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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.