2008 RFF Film Database
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 1+1=2, Right?
(Screening with Youth Produced films)
Roxbury Center for the Arts at Hibernian Hall 2:15pm ages 6-12 free
Youth Produced film, 9 minutes
Directed and Produced by Doneeca Thurston
Documentary short that tackles issues of being biracial in a society where everything must fall neatly into a category, where a check mark defines who you are. Filmmaker Doneeca Thurston speaks from her own voice and experiences about these issues.
 Afia (Screening
with Short Youth Films)
8/2/08 Roxbury
Center for the Arts at Hibernian Hall 10am ages 6-12 free
Narrative Short, 10 minutes
Directed and Produced by Lacey
Duke
Afia is a riveting comedy
about a small misunderstood girl with big public school drama.
 Africa Unite (Screening
with Nappy Heads)
8/2/08 MFA 3pm Click here for this show
8/3/08 MassArt 12pm Click here for this show
Documentary Feature, 1 hour and 32 minutes
Directed and Produced by Stephanie
Black
Africa Unite is a singular
and masterfully executed film by Stephanie Black that is at once concert
tribute, Marley family travelogue, and humanitarian documentary, igniting the
screen with the spirit of world-renowned reggae icon Bob Marley in its every
frame. In commemoration of Bob's 60th birthday, Africa Unite is centered on the
Marleys first-time-ever family trip to Ethiopia in 2005. Includes rare footage
of the legendary reggae icon Bob Marley.
 An Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl
(Screening with short program - Women’s Stories)
8/3/08 Museum of
Fine Arts 3:40pm
Narrative Short, 19 minutes
Directed and Produced by Karen
Hayes
A drama based on the
autobiography of abolitionist Harriet Jacobs in which an enslaved woman in the
pre-civil war South must choose between freedom of body and freedom of spirit
and in the process re-defines the very notion of freedom.
 Anjali
(Screening
with short program – Women’s Stories)
8/3/08 Museum of
Fine Arts 3:40 pm
Narrative Short, 15 minutes
Directed and Produced by Maya Anand
Anjali is a drama about
Anjali Gupal, a rebellious Indian-American teenager, who comes home early one
day only to secretly witness her father having sex with another woman. Faced
with this devastating information, Anjali must decide whether she will share
her secret, and risk destroying her family.
 Beautiful Me: Finding Our Revolutionary Selves &
Black Cuba
(Screening with short program)
8/1/08 MassArt 7:15pm
Documentary Short, 45 minutes
Directed by Robin J. Hayes
and Produced by Robin J. Hayes and Bernia
Rodriguez
A group of underdog students
journey from the ivy league to the rebel state of Cuba and rediscover hope for
the struggle against racism.
 Belly Of The Basin
8/1/08 Northeastern
University 5pm
Documentary Short, 57 minutes
Directed and Produced by Roxana
Walker-Canton and Tina Morton
Bombarded with
sensationalized media coverage of Hurricane Katrina for months after the
hurricane ravaged the Gulf Coast, audiences around the world watched as the
media portrayed demoralizing images of African Americans in the midst of the
chaos.
 Black Ice
8/2/08 MassArt 2pm
Documentary Short, 40 minutes
Directed and Produced by Darril
& George Fosty
Black Ice simultaneously
tells the tales of a significant moment in sports history and a pivotal period
in the struggle for Black equality.
 Bold as Love (Screens
with short program “Where is the Love?”)
8/2/08 MassArt 4pm
Narrative Short, 23 minutes
Directed by Joshua Bee Alafia
and Produced by Joshua Bee Alafia & Thandiwe
Maphumulo
Bold As Love is a film about
the powers of creation and destruction, and the fine line that separates the
two. It's about facing the love that is the core of our being.
 Boxed (Screens
with Short Program II)
8/3/08 Northeastern University 1pm
Narrative Short, 12 minutes
Directed and Produced by Jennifer
Sharp
Boxed is a short film about the
baggage from our past that interferes with the future.
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