Friday, February 23, 2007

Abolitionist drama Amazing Grace screens at Los Angeles Pan-African Film Festival!

...And in OTHER news: Abolitionist drama Amazing Grace screens at Los Angeles Pan-African Film Festival!



http://www.independentngonline.com/news/45/ARTICLE/21388/2007-02-22.html

"Jeta Amata’s 135-minute Amazing Grace was screened on Tuesday, February 13 and Saturday, February 17. It is the Governor Donald Duke beloved story said to have been penned by a slave ship captain after hearing it sung by the people captured, enslaved and transported in his ship. But like it happened at the Cannes Film Festival in France last year, the more acclaimed and better-packaged Amazing Grace by Michael Apted was a star attraction at PAFF. It was given a special screening on Thursday, February 15 and it attracted a higher gate fee, drew more crowd and better received. There was, however, no denying Jeta of his five minutes of fame. He shone like a million stars at the Saturday screening of his film and was seen in the company of some female admirers as he stepped out of the Magic Johnson Theatre in Crenshaw, LA, where all the films were screened."

Serendipitous, ain't it?

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