BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//B-Side Presents: Langston Hughes African American Film Festival 2008//iCal4j 1.0//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080412T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080412T133100 SUMMARY:A GREAT AND MIGHTY WALK DESCRIPTION:This documentary chronicles the life and times of the noted A frican-American historian\, scholar and Pan-African activist John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998). Both a biography of Clarke himself and an overview of 5\,000 years of African history\, the film offers a provocative look at the past through the eyes of a leading proponent of an Afrocentric vi ew of history. From ancient Egypt and Africa’s other great empires\, Cla rke moves through Mediterranean borrowings\, the Atlantic slave trade\, European colonization\, the development of the Pan-African movement\, an d present-day African-American history CATEGORIES:Documentary LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/agreatandmightywalk_langston2008 UID:85563080-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080412T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080412T160100 SUMMARY:RHYTHM OF FIRE / RITMO DEL FUEGO DESCRIPTION:A deep exploration of the spiritual\, historical\, and politi cal life of the Afro-Cuban community of Santiago de Cuba. Rhythm of Fire is a collection of the most important moments of the Festival of the Ca ribbean which takes place every year in Santiago de Cuba and celebrates the African heritage in the Caribbean. The main character is Cimarron\, the fugitive slave\, who symbolically reinterprets the history of the fr eed slaves and whose historical strength forms the foundation of the Cub an and Antilles culture. CATEGORIES:Documentary LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/rhythmoffireritmodelfuego_langst on2008 UID:85564415-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080412T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080412T210300 SUMMARY:HONEYDRIPPER - Opening Night Gala DESCRIPTION:It’s 1950 and it’s a make or break weekend for Tyrone Purvis (Danny Glover)\, the proprietor of the Honeydripper Lounge. Deep in debt \, Tyrone is desperate to bring back the crowds that used to come to his place. He decides to lay off his long-time blues singer Bertha Mae\, an d announces that he’s hired a famous guitar player\, Guitar Sam\, for a one night only gig in order to save the club.\nInto town drifts Sonny Bl ake\, a young man with nothing to his name but big dreams and the guitar case in his hand. Rejected by Tyrone when he applies to play at the Hon eydripper\, he is intercepted by the corrupt local Sheriff\, arrested fo r vagrancy and rented out as an unpaid cotton picker to the highest bidd er. But when Tyrone’s ace-in-the-hole fails to materialize at the train station\, his desperation leads him back to Sonny and the strange\, wire -dangling object in his guitar case. The Honeydripper lounge is all set to play its part in rock n’ roll history. CATEGORIES:Drama LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/honeydripper_langston2008 UID:85565069-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080413T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080413T133000 SUMMARY:LALIBELA: WONDERS AND MYSTERY DESCRIPTION:A fascinating documentary about the 900+ year old historic la ndmark of Lalibela\, which consists of 11 rock-hewn Eastern Orthodox chu rches in Ethiopia. Some 900 years ago\, King and Chief Priest Lalibela c onstructed these churches out of basalt rock high in the mountains of no rthwestern Ethiopia. The geometric precision of the construction amazes modern architects. The sewage system is still intact. The mural painting s and sculptures inside the buildings astonish visitors. Major events of the Bible are represented in the architecture. The film examines the my stery behind the design and architecture of the churches. How was it pos sible to create 11 churches from solid rock in only 23 years? Modern arc hitects\, church and art historians\, engineers\, and artists provide in sight CATEGORIES:Documentary, International LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/lalibelawondersandmystery_langst on2008 UID:85565376-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080413T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080413T153000 SUMMARY:PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL DESCRIPTION:The civil and clan wars that ravaged Liberia from 1989-2003 a ccounted for over 250\,000 deaths\, one million displaced persons\, and a malignancy of unspeakable atrocities often committed by child-soldiers \, that left the country in a dire state of hopelessness. Out of this de spair rose a group of women\; mothers\, grandmothers\, aunts and daughte rs\, led by Leymah Gbowee\, a mother who dared to dream that the wars c ould end. This film tells their extraordinary story. Through simple test imonials and footage from the conflicts\, it weaves a story of hope that stands as a testament to the power of women and peace. CATEGORIES:Documentary, International LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/praythedevilbacktohell_langston2 008 UID:85566320-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080413T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080413T173000 SUMMARY:THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ELEGANT DESCRIPTION:West Coast Premiere - This is the story of one of the most un usual clubs in the world: La SAPE. Its members\, the Sapeurs\, come from the Democratic Republic of Congo and have elevated fashion to the statu s of a religion. Despite extreme economic hardships the Sapeurs will onl y settle for the likes of Roberto Cavalli\, Yohji Yamamoto\, Versace\, I ssey Miyake and Burberry. Set to the soundtrack of Congo's extraordinary music\, the film follows the cult's founder and spiritual father\, Papa Wemba\, the world-famous musician known as 'Le Roi De La Sape' (The Kin g of la Sape). The film starts with Wemba's release on bail in July 2003 from French prison after being charged with smuggling illegal immigrant s into Europe for profit. For several months\, the filmmakers followed W emba trying to piece his life back together. Threatened with legal fees and an upcoming trial\, he recorded a new album and prepared for an extr avagant concert in Paris. Meanwhile his followers\, Congolese immigrants living in Paris and Brussels\, were busy living the Sapeur lifestyle - constantly hustling for money\, keeping up with Papa Wemba's fashion ide ology\, and pursuing a 'dedication' by Wemba\, who is paid a lot of mone y by his fans in order to sing their names in his new album. Bragging an d boasting\, loud and proud\, constantly advertising themselves and each other\, they are stars on a stage they mentally construct in the absenc e of real ones CATEGORIES:Documentary, International LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/theimportanceofbeingelegant_lang ston2008 UID:85567257-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080413T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080413T195800 SUMMARY:Ebony Chunky Love: B*tch Can't Get a Date DESCRIPTION:When life doesn’t turn out the way you expect it\, sometimes the best thing you can do is laugh. Comedian Keith Price knows that less on all too well\, having encountered not only wildly enthusiastic cheers \, but also less-than-supportive jeers in both his personal and professi onal life as an out African-American comic. The flamboyantly funny co-ho st of Sirius Radio’s OutQ in the Morning\, Price is given the spotlight in EBONY CHUNKY LOVE: BITCH CAN’T GET A DATE\, a documentary that takes a look at Price’s struggles to get noticed both in relationships and in his solo stand-up comedy career. Seattle filmmaker Lonnie Tristan Renter ia’s inquisitive documentary uses clips of Price’s act\, interviews\, an d analysis by scholars to offer perspectives on the issues of popular cu lture CATEGORIES:Comedy, Documentary LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/ebonychunkylovebtchcantgetadate_ langston2008 UID:85567995-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080414T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080414T165200 SUMMARY:WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED: A History of the Tillery Resettlement DESCRIPTION:This documentary film tells the story of a New Deal Resettlem ent Community in Tillery\, North Carolina from slavery to present. Throu gh archival film and video footage\, historical photographs\, and narrat ives of Tillery’s elders\, shows how seeds of independence planted in th e pre-Civil Rights era took root in movements for racial justice in the 1950’s\, and grew into fights against present day environmental racism a nd economic marginalization CATEGORIES:Documentary LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/weshallnotbemovedahistoryoftheti lleryresettlement_langston2008 UID:85598364-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080414T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080414T175500 SUMMARY:YOKES AND CHAINS DESCRIPTION:In a living act of apology\, a White man and his son wear the yokes and chains used in the Atlantic slave trade as they cross the USA \, England\, and Australia\, trying to acknowledge the effects of the le gacy of slavery and encourage an open dialogue between Blacks and Whites . CATEGORIES:Documentary LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/yokesandchains_langston2008 UID:85599066-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080414T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080414T203500 SUMMARY:BLACKOUT DESCRIPTION:Seattle Premiere - On August 14\, 2003\, the largest blackout in American history- known as the Northeast Blackout of 2003-was widely reported as peaceful. But in Brooklyn's forgotten East Flatbush neighbo rhood\, mayhem unfolded when the power shut down. This is the untold sto ry of the blackout\, based on true incidents. \n\nThe action focuses on a handful of neighbors: James (Sean Blakemore)\, the young professional who witnessed the September 11 terrorist attack and who is so traumatize d he's hardly left his apartment in two years\; his anguished girlfriend Claudine (Zoe Saldana)\, who doesn't know how to help James and is on t he verge of giving up on him\; three ladies who hang around outside an a partment building and gossip in front of the sign that says ""No Hanging Out""\; the barbershop crowd (led by Jeffrey Wright in a gem of a perfo rmance)\; George (Melvin Van Peebles)\, the black building super and the building's white owner (Saul Rubinek)\, who are thrown together by the emergency\; the street prophet\; and C.J. (Michael B. Jordan)\, the youn g man who represents not only what is most hopeful about all of us\, but also what could be the fate of hope itself.\n\nDirector Jerry Lamothe s martly weaves together this dynamic ensemble cast that plays out a forgo tten story of a time when\, as night fell in a corner of Brooklyn\, loot ers emerged\, violence surfaced\, and residents feared for their lives. CATEGORIES:Drama LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/blackout_langston2008 UID:85600330-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080415T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080415T173500 SUMMARY:ADRIFT IN THE HEARTLAND DESCRIPTION:Seattle Premiere - Adrift in the Heartland is the story of tw o women who weather the initial clash of their Palestinian and African A merican identities to share an intimate friendship.\nAysha\, a young Pal estinian woman\, is floundering in a new country that is not the land of opportunity for minorities she’d hoped. Meanwhile her new husband\, a childhood friend she married when he returned for a summer to Palestine\ , has grown into a man trapped between his perceptions of Muslim identit y and American culture. Jasmine is a social worker who must deal daily with the difficulties of the urban poor. Her relationship with Jamal\, a manager in a Palestinian-owned store\, exposes tension of race relatio ns in the Chicago setting.\nAysha and Jasmine meet one morning when Jasm ine crashes her car near Aysha’s apartment. Misunderstandings riddle th eir first meeting\, but they form a tenuous friendship through their mut ual love of jazz. CATEGORIES:Drama, Featured LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/adriftintheheartland_langston200 8 UID:85600593-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080415T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080415T202000 SUMMARY:SOMETHING IS KILLING TATE DESCRIPTION:Seattle Premiere - Tate Bradley\, a 25-year-old African Ameri can man\, attempts to commit suicide. Surviving the ordeal\, he isolates himself in his apartment--hiding from the world. The significant player s in his troubled life come to check on him. With each visit\, Tate is f orced to face his demons. A psychological study of the strangulation and alienation of the scars left by the tragedy of child abuse and family d isintegration. It bears an impact that will remain with the viewer for s ome time. But this is not a story of defeat and hopelessness. Rather\, i t is the story of hope and gathering the courage to face one’s reality a nd institute the process of healing. It is never too late! . Mature them es. Suitable for age 18 and over.\nAn Oakland\, California native\, Leo n Lozano earned his MFA at the University of Southern California - Schoo l of Cinematic Arts. Lozano’s work has aired on the Showtime and BET Cab le Networks\, and has received a nomination for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Television Movie\, Mini-Series\, or Dramatic Special.\n CATEGORIES:Drama LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/somethingiskillingtate_langston2 008 UID:85601203-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080416T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080416T173100 SUMMARY:YOUTH FILM SHOWCASE DESCRIPTION:FILMS BY OR ABOUT YOUTH: \nIncludes Connect (by Thurmon Green ) Buss Di Dance (Terry Jones\, Jr.\, Kendra Dennis\, Amanda Rodriguez\, Ti\, Latel Bethea)\, Prophesy (by Suprena Levy)\, Satisfaction (by Matth ew Prescott) and Adopted by Aliens (by Shawnee and Shawnelle Gibbs). CATEGORIES:Short LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/youthfilmshowcase_langston2008 UID:85602593-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080416T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080416T210300 SUMMARY:BLACK AUGUST DESCRIPTION:Seattle Premiere - The story of Black Panther George Jackson' s life through to his death in 1971 at the hands of San Quentin Prison g uards. Inmate activist George Lester Jackson’s (CSI's Gary Dourdan) shor t life became a flashpoint for revolution igniting the bloodiest riot in San Quentin’s history. Black August tells the story of the last event-f illed months of Jackson’s journey from street tough to political martyr. After moving with his family from Chicago to Los Angeles\, Jackson was arrested for a $70 gas station robbery and received a sentence of one ye ar to life. During his eleven years in prison\, Jackson studied Marx\, M ao and other revolutionary thinkers. He channeled the explosive rage of an oppressed and exploited community into a powerful indictment of the r acial status quo in a series of passionate and poetic letters that were collected and published in the volume Soledad Brother. Part of a legacy that includes Eldridge Cleaver\, Bobby Seale\, Huey P. Newton and Angela Davis\, Jackson’s writings made him both a best-selling author and a li ghtning rod for controversy in one of America’s most politically polariz ed eras. \nPost screening discussion with Seattle Black Panther Party Alumni. CATEGORIES:Drama LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/blackaugust_langston2008 UID:85604897-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080417T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080417T180000 SUMMARY:KIBRE-NEK (PREJUDICED PRIDE) DESCRIPTION:In this family drama\, a young couple struggles against famil y prejudices regarding class\, health\, lineage\, and moral standards. A beautiful\, intelligent young woman’s father suffers from an illness wh ich stigmatizes her entire family and endangers her chances for a happy marriage. CATEGORIES:Drama LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/kibrenekprejudicedpride_langston 2008 UID:85605231-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080417T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080417T194100 SUMMARY:BEHIND CLOSED DOORS DESCRIPTION:In a high profile capital murder case\, an African American S tudies professor is accused of murdering one of his students\, a White w oman with whom he had been having an affair. A jury of his peers is led behind closed doors to judge\, and ultimately\, to be judged. But in thi s case\, the jury gets personal\, especially to African American jurors who turn this case into a bitter one-on-one dispute about racial authent icity.\n\nThe LHAAFF is pleased to welcome back one of Seattle’s talente d local filmmakers\, Eddie Smith for a screening of two of his newest fi lms and discussion . \n\nThe screening will be followed by a filmmake r talkback Q&A session. CATEGORIES:Drama, Short LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/behindcloseddoors_langston2008 UID:85605829-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080418T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080418T173600 SUMMARY:GOT BREAST? DESCRIPTION:Seattle Premiere - Co-produced\, Directed & Written by Anasta cia (Stacey) Tolbert & Annie Walsh - The GOT BREAST? documentary seeks t o respond to the “epidemic” by destroying myths\; perpetuating truth and examining the ways breasts and negative and positive body image affect women. Annie Walsh has adapted poetry and prose for the screen\, and has written an original screenplay as well. Her first film\, "T-Shirt Flirt \," was inspired by the artwork of a rape survivor and was produced to b enefit the Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault. It has b een exhibited at various venues in Kansas City\, including the KC Filmma kers Jubilee and the Tivoli Theater. Anastacia (Stacey) Tolbert is a wri ter\, Cave Canem Fellow (2007)\, journalist\, workshop facilitator and p laywright living in Seattle Washington. She is author of the poetry book \, Baring My Soul\, and the recipient of the 2004 San Diego Journalism P ress Club Award for the article “War Torn.” Her poetry\, fiction and non fiction have been published in\, Torch Clamor Magazine\, Check the Rhyme \, An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees (Nominated for the 2007 NAACP A ward)\, I Woke Up and Put My Crown On: 76 Voices of African American Wom en\, Essence Magazine\, Number One Magazine\, The Nubian Chronicles\, Sa n Diego City Beat\, The Pitch Weekly\, Hair Piecez Anthology and The Sou rce Magazine. CATEGORIES:Documentary LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/gotbreast_langston2008 UID:85606579-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080418T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080418T203000 SUMMARY:I'M THROUGH WITH WHITE GIRLS: THE INEVITABLE UNDOING OF JAY BROOK S DESCRIPTION:Seattle Premiere - A story-board artist/sci-fi junkie\, Jay B rooks is the only Black guy in his indie-rock social scene. After a stri ng of failed relationships\, all with white women\, Jay decides to begin “Operation Brown Sugar” by giving up White women cold-turkey and trying to find himself a Black girlfriend. Since he doesn’t fit the “brotha” s tereotype Jay fails miserably with the “sistahs.” When Jay meets Catheri ne\, a misunderstood “halfrican-Canadian” and newly published author\, J ay challenges Catherine to face her fear of publicly reading her work an d realizes his own fears of commitment have had more to do with his prev ious disastrous relationships than any racial incompatibilities. Filled with lots of laughs and clever insights\, THE INEVITABLE UNDOING OF JAY BROOKS looks at what we’ll go through to find love and what we sometimes do to get out of it.\n\n CATEGORIES:Comedy LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/imthroughwithwhitegirlstheinevit ableundoingofjaybrooks_langston2008 UID:85607392-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080419T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080419T133000 SUMMARY:INTRO TO FLASH ANIMATION CONCEPTS DESCRIPTION:Youth and audiences of all ages will have the opportunity to engage with two delightful storytelling sisters\, Shawnelle and Shawnee Gibbs and their award winning animated series Adopted by Aliens. Adopted tells the story of Whitney Ward\, an orphan who never expected that the love and acceptance she seeks would come from outer space. Filmmakers S hawnee and Shawnelle Gibbs will discuss filmmaking and Flash animation. CATEGORIES:Workshop LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/introtoflashanimationconcepts_la ngston2008 UID:85607761-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080419T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080419T130400 SUMMARY:DEATH OF TWO SONS DESCRIPTION:Seattle Premiere - On Feb. 4\, 1999\, four New York City Poli ce officers killed African immigrant Amadou Diallo on his own doorstep i n a hail of 41 bullets. The inhumanity of Amadou's death outraged Africa n-Americans\, so often the victims of such violence themselves\, and peo ple of all ethnicities took to the streets in protest.\n\nAnd yet\, desp ite all the publicity\, how many of those marching in Diallo's name coul d tell you what his native language was or place Guinea on a map? Jesse Thyne knew Amadou's history better than any other American. An exuberant Peace Corps volunteer from Pasadena\, CA\, Jesse was assigned to Amadou 's home village in Guinea\, West Africa. He'd been "adopted" by members of Amadou's family and lived in their house. While Amadou sold hats and gloves on a New York City street corner to save money for college\, Jess e was learning to speak the local language and teaching Guinean children math. When Amadou died\, people in Guinea turned to Jesse for an expla nation. Jesse was present at Amadou's funeral\, where he sat with the Di allo family and served as a translator for American journalists.\nIn Jan uary of 2000\, almost a year to date after Amadou's death\, Jesse was ki lled in a brutal car accident on a Guinean highway. The taxi driver resp onsible for Jesse's death spent three years in a Guinean prison - a hars her-than-usual punishment. Amadou's killers walked free. Jesse's death\ , like Amadou's\, was used as a rallying cry against endemic problems. W hile thousands of Americans protested Amadou's death\, thousands of Guin eans came together to march for road safety awareness in a country notor ious for reckless driving. Like Amadou\, Jesse was repatriated to his ho me soil for burial. Both families had premonitions and dreams foreshadow ing the deaths of their sons\, and both deaths had a profound spiritual impact on their nation's religious communities.\nBeyond examining the br oad societal aspects of these events\, the film leads us to a very perso nal truth: that the loss of any human life is equally tragic. Death of T wo Sons shows the common humanity shared by these young men\, their fami lies\, and their nations. CATEGORIES:Documentary, Featured LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/deathoftwosons_langston2008 UID:85608521-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080419T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080419T145200 SUMMARY:YARI YARI Pemberi: BLACK WOMEN WRITERS & GLOBALIZATION DESCRIPTION:Yari Yari Pemberi – Documentary chronicling the international conference\, sponsored by the Organization of Women Writers of Africa\, Inc.\, brought together fiction writers\, poets\, performers\, visual a rtists\, journalists\, scholars\, archivists and activists all over the world who are involved in globalization projects. Maya Angelou\, Maryse Conde\, Jayne Cortez\, Paula Giddings\, Octavia Butler\, Edwidge Dantica t\, Sonia Sanchez\, and Alice Walker were just some of the many conferen ce participants.. Filmmaker talkback after the screening. Don’t miss thi s rare opportunity to hear the legendary Jayne Cortez discuss her work a s an author\, artist\, and filmmaker. CATEGORIES:Documentary LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/yariyaripemberiblackwomenwriters globalization_langston2008 UID:85608801-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080419T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080419T153000 SUMMARY:THE PEDAGOGY OF CINEMA DESCRIPTION:The power of motion pictures to effect change in society is n ot nurtured by the traditional methods of consumption. Instead\, its’ true power of consciousness raising is inherent in the method of product ion. \n\nAccording to Paulo Freire\, the author of Pedagogy of the Oppr essed\, there are two basic methods of teaching or pedagogy. One design ed by the teacher for the student\, in which it is assumed that the teac her has knowledge and the student is without knowledge. The alternative is a dialogical teaching method\, with the area for study delineated in an interaction between teacher and student. The goal of this method is to perceive the processes\, which create reality and the place of the p articipants in those processes. \n\nThe challenge for filmmakers of the future is to find a way to bring about the involvement of oppressed peo ple in the production process of the filmmaking experience. In the new m illennium\, filmmakers must come to know that the liberating power of fi lm to change social consciousness is not in how a film is watched\, but how it is created. \n\nAlonzo Crawford (MFA\, Columbia University) has w ritten and directed a number of documentary and dramatic short and featu re-length films\, notably: CROWDED (documentary\; an exposure of conditi ons inside the Baltimore City Jail\; 15 min.\, B/W\, 1997). DIRT\, GRO UND\, EARTH\, AND LAND (docudrama\; about urban housing and tenant right s\, 117 min.\, color and B/W\, 1983) and WALK ON WHITE NAILS (dramatic f eature\; a scathing look at interracial intimacy\; 90 min.\, B/W\, 1991) . MORNING TATE is a dramatic short about the sedentary life of an elderl y man\, momentarily enliven by the spontaneity of youth\, color\, 30 min .\, staring Mr. Whitman Mayo\, A.K.A.\, Grady from the TV sitcom\, SANFO RD AND SON). Current productions are A SEPARATE PLACE (documentary\; ab out the schools built by P.S. DuPont in Wilmington\, DE)\, WINTER WHEAT (35mm feature on domestic violence)\, CAN’T RESIST (35mm music-video)\, and GILA MONSTER: The Adventures of Adrian Manx\, (35mm work in progress )\, THE MATING GAME: (35 mm short film based on the book by Jonathan Luc kett). CATEGORIES:Workshop LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/thepedagogyofcinema_langston2008 UID:85609276-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080419T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080419T201700 SUMMARY:ROOTS TIME DESCRIPTION:Seattle Premiere - Jah Bull and Baboo are two Rastafarians th at sell LP records in a colourful old car through the countryside towns of Jamaica. By chance their favourite and well known radio broadcaster\, Farmer Roots\, hitches a ride with them in an emergency while trying to take his sick girlfriend to the hospital. Jah Bull and Baboo don't beli eve in western medicine because of their Rastafarian beliefs and 'convin ce' their passengers to seek the help from the bush doctor Bongo-Hu. Get ting to the doctor turns out to be much more difficult than they expecte d and all kinds of adventures happen along the way…\n \nBorn in 1978\, S ilvestre Jacobi is an Argentinian director with an abiding interest in m usic who has previously worked in the documentary medium. He graduated a s a lawyer in 2002 and then studied cinematography in New York. In 2001 he teamed up with Hassen Balut to make the highly acclaimed "Candombe." "Roots Time" is his first feature and won the Best Film Award at the 200 6 Portobello Film Festival\n CATEGORIES:Comedy LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/rootstime_langston2008 UID:85609569-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080419T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080419T220000 SUMMARY:THIS IS THE LIFE DESCRIPTION:Seattle Premiere - In 1989\, a collective of young artists ga thered weekly at a small health food store in South Central LA called "T he Good Life.” Their mandate? To explore and expand the musical bounda ries of hip hop. \n \nTHIS IS THE LIFE tells the little known story of a group of teenagers\, who revolutionized hip hop by innovating the very rhyme patterns\, melodic concepts and lyrical styles used by many of tod ay's biggest rap stars.\n \n \nWhile their innovations have yielded bil lions of dollars for the recording industry\, the Good Life emcees have toiled in relative obscurity in the United States. But much like their jazz heroes of a bygone era\, these street poets have garnered a rabid a nd musically sophisticated fan base abroad\, with a cult-like following in Germany\, Australia\, France\, England and Japan.\n \n \n\nThis feat ure-length documentary\, directed by former Good Life emcee Ava DuVernay \, chronicles the rise and fall of an unusual family of artists\, while examining their obstacles to commercial success. They all took differen t paths\, but remain connected by the music they made\, the alternative hip hop movement they developed\, and their worldwide influence on the a rt form. \n\n \n\nTHIS IS THE LIFE \n\n“Meet The Movement” \n\nwww.goo dlifelove.com CATEGORIES:Documentary LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/thisisthelife_langston2008 UID:85609986-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20091124T084355Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080420T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20080420T184100 SUMMARY:NAMIBIA : THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION DESCRIPTION:Seattle Premiere - Critically acclaimed director Charles Burn ett’s latest film follows the legend of Samuel Nujoma (Carl Lumbly)\, Na mibia’s first president and a prominent leader in the struggle for indep endence from apartheid South Africa. The film opens when Nujoma is 16 ye ars old\, the country is under constant oppression from South Africa\, a nd the young man learns that he is the direct descendant of royalty. He sets out to live with an aunt\, and befriends a religious man (Danny Glo ver) who has maintained a low profile after legal troubles stemming from a staged car accident. Eventually Nujoma\, in the face of severe racism \, forms the SWAPO political movement that\, with the assistance of some foreign governments\, eventually earns Namibia its independence. Later on\, a boycott and massacre of protestors turn up the heat\, forcing Nuj oma into exile. This film is 160 minutes long (3 hours) and includes one intermission. CATEGORIES:Drama LOCATION:Langston Hughes PAC URL:http://langston.bside.com/2008/films/namibiathestruggleforliberation_ langston2008 UID:85610434-langston.bside.com/2008 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR