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Press Release
June 7, 2017 |
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San Francisco Black Film Festival XIX
Red Carpet Ready
with BFF Danny Glover's '93 Days"
Visit SFBFF.ORG for Details
San Francisco-Danny Glover, Actor & Humanitarian, an advocate for causes around the world takes center stage at Th San Francisco Black Film Festival XIX as his latest release will be screened on Opening Night, June 15, 2017.
"It's great to have someone of Danny Glover's accomplishments to be a part of San Francisco Black Film Festival XIX. He was a friend nineteen years ago, when my mother Ave Montague founded the festival and he's continued to be a friend, " said Kali O'Ray, festival co-director with his wife Katera Crossley. "Katera, all our volunteers, sponsors and supporters are pleased to screen this film of great significance.
The Steve Gukas film is dedicate to Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, who sacrificed her life to help contain an ebola epidemic from 170 million Nigerians. Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, an inspiration for young women to pursue STEM studies and careers. She's an inspiration to all youth and everyone, as this behind the headlines look at her courage and her courageous colleagues, demonstrates courage and strength in the moment are powerful characteristics that can change the world. Click the image for the trailer.
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I chose fencing because It's not just about being an athlete. It's about being a thinker, a planner, if I can out think you then that just makes me a better person.
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| A Path to Excellence Trailer |
When you talk about life. You talk about Land. Without it,land, We Can't Make it.
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| The Land Beneath Our Feet Trailer |
People are on the streets just to be there with no purpose in mind.
I want to put music on their minds so they have a purpose to live.
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KOJO: A Short Documentary Official Trailer
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SEE YOU YESTERDAY
We'll be messing with something beyond our control.
Maybe no matter what we do it will be the same outcome.
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| See You Yesterday Trailer |
You've been absent from your own imagination since you were born.
"The Art of the Journey" and "Abina and the Important Men," Film Screenings with the San Francisco Black Film Festival
Ticket Information
Complimentary tickets are distributed beginning at 5:30 pm at the Koret Auditorium entrance. No advance tickets or reservations. Seating is first come, first served.
Programming and general admission to the permanent collection galleries are free of charge during Friday Nights at the de Young.
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| Love Separated in Life... Love Reunited in Honor |
SAN FRANCISCO BLACK FILM FESTIVAL CONTINUES MEMORIAL DAY TRIBUTE ON FATHERS DAY, JUNE 18 @ MARINES' MEMORIAL
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#SFBFF Festival Co-Director & talented graphic artist, Kali O'ray captured the essence of "Love Separared in Life...Love Reunited in Honor" for special Veterans and Father's Day Salute June 18th at Marines Memorial Hotel.
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" Love Separated in Life...Love Reunited in Honor," a documentary short of less than fifteen minutes by Jackie Wright & Jack LiVolsi, spans fifty years and two continents as the Wright family in the United States touch the Quang Family of Vietnam as a result of two anniversary gifts commissioned early in the Vietnam War by Sp5 Wyley Wright Jr. to honor "Ouida, the Love of My Life."
The story begins fifty years after Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara witnessed Sp5 Wyley Wright Jr.'s death on March 9, 1964
San Francisco Black Film Festival "Sankofa Connecting the Dots" & Doing Business in Africa for Commerce & Healing"
@ SPUR with FAMU Professor Brian Sims
"Sankofa...Connecting the Dots"-Damon Jamal (director/photographer)-40 minutes- is a documentary based on a historic California Trade Mission to Durban, South Africa, during the inaugural Essence Magazine & City of Durban's "Essence Durban Festival" in November 2016. "Sankofa...Connecting the Dots" lives up its name. Following the screening of the film at SPUR, an organization dedicated to "Ideas and Action For a Better City," there will be a panel discussion "Doing Business in Africa for Commerce and Healing." Panelist to date will include Damon Jamal, San Franciscan Roland Washington, producer of the film and sponsor of the California Trade Mission to Durban, South Africa, and Florida A&M Professor Brian Sims, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, who has led several student and faculty trips to Africa.
SPONSORS
The San Franciso Black Film Festival sponsors to date include: Comcast, California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, PG&E, Film Bread, Rainbow Grocery, Comerica Bank, DeYoung Museum, SPUR, African American Arts and Culture Center, Marines' Memorial Association, Dolby Laboratories, P. Harrell Wines, Fillmore Jazz Festival, Westin St. Francis Hotel, Dolby Laboratories, National Coalition of Black Veteran Organizations , OneVet OneVoice, San Francisco Veterans Film Festival, Maison Noire Américaine, The National Coalition of 100 Black Women San Francisco Chapter; The San Francisco Bay View Newspaper, Block Report Radio, KPOO Radio, LaHitz Media, The Village Project, Shelly Tatum Presents, Ink Tip, San Francisco Juneteenth, and Wright Enterprises.
Increase your company or organization's social responsibility capital by sponsoring a day, a film, reception, contest or panel. Contact the San Francisco Black Film Festival at sfbff@sfbff.org for sponsorship opportunities that are still available.
Visit www.sfbff.org for more films, panels, parties, "My Dad Is My Hero" Contest and more!
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