In Los Angeles:
Among the myriad of outstanding films being presented at the 23rd Annual PAN AFRICAN FILM FEST - PAFF (Feb 6-16), are two documentaries by the esteemed Cuban filmmaker GLORIA ROLANDO: OGGUN: An ETERNAL PRESENCE; and 1912 BREAKING THE SILENCE. Both will have multiple screenings at the fest...
SAT FEB 7, 12 noon; FRI FEB 15, 5:50 PM; MON FEB 16, 12 noon: OGGÚN AN ETERNAL PRESENCE, GLORIA ROLANDO’s beautiful first film (1991), relates the life story, art, faith, and expression of the late LÁZARO ROS, legendary akpwon, lead singer, of CUBA’s YORUBA tradition, Grammy nominee, and founding member of the CONJUNTO NACIONAL FOLKLÓRICO de CUBA. The film was made in Cuba with fellow musicians, dancers, singers, and community of the Habana-based CONJUNTO NACIONAL FOLKLÓRICO de CUBA. This film will also screen FRI FEB 15, 5:50 PM; MON FEB 16, 12 noon. BE SURE TO CONFIRM SCREENINGS. http://youtu.be/mYtHZeYjiY0
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SUN, FEB 8, 12:30 PM; TUES FEB 16, 8:40 PM; MON FEB 16 @ 8:05 PM : 1912 BREAKING THE SILENCE, ROLANDO's 2010 documentary relating the suppressed history of Cuba’s Partido Independiente de Color (PIC) founded in 1908 by Afro Cuban veterans of the War for Independence against Spain, but whose fight for racial, political, economic independence was ended in 1912 by a massacre of thousands of Afro Cubans affiliated with PIC by the new independent Cuban government of the time. BE SURE TO CONFIRM SCREENINGS.
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