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The New Orléans Afrikan Film and Arts Festival Project
Presents


Mississippi Damned


with special guest Tina Mabry, Writer, Director

About the Filmmaker
Tina Mabry is a native of Tupelo, Mississippi and graduated from the University of Southern California with a M.F.A. in Film Production in 2005. She co-wrote a feature screenplay, Itty Bitty Titty Committee, which won Best Narrative Feature at SXSW in 2007. Tina participated in the FIND Director’s Lab withMississippi Damned and was awarded the Kodak Film Grant.

About the Film
Mississippi Damned tells the tale of three poor, black kids in rural Mississippi who face the consequences of their family’s cycle of abuse, addiction and violence. They struggle to escape their circumstances and must decide whether to confront what’s plagued their family for generations or succumb to the same crippling fate, forever damned in Mississippi. Bitterly honest and profoundly subtle, the film captures growing up in a world where possibilities and opportunities seem to die in the face of the suffocating reality of physical and sexual abuse, obsession and a myriad of destructive compulsions.

Web: 
http://www.mississippidamned.com/

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.
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