Annually hosting over 175 high-quality, newly produced films, highlighting the diverse stories of Black America, Africa & the global Black Diaspora.
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🎥 TODAY! SATURDAY MORNING! 🙌🏽 HAIR LOVE screens 10am at PAFF Children’s Fest! 👩🏾🦱🧑🏾🦱 Congrats
@matthewacherry
, whole
@hairlovemovie
team on winning Outstanding Short Animation
#Oscar
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Pan African Film Festival, "the place where you can go from script to screen" - Actor/ PAFF Alumni
@mrdhen
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PAFF proudly continues its tradition of showcasing the broad spectrum of Black creative works that depict an expanded vision of the Black experience.
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The Intersection:
#WokeBlackFolk
has been selected as our featured theater production! In it, writer,
@_funmilola_
explores black political identity. This project has been met with critical acclaim by Angela Davis and Erykah Badu alike. Get your tickets at
Join us today at 5pm pst/ 8pm est as we open our 30th Anniversary film series with a free screening of Sankofa. Hosted by
@ARRAYNow
. Sign up for tickets here
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is largest + most prestigious Black film festival + the largest Black History Month event in the country.
#PAFF2021
will take place virtually from Feb 28 – Mar 14 on-line and demand only. Get updates at - link in bio.
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- Debut of PAFF Alumni
@ava
's film
#IWILLFOLLOW
released on 3/11/11. FUN FACT: The film (Ava’s first) debuted at PAFF in 2011 w/
@LenaWaithe
as the production coordinator. Happy 10th Anniversary!!!
Watch the trailer now at .
TICKETS ARE ALMOST GONE-- GET YOUR NOW! LINK IN BIO
TODAY IS OPENING NIGHT at The Pan African Film Festival!
#PAFF
is opening this years festival with the HIGHLY anticipated film, Chevalier, starring Kelvin Harris Jr. as Chevalier.
STEPHEN WILLIAMS (Directed of Chevalier Movie)
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is the largest Black History Month event in the country, celebrating Black film/filmmakers 365 days a year. Celebrate Black History Month by watching the films that tell the stories of Black people from around the world. Get passes at .
Following her meet-and-greet for her popular preschool series on YouTube “Tab Time,” author and actress Tabitha Brown attended the Pan African Film & Arts Festival’s ArtFest on Sat., Feb. 11, at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in Los Angeles, Calif
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Tag 3 of your creative friends with films who NEED 🤩 to submit for the 31st Pan African Film Festival!
Be mindful of the time as the deadline is coming soon on September 15th. 📆
Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking.
#IssaRae
🎊 Join us in person February 9-20, 2023 🎊
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Rest in peace, Ja’net.
The PAFF family is heartbroken at the passing of our festival co-founder, award-winning actress, singer and dancer Ja’net DuBois. Our hearts are with her loved ones and fans all over the world, and the organization will be releasing an official statement.
Today, we reflect on the fifth principle of Kwanzaa Nia (Purpose).
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
Happy Kwanzaa!
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#Nia
Don’t miss a special panel sponsored by FX discussing the Legacy of John Singleton on Monday, February 20, 2023 at 6pm.
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Join
@embracela
next week, April 16-20, for "100 Dinners on Race" - a FREE conversation series on race and racism to challenge and change inequalities. 1 week, 100 dinners, 1K Angelenos! Visit for details.
#embRACELA
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As a precaution for the recent rise in Covid cases, the festival has been postponed. The new tentative dates for
#PAFF2022
are APRIL 19-MAY 1.
Stay tuned for updates as new information becomes available.
(Full explanation on IG:
@paffnow
)
We’re very excited for this year!🎉
Congratulations to
@danielkaluuya
for winning Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture - for playing Fred Hampton in the biopic “Judas and the Black Messiah.”
Big CONGRATULATIONS to Ms.
@stephanieallain
, who will be Producing the 92nd Oscar Awards Show, February 9, 2020!
Stephanie's career in film began at CAA as a Story Analysts, and a decade at Columbia Pictures as Senior Vice President!
Who can you trust if you can’t trust family? Watch
#TheDevilYouKnow
now on Digital and On Demand.
Thanks
@Lionsgate
for sponsoring the 2022 30th Annual Pan African Film & Arts Festival 🎭
#DannyGlover
the Founder of The Pan African Film + Arts Festival will be co-hosting this years 31st annual festival with
@thomasqjones
Opening Night starts Feb. 9
For PAFF PASS (link in bio 📲 or ) 🎟
Can’t wait to see you there 🎬🎞️🍿
#PAFF31
PAFF believes film & art can lead to better understanding & foster communication between peoples of diverse cultures, races, ethnicities, & lifestyles in an entertaining way while at the same time, serving as a vehicle to initiate dialogue on the important issues of our times.
It is PAFF’s goal to present and showcase the broad spectrum of Black creative works, particularly those that reinforce positive images and help destroy negative stereotypes.
Please remember to join in-person for the
🌍 30th Annual Pan-African Film & Art Festival 🌍
🖤❤️💚 April 19th - May 1st 💚❤️🖤
🌍 Visit to get passes for 2022 festival 🌍
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Statement: Co-founders of the Pan African Film Festival, award-winning actor Danny Glover and Ayuko Babu Release Statement on Death of Ja’Net Dubois
Photo: Venus Bernardo
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🎥 OPENING NIGHT GALA AT DGA TONIGHT!
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Join Danny Glover, Ja’Net Dubois, Ayuko Babu, Tatyana Ali, more—star-studded screening of HERO. Caribbean director Frances-Anne Solomon leads a record 81
#women
directors 🎬 225 films!
It's a double take! Catch
@thomasqjones
tonight presenting the Best First Feature Documentary Award and on the series premiere of Johnson (
@JohnsonBounce
) premiering August 1st at 8/7c on
@bouncetv
.
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🎥 Shaquille O’Neal arrives! Pan African Film+Arts Festival Red Carpet for the 7:30 pm premiere of Foster Boy, which he exec-produced.
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🎬 Festival on through Feb 23rd. BUY TICKETS— 🎬
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New Year. New Vision. We are 41 days away from our exciting opening of the 28th Pan African Film & Arts Festival! Purchase tickets NOW. Discounted tickets sales end 1/7.
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Kobe Bryant and Gianna ‘Gigi’ Bryant.
Rest in love.
The Pan African Film Festival family sends our deepest condolences and prayers to wife and mother Vanessa Bryant, all the victims for the today’s horrific accident, and their loved ones.
The beautiful self-proclaimed ‘six-foot publicist’
@sheriseent
on the red carpet of the 2022 Pan African film Festival with the stunning and talented
@iamtabithabrown
— inquiring about her favorite year of the festival to date! 🤩
One place. Many voices. The truth is in the art! Join us at the 29th Annual Pan African Film Festival. The evolution will be digitized. Reserve your pass today at to see shorts like
#WelcomeMatt
, by Dir: Leon Pierce
The Pan African Film + Arts Festival was established to preserve and present "our imaginative stories" –– and to keep the expressions of black film and art vibrant and alive.
🎊 Join us in person February 9-20, 2023! 🎊
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Meet us and our co-host
@thomasqjones
for the 31st Annual Pan African Film + Arts Festival 🎞️🎭
Opening Night begins Thursday, February 9th
@directorsguild
in West Hollywood, CA
#redcarpet
📸 starts at 5:30p
#screening
starts 7pm
Can’t wait to see you there 😉🤳🏾📸
Rest in Power to
#PeaceAnyiamOsigwe
who was a Nigerian filmmaker and entertainment executive who was called "the queen of Nollywood films". She was the founder of globally acclaimed film ceremony, Africa Movie Academy Awards.
Celebrate MLK•“The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open.”
—Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream
#MLKWeekend
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28th Pan African
#Film
+Arts Festival
Feb 11-23—
The Pan African Film + Arts Festival was established to preserve and present "our imaginative stories" –– and to keep the expressions of black film and art vibrant and alive.
🎊 Join us in person February 9-20, 2023! 🎊
Get a PAFF Pass TODAY at 🎟
🎊Congrats🎊 to the team behind Queen of Glory for winning the Best First Feature Narrative in our Jury Awards category for the 30th Annual Pan-African Film & Art Festival 💚❤️🖤
🖤❤️💚 Join us in person next year February 2023💚❤️🖤
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You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
#DianaRoss
🎊 Join us in person February 9-20, 2023! 🎊
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Race-based hair discrimination can begin
#AsEarlyAsFive
, but in most US states it’s not illegal. It’s time to end this injustice, right now. 👉 Sign the petition to pass
#TheCROWNAct
👑 banning hair discrimination at . Let’s Change Beauty 💙
We are truly saddened by the news of the death of one of America’s greatest actors. There is no one who has done more for the images of Black people than Cicely Tyson. On and off the screen, Ms. Tyson was led by her moral compass never compromising her values.
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