Pan African Film & Arts Festival, Los Angeles CA
February 10, 2010 by lindsey
Filed under Festivals, Los Angeles
The Pan African Film & Arts Festival (PAFF), in its 17th year, is the nation’s largest black film festival. Established in 1992, PAFF is a non-profit corporation dedicated to the promotion of cultural and racial tolerance and understanding through the exhibition of film, art and creative expression. PAFF’s stated goal is to present and showcase [...]
Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Designed to showcase and honor the work of established and emerging independent African American filmmakers, the Martha’s Vineyard African-American Film Festival was launched in 2002 by Run and Shoot Filmworks (RSF), the husband-and-wife team Stephanie Tavares-Rance and Floyd Rance III. Today, the festival runs over 3 days and 45 film screenings at various locations in Edgartown [...]
Langston Hughes African American Film Festival, Seattle, WA
Photo: Santana Shelton as Opal in John Sayle’s Honeydripper. Seattle’s annual Langston Hughes African American Film Festival offers up both feature length and short films by independent film makers from around the world that portray a wide variety of Black life. The event always attracts a very passionate and diverse crowd, who appreciate films by and about people of African-decent [...]
