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Traveling Series Films at Newark Museum’s Black Film Festival
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"Mr. Gele: The Man. The Story. The Craft.," by Gladys Edeh / USA / 2016 / 14mins / Documentary / English
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Films from the 2019 AFF National Traveling Series will be screening at the Newark Museum Black Film Festival! Also included will be a screening and discussion of Bronx Princess by Yoni Brook and Musa Syeed.
About our National Traveling Series
In order to make African cinema available to wider audiences, AFF programs the annual National Traveling Series, which runs throughout the year in the US, including Puerto Rico. Learn More
Films
Birth of Afrobeat
Opiyo Okeyo
/ USA / 2018
/ 7mins
In this hybrid live-action/animated film, Nigerian drummer Tony Allen recounts how he and his partner, late music legend, Fela Kuti, created the Afrobeat genre in Lagos, Nigeria.
Bronx Princess
Musa Syeed & Yoni Brook
/ Ghana and USA / 2008
/ 39mins
Bronx Princess follows headstrong 17-year-old Rocky as she leaves behind her mother in New York City to reunite with her father, a chief in Ghana.
+ Q&A with Rocky Otoo
Mr. Gele: The Man. The Story. The Craft.
Gladys Edeh
/ USA / 2016
/ 14mins
Mr. Gele, the docu-film, focuses on the man, the story and the craft of the celebrated Houston-based Nigerian Gele (headwear) artist, Mr. Hakeem Oluwasegun Olaleye, popularly known as Mr. Segun Gele.
Wallay
Berni Goldblat
/ France and Burkina Faso / 2017
/ 82mins
A rebellious teenage boy gets a serious case of culture shock when he's sent from his home in France to Burkina Faso for a summer in this tender, perceptive tale of reconnecting with your roots.
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