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Marian Makeba in Mama Africa.<\/p>\n
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\t\t Search our comprehensive guide to caribbean events in NYC<\/a> for more local events \u2014 or submit your own<\/a>!<\/p>\n The African Diaspora International Film Festival (ADIFF), in partnership with ArtMattan Films, announced a special virtual mini festival running from May through September, celebrating more than 30 years of film distribution by ArtMattan Films.<\/p>\n Presented nationwide, ADIFF said the series offers a \u201crare opportunity to experience a curated selection of films drawn from the ArtMattan catalog \u2014 works that reflect a commitment to independent cinema shaped by diverse histories and lived realities.\u201d<\/p>\n Organized around monthly themes, the upcoming program unfolds as follows: June \u2014 Father\u2019s Day; July \u2014 Films for the Family; August \u2014 Great African Films; and September \u2014 Voices from Latin America.<\/p>\n ADIFF said the May program, dedicated to Mother\u2019s Day, reflected the breadth of the catalog with films such as Village Keeper (Toronto International Film Festival); Mama Africa: Miriam Makeba, a widely celebrated classic; Mother Suriname (IDFA); and Faraw: Mother of the Dunes from Mali (Cannes 1997).<\/p>\n \u201cTogether, they bring into focus stories centered on women, family, and resilience across different cultural contexts,\u201d ADIFF said.\n<\/p>\n \u201cFor more than 30 years, ArtMattan Films has focused on making visible stories that exist outside dominant circulation,\u201d said Dr. Reinaldo Barroso-Spech, president of ArtMattan Films and co-director of ADIFF. \u201cThis series brings those films back into view \u2014 to be seen and engaged with in the present.\u201d<\/p>\n Through this virtual series, ADIFF said it creates a space of access across the country, inviting audiences to \u201cencounter films that rarely circulate, yet remain grounded in lived experience, memory, and the complexity of everyday life.\u201d<\/p>\n ADIFF said its selection reflects its mission: presenting films from the United States and around the world exploring the human experience of people of color, with particular focus on people of African descent and Indigenous communities.<\/p>\n \u201cThese films reflect different realities of motherhood \u2014 women navigating difficult conditions while holding their families together,\u201d says Diarah N\u2019Daw-Spech, co-director of ADIFF. \u201cWe wanted to make these stories accessible to audiences across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marian Makeba in Mama Africa. ADIFF Search our comprehensive guide to caribbean events in NYC for more local…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-243903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}