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Mother of George is a story about a woman willing to do anything and risk everything for her marriage. The film will be screened on Feb. 6 at the 24th annual Cascade
Festival of African Films sponsored by Portland Community College. Opening night of the festival is Friday, Jan. 31 at the Hollywood Theater with the other films
through March 1 on the PCC Cascade campus in north Portland.
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Africans
Festival of African
Films to entertain
and inform
Portland Com m unity College's 24th Cascade Festi­
val o f African Film s is set to bring 19 film s and two
A frican directors to Portland in February.
The longest-running annual African film festival in
the United States is set to entertain and inform from
Saturday, Jan. 31 through M arch 1. The festival, which
is free and open to the public, shows films ranging from
full-length features to docum entaries and short films.
M ore than 5,000 people attend the festival annually.
Each night's screening is follow ed by a discussion led
by individuals with expert know ledge o f the region
shown in that evening's film.
"The films celebrate Africa's achievem ents, expose
Africa's failures, and reveal the possibilities for change
and a m ore hopeful future," said T ara Foster, film
festival coordinator. "They show us pictures o f Africa
through the eyes o f A fricans, rather than a vision of
Africa that is packaged primarily for western view ers."
All films will be shown in the M oriarty Arts and
H um anities Building Auditorium , Cascade Cam pus,
705 N. Killingsworth St., with opening night festivities
on Friday, Jan. 31 to be held at the Hollywood Theatre,
4122N .E . Sandy Blvd.
Feature films are on Friday and Saturday evenings
(most features are also screened on Thursday after-
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