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Idris Elba, aka Stringer Bell from HBO's The Wire, is scheduled to attend Wednesday's screening of Takers at the Colony Theater on South Beach, which will kick off this year's American Black Film Festival.
Other celebrity guests include Spike Lee, who will conduct a master class on directing, and Precious director Lee Daniels, who will receive a career tribute.
Check out my story on this year's festival here. For more information on the festival, including a complete schedule and ticket prices, visit www.abff.com
Anything you're looking forward too seeing Rene?
Posted by: Dan | June 22, 2010 at 01:20 PM
I'd love to check out the Spike Lee seminar. It would be great to hear him discuss his craft in-depth to an audience of aspiring filmmakers.
Posted by: Rene Rodriguez | June 22, 2010 at 02:07 PM
Portrait Of The 1985 Handsworth Riots - Pogus Caesar - BBC1 TV . Inside Out.
Broadcast 25 Oct 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey7ijaXv6UQ
Birmingham black film maker and photographer Pogus Caesar knows Handsworth well. He found himself in the centre of the 1985 riots and spent two days capturing a series of startling images. Caesar kept them hidden for 20 years. Why? And how does he see Handsworth now?. The stark black and white photographs featured provide a rare, valuable and historical record of the raw emotion, heartbreak and violence that unfolded during those dark and fateful days in September 1985.
Posted by: Anon | February 21, 2011 at 12:15 PM
Are you going to update your filmmaking blog any time soon? Hopefully everything is OK with you.
Posted by: Jason @ FilmmakingStuff | June 18, 2011 at 06:53 PM