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
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