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Thursday  27 Jan 7.00pm-10.00pm

URBAN SCREEN
TO SHOW TYLER PERRY’S LATEST FILM

 

 

“FOR COLORED GIRLS”+ panel discussion


@ RICH MIX CINEMA (Liverpool St. Tube)
 

Book :
http://www.richmix.org.uk/film_forcoloredgirls.htm
Or    Tickets : £8.50 Adults £6 Conc.
 


URBAN SCREEN is honoured to be showing Tyler Perry's latest film FOR COLORED GIRLS on 27 January. FOR COLORED GIRLS has been adapted from a Tony award winning play called "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf" by Ntozake Shange.  It is a deep profound conveying of poems which cover the multitude of women's issues, such as love, rape, suicide, death, birth. The film is beautifully delivered by its stellar cast of Thandie Newton, Janet Jackson, Michael Ealy, Hil Harper, Kerry Washington,Macy Gray, Whoopi Goldberg and all to a Nina Simone soundtrack.  It is an important film for all women to see and is an important film in terms of Tyler Perry's development as a filmmaker.  The film will be followed by a panel discussion 
 
See  trailer  here  http://www.thescreen.biz/screen.php?sid=170

 

URBAN SCREEN shows cutting edge films, industry Q&As, plus emerging new talent at The Albany, Rich Mix Cinema and The Gate Notting Hill. For more information see www.thescreen.biz <http://www.thescreen.biz>  or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. : Urban Screen , Twitter/urbanscreen & Meetup.com/urbanscreen
Sponsored by Film London and UK Film Council


Panel will be made up;

Fela Oke, Director of Goldrush Entertainment,
Goldrush Entertainment is the Production and Entertainment division of Goldrush Media Group, with its core value being empowerment. Goldrush Entertainment encompasses TV, film, theatre, Stage shows and event production empowering a new generation
http://www.goldrush-entertainment.com/

Campbell Ex, Filmmaker
She constantly pushes boundaries in visual aesthetics and content in moving image. She started out in making films for UK television and titles include Ragga Gyal D’Bout! about female fans of Ragga Music, the award-winning BD Women about Black lesbian stories, and Legacy about the psychological effect of Transatlantic slavery on family relationships.
Campbell also collaborates with other filmmakers and has been the sound person for Cheryl Dunye’s The OWLS and camera person for Jules Nurrish’s Bend It, Lisa Gornick’s Do I love you? and Tick Tock Lullaby as well as Paloma Etienne’s Notebooks and Unladylike Thoughts
Campbell would like to continue collaborating with other artist filmmakers. She is also happy to mentor anyone who shares the goals of BlackmanVision.
http://www.blackmanvision.com/

Shabina Aslam, Producer, Fmr Director of Diversity at BBC Radio Dramas and Rich Mix Board of Trustee,
Shabina Aslam is an experienced theatre director and producer.  She has worked as an Associate Producer for  the London International Festival of Theatre and also worked as Diversity Director for radio Drama for the BBC from 2003 – 2006.  She was also an Associate Director  of Theatre Venture from 1999 – 2001.  She is currently working on Drama in The Mix for the BBC which aims to celebrate and showcase the creative talents of English, Drama and media students from Olympic Borough Secondary Schools. It will also highlight the ways the Games are already touching the lives of young people in East London

Baff Akato, Film Producer and Director
Baff Akoto studied at London's Ravensbourne College of Design & Communications, and went on to freelance with Reuters Television, Cartoon Network, MTV, Paramount, and Comedy Central. His directorial debut was Football Fables (2009), a documentary tracing the stories behind African football migration. The film won awards for Best Foreign Film and Best Feature Screenplay at the 2009 Rassegna Cinematografica Internazionale Palermo.
             


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Haiti: Moloch Tropical

 

Saturday 29th January 2011 2pm-5pm

BFI SouthBank

Belvedere Road SE1

Tube: Waterloo.

Tickets £6.40

Box office 0207 928 3232

www.bfi.org.uk     www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk
 

Master filmmaker Raoul Peck (Lumumba, Sometimes in April) returns with a haunting film on his home country - Haiti. Peck takes us to a hilltop fortress where the nation’s president is falling apart, buckling under the pressure of civil unrest and the international community’s increasing disapproval. Crafting an almost Shakespearean tragedy in the confines of this isolated citadel, Peck delivers a searing critique of a government corrupted by power and an individual driven mad by it. Completed just months before the devastating January 12, 2010, earthquake, Moloch Tropical explores the ruinous costs of political dysfunction in Haiti.

Screening followed by discussion

If Haiti is to chart a new course as it rebuilds from the earthquake, addressing the political and human rights themes raised in this bracing film will be critical. Human Rights Watch sent a team to Haiti in February 2010 to look at issues of sexual and gender-based violence as well as human rights issues more generally in the delivery of humanitarian aid. Integrating human rights concerns into the relief operations is essential to protecting the well-being of Haitian victims, especially women, children, and other vulnerable groups. http://www.hrw.org/en/americas/haiti