African Diaspora Film Festival
535 Cathedral Parkway- St14B
New York, Ny 10025
To showcase 60 films from Nov. 23rd to Dec. 9th
(Black PR Wire) NEW YORK, NY -- The African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) NYC will celebrate its 26th Anniversary from Nov. 23 to Dec. 9, 2018 at the Cinema Village, MIST Harlem, the Dwyer Cultural Center, The Riverside Theater and Teachers College, Columbia University. A record breaking 60 films will screen during the festival. The complete line-up will go online soon!
Come join iin the fun as we invite you to take advantage of the early bird discount rate on the FESTIVAL PASSES today! Early Bird rate ends on Nov. 9 at midnight.
Here's a sneak peak at some of the shows ...
TIMELESS, A Virgin Islands Love Story
FRI, NOV 23 @ 7:30PM
RED CARPET @ 6:30PM
Discussion and VIP Reception after screening!
Virgin Islands native Ed LaBorde is a producer, director and with production company Afro-Flicks. “Timeless, A Virgin Islands Love Story” is his second feature film.
Timeless is a love story that travels time from 19th Century Ghana to the modern day Caribbean.
It is the story of Ajuwa, a Ghanaian warrior, who loses her soulmate to the slave trade. Their souls reunite in the present in the form of Malinda Benjamin, a Senator in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Alphonse Walcott, a gifted writer who has returned from New York. But the kindling of the relationship goes sour when Alphonse meets Bianca.
Some of the social issues explored in the film are the human trafficking of the slave trade in the past and the present day human trafficking in the Virgin Islands, as well as political corruption and immigration.
ADIFF 2018 School Program – FREE!
ADIFF 2018 School Program – FREE! The 26th Annual African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF) sponsored by ArtMattan Productions, NYC DCA and the NYC Council in the Arts and Council Member Bill Perkins, 9th C.D., cordially invites you and the students attending your institution to attend, free of charge, the 11 AM screenings of films.KINSHASHA MAKAMBO
6:30pm Reception
7:30pm SCREENING & Panel Discussion
THEY HAD A DREAM (Le Rêve Français)
US PREMIERE!
Christian Faure, France, 2017, 2 x 90 minutes, Drama, French with English Subtitles
SUN, NOV 25 @ 4:00PM
RED CARPET @ 3:00PM
Q&A after screening with Firmine Richard and VIP reception
Guadeloupean Actress and Activist Firmine Richard is known for her roles in 8 Women (202), Hunting and Gathering (2007) and La kiné (1998) and Romuald et Juliette (1988).
They had a dream tells a story based on reality. It is both a social and a fictional saga, exploring the interconnected lives of two Guadeloupian families to reveal hidden or obscure aspects of French society.
In the Sixties, the idea of a ‘dream France’ appealed to many French West Indians and Reunion Islanders. The BUMIDOM (Bureau for the Development of Migration in Overseas Districts) encouraged them to leave their native lands to escape the poverty caused by the closure of sugar mills, among other factors.
Although they were overseas citizens of France, these people (some of whom were the victims of a compulsory emigration policy, while others had spontaneously decided to move to Metropolitan France) found that life there was very different than the one they had imagined…
There's sooo muh more. Join us and come enjoy this spectacular season.
Teachers College, - Milbank
525 W 120th Street
New York, NY 10027