[#BLACKFILM] Afripedia + Q&A with Teddy Goitom, Benjamin Taft & Senay Berhe
Part of BAMcinématek series #FilmAfrica 2016
Friday, May 27 | 7pm
Peter Jay Sharp Building | BAM Rose Cinemas | 30 Lafayette Avenue Brooklyn, NY
GENERAL ADMISSION: $14 | MEMBERS: $7 (free for Level 4 and above)
For tickets, visit bam.org/film/2016/afripedia
Directed by Teddy Goitom, Benjamin Taft, Senay Berhe | 2014
As Africa changes, and the world’s perception of it changes, the images of Africa and Africans need to change too. Afripedia is a collaborative, multi-part project profiling a new generation of artists from across the continent. This program brings together three documentaries from the Afripedia series, examining the vibrant and rising artistic communities in Ghana, Kenya, Ivory Coast, and Senegal. Viewers meet outspoken androgynous music star Wiyaala; 3D artist Andrew Kaggia, who unveils his vision of Nairobi; fashion designer Selly Raby Kane, who sculpts the digital image of a future alien city in an old railway station; and many others.
About FilmAfrica 2016
Part of BAMcinématek
Co-presented by the New York African Film Festival, this cinematic companion to the annual DanceAfrica celebration features the best fiction and documentary films from Ghana, Sudan, Kenya, Nigeria, and beyond, with a special focus on Senegal, the home of this year’s visiting company.
To kick off the festival, Dakar Vert Environmental Film Festival partners with BAMcinématek to co-present three films and an academic panel on environmental issues that examine some of the most urgent ecological issues in contemporary Africa and the developing world at large.