4th Annual Tuscaloosa African Film Festival
A South Africa Event on 2016-02-13 12:00:00
Tuscaloosa will host its 4th Annual Evening of African Films at the Bama Theatre on Saturday, February 13th 2016. Four movies will be presented on this special night of African movies in Tuscaloosa. The program begins at 3:30 pm with a live performance of African Dance by Bama Kids from Wilcox County directed by Sister Yomi. This will be followed by an award winning children's African movie. This is the first time specific children's programming has been included on the program. Regular programming for the film festival will run from 6:30 to 10:30 pm with 3 award winning shorts and 1 feature film being screened for Tuscaloosa movie goers. The shorts are Kwaku Ananse (Ghana), Afripedia (Kenya) and Panic Button (South Africa). This year's feature film is The Longest Kiss from Sudan. Akosua Adoma Owusu's latest work, Kwaku Ananse, is an intensely personal project for the filmmaker, drawing upon rich Ghanaian mythology, combining semi-autobiographical elements with the tale of Kwaku Ananse, a trickster popular in West African Akan folk tales who appears as both spider and man. This movie won the award for best short at the 2013 African Movie Academy Awards. The Afripedia movies express the urban scene in Nairobi, Kenya's bustling capital city. This 28 minute short is produced by Teddy Goitom, Benjamin Taft and Senay Behre all from Sweden, with origins and experiences in Jerusalem, East Africa and Canada, they chronicle the growing urban youth scene in Africa as part of their Afripedia project. Libby Dougherty, the Bristol trained director creates a compelling drama in Panic Button, a 25 minute short film from South Africa which is a metaphor at many levels for race relations beyond South Africa itself The Longest Kiss is a 72 minute feature film directed by Alexandra Sicotte-Lévesque a humanitarian aid worker, journalist and filmmaker.
at Bama Theatre
600 Greensboro Avenue
Tuscaloosa, United States
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