1)         Thank you to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

 

 

 

2)         2008 New York African Film Festival – Cinema and History: Africa and the Future

 

 

 

3)         AFF Co-Presentation with the New York Arab & South Asian Film Festival:

 

March 5 – 16

 

 

 

 

 

Last week Thursday, February 28^th, AFF had the pleasure of presenting Marco Williams’ film Banished at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. We would like to extent our heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped to make the evening a resounding success, especially, the staff of the Schomburg Center, Mr. Marco Williams, Ms. Nellie Bailey, Senator Bill Perkins and Ms. Dorothy Desir. You truly made the night a special success! And, thank you also to our audiences who came out in record numbers and added so much energy and enthusiasm to the evening. We look forward to continuing this tradition during next year’s Black History Month.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Riding the wave of our Black History Month programming, please join us this year for the 15^th Anniversary New York African Film Festival …

 

 

 

April – May 2008:

 

15^th Anniversary New York African Film Festival (NYAFF)

 

Co-presented with

 

Film Society of Lincoln Center

 

 

 

Cinema and History: Africa and the Future

 

 

 

 

 

April 9 – 15: 2008 NYAFF at Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center

 

May 6, 13, 20 & 27: 2008 NYAFF at French Institute – Alliance Française

 

May 23- 26: 2008 NYAFF at BAMcinématek at Brooklyn Academy of Music

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AFF IS PROUD TO CO-PRESENT:

 

 

 

I Love Hip Hop in Morocco

 

(Jennifer Needleman and Joshua Asen, Morocco/USA, 2007, 90 min, Moroccan Arabic, French, English with English ST, video)

 

A group of  young Moroccan Hip Hop artists pursue their dream of staging Morocco’s first-ever Hip Hop Festival. The film documents their struggle to overcome the big hurdles, as well as their initiative in raising the necessary funds to achieve their seemingly impossible goal.

 

Preceded by

 

Democracy in Paris

 

(Magee McIlvaine, Chris Moore, Moussa Dia, Ben Herson, Abdoulaye Aw, USA/France, 2008, 10 min excerpt from 30 min, French, Pular, Wolof, English with English ST

 

NY Premiere Documents the hip hop generation of youth and the role they played politically

 

during France’s 2007 presidential elections.

 

 

 

 

 

Now playing at the

 

2008 NEW YORK ARAB & SOUTH ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL

 

March 5 – 16

 

http://www.nyasaff.org

 

 

 

Venues

 

Tribeca Cinemas, Columbia University, Art in General, Cantor Film Center at NYU,

 

and Two Boots Pioneer Theatre

 

 

 

Alwan for the Arts, with partners 3rd i NY and the South Asian Women¹s Creative Collective, have partnered to include over 50 feature premieres, documentaries and short films from 25 countries in North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and their diasporas.

 

 

 

See www.nyasaff.org for complete listings & to buy tickets or festival passes.