{"id":62562,"date":"2012-02-01T20:48:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T20:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2012\/02\/01\/2012-pan-african-film-festival-selections\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T13:34:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T13:34:43","slug":"2012-pan-african-film-festival-selections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2012-pan-african-film-festival-selections\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Pan African Film Festival Selections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2012 Pan African Film Festival Selections<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n<p>February 1, 2012<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PAFF-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter size-full wp-image-18716\" title=\"PAFF logo\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 580 231'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/PAFF-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Pan African Film Festival (PAFF)<\/strong> is America&#8217;s largest and most prestigious international Black film festival. It will take place <strong>February 9-20, 2012 <\/strong>at the new Rave Cinemas Baldwin Hills 15 at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza. (The theatre is situated on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard between Marlton Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Pan-African-Film-Festival-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-full wp-image-18717\" title=\"Pan-African-Film-Festival logo\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 200'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Pan-African-Film-Festival-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has selected a total of 160 films, representing 30 countries, 91 feature length films (narrative and documentaries) and 67 short films. The festival will hand out prizes for Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary Short, Best Narrative Short, Best Narrative Feature, and Best First Feature Film, as well as audience favorite awards at the close of the festival. For a complete list of films, visit <a href=\"www. paff.org\">www. paff.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe film competition is the most important component of the festival,\u201d said Ayuko Babu, founder and executive director of PAFF.\u201d \u201cThe competition really sparks the creativity of young filmmakers and raises the bar in the storytelling on film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEST  FEATURE NARRATIVE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>96 Minutes <\/strong>(2011\/US\/Narrative    Feature\/85min)\u00a0 \u2013 directed by Aimee Lagos. The harrowing story of four kids caught    in the terrifying maelstrom of a carjacking. Intercutting between the car and    the beginning of that day, we follow the separate stories of each kid \u2013 where    they come from, who they are, and how they all ended up in one car on this    fateful night.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Chico &amp; Rita <\/strong>(2010\/Cuba\/Narrative Feature\/94min) &#8212; directed by Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal and Tono    Errando. Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big    dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and    romantic desire unite them, but their journey \u2013 in the tradition of the Latin    ballad, the bolero \u2013 brings heartache and torment. From Havana to New York,    Paris, Hollywood    and Las Vegas,    two passionate individuals battle impossible odds to unite in music and    love.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>David Is Dying <\/strong>(2011\/UK\/Narrative    Feature\/90min) \u2013 directed by    Stephen Lloyd Jackson. A young, successful hedge fund manager has just been    told that he is HIV positive. He is informed of the possibility that his    fianc\u00e9e and unborn child could also be infected. Through an intense therapy    session with his psychiatrist, David takes us on a pernicious journey that    starts twelve months prior, exposing the women, the sex and the demons. David    knows that he will die and he can live with that. But before that he must    resolve the ghosts of his past before he can face his end. A disturbing    psychodrama that illustrates the ugly side of love and tragic    passion.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Donovan&#8217;s Echo <\/strong>(2011\/Canada\/Narrative Feature\/90min) &#8212; directed by Jim Cliffe. Donovan Matheson is a brilliant mathematician who,    as a young man, helped to develop the atomic bomb. Plagued by regret in the    years that followed, Donovan grew obsessed with making a positive contribution    to the scientific community, neglecting family and friends in favor of    personal and professional redemption. His neglect results in the accidental    death of his wife and young daughter and he is overcome with guilt,    withdrawing from life and relationships for    decades.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Ghett\u2019a Life <\/strong>(2011\/Jamaica\/Narrative Feature\/105min<strong>)<\/strong> \u2013 directed by Chris Browne.\u00a0    An \u201cagainst the odds\u201d action drama set in a politically turbulent inner    city community of Kingston, in which Derrick, a determined inner city    teenager, realizes his dream of becoming a champion boxer despite a country,    community and family conflicted by divisive political system. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Inside Story: The Science    of HIV\/AIDS <\/strong>(2011\/South    Africa\/Narrative Feature\/98min) &#8212; Kalu, a young man from rural Kenya, dreams    of a professional soccer career. He moves to South Africa,    begins a promising relationship with the coach&#8217;s daughter and is on the verge    of soccer stardom when he learns he is HIV positive. Kalu guides us through    the progression of HIV in his body from the moment of infection to the effect    of antiretroviral therapy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Ties That Bind <\/strong>(2011\/Ghana\/US\/Narrative Feature\/100min<strong>)<\/strong> \u2013 directed by Leila Djansi. Adobea, Buki and Theresa are women    from different walks of life bound together by a similar pain&#8211;the loss of a    child. In a destined meeting in a small village in Kroboland, West Africa, the    women journey to love, life and redemption as they renovate a dilapidated    clinic for the village.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Toussaint L\u2019Ouverture <\/strong>(2012\/France\/Narrative Feature\/180min) \u2013 directed by Philippe Niang. The long-awaited two-part action    epic film of the life of Haitian revolutionary, Toussaint L&#8217;Ouverture who led    the first successful slave revolt in world history by giving the imperialist    armies led by Napoleon Bonaparte their first defeat and winning independence    from France. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0  <strong>We the Party <\/strong>(2011\/US\/Narrative  Feature\/min) \u2013 directed by Mario Van  Peebles. A cutting edge hip-hop infused dramedy about the first generation of  high schoolers to come of age during the Obama years. The film features some of  the latest teenage bands and dance crews.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEST DIRECTOR  FIRST FEATURE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>A Small Town    Called Descent<\/strong> (2011\/South Africa\/Narrative    Feature\/120min) \u2013 directed by    Jahmil Qubeka. In a remote part of    South    Africa, a heinous crime is committed. Three    detectives from the infamous and elite Scorpion Investigating unit are sent to    the town called Descent to investigate the death of a Zimbabwean man. To get    to the truth, the detectives begin to uncover secrets that the town has    refused to reveal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Better Mus\u2019    Come<\/strong> (2011\/Jamaica\/Narrative Feature\/104min) &#8212; directed by Storm Saulter.\u00a0    An urban love story unfolds against a backdrop of political turmoil. In    1970s Jamaica, Ricky, a young man from an inner city community, fights against    all the odds to escape the prevailing hardships of life in the ghettos of    downtown central Kingston.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Destiny    of Lesser Animals, The (Sibo ne kra, Dabo ne kra)<\/strong> (2011\/Ghana\/US\/Narrative Feature\/89min) \u2013 directed by Deron Albright. A beautifully photographed crime    thriller with a unique look at modern Africa takes its viewers on the    dangerous journey of Police Inspector Boniface Koomsin who is desperate to    return to the United    States. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Elza<\/strong> (2011\/Guadaloupe\/France\/Narrative Feature\/80min)\u00a0    &#8212; directed by Mariette Monpierre.    Bernadette, a single mother in Paris, tries to provide her daughters with    everything. She is thrilled when her eldest daughter, Elza, is the first in    the family to graduate from college, earning a master&#8217;s degree summa cum    laude. But Elza breaks her mother&#8217;s heart by running away to their native    Guadeloupe in search of a distant childhood    memory: the father she barely remembers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>High Chicago<\/strong> (2011\/Canada\/Narrative Feature\/98min) \u2013 directed by Alfons Adetuyi. Inspired by a true story and set in    1975, a gritty yet beautifully accomplished drama about Sam, a 42-year-old    husband and father of three, in the grip of a serious gambling    addiction.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>House    Arrest<\/strong> (2011\/US\/Narrative    Feature\/104min) \u2013 directed by    William Washington.\u00a0 Chanel is a beautiful,    high-maintenance woman involved with DeAndre, her hustler boyfriend. When she    is arrested for being an accomplice to his criminal activities, she is placed    on house arrest while she awaits trial, forcing to live in her old    neighborhood with her religious grandmother, Mee-Mah, who is raising her    daughter.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Playing    Warriors<\/strong> (2011\/Zimbabwe\/Narrative Feature\/78min) \u2013 directed by Rumbi Katedza. Set in present day    Zimbabwe, Nyarai is a top executive    with a leading advertising agency who enjoys romantic escapades as long as    they are not serious. Her traditional parents are not satisfied, insisting    that she needs to get married and be an example for her basketball-playing    tomboy younger sister. When Nyarai finds out that her cousin Nonto is getting    married, she and her traditionally challenged friend Maxi are set into a    frenzy at the thought that their time to find &#8216;Mr. Right&#8217; may be running    out.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0  <strong>Single  Hills<\/strong> &#8212;  (2011\/US\/Narrative  Feature\/76min) directed by Wilkie Cornelius. A colorful comedic-drama about a  young couple facing the end of an &#8220;undefined&#8221; relationship. Jay, the film\u2019s  protagonist, is afraid to give Lisa, his long-term companion, the commitment she  has wanted for five years, and eventually loses her to a more appreciative  man<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">BEST DOCUMENTARY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>All Me: The Life    &amp; Times of Winfred Rembert<\/strong> (2011\/US\/Documentary\/75min \u2013 directed by Vivian Ducat. When artist Winfred Rembert could no    longer support his family through operating heavy equipment and working on the    Bridgeport, CT docks, he turned to a technique he had learned while a prisoner    on a Georgia chain gang during the late 1960s&#8211;tooling his life story on    leather. Within in a couple of years, his leather work had sold to a world of    white collectors across New    England.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>An African    Election<\/strong> (2010\/Ghana\/Documentary\/86min)\u00a0    &#8212; directed by Jarreth Merz. A    remarkable documentary that grants viewers unprecedented access to the anatomy    of Ghana&#8217;s 2008 presidential    election.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Brooklyn<\/strong><strong> Boheme<\/strong> (2011\/US\/Documentary\/80min) \u2013 directed by Diane Paragas and Nelson George. A historical    documentary and a personal essay by co-director Nelson George about a    Brooklyn, New York neighborhood that was home base to an extraordinary    community of Black and Hispanic artists in the &#8217;80s and    &#8217;90s.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>The Education of Auma    Obama<\/strong> (2011\/Germany\/Documentary\/79min) \u2013 directed by Branwen Okpako. A compelling character sketch of the    internationally-educated half-sister of President Barack Obama. Born of the    same father but raised by a different mother in the family&#8217;s Kenyan compound,    Auma describes a life of intellectual inquiry and social activism that mirrors    the future president&#8217;s. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>FunkJazzKaf\u00e9: Diary of a    Decade<\/strong> (2011\/US\/Documentary\/142min) &#8212; Jason Orr. Spanning the late 1980s through the early    2000s, this story goes deep into the fabric of soul music, its definitions,    its pioneers, its offspring, its movements, the challenges with the    \u201cmainstream\u201d industry and the evolution of the FunkJazz Kaf\u00e9, a music and arts    movement born of Atlanta\u2019s diverse musical    heritage<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Mama    Africa<\/strong> (2011\/South Africa\/Germany\/Finland\/Documentary\/90min)\u00a0    &#8212; directed by Mika Kaurasm\u00e4ki. The    life and work of the incredible Miriam Makeba is remembered in this lovingly    sculpted celebration of the activist\/singer affectionately known as \u201cMama    Africa.\u201d She was the first African musician to win international stardom, one    whose music was always anchored in her South African roots, as was her    ceaseless message against racism and    poverty.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>My Heart of    Darkness<\/strong> (2011\/Sweden\/Documentary\/93min) \u2013 directed by Staffan Jul\u00e9n and Marius van Niekerk. Four    war-veterans from different sides of the Angolan war step onto a boat at the    mouth of the Kwando River, deep within the African interior.    They are on a journey back to past battlefields, the sites where they as    youngsters tried to kill each other.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Sobukwe: A Great    Soul<\/strong> (2011\/South Africa\/Documentary\/110min) \u2013 directed by Mickey Madoda Dube. One of South Africa\u2019s    unsung heroes, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, was destined to change people&#8217;s    lives. He lit the fire for protests like that at Sharpeville, an historic    moment that led to his arrest and subsequent nine-year detainment under a    special amendment that became known as the Sobukwe Clause. Sobukwe became an    international icon whose passing led to a special session at the United    Nations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0  <strong>The Story of  Lover\u2019s Rock<\/strong> (2011\/UK\/Documentary\/96min)\u00a0  &#8212; directed by Menelik Shabazz. Lover&#8217;s  Rock, often dubbed &#8216;romantic reggae,&#8217; is a uniquely black British sound that  developed in the late 70s and 80s against a backdrop of riots, racial tension  and sound systems. Live performance, comedy sketches, dance, interviews and  archive shed light on the music and the generation that embraced  it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">BEST SHORT FILM<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Burned <\/strong> (2011\/US\/Narrative    Short\/21min) \u2013 directed by Phyllis Toben Bancroft. A drama about a female Air    Force veteran\/firefighter who has returned from Iraq with    Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>The Christmas    Tree<\/strong> (2011\/US\/Narrative    Short\/12min) \u2013 directed by Angel Kristi Williams. A struggling, single father    prepares to spend the first Christmas alone with his daughter, but when their    tree is lost on Christmas Eve and he has no money to replace it, he is forced    to make tough decisions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Dear Me<\/strong> (2010\/US\/Narrative    Short\/16min \u2013 directed by Ka&#8217;ramuu Kush. A gifted writer struggles with a    debilitating bout of writer&#8217;s block in the stylistic m\u00e9lange of live\/still    photography.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Doorways<\/strong> (2011\/US\/Narrative    Short\/19min) \u2013 directed by Tosin Coker. After surviving an abusive    relationship, a woman must care for her 8-year-old son. Placing her dream of    becoming a singer on hold, she takes a menial job. One day, fate stumbles    across her path, placing her life on a course that reignites her    dream<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Junior and the    Saint<\/strong> (2011\/US\/Narrative    Short\/15min) \u2013 directed by Lamont Stephens. After his wife abandons them to    pursue her own dreams, a champion boxer splits his time between training and    raising his 6-year-old son. When she returns,\u00a0 old wounds are    opened.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Karim<\/strong> (2011\/US\/Narrative    Short\/12min)\u00a0 &#8212; directed by Carl Seaton. A custodian witnesses a deeply    traumatic event. To cope with this, he abruptly decides to take action to    rectify the situation the only way he feels he can &#8211;a unique look at the    perception of prey and predator.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Of Mary<\/strong> (2011\/US\/Narrative    Short\/8min) \u2013 directed by Adrian Lester. Jason Lawrence returns home to find    he is estranged from his wife and son. In this broken family, choices are    being made that will affect them forever.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Salvation    Road<\/strong> (2010\/US\/Narrative    Short\/17min) \u2013 directed by Karamuu Kush. Business becomes unusual for an    unsuspecting hit man when he is witnessed murdering his traitorous mentor by a    9-year-old boy. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>The Truth<\/strong> (2011\/US\/Narrative    Short\/15min) \u2013 directed by Hill Harper. After a succession of late work nights,    unexplained whereabouts and suspicious behavior, a man, suspecting that his    wife is being unfaithful, demands to know the truth which devastates their    marriage and forever changes their lives, while imparting an important life    lesson.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Their Eyes Were Watching    Gummy Bears<\/strong> (2010\/US\/Narrative    Short\/20min)\u00a0 &#8212; directed Raafi Rivero. A smart, irreverent coming of age    comedy about a student on the eve of his graduation from Princeton University who must decide between a    career and marriage to his college  love.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0  <strong>Umkhungo<\/strong> (The Gift) (2011\/South  Africa\/Narrative Short\/28min) directed by Matthew Jankes.  On  the run from superstitious family members, an orphaned boy with uncontrollable  superpowers is rescued by a<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"> disillusioned  street thug who is haunted by the loss of his brother several years  earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 5pt 1em 1em 5pt; float: right;\">\n<p><a type=\"box_count\" name=\"fb_share\">Share<\/a> <script src=\"https:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\">Tweet<\/a><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 Pan African Film Festival SelectionsPosted by Wilson Morales February 1, 2012 The Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) is America&#8217;s largest and most prestigious international Black film festival. 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