The Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center African American Film Festival, Seattle: THANK YOU for your support!

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

THANK YOU for your support!

2008 Festival: A Community Success
The Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center's Fifth Annual African American Film Festival was an amazing gathering of films, artists and community. We were all transformed in each others' company and moved by the power of cinema to bring us all closer together.

Art defines a person and a people. It effects all who participate. In 9 days, Langston's Film Festival ran the gamut from serious to funny, from fiction to reality, from short to long, from local to international, from first efforts to epics from seasoned masters. And the collective effect: we talked, we laughed, we cried, we cheered, we questioned, and we were together as a community.

A big thank you to all who made this event possible.
See you in September for the Underground Railroad Film Series.

AUDIENCE AWARD
1st prize - TIE: THIS IS THE LIFE, Ava DuVernay and PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL, Gini Reticker
Honorable mention - TIE: DEATH OF TWO SONS Directed by Micah Shaffer and produced by Alrick Brown and I’M THROUGH WITH WHITE GIRLS by Jennifer Sharp

JURY AWARD
1st prize: MORNING DUE by Barbara Allen
Honorable mention: SOMETHING IS KILLING TATE by Leon Lozano
Honorable mention: LALIBELA by Sentayahu Mengesha

LOCAL FILMMAKER AWARD
1st place: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS by Eddie Smith
Honorable mention: WOMEN TOGETHER AS ONE by Gilda Sheppard
Honorable mention: YOKES AND CHAINS by Michael Lienau

OPEN CALL FOR FILMS

The Langston Hughes African American Film Festival, 2010 – Seattle, Washington USA
CALL FOR WORK: the April 17-25, 2010 Langston Hughes African American Film
Festival, an annual presentation of the Langston Hughes Performing
Arts Center in Seattle, Washington, USA invites independent film entries
of any length. Genres/subject areas: narrative, documentary, children's,
youth-made movies, shorts, lesbian/gay/transgender, animation, experimental. Filmmakers do

not have to be Black, but films should include a significant amount
of content involving people of African descent. Films are reviewed by
a jury process. Entry fee: $25 USD; please make checks payable to
"LHPAC". Please include a postage paid envelope if you want your work
returned. All preview copies must be marked with your name and
contact information. A $50 honorarium is paid for films accepted and
screened. You will be notified by email if your film is accepted. Please notify us if you

have simultaneously submitted your film to other Seattle-area festivals.

Please send preview copies in NTSC format on DVD. Films originating in languages other

than English must have English subtitles.
Mailing address: LHAAFF, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, 104 - 17th Avenue South,

Seattle WA 98144 USA. An entry form is available here:

http://www.langstonarts.org/2010LHAAFF_EntryForm.pdf. Please visit

www.langstonblackfilmfest.org or http://lhaaffbside.blogspot.com/ for more information

about our event.
Awards: the $500 local filmmaker award (filmmaker resident of Washington State); the $750

Audience Award; and the $750 Jury award.
Deadline: December 30, 2009.

Call for Papers: Directory of World Cinema: Africa (deadline: n.d.)

Intellect Books (Bristol) is launching the Directory of World Cinema, which aims to bring a new, accessible dimension to the academic study of film. The Directory of World Cinema: Africa will provide an insight into the cinema of many African countries through reviews of significant films and case studies of leading directors, alongside explorations of the cultural and industrial motivations of key themes and genres.

Contributions will be first posted on a website and later collated into a hard copy version, to be updated every second or third year. The first edition will attempt to apprehend African reality in self-representation. Chapter headings will address the changing public sphere, Africans at work (including the rapport to money and the economic and political role of women), multiple aspects of migration (rural exodus, economic migration, refugees, diasporas), culture and religion, magic, representation of children, the choice of music and languages, symbolic representation. The films from the different regions, which are usually defined by their official languages (anglophone, francophone, lusophone), will be entered under the selected themes or genres subheadings in order to avoid the partition between the linguistic regions. New genres (TV films and series, African made documentaries, musicals, independently produced films etc.) are welcome.

Interested people can contribute film reviews in English or French (800 words or more) or longer essays (in English) on a theme, genre or a representative director. There is no remuneration for contributors. The rewards will be exposure and a free copy of the volume.

For general information, consult the publisher’s website:
http://www.worldcinemadirectory.org (in particular ‘Contribute’)

If you want to write film reviews or to coordinate a chapter for the African volume, please contact Blandine Stefanson , editor of the volume on Africa.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

THANK YOU for your support!

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