Pan African Film Festival

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Los Angeles, United States February 2014, TBA
Call for Entry Deadline: October 2013, TBA
Festival Data:
- Established: 1992
- Genre: General
- Attendance: 40000
- Total Number of Films Submitted: 300
- Total Number of Films Screened: 170
- Competitive
- Has Panels
Festival Website:
http:/ / www.paff.org/ html/ index.php
Festival Description:

Established in 1992, The Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to the promotion of cultural and racial tolerance and understanding through the exhibition of film, art and creative expression. PAFF's goal is to showcase the broad spectrum of Black creative works in the belief that film and art can lead to better understanding and foster communication between peoples of diverse cultures, races, and lifestyles. PAFF presents quality films from the United States, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, the South Pacific and Canada, films that exhibit the diversity and complexity of people of African descent.

Films that receive Jury Awards are selected from six categories: Best Feature Documentary, Best Documentary Short, Best Narrative Short, Best Feature Narrative, and First Time Narrative Feature Directing. All films in competition are also eligible for the PAFF’s Audience Awards as selected by Festival audiences. The PAFF Board of Directors and Programmer Festival Awards are awarded to their pick for Best Documentary and Best Narrative film. A special award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts/Los Angeles (BAFTA/LA) Festival Choice Award is also awarded.

PAFF is one of America's largest fine art shows featuring prominent and emerging black artists and fine crafts people from around the world showcasing the best in Black fine art, sculpture, photography, unique handmade crafts, home furnishings, designer jewelry, designer fashions and accessories that highlight the artistry and beauty of the African aesthetic.
Film Submissions:
- Call for Entry: http:/ / www.paff.org/ submit-a-film/

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FEB 27, 2008 03:30PM FFW Festival Editor writes:

2008 Award Winners for the Pan African Festival

The 16th ANNUAL PAN AFRICAN FILM & ARTS FESTIVAL (PAFF) announced the winners of its 2008 Pan African Film and Arts Filmmakers Awards and Audience Favorite Awards .

Jury Prizes were awarded in the following categories: Best Documentary, Best Short Documentary, Best Narrative Short, Best Feature, and Best Director-First Feature. New for the 2008 PAFF is the addition of The Oscar Micheaux Award, named after the first African-American filmmaker.

In addition to the Jury Prizes, Audience Favorite Awards were voted on in the following categories: Best Feature , Best Documentary, and Best Short Narrative . The PAFF Vision Award was given to the film that the Festival chose that best exemplified its mission of reinforcing positive images and helping to destroy negative stereotypes.

2008 PAFF FILMMAKER AWARDS

PAFF VISION AWARD: "NAMIBIA: THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION"
(Namibia/US/Director: Charles Burnett)

Honorable Mention: "BROTHERS IN ARMS"
(South Africa/Doc/73min/Director: Jack Lewis)

"VICTIMS OF OUR RICHES" (VICTIMES DE NOS RICHESSES)
(Mali/France/Doc-short/58min/Director: Kal Touré)

BEST DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION: "RETURN TO GORÉE"
(Senegal/Switzerland/Luxembourg/Director: Pierre-Yves Borgeaud)

Honorable Mention: "THIS IS THE LIFE"
(US/Director: Ava DuVernay)

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION: "HIP-HOP: BEYOND BEATS AND RHYMES"
(US/Director: Byron Hurt)

Honorable Mention: "THOMAS SANKARA: THE UPRIGHT MAN"
(France/Director: Robin Shuffield)

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT COMPETITION: "PARIAH"
(US/Director: Dee Rees)

Honorable Mention: "WE ARE ALL RWANDANS" (Rwanda/UK/Director: Debs Gardner-Paterson)

BEST FEATURE COMPETITION: "POOR BOY'S GAME" (Canada/Director: Clément Virgo)

Honorable Mention: "EZRA" (Nigeria/France/Austria/Director: Newton I. Aduaka)

BEST DIRECTOR-FIRST FEATURE COMPETITION: "SOUTH OF PICO"
(US/Director: Ernst Gossner)

Honorable Mention: "THE DISCIPLE"
(US/UK/Director: Rodney Charles)

THE OSCAR MICHEAUX AWARD COMPETITION: "SOMETHING IS KILLING TATE"
(US/Director: Leon Lozano)

Honorable Mention: "KINGS OF THE EVENING" (US/Director: Andrew P. Jones)

2008 PAFF AUDIENCE FAVORITE AWARDS

AUDIENCE FAVORITE- FEATURE: "SOMETHING IS KILLING TATE"
(US/Director: Leon Lozano)

Runner Up: "CORDIALLY INVITED"
(US/Narr/123min/Director: Michael Fouther)

AUDIENCE FAVORITE- DOCUMENTARY: "THIS IS THE LIFE"
(US/Director: Ava DuVernay)

Runner Up: "MALCOLM'S ECHO: THE LEGACY OF MALCOLM X"
(UK/Doc/84min/Director: Dami Akinnusi)

AUDIENCE FAVORITE- SHORT DOCUMENTARY: "IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA"
(US/Doc/78min/Director: Daniel Junge)

Runner Up: "AMERICAN LANDING: JIMI HENDRIX LIVE AT MONTEREY"
(US/Doc/63min/Director: Bob Smeaton)

AUDIENCE FAVORITE-SHORT NARRATIVE: "THE DON OF VIRGIL JR. HIGH"
(US/Narr-short/20min/Director: Deon H. Hayman)

Runner Up: "EZEKIEL"
(US/Narr-short/13min/Director: Keith Sam Jr.)
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APR 10, 2007 05:43PM FFW Films Editor writes:

Award Winners for the 2007 Pan African Film Festival

Jury Award For Best Feature: “Zaïna: Rider of the Atlas”
Director: Bourlem Guerdjou (Morocco/France/Germany)

Jury Award For Best Director- First Feature: “Somebodies”
Director: Hadjii (United States)

Jury Award For Best Documentary: “Have You Heard From Johannesburg?”
Director: Connie Field (United States)

Honorable Mention: “Carmen & Geoffrey”
Director: Linda Atkinson & Nick Doob (United States)

Jury Award For Best Short Film: “Beyond The Pretty Door”
Director: Bobby Boerman (United States)

Jury Favorite Award: “Shoot The Messenger”
Director: Nguzi Onwurah (United States/Nigeria)

Festival Choice Award For Best Documentary: “My Nappy Roots: A Journey Through Black Hair-Itage”
Directors: Regina Kimbell & Jay Bluemke (United States)

Festival Choice Award For Best Feature: “Cuttin' Da Mustard”
Director: Reed Mccants (United States)

Festival Vision Award For Best Feature: “A Goat's Tail”
Director: Julius Amedume (Ghana/United Kingdom)

Paff Audience Choice Award: “Salud!”
Director: Connie Field (United States)

Paff Executive Director's Choice Award: “Daratt”
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Chad/France/Belgium/Austria)
And
“Fly Like Mercury”
Director: Harry J. Lennix (United States)

Honorable Mentions:

“Lost Heritage”
Director: Christian Lara (Guadelupe/Gabon)

“Rag Tag”
Director: Adaora Nwandeu (United Kingdom/Nigeria)

“Hurricane In The Rose Garden”
Director: Ime Etuk (United States)

“The Minority”
Director: Dwayne Buckle (United States)

The 2007 PAFF Jurors are Judy Akudinobi, Taye, Atske-Selassie, Neema Barnett, Venus Bernardo, Tracy "Twinkie" Byrd, Ben Cladwell, Erma, Elzy-Jones, Pamela Frazier, Carl Gilliard, Van Hayden, Norma Henry, Sherri James, Earl Richey Jones, Todd Jones, Angela Northington, Rod Plummer, Darry Pryor, Kevin J. Suber, Marceil Wright, and Dianah "Roneyhah' Wynter.
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