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Cinefest Coverage: American Express and Indie Filmmaker Nelson George | The Journey From Dream To Screen

2015-02-23T03:36:41.630Z

When best-selling author Nelson George (Hip Hop America) met failure, he questioned the choice to become an indie filmmaker. Find out why he never stopped on...

Cinefest Coverage: The Best Man Holiday Teaser Trailer... In Theaters Nov. 15, 2013

2013-05-13T20:42:35.751Z

After nearly 15 years apart, Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Harold Perrineau, Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan, Monica Calhoun, Melissa De Sousa and Regina Hall reprise their career-launching roles in the next chapter to the film that ushered in a new era of comedy. When the college friends finally reunite over the Christmas holidays, they will discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be ignited.

The Best Man Holiday hits theaters on Nov. 15, 2013

Skin starring Sophie Okonedo and Sam Neill - Trailer

2013-02-22T20:57:08.850Z

Watch Instantly Now: http://www.amazon.com/Skin/dp/B004LQEYH4/ref=tf_ssw?&linkCode=wss&tag=uptownjazzdallas-20

Synopsis:

Ten year-old Sandra is distinctly African looking. Her parents, Abraham and Sannie, are white Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry. They are shopkeepers in a remote area of the Eastern Transvaal and, despite Sandra’s mixed-race appearance, have lovingly brought her up as their ‘white’ little girl.

Sandra is sent to a boarding school in the neighbouring town of Piet Retief, where her (white) brother Leon is also studying, but parents and teachers complain that she doesn’t belong. She is examined by State officials, reclassified as ‘Coloured’, and expelled from the school. Sandra’s parents are shocked, but Abraham fights through the courts to have the classification reversed. The story becomes an international scandal and media pressure forces the law to change, so that Sandra becomes officially ‘White’ again.

By the time she is 17, Sandra realises she is never going to be accepted by the white community. She falls in love with Petrus — a black man, the local vegetable seller, and begins an illicit love affair. Abraham threatens to shoot Petrus and disown Sandra. Sannie is torn between her husband’s rage and her daughter’s predicament.

Sandra elopes with Petrus to Swaziland. Abraham alerts the police, has them arrested and put in prison. Sandra is told by the local magistrate to go home, but she refuses.

Now Sandra must live her life, for the first time, as a black woman in South Africa — with no running water, no sanitation, and little income. She and Petrus have two children, and although she feels more at home in this community, she desperately misses her parents and yearns for a reunion.

After many more years of hardship and struggle, the chances of that reunion ever happening seem remote. But Sandra carries her father's advice with her wherever she goes: 'Never give up!'

SKIN is a story of family, forgiveness and the triumph of the human spirit.

Cinefest Coverage: The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey - 13 Minute Special [HD]

2012-12-07T13:54:51.649Z

HOBBITSES! SHARE ME on FACEBOOK! http://on.fb.me/VmijKq Go behind the scenes of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in this 13 minute special! ...

Cinefest Coverage: Texas Film Hall of Fame 2013: Save the Date

2012-12-03T16:27:45.691Z

THURSDAY, MARCH 7 at 7 PM

AUSTIN STUDIOS, STAGE 7

Presented by the Austin Film Society

Come See the Stars at Night

as AFS Honors Stars and Icons of Texas Film.

EVENT CO-CHAIRS: Marc, Eli and Alex Winkelman

To purchase a table, donate to the auction, or become a sponsor, contact Ann Welch at…