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from the issue of April 12, 2007
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Film festival to explore race, identity, revolution
BY SARA PIPHER, UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
A diverse range of films highlighting African American lives in the U.S. and around the world will be shown in the upcoming African American and African Studies Film Festival at UNL. The festival's theme is, "Blacks In Film 1969-2006: Race, Identity and Revolution." Screenings will are April 12-15 at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. All events are free and open to the public.
The festival will feature six films that explore black experiences in the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa.
The festival will open with two films representing the Blaxploitation tradition, "Superfly" and "Foxy Brown." Screenings will continue with films that address revolutionary and post-colonial movements: "Sugar Cane Alley," "Burn!," "Flame" and "Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela."
Featured keynote speakers and festival facilitators are Jeffrey C. Wray, assistant professor of English and co-chair of the Film Studies department at Michigan State University, and film director Tama Hamilton Wray. On April 12, they will deliver a keynote address titled "Past and Future Directions in Black Cinema and Film Studies," and they will also screen their independent film, "China."
The festival is a collaboration of the AAAS program, the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center and the Office of Academic Support and Intercultural Services at UNL.
"We hope to share with a multiplicity of groups black cinema outside of the more popular Hollywood mass marketed film community," said Kwakiutl Dreher, professor of English at UNL and an organizer of the festival. "Our mission is to bridge scholarly and community criticism of black cinema and blacks in film. To this end, panel discussions led by university scholars, film enthusiasts, and community activists will follow each film screening."
For more information, go online to www.aaasfilmfestival.com, or contact Kwakiutl Dreher at kdreher2@unl.edu or 472-1816, or Dawn Curry at dcurry2@unl.edu or 472-3299.
April 12
7 to 9 p.m.
Keynote Address - "Past and Future Directions in Black Cinema and Film Studies," Jeffrey Wray and Tama Hamilton Wray
Film screening - "China" (60 minutes)
April 13
The Blaxploitation Genre
2:30 to 5 p.m.
Film screening - "Superfly," with a panel discussion and question and answer, moderated by Kwakiutl Dreher
7 to 9:30 p.m.
Film screening - "Foxy Brown," with a panel discussion and question and answer moderated by Dreher
April 14
Revolutionary and Post-Colonial Movements
2 to 4 p.m.
Film screening - "Flame," with a panel discussion and question and answer moderate by Dawne Curry
6 to 8 p.m.
Film screening - "Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela," with a panel discussion and question and answer moderate by Dawne Curry
April 15
Revolutionary and Post-Colonial Movements
2 to 4:30 p.m.
Film screening - "Sugar Cane Alley," with a panel discussion and question and answer, moderated by Jeannette Jones
6 to 8 p.m.
Film screening - "Burn!" with a panel discussion and question and answer, moderated by Jones.
8 to 9 p.m.
Closing ceremony and dessert reception at the Van Brunt Visitors Center
GO TO: ISSUE OF APRIL 12
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