Pan African Film & Arts Festival Relocates Los Angeles Headquarters

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After 10 Years, Festival Leaves the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza

LOS ANGELES – The Pan African Film and Arts Festival (PAFF), America’s largest and most prestigious Black film and arts festival, has moved its Los Angeles headquarters from the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza to 6820 Latijera Boulevard Suite 200 Los Angeles, CA 90045. Their new phone number is (310) 337-4737 and the fax number is (310) 337-4736. For more information, please visit www.paff.org.

Currently wrapping up film submissions for its 18th Annual signature event taking place February 10-15, 2010 in Los Angeles, the PAFF was established in 1992, as a non-profit corporation dedicated to the promotion of cultural and racial tolerance and understanding through the exhibition of film, art and creative expression.

It is PAFF’s goal to present and showcase the broad spectrum of Black creative works, particularly those that reinforce positive images and help to destroy negative stereotypes. We believe film and art can lead to better understanding and foster communication between peoples of diverse cultures, races, and lifestyles, while at the same time, serve as a vehicle to initiate dialogue on the important issues of our times.

African American must see film list

I’m working on a list of black film classics or at least were popular enough to be on a must see list. Please comment with more, and I’ll be updating this frequently. Eventually, I’ll get it organized but I wanted to at least get the post started. Some aren’t necessarily black films but celebrate accomplished black actors or cover topics related to race relations.

(in alphabetical order)

  1. 4 Little Girls
  2. 8 Mile
  3. A Raisin in the Sun
  4. Akeelah and the Bee
  5. Antwone Fisher
  6. Baby Boy
  7. Bamboozled
  8. Before Women Had Wings
  9. Beverly Hills Cops
  10. Boomerang
  11. Boyz in the Hood
  12. Car Wash
  13. Claudine
  14. Cleopatra Jones
  15. Coming to America
  16. Cooley High
  17. Crash
  18. Crooklyn
  19. Cry Freedom
  20. Dave Chapelle’s Block Party
  21. Dead Presidents
  22. Deliver Us From Eva
  23. Desert Bayou
  24. Do The Right Thing
  25. Dolemite
  26. Foxy Brown
  27. Friday
  28. Get on the Bus
  29. Glory
  30. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
  31. Hairspray
  32. Harlem Nights
  33. He Got Game
  34. Higher Learning
  35. Hitch
  36. How Stella Got Her Groove Back
  37. Hustle & Flow
  38. I Am Legend
  39. Jason’s Lyric
  40. John Q
  41. Jungle Fever
  42. Love Jones
  43. Malcolm X
  44. Menace to Society
  45. Mississippi Burning
  46. Mississippi Massala
  47. Mo’ Better Blues
  48. New Jack City
  49. Philadelphia
  50. Pride
  51. Purple Rain
  52. Ray
  53. Sarafina
  54. School Daze
  55. Sister Act
  56. Something New
  57. Soul Food
  58. Sprung
  59. Superfly
  60. The Best Man
  61. The Color Purple
  62. The Hurricane
  63. The Inkwell
  64. The Manchurian Candidate
  65. The Preacher’s Wife
  66. The Pursuit of Happyness
  67. To Kill A Mockingbird
  68. Tsotsi
  69. Undercover Brother
  70. Waiting to Exhale
  71. When the Levees Broke
  72. Why Did I Get Married?

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