Monthly Archives: November 2011

  • Lagos, Nigeria: Lights, Camera, Africa!

  • 2011 African Film Festival presented by AFF and Reel Life Club at Life House, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria September 30 – October2,2011 Friday, 30 September, 2011 5.00 pm: Panel discussion and introduction to this years event 6.30 pm: Epilogue Ava …
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  • Nov 2011 – May 2012 Calendar

  • The following venues are screening African Film Festival’s National Traveling Series throughout the season November 1, 2011 – May 31, 2012. Check this listing for updates to the Traveling Series Calendar. If you want to know how to schedule a …
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  • Lupita Nyong'o

  • Lupita Nyong’o has worked on the production teams of critically acclaimed films, including The Constant Gardner (2005), directed by Fernando Meirelles, and The Namesake (2006), directed by Mira Nair. In 2007, she wrote, produced, directed, and edited her first film, …
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In My Genes, Lupita Nyong'o, Kenya, 2009, 78 min.
  • In My Genes
  • Director: Lupita Nyong'o, Kenya, 2009, 78 min.
  • Languages: English and Swahili

  • What is it like to be ìwhiteî in a ìblackî society? Agnes, a woman with albinism, overcomes the difficulties of being born with no pigment in a society that discriminates against the condition. In My Genes asks us to consider …
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