Symposium / Algeria today – Film & Conference
Date: Sunday February 20th
Round Table Panelists

 

 

• Algerian History through cinema by Ahmed Bedjaoui, Director of the Algerian National Cinema; Historian and filmmaker /Algeria / US.
• The PANAF by Danny Glover, actor and activist / US and Manthia Diawara, Professor of Comparative Literature and Cinema at NYU.
• Kathleen Cleaver, attorney, author, and senior lecturer at Yale University and Emory Law Schools / US.
• Yto Barra, photographer and director of Cinematheque de Tanger (Morocco)
• Moderated by Mbye Cham, Professor of African Cinema and Culture, and Director of African Studies/ Howard University.

 

Followed by a screening introduced by Ahmed Bedjaoui and the filmmaker

• Africa is Back (52 min, 2010) by Chergui Kharroubi et Salem Brah

For more information: http://africa.si.edu/filmfest2011.html