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Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film
Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film -Triple film feature exploring the interactions between African-Americans and Asian-Americans
Thursday, Sep 18
from
07:00 pm
to
09:00 pm
Hitchcock Multipurpose Room
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Race
The three films explore the interactions between African-Americans and Asian-Americans in social, cultural, and professional settings:
Akira's Hip Hop Shop, as the relationship between a Japanese hip-hop DJ (Akira) and a Black culinary student (Daphne) blossoms, the pair must deal with racial prejudice and for Akira, mounting pressure from his family to return to Japan.
Race, two colleagues, an African-American man and Asian-American woman, are suddenly at odds when they learn one of them will be promoted to senior vice-president based on an important presentation.
Slowly This documents a conversation about race between two male friends, one Japanese American and the other African-American.
Post-Discussion
Fred Ho, noted jazz musician, writer and social activist, whose whose music often fuses Asian and African influences, will facilitate a discussion following the screenings.
Joe Doughrity, the director of "Akira's Hip Hop Shop," will also be here to discuss and answer questions about his film.
About the Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film
This fall's festival theme, Post Racial Nation? or Permanence of a Racial State, includes films that highlight contemporary and historical assumptions, beliefs and traditions regarding race, skin color and cultural identity.