Roma Ndolo’s story is a parallel journey to that of President Barack Obama, who has a Euro-American mother and a Kenyan father, echoing the multicultural experience. My Father the Luo is a film about finding one’s identity.
PRESSURE COOKER captures a moment in time, as high school seniors – on the brink of adulthood – battle for achievement against a backdrop of uninspiring opportunities, with a determined and irreverent mentor leading the way.
Screens November 24, 2009 @ 7PM
Director: Mark Becker, Jennifer Grausman
Location: Soho Coffee Company 1918 E Yesler Wy, Seattle, WA 98122 [...]
Proceed and Be Bold! is a documentary film that follows the life and work of letterpress printer Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., and his socially and politically charged works of art.
PROCEED AND BE BOLD!
Director: Laura Zinger
Screens Thursday December 17 @ 7PM
Location: Hidmo, 2000 South Jackson Street, Seattle. Metro bus #14.
Suggested Donation $5
Filmmaker Alrick Brown walked away with the Audience and Jury awards at the 2009 Langston Hughes African American Film Festival, marking yet another first as this 6-year old festival posted record attendance for opening and closing nights and an eclectic array of narrative, documentary, experimental and youth films.
Starring Nicole Beharie and Alfre Woodard, American Violet is based on the astonishing true story that occured during the 2000 election in Hearn, TX .This is a must-see film about the insidious criminalization of Black people. Opening night reception follows.
A love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-somethings dealing with issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco—a city with the smallest proportional black population of any other major American city.
(West Coast Premiere) LHAAFF is deeply proud and honored to partner with Cine Seattle-producers of the Seattle Latino International Film Festival to bring “Celia the Queen”. Legendary Afro Cuban diva Celia Cruz was a woman whose voice symbolized the soul of a nation. Her reign as the queen of salsa, surrounded her with some of [...]
