The seventeenth Annual African-American Film Festival is proudly organized by local group leaders at the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. It is scheduled for the months of January, February and March this year. James Drayton (a former West Palm Beach commissioner and a lively advocate for equality rights as well as justice) was the founder of the pageant. It is an annual celebration of African American tradition and race relations, as well as honoring African American artists with groundbreaking movies. Every night, there is an insightful intro to the film’s topic that is led by a expert professional
. Please join us on the 1st of January at 2:45pm for the premiere of the hugely acclaimed film A Raisin in the Sun (directed by Daniel Petrie). Starring Sidney Poitier and Claudia McNeil, this film is about the Youngers, one of the African American loved ones residing together residing in a residence situated in Chicago which is trying to figure out what they should do with their huge assurance payment after the passing of their patriarch. TreaAndrea Russworm (PhD). will host in a panel discussion that will be open to the audience and characteristic William Nix Thomas Parham, and Avery Sommers
. at 2:00 pm on March three on March 3, at 2:00 pm on March three. Terri Francis will average the panel alongside which will characteristic Eduardo Culmer Jr,. Breion Moss and Dwayne. The discussion will middle around Ava Duvernay’s documentary THthat explores the background of racial inequities inside the United States and examines the realities of African Americans disproportionately populating the prisons of the nation. It will also focus on John Singleton’s film Poetic Justice. In it there is a mismatched pair of characters that are Justice and Lucky (Tupac) Shakur take a reluctant highway journey to South Central Los Angeles, California until Oakland
. NALES Film Festival sheds mild on the long-standing racism. The event will be moderated by Nadine White-Boyd Esquire. as well as panelists Reverend Kevin Jones, James Venable, James Venable, and Alexis Lockhart shall be current. A catered reception in the lobby of the Rinker Playhouse will take place prior to the pageant. James Drayton and AnEta Selwell have hosted events in the previous. They rigorously studied earlier than deciding to curate an assortment of motion pictures that are appropriate and could serve as catalysts for group discussion. Some of the movies will convey back memories and are some of the best
. American Film Festival is proud to host the pageant with the aid by WLRN Public Media, and patronage from the Kappa Upsilon Chapter Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. Rush discount tickets for students/teachers can also be bought for every screening. The moderator for the night is TreaAndrea M. Russworm PhD. an interdisciplinarity media scholar who specializes in digital and video game media
. “Dr. Terri Francis, Associate Professor of Cinematic Arts and Associate Dean of Inclusion and Outreach for over 20 years, has uncovered and questioned the various methods that psychoanalytic society is used as a method to govern racial ideology which is built around a flawed understanding of the want to “recognize” the”racial non-human” in a human method by looking at the various kinds of common tradition including Sidney’s movies as well as black mother-daughter loved ones melodramas, Black pimp narratives and cartoons Fat Albert put up s American common stories
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American Film Festival is proudly sponsored by WLRN Public Media, the Kappa Upsilon Chapter Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. and honors American cinemamaking by presenting a set of rigorously curated movies. Tickets can be bought for single screenings and all of the series at wwwkravisorg,. or by making a telephone call at (-) or (+). The screenings are free to educators and scholars so everyone can take half in this great occasion. Thanks to TreaAndrea M. Russworm with her PhD as moderator The American Film Festival is yes to be unforgettable
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