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*The 16th Urbanworld Film Festival kicked off this past weekend with some of the best film content you would could ever hope to see plastered across the big screen at the Loews Theater on 34th street in midtown Manhattan. Each year audiences come down to the festival with hopes of being even more entertained and enlightened than [...]
*NEW YORK, NY – The 16th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival, presented by BET Networks, has announced the winners of the narrative feature, documentary feature, narrative short, screenplay, teleplay and audience award categories. The five-day festival was held September 19-23 and concluded today with an awards reception at Tribeca Grill Loft, sponsored by Warner Bros. Pictures [...]
*Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil’s “Being Mary Jane,” starring Gabrielle Union as a single career woman, will open the 16th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival on Sept. 20 in New York ahead of its 2013 bow on BET. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Formerly titled “Single Black Female,” the show stars Union as Mary Jane [...]
*Viola Davis is shining. The actress will be among the dozens of featured thespians at the 16th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival. So far on the roster, Ava DuVernay’s 2012 Sundance-winning, “Middle of Nowhere”, is expected to win the hearts of viewers, along with “The Girl Is In Trouble,” starring Columbus Short. Others include, “Won’t Back [...]
By Ricardo Hazell / rick_hazell@yahoo.com *The Urbanworld Film Festival, sponsored by BET Networks and HBO, kicked in the door on its 15th anniversary at New York City’s AMC 34th St. theater. As usual, EURweb.com was on the scene with coverage. This year’s incredible slate of film’s were lead by such offerings as ‘Kinyarwanda,’ a film [...]
*The Urbanworld Film Festival closed its 15th film festival Saturday night with the NYC premiere of the Sundance World Cinema Audience Award film “Kinyarwanda,” directed by Alrick Brown and starring Cassandra Freeman. The packed theater gave the film a standing ovation, followed by a Q&A (with Brown, Freeman and producer Darren Dean) moderated by noted [...]
*”Bouncing Cats” tells the story of a young brother named Abramz, Abraham Tekya to be exact. Why is his story worthy of being told? He is a small voice of reason in a hurricane of sadness that exists in his native Uganda. One can only imagine what it’s like to be a child there. No [...]
*Those fortunate enough to have met publicist turned film director Ava DuVernay are aware of her genuine heart and relentless work ethic. She is responsible for the acclaimed BET documentary “My Mic Sounds Nice” as well as “This Is the Life,” both of which are essentials for those that savor the true flavor of Hip-Hop [...]
*Sunday (09-19-10) witnessed the closing of the Urbanworld Film Festival in New York City and EURweb.com was happy to be on the scene with a lean, dressed so fresh like Listerine. This year’s offerings may well have been some of the very best that we can remember. The narratives, the shorts, the cinema-induced emotional [...]
*Timing couldn’t have been better for a new film premiering this month set against the politically-charged backdrop of the Sept. 11th attacks, and what it means to be Muslim in 21st century America. Evan Ross, Danny Glover and Nia Long star in “MOOZ-lum,” which is scheduled to debut Sept. 17 in New York as part [...]
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