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We’re almost there! Thanks to the wonderful support we’ve received so far, AFF has been fortunate enough to raise a good chunk of our #NYAFF30 Kickstarter goal, but we still have a bit further to go. You can visit this link now to donate: kck.st/3sKQqon and help us meet our target in the next 11 days. Thank you so much for your support 🙏🏾✨
We’ve got 24 more days to go to reach our #NYAFF30 Kickstarter goal! You can help us by donating here: http://kck.st/3sKQqon. Your support will aid in the production of the milestone 30th anniversary of the New York African Film Festival and the development of our online streaming platform, Cinema Awujo! Our overarching goal is to make great films more accessible to you 🤎 With your support, we can make it happen! Thank you 🙏🏾
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We’re raising funds towards the 30th New York African Film Festival, and our online streaming platform, Cinema Awujo! We want to bring you more great films and with your help, we can reach our goal! ✨ You can donate now here: kck.st/3sKQqon. Thank you so much for your support!
Let's Just Do It Ourselves Trailer
We’re less than 2 weeks away from “Let’s Just Do It Ourselves,” taking place Fri, Dec 9th at 7:30pm Anthology Film Archives, co-presented by Alfreda's Cinema & AFF ✨🎞️🤎
Tickets and more info: https://link.africanfilmny.org/ljdo 🎟️ 🔗
We'll be showing the short films ‘So Many Things to Consider’ + ‘Not So Private’ by Sandye Wilson, and ‘Killing Time’ by Fronza Woods. Followed by a Q&A w/ Sandye Wilson and Melissa Lyde of Alfreda’s Cinema! 💕 See you there!
We’re gradually getting closer to our Kickstarter fundraiser goal of $20,000. Thanks so much to all of you who have donated so far! This Giving Tuesday, please consider donating to AFF and support us in helping to bring you more of the films you love! 🤎 We’re raising funds for the 30th New York African Film Festival and our online streaming platform, Cinema Awujo! You can support us by donating now here: http://kck.st/3sKQqon, or sharing. Thank you! 🙏🏾 ✨ #GivingTuesday #GivingTuesday2022
🎥 Now Streaming on Cinema Awujo!: FELIX—a coming-of-age tale about 14-year-old Felix Xaba who dreams of becoming a saxophonist like his late father, against the wishes of his mother. 🎶🎷 Watch now until Nov 29 here: https://watch.africanfilmny.org/cinemaawujo/play/63754f6a8ecaae0ecec7fabe
Weekend mood 🍸 Catch Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s ‘Sex, Okra and Salted Butter’ tonight at 8:30pm during #NYAFF29 FilmAfrica BAM Film. In this comedy about a Malian family living in France, Malik finds his role as a traditional African husband disrupted when his wife Hortense has an extra-marital affair. Tickets: https://www.bam.org/film/2022/sex-okra-and-salted-butter ✨
While at #NYAFF29, make sure support the fest and pick up some festival merch—t-shirts, totes and pins! 🛍✨
JUJU STORIES by Surreal16 Collective explores juju in contemporary Lagos through three stories. In “Love Potion,” by Mike Gouken, an unmarried woman agrees to use juju to find herself an ideal mate. In “Yam,” by Abba T Makama, consequences arise when a street urchin picks up seemingly discarded money from the roadside. In “Suffer the Witch,” by C.j. 'Fiery' Obasi, love and friendship turn into obsession when a young college woman attracts her crush’s interest. Watch now during #NYAFF29 @filmlinc! https://www.filmlinc.org/films/juju-stories/ 🎞
While at #NYAFF29, make sure to experience the Digital Art Exhibition: ‘freedom is a durational practice’ A solo exhibition featuring an experimental, durational moving image meditation by Nigerian-American artist, Zainab Aliyu, foregrounding anthems of celebration across the diaspora and transversing borders to fabricate an infinite, pan-African chorus of shared somatic vibrations 🌀 On view now through May 17 at the Film at Lincoln Center Amphitheater. More information https://www.filmlinc.org/events/digital-art-exhibition-freedom-is-a-durational-practice/
Nigerian playwright, novelist, and poet, Wole Soyinka reflects on the influence of the Yoruba culture on Latin American liberation struggles. RSVP ✨ (link.africanfilmny.org/bta) for our annual Black History Month program with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on Thursday, February 24 . We’ll be screening ‘Bigger Than Africa,’ a documentary charting the global cultural journey of the Yoruba. Q&A with the director Toyin Ibrahim Adekeye follows the screening!
The NYAFF is THE place to meet African + diaspora filmmakers and film lovers in NYC ✨ Submissions are open for the 2022 fest, which will take place in May. Submit here: link.africanfilmny.org/submit 📥 The early bird deadline (Jan 14 !) is swiftly approaching—tell a friend to tell a filmmaker friend 🤎