We are going to RUN IT BACK!
The SFBFF will be running some of the favorites back for those that
missed a screening or for those that have been heavily requested. We
will be announcing dates and venues in the next week so please make it
out to see these great films. We have plans to rescreen at the JHC, the
AAACC, and in the Fillmore plaza on a hot Summer night. We hope you can
make it to support these films that have blessed the SFBFF this year.
Also, plan to bring your kidz to a special screening for the community
as we play some of the best from our archive to motivate, teach and heal
the youth. We plan on giving positive images to youth who are bombarded
with negative stereotypes and stories from the main stream media. This
is something to get behind and support!
In this unaired pilot for the upcoming Black Dynamite series,
our ass-kickin-friend-of-the-community Black Dynamite takes on his
childhood mentor and surrogate father: That Frog Kurtis, a Puppet TV
educator turned super villain!
Watch more of the Black Dynamite trailer => HERE <=
and => O.G. HERE <=
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Webisodes and Webseries
These are new catogories that will be included in next years festival.
As you may or may not know, the web contains 1000's of episodes and
series that are watched by millions. Some of these may be hard to find
unless you run into them or someone sends a link. We showed 4 movies (or
shorts) that were on the web and almost nobody even knew they existed.
We plan on bringing some of these to the masses and help give them and
build a bigger audience. If you like them please spread the word and
help them push to become as big as they can. Most of these filmmakers
work off a budget that they supply themselves or with a close group of
friends who share the vision. So please help us support these filmmakers
by liking or sharing what they work so hard to give us... great film!
Ep 1 | The Misadventures of AWKWARD Black Girl
THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF YOUR JUNK WILL BE PUBLICIZED
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Mike Wiley
Mike wiley is a one man show. We have received a short from him in 2010
(Empty Space), 2011 (Wolf Call), and a winning feature for 2012 (Dar
He). Rob Underhill directs and shoots the film and Mike Wiley
tears it up with incredible acting. Rob has combined the first two
shorts and added more content to make a feature starring Mike Wiley as
EVERY BODY IN THE FILM! called DAR HE. These two are a force and have
brought the story of Emmit Till to us in a way never conceived. I invite
you to look into these films and explore the body of work they have
brought us. I love the films, the acting, the directing, and the great
stories they have brought to us. Check it out!
Mike Wiley Productions is a driving force in the development and
promotion of documentary theatre. Led by actor and playwright, Mike
Wiley, the company's plays span the worlds of Emmett Till, Henry "Box"
Brown, Jackie Robinson and more. Each work in the company's repertoire
is designed to inspire audiences to examine America's racial history,
teach the lessons of the past and encourage the application of these
truths to the present.
Mike Wiley Productions
Trailer for DAR HE
Q&A With Actor and Director
ROB UNDERHILL
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The SFBFF would like to
thank everyone who submitted film this year for the festival. Please
keep pushing because without your films we would have no festival.
SEE OFFICIAL SELECTIONS HERE
We will be sending some more newsletters in the next couple of days so watch out for them as we re-cap this years film festival. |
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NWA CASTING CALL
If this is your part you better step up and get it! email here
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FunkJazz Kafe: DIARY OF A DECADE is
a multi-faceted arts and music festival. A "special interest" mixture
of style and substance linking fashion, virtual and visual arts, food,
wellness, dance, spoken word, new media, bazaar vending and interactive suites with
our favorite main ingredient: Music. This one of a kind experience
event is known for its authenticity, global appeal and vibrant
originality. With an internationally recognised music policy that spans
the spectrum of the best in soul-based music, The FunkJazz Kafe is a
festival like no other, an unscripted environment of mixed-media
installations, live video mixing, turntable DJs, live percussion
interaction and live painting with a backdrop of innovative music,
anything (creative) goes. At The FunkJazz Kafe, you'll see a variety of
people/ "tribes". We create an experience that our audience of
influencers appreciate and somehow correspond to our psychic and
spiritual tendencies of self-mastery and expressionistic ingenuity.
The
FunkJazz Kafe is a gathering. For some, The FunkJazz Kafe is a
"re-introduction" to some of music's most influential pioneers and for
the others, it's an outlet to simply share good energy and creative
innovations with the masses in one of most influential "experience"
festivals of the last fifteen years. The FunkJazz Kafe Festival has been
a place where artistic freedom of expression is celebrated. It's a
branded music platform that has something different for everyone to
enjoy. Creative Loafing stated it best in their BEST OF ATLANTA issue,
"The FunkJazz Kafe owes its success not just to the consistent surprise
of high quality performers and artists, but to the vibe created by
unapologetically blending intellectual, physical and even political
expression under one banner of entertainment".
WE played the Funk Jazz Cafe at The Social Study
on FILLMORE and GEARY on Saturday the 16th, 2012. If you were there
then you were blessed... This was the perfect venue and setting to play
this film. It was a very thorough documentary about NEO SOUL and the
movement of the FUNK JAZZ KAFE. This is a film that I would love to
bring back and give more people a chance to see. No matter if you prefer
Jazz or soul, hip-hop or blues, this is the movement that captured them
all... The FUNK JAZZ KAFE! Pay attention because we plan to bring this
back!
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