Social Media, Mental Health & Our Kids: Community Screening of "Like"
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McKinley School Auditorium • Redwood City, CA
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From Patrice To Lumumba - Film Screening & Community Conversation
"There can be no compromise between freedom and slavery." - Patrice Lumumba Film screening and conversation with filmmaker, Patrick Kabeya
By Silicon Valley African Film Festival (SVAFF)
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Date and time
Saturday, February 11 · 4 - 6pm PST
Location
Ujima Adult & Family Services Inc 1898 The Alameda San Jose, CA 95126
About this event
"There can be no compromise between freedom and slavery." - Patrice Lumumba
“Africa will write its own history and both north and south of the Sahara it will be a history full of glory and dignity.” - Patrice Lumumba
As his fate was decided, Patrice Lumumba decided to write a letter to his wife, as a token of the promise he had made to himself about his country and his people. This letter, although keeping a militant tone, reveals the more private side of Lumumba, yet freer still to express what is deep inside him. This story, mainly told in his own words, gives Lumumba back the humanity he was not afforded throughout his career. It is about understanding the passion that animated his convictions. But above all, it is about seeing the man behind the political emblem, facing a destiny that gradually escapes him.
"I had the responsibility to produce a film which would show Lumumba, the man who just wanted an independent Congo and a free Africa.” - Patrick Kabeye, film director.
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Silicon Valley African Film Festival (SVAFF)The Silicon Valley African Film Festival promotes an understanding and appreciation of Africa and Africans through moving images. Aptly themed “Africa through the African lens", the film festival celebrates the vast richness of the African Continent through the lenses of Africa’s seasoned and emerging filmmakers and, crucially, provides audiences with exquisite lenses to the real Africa. Each year, the festival presents a full menu of feature and short length narrative, documentary and animation films from over 30 African and African diaspora countries. From Ghana to Uganda, Tunisia to Tanzania, Nigeria to Namibia, Senegal to South Africa, the diversity of voices represented in our films engage, delight, inspire, provoke and challenge our audience.