Pan-African Film Festival 2016
Every year during Black History Month, Los Angelinos are treated to two weeks of fashion, art and movies from around the globe from African American filmmakers through the Pan African Film Festival.
Highlights of the festival include Conversation Panels with Wesley Snipes, Ryan Coogler, Friends Remembering Miles Davis and Nate Parker, who just scored a record-breaking deal at the Sundance Film Festival for his film “Birth of a Nation”.
My screeners ranged from “The Church House” – Sexuality in the Black Church to “Half a Yellow Sun” based on the true story of the Biafran War in Nigeria to “Ota Benga” to “A Ferguson Story”.
This festival is a favorite of mine, because I am always illuminated to facts about my culture that somehow eluded my education as a young woman in this country.
Click on the links below for my reviews…
2016 Pan African Film Festival – Carla Renata’s Corner coverage
2016 Pan African Film Festival – Closing Night Carpet – Miles Ahead
Carla Renata
I love, love love movies, watching them and discussing them...thus the birth of The Curvy Film Critic!!! Host/Producer/Film Critic, Carla Renata is a member of such esteemed organizations as Critics Choice Association (Former Co-President Documentary Branch and current Board Member), African American Film Critics Association, International Documentary Association and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. My op-eds or features have been seen in Variety , RogerEbert.com, The Wrap,as well as being a frequent Guest Contributor/Culture Critic for Fox 11-LA, Good Day LA, RogerEbert.com, BBC News, CNN and NBC's Hollywood Reeltime. Catch my reviews on The Curvy Critic with Carla Renata - LIVE!!! weekly via You Tube and on the Rotten Tomatoes podcast "Critical Thinking." If you like what you read please shout me out and subscribe to The Curvy Critic on YouTube. You can chat with me across all social media platforms @TheCurvyCritic and as always, thanks for supporting a sista'
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