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Try googling \u201cbest African films\u201d? What will show up first is a top ten list featuring\u00a0Out of Africa\u00a0<\/em><\/a>with Streep and Redford,\u00a0Blood Diamond<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>with DiCaprio, and\u00a0Black Panther\u00a0<\/em>with Boseman. Not exactly what you were searching for.<\/p>\n So where do you go to find homeborn African films with directors and actors and crew who don\u2019t have U.S. passports and who aren\u2019t signed up with CAA, William Morris, or Gersh?<\/p>\n This week, the\u00a027th New York\u00a0A<\/span>frican Film Festival<\/a>\u00a0will satisfy your cinematic thirst for such product (at least until Dec. 6th), and thanks to the folks at Film at Lincoln Center and AFF, Inc., this year\u2019s offerings have gone virtual.<\/p>\n Six full-length features and eight shorts, both new and old, were chosen to spotlight Sudan and Nigeria, two countries whose film industries were once upended by economic decline and a 30-year-reign of a dictator, respectively. Both have seeming recovered, even to the point where\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0<\/em>is said to have coined the term\u00a0Nollywood<\/em>\u00a0to write about Nigeria\u2019s successful comeback.<\/p>\n Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] Try googling \u201cbest African films\u201d? What will show up first is a top ten list featuring\u00a0Out of Africa\u00a0with Streep and Redford,\u00a0Blood Diamond\u00a0with DiCaprio, and\u00a0Black Panther\u00a0with Boseman. Not exactly what you were searching for. So where do you go to find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" Try googling \u201cbest African films\u201d? What will show up first is a top ten list featuring\u00a0Out of Africa\u00a0<\/em><\/a>with Streep and Redford,\u00a0Blood Diamond<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>with DiCaprio, and\u00a0Black Panther\u00a0<\/em>with Boseman. Not exactly what you were searching for.<\/p> So where do you go to find homeborn African films with directors and actors and crew who don\u2019t have U.S. passports and who aren\u2019t signed up with CAA, William Morris, or Gersh?<\/p>