First Name:
Last Name:
Email:
 

BUY YOUR GALA TICKETS AND FESTIVAL PASS!
Executive Committee of the New Orleans Afrikan Film and Arts Festival Project

JOSEPH GAï RAMAKA, Co-President and Festival Director
EILEEN JULIEN, Co-President
DAVID BEAR, Assistant Production Manager
CHRISTINE CORCORAN, Communications and Marketing
LYNN CREAN, Development
JASON FOSTER, Assistant Production Manager
BEVERLY J. FULK, Executive Assistant
COLETTE HANDY, Community Liaison
JEFF KLEIN, Musical Director
LARI MANZ, Assistant
LAURA MURPHY, Special Projects
ANASTASIA SHAW, Subscribers
TREY SMITH, Production Manager
DANILLE TAYLOR, Secretary-Treasurer
KIM VU-DINH, Logistics

Film Selection

Brenda Marie Osbey
Mollie Day
Chris Dunn
Ladee Hubbard
Eric Paul Julien
Niyi Osundare
Felipe Smith
Natasha Vaubel

Consultant
James B. Borders
Honorary Committee of the New Orleans Afrikan Film and Arts Festival

Ms. Leah Chase, Owner and Chef, Dooky Chase Restaurant, New Orleans
Mr. George Dalley, Lawyer, Chief of Staff and Advisor to Congressman Charles Rangel
Dr. Manthia Diawara, Writer, Filmmaker, Professor, New York University
Mr. Boubacar Boris Diop, Writer, Journalist
Mr. Leopold Diouf, Senior Product Manager, Alcatel-Lucent
Dr. Norman Francis, President, Xavier University of New Orleans
Mr. Danny Glover, Actor, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Historian, Professor Emerita, Rutgers University
Dr. Jessica B. Harris, Culinary Writer and Professor of English, Queen's College, New York City
Mr. Ellis Marsalis, Musician, Educator
Dr. Samba Mboup, Professor, University of South Africa
Dr. Jean Montes, Director, Orchestral Studies, Loyola University, New Orleans, and Artistic Director, Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra
Dr. Charles Rowell, Professor, Texas A & M and Editor, Callaloo
Ms. Jeannine B. Scott, Senior VP, Africare, former Program Officer and US Board Member of the African Development Bank
Dr. J. Michael Turner, Professor of History, Hunter College, New York City, former Ford Foundation Program Officer

Webmaster

Sydnie Horton

Join us for the Mississippi River 9th Ward Film and Arts Festival, October 6-9, 2011!

On Friday September 16 at the New Orleans African American Museum, we will offer a Festival Sneak Preview, featuring Mississippi Damned (2009) with Director Tina Mabry.  Admission is free, seating is limited.  Reserve a place at: noafest@neworleansafrikanfilmfest.org or 504-942-8542.

October 6, the Festival opens at the Galvez Restaurant & Atrium with a Gala honoring Harold Battiste, Jr, recipient of the second Toni Cade Bambara Award for Cultural Leadership.  Come hear Jesse McBride Presents the Next Generation and a Battiste composition arranged by Dr. Jean Montes for Molto, a funky chamber orchestra! And for a little lagniappe: "Prelude by the River" at 6pm.

October 7-9, we will screen films on youth, women, the violence they endure and often overcome: Draw Yourself! (France, 2010); Shirley Adams: Portrait of a Mother (South Africa, 2009); Africa United (UK, 2010); Murder on a Sunday Morning (France/U.S., 2001); Central Station (Brazil, 1999); Black Venus (France/Tunisia, 2010), with live music by Charmaine Neville, Fredy Omar con su banda, and the Caesar Brothers Funk Box preceding evening screenings.  And we will host two roundtables: “Black Men and the Justice System” and “Race and Power in New Orleans in Global Perspective.”

Gala Tickets are $75 each or $135 for two.  Tickets available online or by check.

Festival screenings are $5 each.  A Festival Pass for all screenings may be purchased for $20, online or by check.

Make checks payable to NOAFEST, 2670 George Nick Connor Dr., NOLA 70119.
Copyright © New Orleans Afrikan Film and Art Festival