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I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
A film by Raoul Peck |
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DCP / HD - FRANCE / BELGIUM / SWITZERLAND – 2016 - 93 min
Directed by: Raoul Peck Produced by: Velvet Film, Artémis Productions, Close up Films, ARTE France, ITVS Independent Lens, RTS, RTBF, Shelter Prod Original language: English With the voice of Samuel L. Jackson
Told entirely in the words of James Baldwin, through both personal appearances and the text of his final unfinished book project, Director Raoul Peck's I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO touches on the tragic deaths of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Medgar Evers to bring powerful clarity to how the image (and reality) of Blacks in America today is fabricated and enforced.
AWARDS
Audience Awards for Best Documentary Toronto International Film Festival Chicago International Film Festival Hamptons Film Festival
Best Documentary/Non Fiction Awards Los Angeles Film Critics Association San Francisco Film Critics Circle Southeastern Film Critics Association
Best Documentary Feature Award Philadelphia Film Festival
Best Writing IDA Creative Recognition Award
NOMINATIONS
NAACP Image Award (Ceremony on Feb. 11) Outstanding Documentary Film
Academy Award 2017 (Ceremony on Feb. 26) Best Documentary Feature
REVIEWS
« One of the best movies you are likely to see this year » Manohla Dargis, New York Times
« Uneasy but unforgettable viewing » Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter
« Transcendent. A meditation on the prophetic brilliance of James Baldwin » Owen Gleiberman, Variety
« A cinematic séance and one of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made » The Guardian
« Not only an urgent call to action, but also one of the very best films of the year » The Daily Beast
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EFM Screenings
February 10th - 4:30PM - EFM Cinemobile Press & Industry Screening
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OFFICIAL SELECTION FORUM
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FOR AHKEEM
A film by Jeremy S. Levine & Landon Van Soest |
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DCP / HD - USA – 2017 - 90 min
Directed by: Jeremy S. Levine & Landon Van Soest Produced by: Weissman Studio, Transient Pictures, ITVS Original language: English
“There are so many bigger and better things out there, you wouldn’t even believe it.”
After a school fight lands 17-year old Daje Shelton in a court-supervised alternative high school, she's determined to turn things around and make a better future for herself in her rough St. Louis neighborhood.
Focusing on school is tough as she loses multiple friends to gun violence, falls in love for the first time and becomes pregnant with a boy, Ahkeem, just as Ferguson erupts a few miles down the road.
Through Daje’s intimate coming-of-age story, For Ahkeem illuminates challenges that many Black teenagers face in America today, and witnesses the strength, resilience, and determination it takes to survive.
NOMINATION Berlin Forum 2017 - Glashütte Original Documentary Award
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About the filmmakers
Jeremy S. Levine and Landon Van Soest are an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaking team. Their latest feature documentary, Good Fortune, about two Kenyans battling major foreign aid efforts that bring them more harm than benefit, was broadcast to millions of viewers in prime time on the PBS series POV. Good Fortune received a National Emmy Award in addition to awards for international reporting and promoting social justice from the Overseas Press Club, Fledgling Fund, and Witness.
Their previous documentary, Walking the Line, about vigilantes on the U.S.-Mexico border, was broadcast nationally in five countries and recognized with awards for production, reporting, and preserving human rights.
In 2014, Levine directed/co-produced “Am I Next,” a short film about a teenager navigating the protests on the streets of Ferguson for Time. The short was also featured on Upworthy and Dazed Magazine and selected as a Vimeo Staff pick, with over 500K combined views. Van Soest is also currently directing Light Darkness Light, a feature documentary that tracks the life-altering experience of a man who receives a bionic eye and learns to see again after thirty years of blindness.
Landon and Jeremy co-founded Transient Pictures, a full service production company that produces original content for organizations like Facebook, Unicef, Ben & Jerry’s, Toyota, and Lincoln Center. The team also co-founded the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, a not-for-profit group of professional filmmakers who come together weekly for feedback and support.
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EFM Screenings
February 10th - 4PM - CinemaxX 6 Press & Industry Screening
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THE GERMAN NEIGHBOUR
a film by Rosario Cervio & Martin Liji |
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fg DCP - HD – Argentina - 2017 - 94 min
Directed by: Rosario Cervio & Martin Liji Written by: Rosario Cervio Produced by: Nana Ciné Languages: Spanish, German, English Languages:
“Long live Germany! Long live Austria! Long live Argentina! These are the countries with which I have been most connected and which I will not forget. I had to obey the rules of war and my flag. I am ready.” Last words of Adolf Eichmann,
In 1960, Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped in Buenos Aires and taken illegally to Jerusalem for a trial.
A pure documentary integrating archive materials, the film shows, through the eyes and research work of Renate, a young journalist, the awkward life of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina contrasting with the crimes he is defending against in Israel.
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EFM Screenings
February 10th - 7:10PM - CinemaxX 2 Press & Industry Screening
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