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African Filmmaker Series
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"Ṣoju," by Oluwaseun Babalola / USA, Botswana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone / 2016 / 30mins / Documentary / English
Details
Join Island Voice and AFF at the Canvas Institute in Staten Island for a screening of the films Ṣoju by Seun Babalola, Malcolm X: Struggle for Freedom by Lebert Bethune and Soko Sonko by Ekwa Msangi, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers. African food and beverages will be served!
Special programming
Q&A with filmmakers
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Films
Ṣoju
Oluwaseun Babalola
/ USA, Botswana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone / 2016
/ 30mins
In this documentary, surfers, metal heads, and guerilla filmmakers explore their identities and culture in Sierra Leone, Botswana, and Nigeria.
Malcolm X: Struggle for Freedom
Lebert Bethune
/ Jamaica and USA / 1967
/ 20mins
Bethune’s film portrays Malcolm X at a time when his views were evolving to include what was going on in the world at large.
Soko Sonko / The Market King
Ekwa Msangi
/ Kenya and USA / 2014
/ 22mins
Soko Sonko is a hilarious, fish-out-of-water roller coaster of a journey, about a well-intended dad who goes where no man has gone before...because only women have been there!
