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African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF) is a non-profit cultural organization that presents an annual film festival and year-round community programs. Based in New York City, the organization was founded in 1990. The organization is dedicated to promoting greater understanding of African culture through film.
The African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) (originally African Diaspora Film Festival) was founded in 1992 by French-Malian Diarah N'Daw-Spech and her husband, Reinaldo Barroso-Spech, a Cuban of Haitian and Jamaican descent. As young cinema enthusiasts who rarely found movies that reflected their Black experiences, the couple ...
The Sun Rises in The East debuted at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on February 24, 2022. The Giwas were invited to screen the film at multiple festivals including the New York African Film Festival hosted at Lincoln Center, [8] Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival, [9] BronzeLens Film Festival, [10] and Sidewalk Film Festival. [11]
The 31st edition of the New York African Film Festival is being held from the 8th to 30th of May. The festival, co-presented with Film Society of Lincoln Center, has introduced African filmmakers such as Abderrahmane Sissako , Lupita Nyong’o and Tunde Kelani to American audiences.
The largest film festival in Africa is the biennial Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) held in Burkina Faso. In the tables below, "mixed" in the Details column, indicates that the festival screens films of different formats and genres (feature and short films, fiction and documentaries).
The 2024 version of NYFF ran from Sept. 27 to Oct. 14 with thousands of cinephiles watching over 100 movies programed by the team at Film at Lincoln Center. The New York Film Festival is set apart ...
4. Blitz. The director of 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen is bringing his latest film to NYFF this year. The World War II drama, starring Saoirse Ronan and Harris Dickinson, follows a young boy ...
The festival was founded by local artist TRUE, with the help of MoCADA’s former Executive Director (and current New York City Council woman), Laurie Cumbo. It has been produced in partnership with African Film Festival, Inc. since 2003, and has also collaborated with organizations such as Black Girls Rock! , [ 4 ] caribBEING, DCTV , Red Clay ...