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Music Pictures: New Orleans & Mary Lou Williams, The Lady Who Swings the Band
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Experience the essence of jazz and blues in two captivating documentaries! Music Pictures: New Orleans by Ben Chace features legends like Irma Thomas and Ellis Marsalis, while Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band by Carol Bash delves into the life of the groundbreaking Mary Lou Williams. Music Pictures: New...
Nigerian Tales with THE LAST TREE & GLORIOUS EXIT - 2 disc set
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THE LAST TREE tells the compelling coming-of-age story of a Black British boy of Nigerian descent in London. In GLORIOUS EXIT Jarreth Merz, a Swiss-Nigerian actor living in Los Angeles, is summoned to Nigeria to bury his father. THE LAST TREE 2021 NAACP Awards Nominee for Outstanding International Motion Picture! Femi, a...
Race & Immigration in Europe
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RACE AND IMMIGRATION IN EUROPE with BORDERS andTHE GLASS CEILING Two films connecting Africa and Europe: Borders about the life of those Africans trying to slip illegally into Europe in search of a better life and The Glass Ceiling depicting stories of some of the challenges faced by European born...
Race and History in Brazil
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RACE AND HISTORY IN BRAZIL Race and its impact on the art and history of Brazil are highlighted in this two-disc set with Joel Zito Araujo's documentary Denying Brazil (A Negacao do Brasil, 92 mins) and Geraldo Santos Pereira's Aleijadinho: Passion, Glory and Torment (Aleijadinho: Paixao, Gloria e Suplicio, 100...
Rastas & Maroons: Rebels of the Caribbeans
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RASTAS & MAROONS is a 2-DVD set featuring The First Rasta (Jamaica/France) a revealing documentary about Leonard Percival Howell, the man who created the Rasta Movement and Aluku Liba, Maroon Again (French Guiana/Canada), a rare docu-drama about the Aluku or Boni, a Maroon ethnic group living mainly on the riverbank in Maripasoula, southwest French Guiana. THE FIRST RASTAThirty...
REVOLUTIONARY WOMEN 2 DVD Set: Made in Bangladesh and She Had a Dream
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MADE IN BANGLADESH Shimu, 23, works in a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Faced with difficult conditions at work, she decides to start a union with her co-workers. Despite threats from the management and disapproval of her husband, Shimu is determined to go on. Together the women must fight...
STORIES OF POST-COLONIALISM: THE BIG BANANA & CELL 512 - Cameroon / Burkina Faso
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The Big Banana exposes multinational corporation culpability in the land grab of Africa which makes us reconsider where we get our fruit from. Corruption, rape and miscarriage of justice are all denounced in Cell 512, a family drama set in contemporary Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. THE BIG BANANA Banned in...
The Tracker
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The Tracker trailer from ArtMattan Productions on Vimeo. THE TRACKER The year is 1922 and The Tracker (David Gulpilil, Walkabout, Rabbit-Proof Fence) has the job of pursuing The Fugitive - an aborigine who is suspected of murdering a white woman - as he leads three mounted policemen: The Fanatic, The...
Youssou N'Dour & Sotigui Kouyate: African Storytellers
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Watch this movie ON VOD Two African Griots connect Africa and the World: Youssou N’Dour in Return to Gorée by Pierre-Yves Borgeau, Sotigui Kouyaté in Names Live Nowhere by Dominique Loreau. DVD also includes Youssou N’Dour’s live concert performance on Gorée Island. RETURN TO GOREE Film and Concert A...