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African Cinema:Top Award-Winning African Films Now Available on AfricanFilmLibrary.com Video On Demand Service

Movie lovers in the U.S. and Canada can now view top award-winning African films online via the African Film Library (AFL) at www.africanfilmlibrary.com. M-Net, the South African-based corporate broadcaster, producer and distributor has launched this unprecedented collection as a way to help cinephiles and members of the African Diaspora have a direct and affordable link …

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Who’s Nominated? South Africa and Nigeria Dominate 2012 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) + AMAA Nomination FULL List

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Most nominated films include South Africa’s Otelo Burning and How to 2 Steal 2 Million; Nigeria’s Adesuwa; Ghana’s Somewhere in Africa; The Nigerian-South African co-production Man on Ground; and Kenya’s Rugged Priest.  Nigeria received 52 nominations on 17 March 2012 in Banjul, Gambia for the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), Africa’s most …

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African Cinema: Esosa Edosamwan Launches ‘One Night in Brooklyn’ “Trans-African”First Feature Film

“The Inspiration The idea for One Night in Brooklyn came to me (Esosa Edosamwan) in 2008 while hanging with my friends at a house party in the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn.  We were all dealing with the same trials and tribulations of figuring out how to survive post-college. Some of us were artists navigating the balance …

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AFRICAN FILM IS IN THE SPOTLIGHT AS THE NEW YORK AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS TO FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER APRIL 11th to 17th, 2012

 AFRICAN FILM IS IN THE SPOTLIGHT AS THE NEW YORK AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS TO FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER APRIL 11 to 17 Highlights Include Opening Night Film Mama Africa, Celebrating the Legacy of Miriam Makeba, The Education of Auma Obama, Offering a Window into the African Family and Father of President Obama, and Centerpiece Selection Relentless, Starring Hip-Hop and Soul Singer …

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African Cinema: Actress Ebbe Bassey Manczuk Needs Your Help to Complete HIV/AIDS and Senior Citizens Film Project

Actress Ebbe Bassey Manczuk who was recently featured on BlackEnterprise.com has a very dear and special project she needs help in producing. We have featured Ebbe and her stellar work on Ladybrille in the past. Read what she has to say, watch previous works (her acting and producing) and then help her! “(Dear Ladybrille readers) …