In Dutch and English (click on the British flag). "more than eighty
feature films, shorts, documentaries and videos made over the past four
years in Africa and the African diaspora will be shown in four Dutch cities
[Amsterdam, Rotterdam, the Hague and Eindhoven]." "Africa in the
Picture is an initiative of Stichting Notorious Film. The day-to-day management
of Notorious Film is in the hands of Mariët Bakker (festival director)...."
http://www.africainthepicture.nl
African Connections, Inc., in Oakland, Calif., produces radio and cable
TV programs on relations between Africa and Africans in the Diaspora. The
site includes the text of an address by Rev. Leon Sullivan at the May 1995
3rd African and African-American Summit in Dakar. The videos for sale include
speeches by Secty. of Commerce, Ron Brown and Rev. Joseph Lowry at the Dakar
Summit, a history of the anti-apartheid movement in the Bay Area, Archibishop
Desmond Tutu's 1994 San Francisco visit, etc. Melvin H. Cox is the Executive
Producer. http://melanet.com/connections
"We distribute films that focus on the human experience of black
people in Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America and Europe. All
these films were shown during our annual African Diaspora Film Festival
in New York." From ArtMattan Productions. http://www.AfricanFilm.com
"The FESPACO Paul Robeson Award Initiative (PRAI) presents "The
Best of the Best in the African Diaspora" film and television productions
to the Pan African Film & Television Festival of Ouagadougou, Burkina
Faso , more commonly known as FESPACO." The Robeson "prize goes
to the "Best of the Best" film in the FESPACO diaspora section,..."
Based in Louisville, Mississippi. http://www.RobesonAward.com
Sells v ideos on the "histories, political struggles, and everyday life of the black people of Latin America." Study guide for the videos, related web sites, bibliography. Latin American Video Archives, LAVA, is a "non-profit organization dedicated to the distribution and dissemination of Latin American and Latino video to educational institutions in the United States and Canada." Based in New York, N.Y. [KF] http://www.latinamericanvideo.org/africandiaspora/
"distributes over 400 films and videos from the African, Asian, Latino, Palestinian, and Native American diasporas." Trains film and video artists through its workshops, seminars. Offers fiscal sponsorship. Based in New York City. [KF] http://www.twn.org/record.cgi?recno=348
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