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The Pan African Film Festival (3 images)
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Pan African Film Festival since 2014
Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) is a
non-profit corporation in Los Angeles, California,
United States, that states its goal is to promote
"cultural understanding among peoples of African
descent" through exhibiting art and film. It hosts a
film festival and an arts festival in Los Angeles in
February of each year. The Los Angeles Times in 2013
called the film festival "the largest black film
festival" in the United States.
Background
In its early years, it was held in West Africa,
specifically in Burkina Faso (in February 1985, it was
held in Ouagadougou and hosted by Thomas Sankara).
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The first
official festival was organized in 1992 by actors Danny Glover and
Ja'net Dubois and executive director Ayuko Babu. Glover and actress
Whoopi Goldberg co-hosted the festival. It featured over 40 films by
Black directors from four continents. The Los Angeles Times said the
films had universal themes as well as African themes: "the overthrow
of colonial governments, the clash between modern values and
traditional values, and tales of gifted artists". Films at the first
festival included Sarraounia, Heritage Africa, and Lord of the
Street. In 2013, the film festival attracted approximately 30,000
patrons, and the arts festival attracted around 75,000. In 2014, the
film festival featured 179 films from 46 countries. The films
included feature-length documentaries, short documentaries,
narrative feature films, narrative short films, and web series.
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