Beyond Chron's E. "Doc" Smith Looks at SFBFF
June 21, 2011
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The San Francisco Black Film Festival returns this Friday, June 17 and opening with several new films, including the Mario Van Peebles directed "Things Fall Apart" starring Curtis (50 Cent) Jackson III, Ray Liotta, and Lynn Whitfield. 50 Cent and Brian A. Miller wrote the screenplay and Randall Emmett produced the film. Also among the local, national and international films to be screened at the SFBFF is "Black, White and Blues," written by Morgan Simpson and George Richards, co-starring and also directed by Van Peebles with Michael Clarke Duncan, Kiele Sanchez, Taryn Manning and Tom Skerrit.
The brainchild of the late Ave Montague, the SFBFF became a competitive film festival, identifying filmmakers, screenwriters, and actors that are emerging as talents and established artists who are contributing to the cinematic legacy of African Americans.Now run by Montague's son Kali Ray, the SFBFF continues to conscientiously expand the notions of "Black film-making" to a global perspective. [more]->
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