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PAFF Links with Hip Hop Association
Thursday, February 9, 2006
By: Michael Ivey
 The Pan African Film and Arts Festival and the Hip Hop association have combined to add hip hop flavor to this year’s event, set to begin Thursday and end Feb. 20th. "It is inspiring to see this work gaining increasing recognition with the help of PAFF," said Executive Director of the Hip-Hop Association Roland Brown. The PAFF takes place in Los Angeles at the Magic Johnson Theaters and Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza.
Films from the HHA's 2005 H2O [Hip-Hop Odyssey] International Film Festival will be included in the PAFF, the largest black film festival showcasing diverse films from United States, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, the South Pacific and Canada.
Pieces include: Hip-Hop Colony (Kenya); Favela Rising (Brazil/USA); La Fabri-K (Cuba); The Art of 16 Bars: Get Ya' Bars Up (USA); Beef III (USA); Resistencia (UK/Colombia); Reflections on Women of Color and Hip-Hop (USA); Bling: Consequences and Repercussions (Sierra Leone/USA); and United Nations of Hip-Hop (USA/Senegal).
A hip hop related film panel takes place at 1pm on Valentine’s Day, featuring notable directors like F. Gary Gray (Friday, Set it Off, The Italian Job, Be Cool), Tim Story (Barbershop, Taxi, Fantastic Four), Christopher Erskin (Johnson Family Vacation), Jeff Byrd (King's Ransom), and Chris Robinson, Director of the upcoming Warner Bros. film ATL, the PAFF finale (Feb. 20th). "From Music Videos to Hollywood: Transitioning to Feature Filmmaking," will discuss challenges and tricks for hip hop influenced filmmakers emerging in Hollywood. "These filmmakers have an important voice that resonates globally, enriching the entire filmmaking community," said Roland Brown. The Hip Hop Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to using the culture as an educational tool.
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