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Wright Enterprises-Community Spotlight |
Press Release
June 17, 2017 |
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SPECIAL THANKS GABRIEL METCALF
SPUR URBAN Center, 654 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94612
(between 2nd & 3rd, Across the Street from MoAD)
"Doing Business in Africa for Commerce and Healing"
Sankofa... Connecting the Dots...
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Sankofa Trailer
Durban Essence Magazine Inaugural International Festival |
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Flimmaker Damon Jamal |
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"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. Jamal, an LA based filmmaker, recognized by the San Francisco 7 Day Film Festival as "Best Directors" whose work has included a plethora of music videos.
"Sankofa...Connecting the Dots" lives up its name and affirms the San Francisco Black Film Festival brand to grow to create its workforce development program to give youth and transitional adults marketable skills. 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. Dr. Sims
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Dr. Brian Carey Sims
Florida A&M Associate Professor of Psychology |
has served as educational consultant with community-based organizations in Chicago, Atlanta, and San Francisco.He is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Florida A&M University, where his research focuses on the implications of media for individuals, families, and communities of African descent. He has published and presented his work around the world, including England, Bermuda, Spain, Senegal and Malawi and has authored several articles, edited book chapters, seminars and interactive workshops. Dr. Sims is a strong advocate for international education and has led study abroad programs for undergraduates to West Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Haiti. His forthcoming book, College Thug Syndrome, offers an explosive African-centered cultural analysis of higher education in the United States.
TOMORROW
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2:00 P.M. SUNDAY MARINES MEMORIAL CLUB & HOTEL-FREE FOR ALL
SPECIAL THANKS MAJOR GENERAL MIKE MYATT (USMC,Retired)
AFRO GERMANY
3:45 VIETNAM featured in "Love Separated in Life... Love Reunited in Honorby Jackie Wright & Jack LiVolsi
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Love Separated in Life... Love Reunited in Honor (New Trailer) |
Brown Babies
Rolling in the Deep
95 Never Looked So Good
Panel Discussion Follows: "Veterans Don't Serve Alone"
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MORE FILMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD & AT HOME
See all the Films from Around the World and Here at Home that await you at SFBFF.ORG
DO NOT FORGET TO SUPPORT THE SUPPORTERS OF SFBFF
To date, the festival is made possible in part by the following sponsors: California Arts Council; San Francisco Arts Commission; Comcast; PG&E; Comerica Bank; Film Bread; Rainbow Grocery; DeYoung Museum; SPUR; African American Arts and Culture Center; Marines' Memorial Association; P. Harrell Wines; Fillmore Jazz Festival; Westin St. Francis Hotel; The San Francisco Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women; Dolby Laboratories; National Coalition of Black Veteran Organizations; Cesar Chavez American Legion Post 505; The San Francisco Veterans Film Festival; Maison Noire Américaine; The San Francisco Bay View Newspaper; Block Report Radio; KPOO Radio; LaHitz Media; The Village Project; Shelly Tatum Presents; Ink Tip; San Francisco Juneteenth; Jackson Street Productions; and Wright Enterprises.
SAN FRANCISCO BLACK FILM FESTIVAL WORTHY OF ON-GOING SUPPORT
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The San Francisco Black Film Festival believes film can lead to a better understanding of and communication between, peoples of diverse cultures, races, and lifestyles, while simultaneously serving as a vehicle to initiate dialogue on the important issues of our times.
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OTHER COMMUNITY NEWS
During Black Music Month
San Francisco Black Film Festival is a Proud Sponsor of Juneteenth
MONDAY
LORRAINE HANSBERRY THEATRE BIDS FOND FAREWELL TO STEVEN ANTHONY JONES
AMID ANNUAL NATIONAL FUNDRAISER "PROJECT ONE VOICE!"
Join Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (LHT) on Monday, June 19, 2017 at 7:00 PM
for a benefit staged reading of YELLOWMAN by Dael Olandersmith. The reading will be followed by a reception to bid adieu to Steven Anthony Jones who retires at the end of June after six years as LHT's Artistic Director.
YELLOWMAN will be performed at over 40 African American theater companies, museums and artistic organizations nationwide and abroad on the same day in association with Project1Voice (P1V), a not-for-profit performing arts service organization based in New York City dedicated to the promotion and support of Black theater and playwrights. One Play One Day is Project1VOICE's signature event that revives and reintroduces classic plays from the American theater canon each year on the third Monday in June.
Set in the Gullah community in South Carolina in the 1960s,YELLOWMAN, is a memory play with two actors, Myers Clark and Britney Frazier, playing all of the parts for the reading. The play follows the tragically intertwined love story between Alma, a dark-skinned black woman and Eugene, a light-skinned black man from childhood to adulthood. It poetically examines intra-racial discrimination, cyclical abuse, class, alcoholism and racism.
YELLOWMAN contains mature themes, brief violence and strong language.
Come for the reading and stay for the farewell reception in honor of Steven Anthony Jones included in the ticket price!
All local proceeds benefit Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. Come help support the theatre and say farewell to Steven Anthony Jones as he ends his tenure.
Presented in the Hall of Culture at the African American Art & Culture Complex in San Francisco at 762 Fulton Street (near Webster).
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