Once again the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall has been transformed into an African Marketplace. Vendors from around the country and around the world have brought their fashion, fabric, jewelry, sculptures, carvings, paintings, drawings and a myriad of craft work to the 2017 Pan African Film Festival’s ArtFest. There is no shortage of eye-candy for the connoisseur of beauty from the African Diaspora. ...
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Cathy Hughes
This year, the Pan African Film Festival honored Alfre Woodard with the Lifetime Achievement award. On Sunday, February 12, 2017, Woodard educated and entertained an intimate audience during PAFF’s Conversation with Alfre Woodard. Woodard spoke about her childhood and being raised by a of educators that pushed education. She has made many contributions as part of a national educational task force under President Obama....
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I was pleasantly surprised at how marvelous this film was. Monica Calhoun fit the role of the successful but single Vanessa perfectly. I loved that this character was in her forties instead of the film being about a clueless twenty-something-year-old desperately looking for love. Great casting decision. Just as suitable for his role was Jimmy Jean-Louis as Max, the mysterious mouthwatering foreign lover....
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