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	<title>The Black Box Office &#187; Film Festivals</title>
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		<title>Call For Entries: 11th New York Indian Film Festival</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2011/02/call-for-entries-11th-new-york-indian-film-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York's longest running film festival is back - mark your calendars and submit your films now! ]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Sundance Film Festival comes to a theatre near you</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2010/12/2011-sundance-film-festival-announces-films/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2010/12/2011-sundance-film-festival-announces-films/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey DeMunn]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vera Farmiga]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sundance USA, brings Sundance films to a theatre near you. Chicago, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Nashville, San Francisco are just a few of the cities listed.]]></description>
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		<title>MIAAC Film Festival 2010 – “Shor” Premiere</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2010/11/miaac-film-festival-2010-%e2%80%93-%e2%80%9cshor%e2%80%9d-premiere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>www.the-nri.com</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bollywood. film festivals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pulkit Datta New York&#8217;s oldest South Asian film festival offers a diverse array of films, panels and special features in its 10th year. Anyone looking for access to a spectrum of Indian cinema in New York City can’t complain. There are now a handful of film festivals promising a good dose of Indian filmdom in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Time &#8211; Short Film</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2010/09/this-time-short-film/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Films]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reagan Gomez is the executive producer and star of this short film, currently being shown at a film festival near you! Romantic story about a soldier who returns home, to find everything has changed, including the woman he loves.]]></description>
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		<title>RZA presents the Yuen Woo Ping Lifetime Acheivement Award</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2010/09/rza-presents-the-yuen-woo-ping-lifetime-acheivement-award/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2010/09/rza-presents-the-yuen-woo-ping-lifetime-acheivement-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I have been a fan of Yuen Woo Ping since I was young. I had a chance to meet him on the set of KILL BILL along with his team. I have always admired him as a fan and once I met him I admired him as a man too. He has directed many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magnet Acquires &#8220;13 Assassins&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2010/09/magnet-acquires-13-assassins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Set in 1844 Japan, the violent action epic is a remake of the 1963 film of the same title and stars Koji Yakusho (Tokyo Sonata, Babel) as a samurai who assembles a team of thirteen killers to assassinate the brother of a sadistic young Shogun. I hear that the 45-minute climactic battle is astonishing: Magnolia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>14th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival Winners</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2010/09/14th-annual-urbanworld-film-festival-winners/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2010/09/14th-annual-urbanworld-film-festival-winners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Box Office Report</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 14th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival, presented by BET Networks, has announced the winners of the narrative feature, documentary feature, narrative short, documentary short, screenplay, teleplay and audience award categories. The five-day festival was held September 15-19 and concluded yesterday with an awards brunch at Tribeca Grill Loft. Urbanworld, which screened 71 films this year, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BEYOND BORDERS: DIVERSITY IN CANNES</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2010/05/beyond-borders-diversity-in-cannes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 13:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daryle Lockhart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yolonda Brinkley, friend of The Black Box Office, is not only AT Cannes, she's bringing folks together!]]></description>
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		<title>TEN9EIGHT:  An interview with filmmaker Mary Mazzio</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/11/ten9eight-an-interview-with-filmmaker-mary-mazzio/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/11/ten9eight-an-interview-with-filmmaker-mary-mazzio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In America, a kid drops out of school every 9 seconds. What if they didn&#8217;t? This is the compelling question behind award-winning filmmaker Mary Mazzio&#8217;s newest project TEN9EIGHT, a thought provoking film which tells the inspirational stories of several inner city teens (of differing race, religion, and ethnicity) from Harlem to Compton and all points [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gabourey is on her way!</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/10/gabourey-is-on-her-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margo Lockhart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gabourey “Gabby” Sidibe the new breakout star of &#8220;Precious&#8221; isn&#8217;t done yet! She is about to start shooting Yelling to the Sky, a Sundance Lab film with Don Cheadle, where she is NOT the victim this time! Instead she will play a bit of a bully herself, opposite another young actor I can&#8217;t wait to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Defendor&#8221;, &#8220;A Single Man&#8221;, and &#8220;Valhalla Rising&#8221; picked up at Toronto!</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/09/defendor-a-single-man-and-valhalla-rising-picked-up-at-toronto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like The Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group is in final negotiations to pick up &#8220;Defendor,&#8221; which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this week. &#8220;Defendor&#8221; , directed by Peter Stebbings, stars Woody Harrelson as a man who is under the delusion that he is a superhero, his psychiatrist, played by Sandrah Oh, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 13th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival &#8211; official lineup!</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/09/the-13th-annual-urbanworld-film-festival-official-lineup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK, NY (September 3, 2009) – The 13th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival, presented by BET Networks, today announced the opening night selection of Overture Films’ dramatic thriller LAW ABIDING CITIZEN, starring Gerard Butler, Academy Award® winner Jamie Foxx and Academy Award nominee Viola Davis under the direction of F. Gary Gray. The star-studded event [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Independent trailer: Thirteen Months of Sunshine</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/07/independent-trailer-thirteen-months-of-sunshine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A marriage of convenience turns into something much deeper after an Ethiopian man agrees to marry a woman so that she can obtain her green card and gain U.S. citizenship. Solomon has always dreamed of opening an authentic Ethiopian coffee house, so when Hannah&#8217;s parents agree to pay him $20,000 to marry their daughter he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Important Documentary: Revolution &#8217;67</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/07/important-documentary-revolution-67/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 1960s were in full heat. The Vietnam War, campus unrest, political assassinations and a defiant counterculture were remaking the country. For African Americans, nonviolent protest was giving way to &#8220;black power&#8221; as the traditional civil rights movement was seen as failing the aspirations of poor blacks in decaying urban centers. There had been deadly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inspiring Documentary: A Man Named Pearl</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/07/inspiring-documentary-a-man-named-pearl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A MAN NAMED PEARL tells the inspiring story of self-taught topiary artist Pearl Fryar, whose unlikely journey to national prominence began with a bigoted remark. In 1976, Pearl took a job in a can factory in Bishopville, South Carolina. New to this rural southern town, he and his wife Metra looked at a house for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Independent: Carl Bradshaw, Sean Bones, and Norah Jones in &#8220;Wah Do Dem&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/06/independent-carl-bradshaw-sean-bones-and-norah-jones-in-wah-do-dem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Wah Do Dem&#8221; brings back an interesting style of filmmaking that we don&#8217;t see much any more, a true guerilla style. And for that reason, it&#8217;s a standout from the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival. Also, it&#8217;s got an interesting cast. Norah Jones and Sean Bones are great casting choices, and for that incredible touch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[BLACK MUSIC MONTH] Youssou N&#8217;Dour: I Bring What I Love documentary</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/06/black-music-month-youssou-ndour-i-bring-what-i-love-documentary/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/06/black-music-month-youssou-ndour-i-bring-what-i-love-documentary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this trailer for &#8220;Youssou N&#8217;Dour: I Bring What I Love&#8221;, directed by by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. Senegalese pop sensation Youssou Ndour has spent the last 20 years in the spotlight as a world-renowned musician and the iconic representative &#8220;voice of Africa&#8221;. At the height of his career, Youssou, became frustrated by the negative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[CANNES] Ang Lee&#8217;s Taking Woodstock</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/05/cannes-ang-lees-taking-woodstock/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/05/cannes-ang-lees-taking-woodstock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 16:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lee_bbo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking Woodstock is the new film from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee &#8211; and it’s a trip! Based on the memoirs of Elliot Tiber, the comedy stars Demetri Martin as Elliot, who inadvertently played a role in making 1969’s Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the famed happening it was. Featuring a standout ensemble cast, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[CANNES] The 62nd Cannes Film Festival begins!</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/05/cannes-the-62nd-cannes-film-festival-begins/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/05/cannes-the-62nd-cannes-film-festival-begins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 21:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the third year, Nigeria has maintained a pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival. The 62nd Cannes Film Festival, which will run till May 24 2009, will have over 200,000 stakeholders in attendance. Without a film to screen for the third time, Nigeria is heading to the world largest and most glamorous film fiesta as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Havana Film Festival New York Celebrates 10 Years Of Illuminating Cinema</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/04/havana-film-festival-new-york-celebrates-10-years-of-illuminating-cinema/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/04/havana-film-festival-new-york-celebrates-10-years-of-illuminating-cinema/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York, NY &#8212; Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY) celebrates its tenth anniversary with premieres of highly anticipated and influential films from and about Latin America and Latinos in the U.S. Programs for all ages will be shown throughout various locations in Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx. Quad Cinema (34 W. 13 St) will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From A Whisper &#8211; Trailer</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/04/from-a-whisper-trailer/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/04/from-a-whisper-trailer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BIG WINNER at the 2009 AAMAs!! PLAYING AT THE NY AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL at Lincoln Center Here&#8217;s the trailer to one of the most talked about films in African cinema. &#8220;From A Whisper&#8221; is a film by Wanuri Kahiu, based on real events surrounding the US Embassy bombing in Kenya on August 7, 1998.]]></description>
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		<title>AREA BOYS</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/04/area-boys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PLAYING THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 9PM part of the NEW YORK AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL Having grown up in a world where corruption and greed over-ride all else, life-long friends Bode and Obi decide to repent from their way of life when they encounter a near death experience following a botched scam. They cut their ties with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Triomf, by Michael Raeburn</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/04/triomf-by-michael-raeburn/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/04/triomf-by-michael-raeburn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>africanmovies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PLAYING as part of the NEW YORK AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2008, 6:15PM In five days the first South African democratic elections will take place, after which there will be majority rule under a Black government. Tensions are high thoughout the land, and no less so in Triomf, the poor white suburb of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>African Film Festival NY: Africa In Transition</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/04/african-film-festival-ny-africa-in-transition/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/04/african-film-festival-ny-africa-in-transition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 New York African Film Festival, presented under the banner “Africa in Transition,” takes an introspective journey across the African continent with films that create a vision of Africa&#8217;s future through a deconstruction of its past. It has been 15 years since South Africa’s first all-race democratic elections. In mid-April of this year, South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JERUSALEMA playing at the NY African Film Fest</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/04/jerusalema-playing-at-the-ny-african-film-fest/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/04/jerusalema-playing-at-the-ny-african-film-fest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PLAYING FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 7:15PM WALTER READE THEATER 165 W 65th STREET, NYC Synopsis: An uneducated gas station attendant with a taste for the finer things in life turns to crime as a means of making ends meet, only to find himself on a dangerous collision course with the biggest drug dealer in town. All [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maria Bethânia:  Music Is Perfume</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/03/maria-bethania-music-is-perfume/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/03/maria-bethania-music-is-perfume/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maria Bethânia is a living musical legend whose earthy interpretations of Brazilian film music have inspired generations of fans and musical colleagues all over the world. In this documentary by Georges Cachot, we see many famous faces from the music world alongside Bethânia. &#8216;Samba is sadness dancing,&#8217; says Brazilian singer Maria Bethânia, a woman who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve McQueen&#8217;s &#8220;Hunger&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/03/steve-mcqueens-hunger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HUNGER is the stunningly assured debut feature from Turner Prize-winning visual artist Steve McQueen. Winner of the 2008 Cannes Camera d&#8217;Or among other top international prizes, the film is a work of astonishing precision co-written by acclaimed Irish playwright Enda Walsh and starring Michael Fassbender (300, Tarantino&#8217;s upcoming INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS) in an unflinchingly passionate turn. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you know Haile Gerima?</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/03/do-you-know-haile-gerima/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this year&#8217;s FESPACO, the winner of Best Picture was &#8220;Teza&#8221;, by independent filmmaker Haile Gerima. True fans of Black film know that name well. While a student at UCLA, At UCLA he, along with award-winning filmmakers Charles Burnett, Jamaa Fanaka, Ben Caldwell, Larry Clark, and Julie Dash made up the &#8220;Los Angeles School of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>latest Star Trek trailer</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/03/latest-star-trek-trailer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Exidor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new trailer for Star Trek is running before &#8220;Watchmen&#8221; this weekend. If, after seeing this trailer, you are still not sold on it, then there&#8217;s a good chance nothing will send you to see this film. They have explained the movie&#8217;s differences from the Original series without giving the movie away, and they show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See &#8220;Black&#8221; at SXSW Fantastic Fest!</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/03/see-black-at-sxsw-fantastic-fest/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/03/see-black-at-sxsw-fantastic-fest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Black&#8221; world-premieres at part of the &#8220;SXSW presents Fantastic Fest at Midnight&#8221; on Saturday, March 14, 2009! When his Parisian armored car holdup goes horribly awry, our protagonist Black needs to go on the lam. News from his cousin in Senegal about a stash of uncut diamonds in a poorly guarded bank in Dakar hatches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Denzel and Travolta Take &#8216;Pelham 1 2 3&#8242;</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/denzel-and-travolta-take-pelham-1-2-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Denzel Washington stars as New York City subway dispatcher Walter Garber, whose ordinary day is thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway train. John Travolta stars as Ryder, the criminal mastermind who, as leader of a highly-armed gang of four, threatens to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SUGAR</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/sugar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PLAYING AS PART OF THE PAN AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL LOS ANGELES, FEBRUARY 14, 4:15PM PST OPENS IN NEW YORK &#038; LOS ANGELES APRIL 3 Sugar follows the story of Miguel Santos, a.k.a. Sugar, a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro De Macorís, struggling to make it to the big leagues and pull himself and his family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/number-one-with-a-bullet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PLAYING FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 9:45pm Documentary Feature Competition PART of the PAN AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL 50 Cent &#038; the G-Unit, The Game, Fabolous, MF Grimm, Timbaland, Ice Cube, Cam&#8217;ron, Obie Trice and many more of today&#8217;s biggest rap stars have something in common besides successful careers. They&#8217;ve all been shot and lived to rap about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WIN tickets to see &#8216;Medicine For Melancholy&#8217;!</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/win-tickets-to-see-medicine-for-melancholy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IFC Films presents a new film by Barry Jenkins. MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY is a love story about a one-night stand told through two African-American twenty-something&#8217;s dealing with issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco &#8211; a city with the smallest black population of any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bongoland II: There&#8217;s No Place Like Home</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/bongoland-ii-theres-no-place-like-home/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/bongoland-ii-theres-no-place-like-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>africanmovies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PLAYING AT THE PAN AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL TONIGHT, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1pm PST Are we poor (Maskini in Swahili) or short of cash (Fukara in Swahili)? This is a question Juma has been wrestling with upon his arrival to his native Bongoland. He was happy to be re-united with his family but overtime he is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TROUBLE THE WATER</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/trouble-the-water-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE, DOCUMENTARY FEATURE SUNDANCE GRAND JURY PRIZE WINNER PLAYING AS PART OF THE PAN AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 7:45PM Trouble the Water is directed and produced by Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal. The film tells the story of an aspiring rap artist and her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emily Yoshida&#8217;s &#8216;Abigail&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/emily-yoshidas-abigail/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/emily-yoshidas-abigail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a crew of 15 and with a cast that included 10 speaking roles, “Abigail” was a fairly elaborate production as student films go. Yoshida said she financed most of its $12,000 production budget out of grants, paying for the rest with credit cards and even dipping into her savings. &#8211; The News Tribune, Seattle. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4th Annual Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/4th-annual-science-fiction-fantasy-short-film-festival/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/4th-annual-science-fiction-fantasy-short-film-festival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theblackboxoffice.com/?p=2108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[EMP&#124;SFM in partnership with SIFF present the fourth annual Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival Saturday, February 7, 2009 at the Seattle Cinerama Theater. The festival brings together industry professionals in filmmaking and the genres of science fiction and fantasy to encourage and support new, creative additions to science fiction and fantasy cinema arts. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nollywood Babylon</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/nollywood-babylon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We speak a lot about Nollywood here. If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to know what we were talking about, or wanted to learn more, there is a documentary film you must see. &#8220;Nollywood Babylon&#8221; is a feature documentary about the explosive popularity of Nigeria&#8217;s movie industry. The film drops viewers into the chaos of Lagos&#8217; Idumota [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Pan African Film Festival!</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/2009-pan-african-film-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Established in 1992, The Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to the promotion of cultural and racial tolerance and understanding through the exhibition of film, art and creative expression. It is PAFF’s goal to present and showcase the broad spectrum of Black creative works, particularly those that reinforce positive images and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antonia</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2008/11/antonia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brazilian director Tata Amaral&#8217;s &#8220;Antonia&#8221; is the story of four young Brazilian women, Preta, Barbarah, Mayah and Lena, old-time friends who live in a poor neighborhood of SÃo Paulo and decide to have their own hip-hop group, having to deal with the violence near their homes and the machismo of the musical business. But the [...]]]></description>
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