by fraternity hazing. |
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Name: Emma Mae (The Remix)
Director: Jamaa Fanaka
Screenwriter: Jamaa Fanaka
Dir. of Photography: Stephen L. Posey
Music: H.B. Barnum
Editor: Robert Fitzgerald
Sound: Don Sanders
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Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 100
Year: 1976 |
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Synopsis: A modernization of a 1968 film about a woman who comes to the city from a small southern town and becomes involved in a bank robbery. A new concept in film. |
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Name: Fair Game
Director: Michael Whaley
Screenwriter: Michael Whaley & J M Winters
Dir. of Photography: Steven Timberlake
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Editor: Amber Phifer
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Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 88
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Co-workers who are former lovers are forced to become temporary housemates. Strictly platonic! But when a hip and handsome new supervisor demonstrates more than a work interest in the female housemate, her former lover begins to re-evaluate the nature of their relationship. A love triangle ensues. |
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Name: Golden Blaze, The
Director: Bryon E. Carson
Screenwriter: Archie Gips
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Music: Joseph Stanley Williams
Editor: Eric Bryant
Sound: Juniper Post
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Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 87
Year: 2005 |
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Synopsis: Two boys' schoolyard rivalry spirals out of control when their fathers develop super powers as a result of a freak accident. Animated action-adventure story with voices of Blair Underwood, Sanaa Lathan, Michael Clarke Duncan, Khleo Thomas and Neil Patrick Harris. A treat for the entire family! |
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Name: How to Conquer America in One Night*
Director: Dany Laferriere
Screenwriter: Dany Laferriere
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Country: Canada
Genre: Feature
Duration: 90
Year: 2004 |
Synopsis: A hilarious comedy on the life of Haitians in Montreal.
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Name: Journey to Lasta
Director: Wondwossen D. Dikran
Screenwriter: Wondwossen D. Dikran
Dir. of Photography: Yasu Tanida
Music: Bryan Galvez
Editor: Gabrielle Thorbourn
Sound: Brian Swanson
Costume: Milkey Aragaw & Tirsit Aragaw
Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 125
Year: 2004
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Synopsis: Painting an honest and vibrant portrayal of the immigrant experience and filled with rhythm and colorful characters, an inspiring story of the underdog travels through the falls, triumphs, and rude awakenings that test the faith, friendship, and honor of three friends as they begin a musical mission to bring modern Ethiopian music to the World. Features Lasta Sound, Quinto Sol, Chakra, Upground and the legendary Ras Michael. |
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Name: King's County*
Director: Patrice Johnson
Screenwriter: Patrice Johnson
Dir. of Photography: Jim Jediny
Music: Wendell Yuponce
Editor: Patrice Johnson
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Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 75
Year: 2005 |
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Synopsis: When a Santeria tells a drug dealer that one in his organization will die and the other three will be incarcerated before the end of the day, she sets into action a tragic string of events with an unexpected ending. Gritty urban drama of young people caught up in the harsh environment of drugs and guns. |
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Name: Lackawanna Blues
Director: George C. Wolfe
Screenwriter: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Dir. of Photography: Ivan Strasburg
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Editor: Brian A. Kates
Sound: Kenneth L. Johnson
Costume: Hope Hanafin
Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 0
Year: 2005 |
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Synopsis: In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives. Starring S. Epatha Merkerson, Jimmy Smits, Carmen Ejogo, Mos Def, Louis Gossett Jr., Ernie Hudson, Delroy Lindo. |
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Name: 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
Genre: Feature
Duration: 74
Year: 2003 |
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Synopsis: 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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Name: Man Who Couldn't..., The*
Director: Brandon Wilson
Screenwriter: Brandon Wilson
Dir. of Photography: Imogene Krumbhouse
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Editor: Brandon Wilson
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Costume: Cyntha Obsenares
Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 96
Year: 2005
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Synopsis: A struggling filmmaker falls for a webcam mistress and faces the challenge of having a personal relationship in front of the all-seeing eye of the world wide web. |
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Name: Men Without Jobs
Director: Mad Matthewz
Screenwriter: Mad Matthewz
Dir. of Photography: Cliff Charles
Music: Roundhouse Multimedia
Editor: David Shuff
Sound: Dave Flynch
Costume: Zulema Griffin
Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 90
Year: 2004
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Synopsis: Best friends and roommates, two eccentric slackers with big dreams of starting their own hip-hop band, make a pact to avoid the dreaded nine-to-five at all costs. |
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Name: Moolaadé
Director: Ousmane Sembène
Screenwriter: Ousmane Sembène
Dir. of Photography: Dominique Gentil
Music: Boncana Naiga
Editor: Abdellatif Raïss
Sound: Denis Guilhem
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Country: Senegal/France
Genre: Feature
Duration: 124
Year: 2004 |
Synopsis: The great 81-year-old Senegalese filmmaker sculpts a multi-layered masterpiece which on a primary level focuses on a village woman who gives "protection" to four young girls fleeing the traditional practice of female genital mutilation. On a deeper level, however, it dramatizes how a society can change from within, how even well-intentioned authority can become cruel and corrupt, and above all, how a single, stubborn act of resistance can alter the shape of the world.
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Name: Noah's Arc*
Director: Patrik-Ian Polk
Screenwriter: Patrik-Ian Polk
Dir. of Photography: Rory King
Music: Adriana Evans
Editor: Patrik-Ian Polk
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Costume: Dwen Curry
Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 75
Year: 2004
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Synopsis: See it first! A recipe for delicious drama, side-splitting comedy and shocking sexuality explores the life, loves and aspirations of four gay men living in Los Angeles. Scheduled to debut on MTV in the fall as a weekly series, Noah's Arc is America's First Black Gay Series. |
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Name: O Herói (The Hero)
Director: Zézé Gamboa
Screenwriter: Carla Baptista
Dir. of Photography: Mario Masini
Music: David Linx & Diederik Wissels
Editor: Anna Ruiz
Sound: Gita Cerveira
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Country: Angola/Portugal/France
Genre: Feature
Duration: 97
Year: 2004 |
Synopsis: Set in post-civil war Angola, a beautifully crafted and nuanced story of four people whose lives intertwine as they fight to overcome the leftover obscenities of the war and at the same time strive to find the path to the brighter future promised by the war. Rather than indulge in the dark and the pessimistic, we witness a celebration of perseverance and the tenacity of the human spirit.
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Name: On the One - Preaching to the Choir
Director: Charles Randolph-Wright
Screenwriter: Peter Lengyel & Kevin Heffernan
Dir. of Photography: Robert Barocci
Music: Barry Cole
Editor: Jacob Craycroft & Melody London
Sound: William Sarokin
Costume: Richard Owings
Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 100
Year: 2004
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Synopsis: Two brothers--one a preacher, the other a rapper--are brought together after years of estrangement by a series of events that ultimately lead to understanding and forgiveness. A foot-stomping gospel music sound track, with appearances by Patti LaBelle, Eartha Kitt, Tichina Arnold, Tim Reid, Ben Vereen, Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje. |
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Name: Only in America*
Director: David DeCrane
Screenwriter: Pascal Atuma
Dir. of Photography: Mario Zugair
Music: Erik Godal
Editor: Steve Cook
Sound: Valery Lyman
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Country: US/Nigeria
Genre: Feature
Duration: 77
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Thinking their son has achieved the American dream as a wealthy and prominent attorney in America, a Nigerian couple come to visit after the birth of their granddaughter only to find a very different reality. A comedic look at cross-cultural affairs. |
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Name: Player in Training*
Director: Eldridge Valentine & Elliot V. Porter
Screenwriter: Elliot V. Porter
Dir. of Photography: Eldridge Valentine
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Editor: Elliot V. Porter
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Costume: Renita Austin
Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 112
Year: 2004
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Synopsis: A nerd, who is tired of being used by women, becomes a stellar student when he takes player lessons from his suave neighbor. A warm comedy unfolds as he learns being a player is not all it is cracked up to be. |
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Name: Resurrection: The J.R. Richard Story*
Director: Greg Carter
Screenwriter: Keith Kjornes
Dir. of Photography: William R. Daniel
Music: Betty Wright
Editor: John Darbonne
Sound: Tammy Douglas
Costume: Rachel Family
Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 148
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: The true story of a small-town Louisiana boy who becomes a million-dollar professional baseball pitcher only to have his life spiral out of control when he suffers a near-fatal stroke and finds his life sliding downhill due to self-destructive behavior. |
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Name: 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
Genre: Feature
Duration: 84
Year: 2003
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Synopsis: 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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Name: Silence de la Forét, Le (The Forest)
Director: Bassek ba Kobhio
Screenwriter: Didier Ouénangaré & Bassek ba Kobhio
Dir. of Photography: Pierre-Olivier Larrieu
Music: Manu Dibango
Editor: Joseph Licide
Sound: Yvan Dacquet, Olivier Laurent & Julien Cloquet
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Country: Gabon/Cameroon/Central African Republic
Genre: Feature
Duration: 93
Year: 2003 |
Synopsis: An idealistic, French-educated school inspector, disillusioned with his country's corrupt government and disturbed by his government's policies towards the indigenous Babinga population (known in the West as pygmies), sets off on a righteous mission to educate and thus liberate them from oppression and underdevelopment. He finds, however, that the fiercely traditional Babinga have little need for his Western education. Instead, they give him an unexpected education that frees him from the oppression of his Western values. Stars Eriq Ebouaney, star of "Lumumba." Music by Manu Dibango.
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Name: Ski Trip, The
Director: Maurice Jamal
Screenwriter: Maurice Jamal
Dir. of Photography: Laura Nespola
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Editor: Gene Graham
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Costume: Patrick Blu
Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 84
Year: 2004
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Synopsis: Set in motion by a friend's 30th birthday, a group of gay urbanites look for love on a crazy weekend getaway. A romantic comedy as touching as it is funny and you don't have to be gay to enjoy it. |
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Name: Strange Fruit*
Director: Kyle Schickner
Screenwriter: Kyle Schickner
Dir. of Photography: David Takashi Oye
Music: Laura Lees & Sidney James
Editor: Michael Simms & Kyle Schickner
Sound: Michael Farnan
Costume: Alex Boling & Carmen Plumb
Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 118
Year: 2004
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Synopsis: A murder mystery about a successful Manhattan lawyer who goes home to his rural Louisiana hometown to investigate the lynching of his childhood friend. The harder he looks, the deeper he gets into a quagmire of racism and homophobia that threatens his own life. |
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Name: Urban Demographic
Director: Theron K. Cal
Screenwriter: Theron K. Cal
Dir. of Photography: Douglas Green
Music: Tony
Editor: Karl Slater
Sound: Woody Stubblefield
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Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 97
Year: 2005
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Synopsis: After losing ratings and revenues, K-SOF, a classical music radio station, changes its format and becomes K-HIP, giving rise to a tug-of-war between its old loyalists and the new urban demograpic. |
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Name: View in Black & White*
Director: Irwin Miller
Screenwriter: Christian Omari
Dir. of Photography: Irwin Miller
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Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 75
Year: 2003 |
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Synopsis: A young couple are deeply in love and look forward to a happy future upon their marriage. Their relationship begins to fall apart, however, due to the young husband's abusive and controlling behavior. |
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Name: Wooden Camera, The
Director: Ntshavheni Wa Luruli
Screenwriter: Yves Buclet, Peter Speyer
Dir. of Photography: Gordon Spooner
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Editor: Caroline Kako Kelber
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Country: UK/France/South Africa
Genre: Feature
Duration: 90
Year: 2003 |
Synopsis: A body is tossed off a train in Cape Town, forever changing the lives of two teens who discover the corpse's worldly possessions--a video camera and a gun. Madiba takes the camera, fashioning a wooden casing so it looks like a toy to prevent awkward questions. He films his neighbors, his friends, and the township's ruined architecture, his images haunting and beautiful. Streetwise Sipho uses the gun to bully and intimidate, starting a gang and living on the streets as a thief. A poignant, intelligent story with appeal for all ages.
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Name: World Apart
Director: Tchidi Chikere
Screenwriter: Tchidi Chikere
Dir. of Photography: John Osemeke
Music: Osy Osing
Editor: Linus Akubuilo
Sound: Afamefuna
Costume: Uche Nancy
Country: Nigeria
Genre: Feature
Duration: 171
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: A Nigerian Cinderella story in which the handsome prince falls in love with a village girl who is despised by the queen for her lack of sophistication. Without his mother's knowledge, the prince decides to turn the girl into a princess so they can marry with his mother's blessing. |
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Name: Zouk, Mariage et Ouelele!!! (French Wedding Caribbean Style)
Director: Julius Amede Laou
Screenwriter: Julius Amede Laou
Dir. of Photography: Ahmed Diop
Music: Michel Sardaby
Editor: Valerie Breghin
Sound: Antoine Deflandre
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Country: France/Martinique
Genre: Feature
Duration: 91
Year: 2003 |
Synopsis: The layers of West Indian bonhomie are peeled back to lay bare cultural confusion and self-loathing.
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Name: Tracker, The
Director: Rolf de Heer
Screenwriter: Rolf de Heer
Dir. of Photography: Ian Jones
Music: Graham Tardif
Editor: Tania Nehme
Sound: Adrian Medhurst
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Country: Australia
Genre: Feature
Duration: 95
Year: 2002 |
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Synopsis: Set in 1922, a mysterious and enigmatic tracker leads three white policemen across the Outback in pursuit of an aborigine fugitive who is suspected of killing a White woman. As the party goes deeper into the bush, the journey becomes an acrimonious and murderous trek in which power shifts and the toxic forces of racism, paranoia and violence begin to escalate. Stars David Gulpilil of "Rabbit-Proof Fences." |
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Name: Train Ride*
Director: Rel Dowdell
Screenwriter: Rel Dowdell
Dir. of Photography: Ken H. Keller
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Sound: Dave Rainey
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Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 93
Year: 1998
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Synopsis: An off-campus get-together goes horribly wrong for a college freshman when a sociopathic upperclassman drugs her, then brutally attacks her. Stars Wood Harris ("The Wire"), MC Lyte, and Esther Rolle in her last performance. |
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Name: Unknown Soldier
Director: Ferenc Tóth
Screenwriter: Ferenc Tóth
Dir. of Photography: Luis Armada & Steve Carillo
Music: Peter Calandra
Editor: Sam Neave & Frank Reynolds
Sound: Mickey Churches
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Country: US
Genre: Feature
Duration: 78
Year: 2000 |
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Synopsis: After a devastating tragedy, L’s world is turned upside down. Whatever dreams he had will have to be put on hold as he struggles to survive. Although he works at a string of low-paying jobs, he loses the apartment he calls home. Alone, he first stays with friends, but bad luck and pride force him onto the streets. His one bright spot is the emotional support he gets from Tande, his girlfriend. |
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Name: Forgiveness
Director: Ian Gabriel
Screenwriter: Greg Latter
Dir. of Photography: Giulio Biccari
Music: Philip Miller
Editor: Ronelle Loots
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Country: South Africa
Genre: Feature
Duration: 112
Year: 2004 |
Synopsis: An unknown man arrives in the windswept town of Paternoster on the South African Atlantic West Coast. Stranded in the dark mire of a secret past, the mystery of who the man is, why his presence is feared, and what purpose he brings to the town, all combine to make a faceted elegiac and moving film of betrayal, resolution and revenge. Granted amnesty for crimes committed in the past ex-South African cop Tertius Coetzee (Arnold Vosloo) still feels shackled by the sheer weight of his sins. An unrelenting quest for closure plunges the family of one of his victims into a furnace of personal emotion. Inclined at first to drive Coetzee away the family becomes involved in a plot to keep him in the town to avenge the death of their son. Their quest triggers the road-trip of three friends equally intent on revenge.
The film 's classic "Western" genre damaged anti-hero draws all who confront him into a morally ambiguous universe where murder offers release and betrayal points the way to freedom.
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Name: Yesterday
Director: Darrell Roodt
Screenwriter: Darrell Roodt
Dir. of Photography: Michael Brierley
Music: Madale Kunene
Editor: Avril Beukes
Sound: Jeremy Saacks
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Country: South Africa
Genre: Feature
Duration: 96
Year: 2004
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Synopsis: After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband and denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.
Yesterday is the first South African film to receive an Oscar nomination in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. |
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Name: Daratt (Dry Season)
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
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Country: Chad/France/Belgium/Austria
Genre: Feature
Duration: 96
Year: 2006 |
Synopsis: Chad, 2006. The government has granted amnesty to all war criminals. Atim, 16 years old, is given a revolver by his grandfather so that he may kill the man who killed his father... Atim leaves his village for N’djamena, seeking a man he does not know. He quickly locates him: former war criminal Nassara is now married and settled down as the owner of a small bakery... With the firm intention of killing him, Atim gets closer to Nassara under the guise of looking for work, and is hired as an apprentice baker… Intrigued by Atim's attitude toward him, Nassara takes him under his wing and teaches him the secrets of making bread... Over the weeks, a strange relationship evolves between the two. Despite his disgust, Atim seems to recognise in Nassara the father figure he has always needed, while Nassara sees the teenager as a potential son. One day, he suggests adoption...
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Name: Ghanaba
Director: Kevin Merz
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Country: Ghana
Genre: Short
Duration: 25
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: A visit with the world-famous Ghanaian drummer, featured in "Sankofa." |
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Name: Blinding Goldfish
Director: Jay Paramsothy
Screenwriter: Pia Wilson
Dir. of Photography: William Newell
Music: Matt La Von
Editor: Jeff Marchello
Sound: Eric Offin
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Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 21
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: A young Black journalist and a Holocaust survivor form an unusual bond when they discover they both come from violent pasts involving their fathers. |
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Name: 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
Genre: Short
Duration: 8
Year: 2003 |
Synopsis: 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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Name: Ascension
Director: Semone Roberts
Screenwriter: Semone Roberts
Dir. of Photography: Paul Cuffee
Music: Vincent Gillioz
Editor: Julianna Calin
Sound: Adam Wade & Sean Skinner
Costume: Christine Ferro
Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 10
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Set during the Black Power movement in the 1960s, a young woman finds strength and courage when she takes over leadership of a revolutionary Black Power party. |
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Name: Bid 'Em In
Director: Neal Sopata
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Music: Oscar Brown, Jr.
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Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 2
Year: 2003 |
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Synopsis: 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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Name: 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
Genre: Short
Duration: 8
Year: 2003 |
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Synopsis: 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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Name: Can I Get a Pickle?
Director: Reggie Gaskins
Screenwriter: Reggie Gaskins
Dir. of Photography: Diane Farrington
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Editor: Heather Dawn Robinson
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Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 29
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Instead of telling his girlfriend that he loves her at a romantic dinner where he hopes to pop the question a man asks a stupid question. Stars Reggie Gaskins and Angelle Brooks. |
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Name: Closure*
Director: JAYDEE®
Screenwriter: JAYDEE®
Dir. of Photography: Aaron Bleich
Music: Beethova Obas
Editor: Domingo Martin
Sound: Bob Jean Louis
Costume:
Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 9
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Jess is an attractive, progressive, normal woman in her 30’s, but her dating experiences have been far from that. Join her on ten of those dates in this self-affirming, hilarious, urban comedy. |
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Name: 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
Genre: Short
Duration: 58
Year: 2003 |
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Synopsis: 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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Name: 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
Genre: Short
Duration: 32
Year: 2003 |
Synopsis: 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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Name: Elephant and the Snail, The (De Olifant en de Slak)
Director: Christa Moesker
Screenwriter: Christa Moesker
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Music: Fay Lovsky
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Country: Netherlands
Genre: Short
Duration: 6
Year: 2002 |
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Synopsis: An elephant and a snail meet each other in the woods just as it begins to rain. The snail invites the elephant to come inside its tiny house until the storm passes. |
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Name: Elephant Palm Tree
Director: Kara Miller
Screenwriter: Kara Miller
Dir. of Photography: Nick Tebbet
Music: Adrian Johnston
Editor: Chris Gill
Sound: Matt Rodgers
Costume: Fiona O'Connor
Country: UK
Genre: Short
Duration: 10
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: The lack of options for a middle-aged, middle-class wife becomes a pivotal issue in the decision of whether or not to end of her marriage to her cold, ruthless husband. |
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Name: Evergreen Man
Director: Clive Grandison
Screenwriter: Clive Grandison
Dir. of Photography: Aubrey Fagon
Music: Wayne Brown
Editor: Hafiz Kheir
Sound: Rob Cade
Costume: Sinead Larkin
Country: UK
Genre: Short
Duration: 10
Year: 2002 |
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Synopsis: Literally coming face-to-face with an angel while lying in his coffin, a man is forced to evaluate the meaning and value of his apathetic life. |
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Name: Exposure*
Director: Tamara Bass
Screenwriter: Tamara Bass
Dir. of Photography: Salamon Anaya
Music: Derrick A. Carolina
Editor: Mack Tompkins
Sound: D'Marco Smith
Costume:
Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 19
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Due to a lack of her attention, a woman's husband is forced into the arms of another woman. Will she wake up before it's too late? Starring Malinda Williams of Soul Food. |
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Name: Gift for the Living
Director: Tamika Miller
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Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 18
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: A girl sells a locket given to her by her dead parents to buy her grandmother a vase to hold the beautiful roses she cultivates in her garden. |
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Name: Hot Chili
Director: Moabi Mogorosi
Screenwriter: Moabi Mogorosi
Dir. of Photography: Michael Wright
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Editor: Michael Wright
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Country: Botswana
Genre: Short
Duration: 45
Year: 2003 |
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Synopsis: 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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Name: How to Make Friends
Director: Kara Miller
Screenwriter: Kara Miller
Dir. of Photography: Nick Tebbet
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Editor: Simon Cozens
Sound: David Richmond
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Country: UK
Genre: Short
Duration: 7
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: A warm and touching evocation of childhood, in which a concerned mother invites two children over to befriend her lonely son. |
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Name: Hysteria
Director: Gerald G. Haynes
Screenwriter: Gerald G. Haynes
Dir. of Photography: Yen Nguyen
Music: Steve Pradd
Editor: Asako Ushio
Sound: Klint Macro - Cobblestone Studios
Costume:
Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 20
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: An emotionally distraught detective tells his psychologist about his encounter with the supernatural. But is his story based on reality or a fabrication of a distorted mind. The truth will haunt both men forever. |
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Name: I'd Rather Be Dancing
Director: Yvonne Farrow
Screenwriter: Yvonne Farrow
Dir. of Photography: Charles Swanson
Music: Larry Farrow
Editor: Dean Hill
Sound: David Sonnenschein
Costume: Meredith Palin
Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 30
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: A paralyzed dancer, now a wife and mother, is confronted by her ex-lover and dance partner who shows her that the spirit of a dancer doesn't die with the use of her legs. |
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Name: In Time
Director: Maurice A. Dwyer & Adetoro Makinde
Screenwriter: Adetoro Makinde
Dir. of Photography: Greg Williams
Music: Ariel A. Blumenthal & Frances Awe
Editor: Chris A. Peterson
Sound: Geoff Green
Costume:
Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 19
Year: 2005 |
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Synopsis: A Nigerian-American woman lives her life balancing the freedom of the American lifestyle and the traditions of her homeland. On the eve of her wedding, tradition looms large, but it could cost her the man she loves. An exploration of the beauty and betrayal of traditions on African women. |
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Name: Instant Dread
Director: Dawn Wilkinson
Screenwriter: Dawn Wilkinson
Dir. of Photography: Ricardo Diaz
Music: Derek Madison
Editor: Melanie MacDonald
Sound: Jeff Dalziel
Costume:
Country: Canada
Genre: Short
Duration: 13
Year: 1998
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Synopsis: When a stylist invents an instant dreadlock hair potion, she is charged with selling out her culture. |
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Name: Junior
Director: Michael Reynolds
Screenwriter: Michael Reynolds
Dir. of Photography: Richard Lannaman
Music: Joe Raia
Editor: Ron Cohen
Sound: Andre Bidwell
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Country: US/Jamaica
Genre: Short
Duration: 13
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Traveling to the city to find his fortune, a country boy finds poverty and mean streets. |
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Name: Le Sifflet (The Whistle)
Director: As Thiam
Screenwriter: As Thiam
Dir. of Photography: Cesar Paes & Michel Berck
Music: Wasis Diop
Editor: Agnes Contensou
Sound: Alioune Mbow
Costume: Maria Sy Dapina
Country: Senegal/France
Genre: Short
Duration: 22
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: A blind husband and wife find a magic whistle that gives them back their sight. The man begins to dream of money and power the whistle can bring. |
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Name: Love Aquarium*
Director: Ka'ramuu Kush
Screenwriter: T. Tara Turk, Keith Josef Adkins & Herb Donaldson
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Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 37
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Three couples, three stories, one love. A cinematic masala of thoughts, feelings and lifestyles on the myriad interpretations of love. |
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Name: Magic Lion, The
Director: Charles Githinji
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Country: Canada
Genre: Short
Duration: 7
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: A boy meets a magical trapped lion as he journeys to get medicine for his sick grandfather. |
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Name: Male Groupie, The
Director: Christopher Scott Cherot
Screenwriter: Morocco Omari
Dir. of Photography: Marco Fagnoli
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Editor: Christopher Scott Cherot
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Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 20
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: What happens when you're living the life--but it belongs to your best friend? |
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Name: 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
Genre: Short
Duration: 22
Year: 2003 |
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Synopsis: After a string of awful relationships, Jadine decides to get revenge when she is insulted by a blind date. |
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Name: Message, The
Director: Connie Robinson
Screenwriter: Connie Robinson
Dir. of Photography: Pierre Chemaly
Music: Barry Robinson
Editor: Jeff Cooper
Sound: Paul Both
Costume: Jeffrey Lindsay Relf
Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 42
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: A best-selling author of romance thrillers believes she can hear the voice of God telling her to write religious-themed novels which her agent and family fear will kill her career. |
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Name: Missing Peace, The
Director: Rachel Benjamin
Screenwriter: Rachel Benjamin
Dir. of Photography: Fred Miller Jr.
Music: Tom Sorich
Editor: Rene Herrera
Sound: Ben Steger
Costume: Andrea Vestrand
Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 24
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Set in the repression of Haiti, a young girl finds her identity with the help of a foreign journalist. |
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Name: My Purple Fur Coat
Director: Kathryn Ann Busby
Screenwriter: Kathryn Ann Busby
Dir. of Photography: John Simmons
Music: John Given
Editor: Sean Lambert
Sound:
Costume: Angel Roberts
Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 12
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: In her quest to be different, a young girl begs her father to buy her a purple fur coat. Stars Hill Harper. |
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Name: Oath, The
Director: Nathan Collett
Screenwriter: Nathan Collett & Njuguna Wakanyote
Dir. of Photography: Nathan Collett
Music: Jermaine Stegall
Editor: Nathan Collett
Sound: Brian Long
Costume:
Country: Kenya
Genre: Short
Duration: 23
Year: 2004
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Synopsis: In present-day Kenya, through the retelling of the story of two brothers who took different paths, the legacy of the Mau Mau is told to the children so as not to be forgotten. |
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Name: 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
Genre: Short
Duration: 15
Year: 2003 |
Synopsis: A lovingly told story of a small girl seeking to define her own world.
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Name: Prescription for Time
Director: Keith McQuirter
Screenwriter: Keith McQuirter
Dir. of Photography: Richard Delano Forbes
Music: Nate Greenberg
Editor: Todd Hooker
Sound: Erin Rettig
Costume:
Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 15
Year: 2005
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Synopsis: Geraldine, an elderly woman, suffers from early signs of dementia and fears losing her independence to her daughter. In an attempt to change her fate, she finds hope in pharmaceutical technology that promises to extend life which brings her to a perplexing new crossroad: Is it worth extending her life in the face of losing her independence? |
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Name: Notsoprivate*
Director: Sandye Wilson
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Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 32
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Spoken in their own voices, a humorous yet riveting exposition of Black women's thoughts on intimacy, love and desire. |
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Name: 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
Genre: Short
Duration: 22
Year: 2003
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Synopsis: 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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Name: Safi, the Little Mother
Director: Rasò Ganemtore
Screenwriter: Rasò Ganemtore
Dir. of Photography: Lionel Cousin
Music: Gabin Dabiré
Editor: Giuseppe Pagano
Sound: Martin Boissau
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Country: Burkina Faso /Italy/France
Genre: Short
Duration: 30
Year: 2004 |
Synopsis: By village tradition, when a woman dies in childbirth, the baby must also die. When her mother dies after giving birth, a little girl defies this tradition when she runs away to the city, taking her newborn baby brother with her.
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Name: Secret Admirer*
Director: Doyle Ray Taylor
Screenwriter: Scott Osborn
Dir. of Photography: Kate Sobol
Music: Guy Harrington
Editor: Alan Roberts
Sound: Zsolt Mayner
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Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 16
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: A dark comedy about a policeman's neglected wife who is having an Internet affair. When she rendezvoused with her Internet lover, things turn less than romantic. |
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Name: 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
Genre: Short
Duration: 24
Year: 2003 |
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Synopsis: A star high school basketball player's sister is implicated in an armed robbery. |
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Name: Slur
Director: Stephen Minor
Screenwriter: Jorge Sanchez
Dir. of Photography: John Demps
Music: Qmillion
Editor: Stephen Minor
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Costume: BPC
Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 17
Year: 2005 |
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Synopsis: Jordan is plagued by the use of the "N" word, which he hates. A confrontation with racism at an early age disturbs his relationships with current friends. Stars Malik Yoba and Christian Bronson. |
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Name: Spoonful of Sugar, A
Director: Andrea Williams
Screenwriter: Andrea Williams
Dir. of Photography: Rob Hauer
Music: Pismo & Claudia Hayden
Editor: Bill Mack
Sound: Seith Mann & Kweisi Davis
Costume: Rabian Troncelliti
Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 19
Year: 2003 |
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Synopsis: A young woman in love and thinking about losing her virginity has more to consider than most young women in her situation. A sensitive coming-of-age story about the complications of being in love in modern times. |
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Name: Squirrelman
Director: Jeffrey Shepherd
Screenwriter: Jeffrey Shepherd
Dir. of Photography: Brian Mandle
Music: Vondell Henderson & Mike Jackson
Editor: Tony Tong
Sound: Chad Benton
Costume: Rachel West
Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 20
Year: 2005 |
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Synopsis: An older jazzman's belief that he has been given super powers after being bitten by a squirrel helps a father and son resolve their differences. Starring Bill Cobbs, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Morocco Omari & Cameron McFadden. |
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Name: Starting Over
Director: Heinz Fussle
Screenwriter: Paul Nwulu
Dir. of Photography: Heinz Fussle
Music: David Zeoli
Editor: Michel Carpay
Sound: Nero
Costume: Maybel Nwulu
Country: Nigeria
Genre: Short
Duration: 58
Year: 2003 |
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Synopsis: Well-loved by his parents, active in his father's church, engaged to the woman of his dreams, a good job at his uncle's bank waiting for him after his graduation from the university, Andrew seems to have it all until he tests positive for HIV after a one-time fling. |
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Name: Summer Dreams
Director: Nancy Cheryll Davis & Robert Alford
Screenwriter: Sheri Bailey
Dir. of Photography: Jean-Guy Bureau
Music: Mark Page
Editor: Nathaniel Bellamy
Sound: Randy Pease
Costume: Pixie B.
Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 35
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: A haunting tale of a woman who has been waiting ten years for her now famous lover and father of her son to return. |
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Name: Sunday Evening Haircut
Director: Sean LeSure
Screenwriter: Reginald VelJohnson
Dir. of Photography: Mark Woods
Music: Boricua Films
Editor: Erik Llauger-Meiselman
Sound: Mechanismo
Costume: Boricua Films
Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 17
Year: 2004
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Synopsis: A man competes with God for his wife's time and attention every Sunday evening. Stars Reggie VelJohnson and Kiki Shepard. |
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Name: Taipei
Director: Cortez McKay
Screenwriter: Albert Christmas
Dir. of Photography: Cortez McKay
Music: Manny Moreira
Editor: Cortez McKay
Sound: Cortez McKay
Costume: Jenn Cummings & Sherry Boone
Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 37
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: An ex-dancer and journalist living in Taipei falls in love with a Chinese choreographer. |
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Name: Tale of Two Sisters, A*
Director: Van Elder
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Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 15
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Two friends separate when one falls for a two-timing Puerto Rican restaurant owner. |
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Name: Tough Call
Director: Kofi Natei
Screenwriter: Kofi Natei
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Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 23
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Football star James Showtime Campbell has it all until kidnappers disrupt his world. A powerful story of choices and atonement. |
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Name: Untitled Kelis Project
Director: HaJ
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Music: Kelis
Editor: Jen Bradwell
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Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 12
Year: 2004
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Synopsis: A day in the life of recording artist Kelis. |
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Name: Walking on Sunshine
Director: Tracy Taylor & Leon Lozano
Screenwriter: Tracy Taylor
Dir. of Photography: Carlos Arguello
Music: Jennifer Johns & Shahidah Omar
Editor: Tracee Momson
Sound: Joe Dzuban
Costume: Tiffany Scott Clemente
Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 27
Year: 2004
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Synopsis: The story of two sisters whose risky sexual behavior has put them at the center of the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in the African American community.
Walking on Sunshine has been nominated for a 2005 NAACP Image Award in the category of OUTSTANDING TELEVISION MOVIE, MINI-SERIES. |
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Name: What Friends Are For
Director: Marc Newsome
Screenwriter: Marc Newsome
Dir. of Photography: Raymond Gayle & M. Newsome
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Editor: Marc Newsome
Sound: Alzo Slade
Costume: Winneskia Dabney
Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 34
Year: 2004
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Synopsis: Why is dating so complicated? Will Corey and Jill have a successful first date or will their friends' bad advice and their own baggage ruin it? A witty romantic comedy which explores the preconceived notions of modern dating. Anyone who's ever been on a date should see this movie! |
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Name: Ralph & Stanley*
Director: Adam Clark
Screenwriter: Adam Clark
Dir. of Photography: Zack Hoover
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Editor: Clay Whitney Jr.
Sound: Norman Miller
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Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 38
Year: 2001 |
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Synopsis: Heartwarming story of a man who picks up his mentally-impaired brother from the hospital in order to receive his disability check but gets more than he bargained for. |
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Name: Red Glasses, The
Director: Yinka Djin
Screenwriter: B. Stanislaw
Dir. of Photography: B. Stanislaw
Music: Godsway Abotsi, Mohammed Odoi, Lucas Tagborlo
Editor: Yinka Djin
Sound: Yaw Djin
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Country: Ghana
Genre: Short
Duration: 50
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Two children find a pair of magic glasses. In their innocence, they use the glasses for fun and amusement. But soon the glasses are stolen by two unscrupulous hustlers who see them as a means to make their fortune. |
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Name: Time Machine
Director: Carlos Spivey
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Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 15
Year: 2004 |
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Synopsis: Animated drawings provide the backdrop for this love poem. |
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Name: Tree from 2 Separate Seeds
Director: Trifari White
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Country: US
Genre: Short
Duration: 2
Year: 2001 |
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Synopsis: An experimental exploration of the director's African-Mexican roots. It is a colorful journey of two seeds planted to produce an African-Mexican woman who is grounded by the Orishas and her ancestors. |
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Name: What My Mother Told Me*
Director: Frances-Anne Solomon
Screenwriter: Adjoa Andoh, Leonie Forbes, Frances-Anne Solomon
Dir. of Photography: Mike Spragg
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Editor: Chris Risdale
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Country: UK/Trinidad & Tobago
Genre: Short
Duration: 57
Year: 1995
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Synopsis: A young woman from England returns to Trinidad to bury her father. Reluctantly she agrees to meet her mother, whom she thought had abandoned her when she was a child. |
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Name: Bronze Buckeroo
Director: Richard C. Kahn
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Genre: Short
Duration: 58
Year: 1939 |
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Synopsis: Classic Black cowboy story finds our hero on the trail of the bad guys. Stars Herb Jeffries. |
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Name: Candy's African Experience
Director: Kenneth Wyrick
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Genre: Short
Duration: 0
Year: 2006 |
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Synopsis: A complex story of a Japanese American woman who traveled with Moza to the motherland |
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