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Finale of the 8th Annual Black Film Festival-Presented with Nigel Nobel- Academy Award Winning Producer/Director of Film and Television

2:00pm to 2:40pm-World Premier-"Prison Terminal:The Last Days


of Private Jack Hall" (2013)
This is a moving cinema verité documentary that breaks
through the walls of one of America’s oldest maximum security prisons to tell
the story of the final months in the life of a terminally ill prisoner, Jack
Hall and the hospice volunteers, they themselves prisoners, who care for him.

2:44pm to 4:10pm-Voices of Sarafina!

(1988)
is a documentary film made with members of the
young South African cast and based on the 1987 Lincoln Center Theater/Broadway musical “Sarafina!” The musical play retold the causes and the story of what is
now known as the Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976, a series of protests led by
high school students in the streets of Soweto.

The peaceful protest began in a response to the introduction of Afrikaans as

the medium of instruction in township schools. An estimated 20,000 students
took part.

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