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Features - A Selection of our Highlighted Films

A singular and masterfully executed film that is at once concert tribute, Marley family travelogue, and humanitarian documentary. Africa Unite ignites 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.

161 min                              Narrative Feature
                                  Screening

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.

View the Namibia website.
 Download the press kit.
Download the Namibia poster.

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The Price of Sugar

Q&A to follow with filmmaker Eric Grunebaum.  

90 min                Documentary Feature
               Screening 

In the Dominican Republic, tourists flock to pristine beaches unaware that a few miles away, thousands of dispossessed Haitians work under armed-guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, much of which ends up in U.S. homes. Narrated by Paul Newman, The Price of Sugar follows Father Hartley, a charismatic priest, as he organizes the Haitian workers to fight for their basic human rights. This documentary raises key questions about where the products the U.S. consumes originate, at what human cost they are produced, and more importantly, where our responsibility lies, as individual consumers.

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