Roxbury Film Festival Celebrates the Vision and Voice of

New England Filmmakers of Color

Roxbury Film Festival, the largest festival in New England dedicated to the work of filmmakers and film industry professionals of color

(AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWSWIRE)July 19, 2004 -- Ernest Hudson, the famed actor known for his roles in Ghostbusters I and II, Roots and most recently in Oz, the series, alongside actress, producer, and entrepreneur Daphne Maxwell Reid, producer/director Topper Carew (a Roxbury, MA. native), Sam Greenlee, author of The Spook Who Sat by the Door, and Hill Harper (invited) will make guest appearances at this, the sixth annual Roxbury Film Festival, also known as RFF-6. Hosted by ACT Roxbury and The Color of Film Collaborative, RFF-6 showcases some 48 films by New England Filmmakers of Color to be screened at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Northeastern University’s Blackman Auditorium and Massachusetts College of Art’s Tower Auditorium, August 18-22.

“Celebrating the Vision and the Voice of Filmmakers of Color” is the theme for this year’s festival. The cinematic lineup spans a gamut of feature-length films, documentaries and short films about romance, African Dance, race relations, comedy, and several of the cultures of the African Diaspora making this an event in which you are sure to see a movie that moves you! There will also be panel discussions by industry professionals, Q & As with filmmakers after most screenings, networking opportunities for filmmakers and an Actor’s Workshop. The panels are Music for Movies: Scoring Your Film; Animated Conversation about Animation; and From Production to PBS.

The celebration will begin with a classic retrospective screening of The Spook Who Sat by the Door , a politically charged movie, based on the fictional tale of an urban war for African American liberation. The film, though highly popular when originally released, was mysteriously taken out of distribution and now returns to the screen still filled with relevant social commentary. Next on the platter will be Love, Sex & Eating the Bones (starring Hill Harper) as the Opening Night Film, named Best Feature Film by the Pan African Film Festival. We wil! l also show Everything's Jake (starring Ernie Hudson), Brother to Brother (an exciting film about the gay players of the Harlem Renaissance), and an important documentary about the late comic Robin Harris ("We Don't Die, We Multiply"!).

For more information, please visit www.actroxbury.org, _www.roxburyfilmfestival.org . Tickets go on sale as of August 1st, or call the info line at (617) 541-3900, ext. 223.

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Photo Caption: Opening Night Film: Love, Sex and Eating the Bones

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