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"Quilombo
Country" World Theatrical Premiere Sells
Out
New York's
Anthology Film Archives
The
long-awaited theatrical premiere of "Quilombo
Country" on February 23rd filled the
Anthology Film Archives' 185-seat theater
to overflowing, as an estimated 50 people
were turned away at the door. Negotiations
are currently underway to schedule more screenings,
including a possible theatrical run, to satisfy
demand. Quilombo Films thanks all who made
the effort to come, and apologizes to those
who could not be seated.
Next
Up: 24th Chicago Latino Film Festival
"Quilombo
Country" will hold its Chicago Festival
Premiere at the 24th Chicago Latino Film Festival
sometime between April 4th and 16th. Stay
tuned for details!
African
Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter Praises
"Quilombo Country"
Just out in the December 2007 African
Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter:
"A
visually stunning investigation into quilombos
of Brazil...a fast-moving, yet detailed, examination
of today's quilombos, of their history, and
of their ties to African culture....It is
a well-made, interesting, and enlightening
story....Strongly recommend[ed]..."
— Christopher Espenshade,
ADAN
"Quilombo
Country" Wins "Best Film/Video Documentary"
Award at Berlin Fest
"Quilombo
Country" was the recipient of the recently
announced Best Film/Video Documentary Production
award given by the 2007 Black International
Cinema Berlin festival. The award this year
was also given to three shorter films.
"Quilombo
Country" Screens in St. Louis/Lagos,
Vancouver and Glasgow Festivals
Reviewed
at
In
These Times
"Quilombo
Country" recently screened at the E.
Desmond Lee Africa World Festival of Documentary
Films, taking place in St. Louis, Missouri
and Lagos, Nigeria on October 4-7 and November
1-5, respectively, the Vancouver Pan-African
Film & Arts Festival, October 26 &
27, and the Documentary 5 International Human
Rights Film Festival in Glasgow, October 17-21.
In
These Times, one of the
nation's leading progressive journals, carried
a review of "Quilombo Country" in
its October 2007 issue, which which hit newsstands
around September 20th. The review is also
online.
"Quilombo
Country" Featured in Southern Quarterly
From
the review
of "Quilombo Country" by Phillip
Gentile in the Spring 2007 issue of the University
of Southern Mississippi's Southern
Quarterly,
one of the nation's most noteworthy cultural
journals:
"Very
often the more interesting 'story' of a documentary,
in addition to its narrative line, is how
it reveals a complexity of form or style commensurate
with the importance of its subject. 'Quilombo
Country' accomplishes this by immersing the
viewer in an ever-expanding network of relationships
– alive with the music and intermixed
rhythms of doing and making, work and worship
– which encompasses the concrete details
of religious practices, public celebrations,
and production of material culture. Abrams'
considerable achievement has been to draw
upon these formal resources and provide us
access to the many dimensions of quilombo
experience in a way that is persuasive, complex,
and timely."
The
24-page piece also includes an interview with
director Leonard Abrams, which took place
this March while he was at the University
to present the film.
Blogged
"Quilombo
Country" was also reviewed
in the popular blog J's
Theater, which "recommend[s]
it for anyone with an interest in this area
of Brazilian, African Diasporic and South
American histories and cultures."
"Quilombo
Country" Reviewed in the Journal of Latin
American and Caribbean Anthropology
From
the review
of "Quilombo Country" in the April
2007 Journal
of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology:
"Abrams
brings us a richly textured look at the lives
of communities of escaped slaves in the Brazilian
north…The brilliance of his characters
shines against the background of breathtaking
landscapes….turns a sensitive ethnographic
eye to the racial issues facing quilombolas…in
Brazil's unique system of ethnic and color
classification. But the identitarian political
issues in the film are anchored in a historical
and ethnographic examination of the quilombos'
emergence and present day culture….Provide[s]
useful source material for students of Afro-Brazilian
culture and teachers who focus on slave societies
in the Americas."
—
Brian Brazeal [University of Chicago]
"Quilombo
Country" Screens in London At British
Museum and Festivals in San Francisco, Austin
and Berlin
"Quilombo
Country" screened as part of the film
series "Resistance!" at the British
Museum on April 13th to a near-sellout
audience. Director Leonard Abrams was there
to present the film and take questions.
The
documentary was also included in the Cine
Las Americas International Film Festival
in Austin, TX in April, the Black
International Cinema Berlin in
May and the San
Francisco Black Film Festival.
AOL
Interviews Abrams
AOL
Black Voices, a website dedicated to African-American
concerns, interviewed director Leonard Abrams
and other directors whose films screened at
the Pan African Film Festival. See below:
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