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2008 RFF Film Database

FILMS:     # - B     C - D     F - L     M - O    P - R     S     T - Y

 
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Man Oh Man (Screening with short program – “Where is the Love?”)
8/3/08  Northeastern University    4pm
Musical Short, 5 minutes
Directed and Produced by Jibril Haynes

Short music film highlighting an overconfident lady's man at a night club.

  

Mandatory Sentence
(Screening with feature “
Mansfield Twelve”)
8/1/08 Northeastern University    6:30pm
Experimental, 19 minutes
Directed by
Edo G
and Produced by 4Peace

Instructional medium showcasing the consequences of crime and the after effect of a crime gone bad.

 

Mansfield Twelve
(Screening with short “Mandatory Sentence”)

8/1/08 Northeastern University    6:30pm
Narrative Feature, 1 hour and 50 minutes
Directed and Produced by Craig Ross, Jr.

One of the most amazing prison films you will ever see, this film will force us to consider the choices we make that define our lives as well as simply ask the question…"What would you do?"

 

 

  

 

Me, Masi & Mr. Clean
(Screening with Short Youth films)

8/2/08  Roxbury Center for the Arts at Hibernian Hall 10am
ages 6-12 free
Narrative Short, 8 minutes
Directed and Produced by Nina Sudra  

Seema has issues with her skin color. Surrounded by the white kids of her community, and inundated by her masi's (aunt) opinion that fair skin is better, Seema resorts to drastic measures in order to bleach her skin.

 

Mistakes Unlearned
(Screening with Youth Produced Films)

8/2/08 Roxbury Center for the Arts at Hibernian Hall  2:15pm
ages 6-12 free
Youth Produced Narrative Short, 8 minutes
Directed and Directed by Jesse Wiley

Mistakes Unlearned is a tragic tale set against the backdrop of a tough inner city neighborhood.  A young man must come to terms with the violence that surrounds him when a gang of street thugs tests his timid nature as a pacifist.  

Namibia: The struggle for Liberation
8/2/08 M FA                        8pm Click here for this show
8/3/08 Northeastern U.   2:15pm Click here for this show
Narrative Feature, 2 hours and 30 minutes
Directed by Charles Burnett and Produced by Namibian National Government

Charles Burnett's Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation tells the rise to power of Samuel Nujoma (Carl Lumbly), a prominent leader in Namibia's struggle for independence from South Africa, and that country's first president.

 

Nappy Heads (Screening with Africa Unite)
8/2/08  Museum of Fine Arts    3pm
Documentary Short, 3 minutes
Directed and Produced by Sabrina Moella

Nappy Heads portrays dozens of women, men and children who all accepted to “shake their nappy heads” in front of the camera.

 

 

The Night James Brown Saved Boston
8/1/08 Wentworth Institute of Tech.    5:30pm
Documentary Feature, 14 minutes
Directed by David Leaf and Produced by David Leaf & Arlene Wszalek

Focuses on a little known but pivotal event that followed the tragic assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leef and his team tell the story of how James Brown - one of the greatest, most popular and influential artists of the 25th century - faced the crucible moment of his life and career and became an American hero.



 

Of Boys & Men
7/31/08 Museum of Fine Arts
        6:30pm
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8/2/08   Northeastern University           
             6pm
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Narrative Feature
, 90 minutes
Directed by Carl Seaton and Produced by Pemon Rami

Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family member must find courage and vision to carry on, ultimately eager to do the mother proud.  

On the Map (Screening with short program – Home Is...)
8/2/08   Wentworth Institiute of Tech.  2pm
Documentary Short, 20 minutes
Directed and Produced by Annalee Davis

Images, sound and data collide to create poetic moments between raw testimonials of migrants, formal interviews and passionate reflections by artists.

 

 

 



FILMS:     # - B     C - D     F - L     M - O    P - R     S     T - Y

 
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