The 20th Annual Pan African Film and Arts Festival(PAFF),featured a total of 160 films,representing over 30 countries,91 featured length films(narrative and documentaries)and 67 short films.
L.A.’s official, annual party tradition, Brazilian Carnaval is the closest you can get to the excitement and rhythms of Rio and Bahia in Los Angeles. This dance and music concert features the Los Angeles Samba School who will inaugurate Carnaval with a rambunctious parade, SambaDá and Chalo Eduardo’s All Star Band of highly acclaimed international musicians performing Carnaval hits, plus an all night pageant of elite SAMBA DANCERS and CAPOEIRA, the Afro Brazilian martial art dance.
The awards ceremony will take place at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, Calif., and the ABC Television Network will air the ceremony live at 4 p.m. Pacific Time. Of the films and awardees, a number have ties to Asia and Asian Americans.
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The Red Carpet Arrival was smoking hot with celebrities who strolled into the Theatre for the premier of the movie Think Like A Man on a warm Southern Californian evening. In attendance from the film were Screen Gems President Clint Culpepper,Jerry Ferrara,Meagan Good,Regina Hall,Kevin Hart,Tariji P.Henson,Terrence J,Romany Malco,Gary Owen,Gabrielle Union,Lala Anthony,Arielle Kebbel,Kelly Rowland,Lisa Leslie,producer Will Packer,writers Keith Merryman and David A.Newman;and director Tim Story.
The PAFF Film Institute will run February 10-13, 2012 in the community room at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza (next to Sears), located at 3650 W Martin Luther King Jr. in Los Angeles. During the day, the film institute will host various workshops and panel discussions, and end the evening with a "Conversation With" keynote discussion by key figures in the industry.
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival will add some tasty sounds to the musical gumbo of Jazz Fest with some spicy Latin sounds and world music.
It has selected a total of 160 films, representing 30 countries, 91 feature length films (narrative and documentaries) and 67 short films. The festival will hand out prizes for Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary Short, Best Narrative Short, Best Narrative Feature, and Best First Feature Film, as well as audience favorite awards at the close of the festival.
Audiences at PAFF will be the first to see the surprise Oscar-nominated film, “Chico & Rita, directed by Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal and Tono Errando.
In 1994, Hung first read the popular novel “Norwegian Wood” by Japan’s Haruki Murakami in its French translation and felt and intimate connection with the love story. The intensely sexual novel takes place in Japan in the tumultuous 1960s as main character Toru Watanabe, played by Kenichi Matsuyama, is coping with the loss of his best friend who committed suicide. The lead character also struggles to choose between two distinctly different love interests, all while he grieves the loss of his friend.
