Dear Colleagues,
I am also on the advisory board for this film festival and I highly
recommend it. See the details below.
Sincerely,
Professor E-K. Daufin, Ph.D.
Department of Communications
Alabama State University
915 South Jackson St.
Montgomery, AL 36101-0271
Lectures, Performances, Workshops, Consultation:
http://home.earthlink.net/~daufin
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sponsor: Center on Blacks and the Media
Event: The Black Man Film Festival, Nov. 4-5, 2005, Atlanta, Georgia
Contact: Yemi Toure, [log in to unmask] , 404.432.2194
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ANNUAL BLACK MAN FILM FESTIVAL IS SET FOR ATLANTA
The fourth annual Black Man Film Festival is set for Nov. 4-5, 2005, in
Atlanta,
Georgia, USA.
The festival will have a full schedule of films, a panel discussion,
reception,
and social and networking events. New this year is a youth film
festival.
The Festival uses film to explore "the life and journey, trials and
triumphs,
culture and style of the Black man," said Festival director Yemi Toure.
Topics
this year include male-female relationships, father-son ties and a look
at the Black
male image in music videos.
Festival web site is www.toure-interactive.com/hype.
Festival email is [log in to unmask] . Phone is
404-432-2194.
"We will show features, documentaries, short films and dramas," says
Toure.
"And we are especially proud that all day Friday will be a day of films
just
for our youth."
The youth festival is Friday Nov. 4, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. The main
Festival is Friday
Nov. 4, 7-10 p.m., and Saturday Nov. 5, noon-9 p.m., with an after party
that evening.
All events are held at Auburn Avenue Research Library, 101 Auburn Avenue
N.E., Atlanta,
Georgia.
All events are free and open to the public.
The festival is sponsored by the Center on Blacks and the Media, a
non-profit media-monitoring
group.
The festival's advisory board includes filmmaker St. Clair Bourne;
economist and
national commentator Dr. Julianne Malveaux; Dr. Ray Winbush, director of
the Urban
Institute at Morgan State University; and historian and educator Dr. Asa
Hilliard.
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