Second Annual Toronto Black Film Festival
(TBFF)
February 11th – 16th
Oprah’s best fella’s coming to town as part
of the second annual Toronto Black Film Festival. Stedman Graham is among the dignitaries attending the celebration of the black diaspora and its roster of 33 international films. The festival coincides with Black History
Month and offers not just films, but community programs and special events on
the black diaspora. Festival founder and
leader Fabienne Colas noted the significance of this year’s edition in a
morning news conference:
“The year 2014 is a symbolic year for us,
commemorating several ground-breaking anniversaries such as; 210 years of
Haitian Independence, 20 years of the Rwandan Genocide; 20 years since Mandela
was elected president of South Africa, and 5 years since Barack Obama became
the first black American president. TBFF is proud to dedicate the festival to
the memory of the legendary leader Nelson Mandela, and to celebrate 20 years of
democracy in South Africa!”
Stedman Graham "The Nine-Step Plan for Success"
Graham, an entrepreneur, educator, speaker
and New-York Times bestselling author, will host a master conference, The
Nine-Step Plan for Success on February 13 at 7 p.m. Tickets are available for $149 and VIP $249.
The Forgotten Kingdom
Thirty three international films are on tap
at the Isabel Bader Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox and the Carlton Cinema in
Toronto. The festival opens with Andrew Mudge’
award winning drama The Forgotten Kingdom Lesotho’s first feature, about love,
death, memory and hope. Nine films pay tribute
to Nelson Mandela and twenty years of freedom in South Africa.
The TBFF closes with the American film, Chris Eska’s The Retrieval which won Best Narrative Feature at the Montreal International Black Film Festival in 2013. It tells the stirring story of a slave boy sent to bring a fugitive to justice in the end days of the Civil War.
The Retrieval
The TBFF closes with the American film, Chris Eska’s The Retrieval which won Best Narrative Feature at the Montreal International Black Film Festival in 2013. It tells the stirring story of a slave boy sent to bring a fugitive to justice in the end days of the Civil War.
Robert Hillary King
Activist, author and former Black Panther Robert
Hillary King, who spent 32 years in Louisiana’s Angola Prison, will be present
for a Q&A at the Carlton Cinema Sunday the 16th at 3p.m. following a screening of the documentary Hard
Time.
Other events include:
·
Lorraine Klaasen – Celebrate
South Africa Concert featuring the music of Miriam Makeba at the Al Green
Theatre, Saturday, February 15, 2014 –
9PM - $30.
·
Tribute To Nelson Mandela at
the Carlton Cinema - Sunday, February 16, 2014 – 7 PM - $10.
·
Banished by Sharon Cort; King
Of Hearts by Mandy Jacobson; Mandela, A Royal Revolutionary by Nhlanhla
Mthethwa and Beverley Palesa Ditsie’s Release Mandela.
·
Fanie Fourie’s Lobola -Henk
Pretrorius - South Africa| 2013 | 6’ | English, IsiZulu, Afrikaans
·
Layla Fourie -Pia Marais -
Germany, South Africa, France, Netherlands | 2013 | 105’| English
·
Angels In Exile - Billy Raftery
- South Africa|2013 | 74’ | English, Zulu| Narrated by Charlize Theron
·
Release - Sofia De Fay - South
Africa| 2013 | 18’| Zulu with English subtitles
For more information go to
www.torontoblackfilm.com.
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