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2021 Pan African Film Festival: A Fine Collection of Black Cinema
By Dwight Brown, NNPA Syndication Film Critic
Published March 11, 2021
Movie fans attending the 29th PAFF could watch its choice programming on a streaming app or computers, versus making the annual pilgrimage to Los Angeles. The setting is different, but the usual array of international African diaspora films is still impressive. Check out these four festival films that are on view from February 24 to March 14 at paff.org and in theaters near you in the future.
“41st & Central: The Untold Story of The L.A. Black Panthers” ( 1/2) If you want to know the real story of the Black Panthers, ask ‘em. That’s what documentarian Gregory Everett did. Through vivid recollections by L.A. Panthers who survived to tell the story, he reconstructs the history of a social/political party that left its mark on the City of Angeles and Black history. Legendary members (Elaine Brown and Kathleen Cleaver) share insightful ane
Longtime political prisoner Geronimo Pratt (aka Geronimo Ji Jaga)
The 29th Pan African Film Festival has moved online, taking place Feb. 28–March 14.
This year’s PAFF is screening at least three Black Panther Party-related films: The documentary
Truth to Power: Barbara Lee Speaks for Me and
Judas and the Black Messiah, probably Hollywood’s best political feature in years. The third is a reprise of the 2009 documentary
41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers, which was originally screened at PAFF in 2010 and again in 2017. I am repurposing parts of my 2017 review here:
41st & Central,
which is as exciting as any Hollywood shoot-’em-up, won PAFF’s Audience Favorite Award Documentary in 2010. The documentary was directed by Gregory Everett, son of ex-Panther Jeffrey Everett, who is among the film’s interviewees providing eyewitness accounts, along with Panther icons Kathleen Cleaver, Elaine Brown, Ericka Huggins, and longtime political prisone