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The Indie Black Film Festival

by Jermika N. Bradberry

Houston’s most culturally-varied university has discovered yet another medium to celebrate diversity – the moving image. PopCornNlemoNade.films will host UH’s first Independent Black Film Festival on October 21, 2007 from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the Houston Room of the University Center.

The film festival will be an extension of the monthly film screenings produced by the Songhai News staff. Self-dubbed “the Black Collegiate Voice of the Greater Houston Area,” the newspaper “features an array of articles focused on Black issues concerning the student body.”

Angela Bankhead, publicist for Songhai News, said that the festival has lots to offer anyone interested in the independent film industry. In addition to the films shown, there will be vendors on-hand and workshops led by actual documentary film makers.

Bankhead, a graduating senior receiving a degree in media production this fall said, “It’s an opportunity for people who are interested in film to learn the media aspect of communications as well as network and talk to people in the industry.” Film maker and Houston-native Michelle Farris-Lewis, whose work includes an in-depth study of African-American hair issues through first-hand accounts, “New Growth,” will be present.

Also scheduled to attend, is famed documentary film maker and Houston-native Greg Carter, director of acclaimed films “Fifth Ward” and “Thug Life.”

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