| African American Film Festival at Miami Campuses |
| Monday, March 16, 2009 11:49:21 AM - Middletown Ohio |
 By: Tara Kunkle
The Middletown, Hamilton and Oxford Miami campuses are hosting an African American Film Festival this week. It will be including free screenings of four films and the chance to hear from the producers, directors, writers and cinematographers. They will lead discussions about their work.
Babacar Camara a Miami faculty member and film festival coordinator told Eric Robinette of the Middletown Journal that he is trying to give the average American a way of seeing others who are racially different but share the same history and the same issues. The four different films will be “Fauboroug Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans,” “Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North,” “Revolution ‘67” and “Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican? A Cape Verdean American Story.”
On Wednesday, March 18th the films will start with lunch at noon then be followed by screenings and discussions of “Revolution ‘67” at 1:30 p.m., “Traces of the Trade” at 3:45 p.m. and “Faubourg Treme” at 6:30 p.m. The events will be held in room 142 of Johnston Hall’s Campus and Community Center at MUM.
The festival will be at the Hamilton campus on Thursday, March 19th and will include a roundtable discussion with the filmmakers at 10 a.m. in 408 Mosler Hall. Then on Friday the 20th there will be a meet and greet at 8:30 a.m. in 102 Benton Hall on Miami’s Oxford campus.
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