15th Annual African Diaspora Film Festival
The 15th edition of the African Diaspora Film Festival took place in New York on November 23 through December 9. The festival screened at Anthology Film Archives, the Teachers College at Columbia University, the Thalia Theater, and other venues. » Read more…
Tusamehe “Forgive Us” – A film about betrayal and consequences
Bilantanya Moses Bakeyemba, a successful individual from Bongoland living in the United States, marries Salome, also a successful career woman, from Bongoland. Soon they’re expecting their first child. Enter his ex-girlfriend, a lady who doesn’t particularly like his wife. She seduces him and he succumbs to the temptation. In a little while he realizes that he is HIV positive and has to face his wife with the truth.The film explores the choices that are made, the ways HIV can be contracted, and focuses on the ill-conceived notions people hold about how HIV is contracted. It is a sad but informative account of the devastating effect of AIDS as experienced through one victim’s harrowing journey on a very narrow one way road. » Read more…
Gerald Barclay – Wu: The story of the Wu Tang Clan
Gerald Barclay has been making music videos for Snoop Dog, Master P, and Nona Hendrix, to name a few. He has also made a great award-winning documentary about Liberia that is still hailed as monumental in the telling of the war that ravaged that nation. He has also produced and directed a movie, Bloody Streetz, that can be found in DVD stores around the nation. His crowning achievement, though, might just be the documentary of one of the most talented hip-hop pioneer groups from the 90’s, the Wu-Tang Clan. The group’s first album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) propelled the legendary group to infamy and clinched their position as a strong hip-hop group from the east coast of the United States. They basically shifted the balance of power that had been dominated by west coast rappers, and changed the way the game was played. » Read more…
Ya Ma’ Afrika
Thato Rantao Mwosa was born in Botswana. She created, wrote and directed Ya Ma’ Afrika. Ya Ma’ Afrika is a fictional drama show that fuses the lives of four African women living in New York City and highlights the cultural experiences, contradictions and challenges of African women living in the West. » Read more…
Darfur Now
Don Cheadle is the perfect example of someone who refuses to let human crisis go unnoticed when there are means to end it. His Oscar nominated role in Hotel Rwanda put him the position to know first hand how serious conditions in Africa, especially Darfur are. » Read more…
Nollywood’s Cross Over Appeal
Hollywood laughed at the idea – how could a movie made with a few thousand dollars and a digital camera make any real money? The Nollywood film industry is having the last laugh - a $250 million laugh. The Nigerian film industry (Nollywood) has quickly become the third largest film industry in the world behind Hollywood and Bollywood. » Read more…
Talk to Me
Academy Award nominee Don Cheadle portrays the one and only Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr. in this funny, feel-good and inspiring true story. Ex-convict Greene talks his way into an on-air radio gig with program director Dewey Hughes (Chiwetel Ejiofor), and his unprecedented “tell it like it is” style breaks all the rules while electrifying a city (DC)and bringing a nation together when it needed it the most. » Read more…
Pamela Nomvete
Pamela Nomvete was born in Ethiopia. She graduated from the Welsh College of Music and Drama and worked in England for some years before immigrating to South Africa in 1994. She gained noterity in the South African soap opera Generations. Her character Ntsiki Lukhele was so convincing that she was slapped in the face for it by someone in a restaurant because they didn’t like her character! The role won her a Duku Duku Best Actress award. » Read more…
Life is Wild
Life is Wild is a show about family. Danny and his second wife Jo are the new blended family. He has 2 kids and so does she. Danny grows tired of his day to day mundane life in New York City as a Veterinarian and sees his family growing apart. His kids are dealing with their mother’s death and her kids are dealing with their father being in prison. Danny decides to move his family to South Africa where his deceased wife grew up. » Read more…
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