2022 - 04 - 11 Babu And Pan African Film Festival Mixdown

Join Ayuko Babu, director of the Pan African Film Festival, Eric Mann, and Channing Martinez in conversation on the 30th Annual Pan African Film Festival. The Pan African Film Festival will host a hybrid festival this year from April 19th to May 1st 2022. Film Screenings will take place at the Cinemark Baldwin Hills 4020 Marlton Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90008 There will be a an accompanying Artfest in the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza 3650 MLK Jr. Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90008 Tickets for films can be purchased online at paff.org Voices from the Frontlines strongly encourages you to attend in person as much as you can. Babu, Eric and Channing speak about what it means to host a Black film festival in 2022 in the mists of COVID 19, and during a international conflict between the U.S., Nato, Ukraine, and Russia. Babu tells us of the history behind this conflict and speaks about how film is one of the most important mediums to speak about and learn about international struggles and national liberation movements across the African diaspora and beyond. Films we speak about: Cuba in Africa: The dramatic untold story of 420,000 Cubans– soldiers and teachers, doctors and nurses– who gave everything to end colonial rule and apartheid in Southern Africa. Famadihana (Lève tes morts): In 1752 in La Reunion, Soa, a formerly enslaved Malagasy woman, thinks she has found a tunnel that would take her back to Madagascar. When her maroon village falls under the threat of slave hunters, Soa has to face an inevitable choice, abandon her family or flee to finally return home. Fanon Yesterday, Today: Legendary Martiniquan intellectual Franz Fanon died in December 1961, but his thoughts and writings still reverberate throughout many social movements and struggles across today’s world. Through the testimonies of Fanon’s comrades and the people who knew him, Hassane Mezine explores Fanon’s eventful life, providing new insight into Fanon - the freedom fighter, the intellectual and the man. Ferguson Rises: