Sins Of The Guilty & Detainment
Worldwide Film Festival Premieres To open the festival
Festival program features international filmmaker Alex Munoz (Escape, Catnip Fever, Duendes Gone Bad), Vietnamese Emmy Award-winning director Duc Nguyen (BOLINAO 52, STATELESS), VICE and Al Jazeera video journalist Jesse Freeston (RESISTENCIA: THE FIGHT FOR THE AGUAN VALLEY), International Hollywood actor/producer/director Marcello Thedford (ER, The Game, Sons of Anarchy, Shameless, Southland), and Academy Award-winning producer/screenwriter, Victoria Mudd (Broken Rainbow), among others.
LOS ANGELES, CA – The GARIFUNA INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS FESTIVAL OF LOS ANGELES (GIIFF) announced today its 2016 lineup of narrative and documentary features, short films, and galas for its 5THh annual festival. Opening the festival on May 26, 2016 are two films by Director Marcello Thedford, Sins Of The Guilty and Detainment.
About this year’s festival
Standing out among the packed film festival circuit as a respected cultural ambassador among people from the Caribbean, and indigenous communities, the Garifuna International Indigenous Film Festival (GIIFF) is returning to Venice for its 5th annual event this coming May. Founder, Executive Director and Garifuna indigene, Freda Sideroff, is excited and honored to once again be able to showcase a wide range of films and documentaries created by noteworthy cultural activists, Garifuna filmmakers, Caribbean, and other indigenous people. Included in the program are submissions from international filmmaker Alex Munoz (Escape, Catnip Fever, Duendes Gone Bad), Vietnamese Emmy Award-winning director Duc Nguyen (BOLINAO 52, STATELESS), VICE and Al Jazeera video journalist Jesse Freeston (RESISTENCIA: THE FIGHT FOR THE AGUAN VALLEY), International Hollywood actor/producer/director Marcello Thedford (ER, The Game, Sons of Anarchy, Shameless, Southland), and Academy Award-winning producer/screenwriter, Victoria Mudd (Broken Rainbow), among others.
Tickets and Passes
Screening tickets and passes are now available at www.garifunafilmfestival.com
About GIIFF
The GIIFF was founded in 2012 with a mission to preserve the values and aspirations of all indigenous people and Garifuna cultures. Founded by Freda Sideroff an indigene of the Garifuna, the GIFF’s mission is to specifically support the preservation of all indigenous cultures in the world through art and film.
An annual event where leaders and members of the community are recognized for their contributions to the betterment and elevation of the dignity of humanity, GIIFF showcases a variety of films and documentaries created by Garifuna filmmakers as well as by many other indigenous people including feature films & short films as well as panel discussions, workshops and cultural presentations. It is equally an annual venue that reconciles, entertains and portrays the very diverse and brilliant cultures to participants of the festival.
At a time when Western civilization is struggling with global problems, the GIIFF showcases important lessons to be learned from indigenous cultures such as interconnectedness, wisdom of our elders, sustainable living and how to live in harmony with nature.
OPENING NIGHT SCREENING: May 26
FILM TITLE: Sins Of The Guilty
Director: Marcello Thedford
Time: 6-8pm
Summary: Vanessa Johnson movies out on her own. She doesn’t know how difficult the world is going to be. When a charming fashion photographer entices his way into her new apartment and as her new love interest. Vanessa never dreamed how foul love could be.
When her lover turns up dead, a spiral of suspicion unravels; and we start our journey to uncover the Sins of the Guilty.
FILM TITLE: Detainment
Director: Marcello Thedford
Time: 8:30-10pm
Summary: An everyday expatriate family living abroad is brutally invaded and detained in their home by terrorists. Blood and mayhem follow as these sociopaths battle each other. The entire family is emotionally and physically traumatized across the city. Innocent children are not excluded from this horror. The bond between a father and daughter are tested and tried – love always prevails.
FEATURES
Title: Zola (The Bicycle Thief)
Director: Sanelle Sibanda
Title: Confessions of Isabella
Director: Trina McGee
Title: Red Passage (GIIFF Special Film – Back by Popular Demand)
Director: Ho Yi
Title: Kung Fu Pho (In association with the Vietnamese Film Festival, the Los Angeles Premiere)
Director: Quoc Duy Nguyen
SHORTS
Title: Bohemian Blood
Director: Cam White
Title: The Life Gamble
Director: Peter Janov
Title: Lions of the South
Director: Bilal Morris
Title: Bert Tucker International: The Legend, The Man, & His Work for Belize
Director: Bilal Morris
Title: Furtive
Director: Ihuoma Ofordire
Title: West Papua: A Journey to Freedom
Director: Erin Morris
Title: Escape
Director: Alex Munoz
Title: Catnip Fever
Director: Alex Munoz
Title: Duendes Gone Bad
Director: Alex Munoz
DOCUMENTARIES
Title: A Taste of Gullah Janice Collins
Title: Lubaraun
Director: Maria Jose Alvarez and
Producer Martha Clarissa Hernandez
Title: Stateless (In association with the Vietnamese Film Festival, #2 in the Documentary Showcase featuring the work of Emmy Award winning director Duc Nguyen.)
Director: Duc Nguyen
Title: Purapecha: Poor of the Poorest
Director: Cheryl Quintana
Title: Tanto Tiempo
Director: Cheryl Quintana
Title: The Presence of Arnost Lustig
Director: Eva Lustigova
Title: Crossing Bhutan
Director: Victoria Mudd
Title: Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
Title: Final Picture: Death is in the Air (Documentary Drama)
Title: Resistencia: The Fight For the Aguan Valley
Director: Jesse Freeston
Title: Spring Of The Reindeer
Directors: Omar Agustoni and Pierre Marc
Title: Teokari: Companion on the Path
Director: Salvador Espinosa
Title: Goayza
Director: Milton Sanchez
Title: Save The Bees
Director: Marta Topolska
Title: Animal Communication: Connecting With Animals
Director: Vincent Fooy
Title: If I Give My Soul
Co-Director: Andrew Johnson and Ryan Patch
Title: She Sings To The Stars
Director: Jennifer Cochran and Jonathan Corcoran
Title: This Was Hasankeyf
Director: Ommaso Vitali
Title: I Had To Do It
Director: Ras Pin
Producer: Michael Flores
Title: The Story of Friends
Director: Ahmoud Yossry
Title: Cobra Gypsies
Director: Raphael Treza
Title: Menu on the Silk Road
Director: Mustafa Kia
Title: The Ground is Breathing
Director: Ali Pour Issa
For all screening days and times visit: http://garifunafilmfestival.com/film-schedule-2016/
