Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) and African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF) will celebrate the kickoff of the 30th New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) at FLC from May 10 to 16. Launched in 1993 and one of the first of its kind in the United States, the festival reflects on the myriad ways African and diaspora storytellers have used the moving image as a mold to tell stories with their own nuances and idiosyncrasies. Under the banner, Freeforms, the festival presents over 30 films from more than.
by China Martens
I want to send my sympathy this Mother’s Day, for the lives lost during the pandemic this last year, as well as in earlier years. I cannot see this Mother’s Day as anything but a day of mourning. The fact that I was able to share air with my only daughter, just last week, after so many months of socially distancing, now seems the greatest privilege of all. My heart goes out, as a single mother of one child, to all those who have lost loved ones.
We have been separated from each other. There is so little middle ground. Sheltering in place alone, I have seen racist killings by the police occur in the news, on social media, coming up often with great shock and emotion, over and over. I have also known of five deaths of grown adult children in my circle of friends, three of them in the