Name: Sankofa + Panel
Start: 2017-06-17T13:00:00-07:00
End: 2017-06-17T14:30:00-07:00
Location: SPUR

Sankofa + Panel

SAN FRANCISCO BLACK FILM FESTIVAL’s MISSIONis to celebrate African American cinema and the African cultural Diaspora and to showcase a diverse collection of films – from emerging and established filmmakers. This is accomplished by presenting Black films, which reinforce positive images and dispel negative stereotypes, and providing film artists from the bay area in particular and around the world in general, a forum for their work to be viewed and discussed. SFBFF believes film can lead to a better understanding of and communication between, peoples of diverse cultures, races, and lifestyles, while simultaneously serving as a vehicle to initiate dialogue on the important issues of our times.An early proponent of the global perspective, the festival has always been ahead of its time. Long before popular culture paid lip service to ‘going global’, we were walking the walk, presenting global motifs and topics from filmmakers around the world.

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“Sankofa…Connecting the Dots”-Damon Jamal (director/photographer)-40 minutes- is a documentary based on a historic California Trade Mission to Durban, South Africa, during the inaugural Essence Magazine & City of Durban’s “Essence Durban Festival” in November 2016.  Jamal, an LA based filmmaker, recognized by the San Francisco 7 Day Film Festival as “Best Directors” whose work has included a plethora of music videos including R& B and hip hop artists such as E-40, Tyga, Kendrick Lamar, Rick Ross, French Montana and many others, uses his camera to express the close to the heart experience he and others had during the trade mission that was not only about economic empowerment but matters of the heart as well.  From business concepts to the arts to the pulse on the street, “Sankofa…Connecting the Dots” lives up its name.  Following the screening of the film at SPUR, an organization dedicated to “Ideas and Action For a Better City,” there will be a panel discussion “Doing Business in Africa for Commerce and Healing.”  Panelist to date will include Damon Jamal, San Franciscan Roland Washington, producer of the film and sponsor of the California Trade Mission to Durban, South Africa, and Florida A&M Professor Brian Sims, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, who has led several student and faculty trips to Africa. 
then @ 1:50PM - "Doing Business in Africa for Commerce and Healing" Panel Discussion.

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