Once again channeling the spirit of revolution this holiday weekend
BAMCinematek, hot off its inaugural
BAMCinemaFEST, hosts the fifth annual
Afro-Punk Festival, which will feature some filmmakers familiar to Filmmaker Magazine readers.
Bookending the repertory film portion of the event, which also encompasses concerts, a skate park and a closing weekend block party, are films by a pair of last year's
25 New Faces in Independent Film. Tonight
Dee Rees, who's acclaimed short
Pariah was one of our favorites of last year, will be on hand with her documentary
Eventual Salvation. A penetrating glimpse at her grandmother's roots and return to war torn Liberia, the film received funding from the Sundance Documentary Fund and won the 2007 Tribeca All Access Creative Promise Award. July 8th the festival's film screenings will wrap up with
Barry Jenkins'
Medicine for Meloncholy.
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posted by Brandon Harris @ 7/03/2009 12:43:00 PM
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