Congo: White King, Red Rubber, BlackDeath

Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death (PAFF 2005)
Documentary/Belgium/Australia/Canada/Denmark/Finland/France/Germany/Nethe rlands/UK/92min/2003
Director: Peter Bate

A visually stunning docudrama revealing the true story of the terror and shocking brutality implemented by King Leopold II of Belgium as he created a wealthy empire by turning the Congo into a brutal labor camp for the harvest of rubber, resulting in the death and maiming of over 10 million people between 1885 and 1908. Documentary Honorable Mention, 2005 PAFF

Love Jacked

Love Jacked (PAFF 2018)
Narrative/Canada/South Africa/100min/2017
Director: Alfons Adetuyi

LOVE JACKED is a sophisticated small-town Romantic Comedy centered around Maya, a headstrong 28-year-old with artistic ambitions, and her father Ed, who wants a dutiful daughter to run the family store. Ed is shocked when Maya, asserting her independence, decides to travel to Africa for inspiration and returns with a fiancé who is not quite what he seems. Stars Amber Stevens-West, Shamier Anderson, Keith David, Mike Epps, Demetrius Grosse, Lyriq Bent, Marla Gibbs, Angela Gibbs, Nicole Lyn. Programmers’ Award-Narrative Feature, PAFF 2018

Ancestral Voices: Esoteric African Knowledge

Ancestral Voices: Esoteric African Knowledge (PAFF 2012)
Documentary/UK/73min/2011
Director: Dalian Adofo & Verona Spence

An enlightening documentary that examines the significant correlations between beliefs in “mainstream” religions and African spiritual practices which are widely stigmatized under labels such as juju, obeah, voodoo, and witchcraft. The question is raised: why in light of the many similarities in fundamental beliefs are African spiritual systems viewed negatively whereas modern religions are not? Nominee, Best Documentary, PAFF 2012