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MYPHEDUH FILMS, INC
Distributors of Independent Films
By Africans & Africans of the Diaspora
PRESENTS
Cast: Oyafunmike Ogunlano, Mutabaruka,
Alexandra Duah, Kofi Ghanaba,
Nick Medley, Afemo Omilami, Reginald Carter. (NR, 125 min.)
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Sankofa is an Akan word that
means, "We must go back and reclaim our past so we can move forward; so we understand
why and how we came to be who we are today." Written, directed and produced by
Ethiopian born filmmaker Haile Gerima, SANKOFA is a powerful film about Maafa-the
African holocaust. Done from an African/African-American perspective, this story is a
vastly different one from the generally distorted representations of African people that
Hollywood gives us. |
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enslaved black people with their African past and culture. It empowers Black people by
showing how African peoples desire for freedom made them resist, fight back, and conspire
against their enslavers, overseers and collective past through the vision on Mona, who
visits her ancestral experience on a new world plantation as Shola. We share the life she
endures as a slave and experiences her growing consciousness and transformation. |
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Get a copy of Sankofa and the
following other Haile Gerima videos and products, at the MYPHEDUH FILMS website:
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Reviews and
additional information:
Austin Chronicle review by Marc Savlov
UNC Afro-American Studies review
Pilot Online review by Mal Vincent
www.films.com reviews by John Hartl & Andy Spletzer
12th Annual Harlem Week Black Film Festival featuring Sankofa |
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