He feels the movie has opened doors for other Kenyan filmmakers and African film in general.
The word is also the title of a South African film that is among the five Oscar nominees for best foreign language film.
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It really demonstrated that he is much more than an African American film maker.
The film has garnered largely positive reviews ahead of its UK release although there has been a mixed response from prominent African American film-makers.
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It's opening day for "Madagascar"--not the African island, the animated film.
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"I thought it would be good to have him as a small character in a film about an African woman, but it wasn't possible, " she said.
The result, at times, is like a promotional film for the African tourist board - a montage of bustling city streets, colourful market scenes, wildlife and culture.
Those who stood up to cheer the most emphatically when presenter Dustin Hoffman announced Tarantino's name were African-American actors in the film, including Jamie Foxx and Kerry Washington.
"Fox was totally stunned by it, " says Nico Dekker, chief executive of Cape Town Film Studios, the South African facility where "Chronicle" was primarily shot.
Beverly Johnson, the first African-American woman to grace the cover of Vogue, appears in the film, as does another black beauty ("one-eighth African-American, " she clarifies in "About Face"): Cleveland, who spoke poignantly about being attacked in the racist South during her early days modeling with the Ebony Fashion Fair.
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One such option was film development, specifically movies about African-Americans in the Wild West Nat Love and Cherokee Bill, among others.
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Baz Luhrmann's anticipated The Great Gatbsy, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, will open the festival and the closing film is Zulu, a South African cop thriller starring Orlando Bloom and Forest Whittaker.
The film follows Robinson, the first African-American to play Major League Baseball, as he plays for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and highlights the bond that formed between Robinson and Dodgers general manager and president, Branch Rickey.
An excerpt of the World Bank film, Courage and Hope: African Teachers Living Positively with HIV, was presented.
It had occurred to me that a mighty figure of American sport and African-American culture had been insufficiently immortalized on film.
"I want people to sit back and have a fantastic time with the characters and have a fantastic insight into some of the amazing African landscapes that we've put into this film, " says Thornley.
Toure's film is the only sub-Saharan African movie in competition this year, but African films -- particularly those from Senegal and Burkina Faso -- have fared well at the festival, especially over the past decade.
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The film was made possible with funding from The African Child Policy Forum.
Designed and directed by Michel Ocelot, the film is based on a medley of West African tales.
Balian depicted him as a fabulist, a liar who made up extravagant stories about being a famous film director, the heir to a South African fortune and a descendant of British royalty.
It was heavily targeted to an African-American audience, a factor that often means the film won't play well abroad.
An appearance in 1959 in an anti-apartheid film, singing two songs, caused the South African authorities to revoke her passport while she was away.
As the group, the African Youth Initiative Network, did a live translation of the film narrative into the local Luo dialect, an estimated 35, 000 people began jeering.
In deciding the films to include here, I wanted to attempt a wide variety of types, times, and themes, all reflecting the struggle for civil rights for African Americans in the U.S. There is only one film here that is specifically all about King himself, since there are frankly just not many movies featuring King, besides documentaries.
The riveting film "Precious" yielded a best supporting actress win for African-American performer Mo'Nique, and the first ever statuette for an African-American screenwriter in the best adapted screenplay category went to Geoffrey Fletcher.
Kilday said that while Tyler Perry's film "For Colored Girls" boasted an all-female, African-American cast, it opened to mixed reviews and never gained much traction as an Oscar contender.
Mbvoumin recently featured in a documentary film called "Soka Afrika" that traced the journey of two African footballers -- South Africa's Kermit Romeo Erasmus and Cameroonian Julien Ndomo Sabo -- as they attempt to fulfil their dreams of playing professional football in Europe.
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